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...gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone...
...advancement of knowledge over the last century, designed to give significance to those aspects of the Chicago "Century of Progress Exposition," which bear on geology. Professor Mather will speak in the Geological Lecture Room, in the University Museum at 4 o'clock, and will illustrate his talk with numerous lantern slides...
...deliver the first talk on Astronomy with demonstrations and slides on July 13 at 4 o'clock. At the same time the following week, H. E. Bent, assistant professor of Chemistry, will outline parallel development in his fields. Each lecture will be accompanied either with experiments and demonstrations or lantern slides. On July 27, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is scheduled to give a similar talk. F. H. Crawford, Assistant professor, will give the lecture on Physics on August 3, and Professor Roderick MacDonald will conclude the series on August 10 with a discussion of the important discoveries...
...Holmes, using an electric torch instead of the traditional bull's-eye lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...
...Delaware at night this summer and find the highways glimmering with bobbing lights, do not mistake them for fireflies. They will be pedestrians. Last week Governor Clayton Douglass Buck signed a bill making it a misdemeanor for a citizen to tramp the highways after dark unlit by flashlight or lantern...