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...Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected in their occupancy of a million acres. In vain the Shoshones protested to the Great White Father at Washington...
...twelve years of operation the Fund has enrolled nearly 19,000 contributors, and a total well in excess of one and one-half million dollars. The total subscription so far for the 1937 Fund is $90,164. Generous individual gifts are not asked, but the Fund is anxious chiefly to enroll as large a number of donors as possible...
...split equally between Mr. Austin, his thrifty wife Bernice, his brother Jess, two sons, Wilfred and Kenneth, and his daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Jean Austin Sobrio. What the Austins will do with their fortunes is a mystery. Rugged old Mr. Austin once declared: "I have two sons, and half a million would probably make loafers out of them. . . . The boys will appreciate it more if they have to dig the money out themselves." The people who will do the digging now are J. K. Wadley of Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests...
Located near the South Pole of the sky, the "cloud" is estimated to be more than a hundred million light years distant from earth. It is in the shape of a narrow stream, probably fifty million light years long by twenty million light years across. Its members are visible only through very powerful telescopes...
Dr.Shapley's report indicates that the find will be of important in the study of the complex space-time matter relationships in our immediate neighborhood--in the region out to a hundred million light years. Hits statement was published in the amateur astronomer's magazine "Telescope," issued at the Harvard Observatory...