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...someone was killed. Frank Lockhart of California, driving a Miller Special at an average speed of 94.63 miles an hour, crossed the 400-mile mark first, received $20,000 for winning the race, $9,600 more for covering the fastest lap, $10,000 more from accessory manufacturers. Second: Harry Hartz also in a Miller Special. Third: Cliff Woodbury in a Boyle Special...
Germany. Water filtering down into the earth from the flooded Rhine Valley slightly weakened the geological substratum of the Rhineland, and caused severe earth tremors, which terrified the already wretched flood refugees. Disastrous landslides took place in the Hartz Mountains. Reserve icebreakers were despatched from Hamburg and Bremen to keep open the badly frozen up shipping routes in the northern Baltic...
Beautifully situated on the southern slope of the Hartz Mts., where the river Bahue flows down into the valley below, is the German school of Ilfeld. It was originally built in A. D. 1174 as a monastery, but about the time of the reformation it was changed to a school. The buildings, some of which were part of the old monastery and are still occupied, are all of sandstone. The school, which is very richly endowed, is intended for young nobles, although a few commoners who have shown marked talent and ability have been admitted. Everything is conducted...
...English scholar during a holiday excursion in the Hartz Mountains subjected himself one day to a severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other...