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...area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which uses it in its alkali industry...
Throughout the week pious workmen, specially purified, were furiously busy building in the Fountain Garden of Chiyoda Castle the pavilion in which Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be delivered. The pavilion will contain a Waiting Room for His Majesty and Dr. Kirikuro Ikki, Minister of the Court...
...with a U. S. flag which he draped over the United Press doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...
Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
Inches here surpass fathoms of elevation. If the Lowell House dais had been a four inch depression instead, where dignitaries in dinner coats are served about a symbolic fountain of Florida water of five or ten watts even, the affront to democracy would have been extreme, and beyond measure regrettable...