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Said U. S. Congressman William E. Hull of Peoria, 111., who last week visited President Coolidge at the Black Hills White House: "The late flood devastated more than enough property to furnish the funds to control the Mississippi River twice over...
...Thomas Jefferson's sentence (with 38 words of preliminary phrasing) was: "... I should unwillingly be the person who, disregarding the sound precedent set by an illustrious predecessor, should furnish the first example of prolongation beyond the second term of office...
Philip's father, a handsome, slippery little dog named Jason, is brought back from 26 years of supposed death for no better purpose than to furnish comic relief to the sagging last third of the book. At the end he is killed off, by a drunken fall on his return trip to Australia, where he has an informal second wife and family...
...little known anthracite coal deposits of Rhode Island and Massachusetts will furnish local coal to New England this winter, said Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge, Mass., research chemist last week. The New England anthracite is very difficult to burn and contains 33% ash. But after treating by the "Trent" process it can be made low in ash, free burning and smokeless...
...curious to know on what authority TIME has discovered an "insect-line" at 2,500 feet above sea level. I have been plagued with the ordinary house fly in South America at altitudes above 12,000 feet, when there were horses to furnish the manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence...