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...heat. When he left his air-cooled railroad car at Glasgow, Mont, to drive 30 dusty miles to the Fort Peck Dam and address 10,000 people, the thermometer stood at 112° in the sun. At Devils Lake, N. Dak., before 9 in the morning while the crowd waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet...
...spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average of 77.6 m. p. h., on $16 worth of crude...
...students from Central Y. M. C. A. College of Arts & Science were so surprised to see parts of a submerged reef well known to chartmakers jutting a few inches above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey Lake Michigan's coral reef. It parallels the shore for 1,500 ft., is flat on top, evidently shaved...
Into Partick Congregational Church in Glasgow one day last week crowded hundreds of devout Scots, with hundreds more pressing on their heels outside. In the pulpit stood Rev. Vera Kenmure, Scotland's first female minister. She was resigning her post, preaching her farewell sermon. While women in the congregation sniffled and sobbed their regrets, Preacher Kenmure explained: "I am glad the decision of the church has been to ask me to continue the ministry, thereby showing your faith in the ministry of women. But I am still aware of opposition and hostility which makes honest cooperation impossible...
...could make 17-year-old whiskey in 24 hours. There were importers large & small, California wine growers, New York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen, bootleggers. There were realtors, hairdressers and elevator boys, all wild-eyed over their ''slices" in this or that liquor syndicate. In London and Glasgow, astute liquor brokers were selling "brands ' on which the printer's ink was still wet. All was hurly-burly in the rush for retail, wholesale and importing licenses and quotas. Broken Axles. Under the eyes of a platoon of U. S. revenue agents, a caravan of 100 trucks...