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...Eddie Stinson and C. A. (Duke) Schiller hopped off. Both flew Stinson-Detroiter monoplanes, manufactured in Stinson's name in Detroit. Both, nearly there, dropped in Montana. After flying all night through difficult weather, Mr. Schiller was forced down at Billings, almost out of gas, Mr. Stinson reached Missoula, which has a flying field, with his motor balking from a stuck valve. Fearing wild intervening country, he decided not to chance it with the cranky engine, and quit the race...
Such was the phenomenon brought to light by one Robert Marshall, tree experimenter of Missoula, Mont. In the Nation, he wrote: observed a peculiar biological-political relationship in the annual rings of the trees. Three marked periods of retarded growth were manifest, just prior to 1828, 1884 and 1912. These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused...
...forecast by the discovery of a protective vaccine against the disease by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, the distinguished Japanese pathologist of the Rockefeller Institute, who, in collaboration with Dr. Simeon B. Wolbaeh, of Harvard Medical School, has been studying the fever at Hamilton, Montana, for several months. Nine Japanese of Missoula voluntarily submitted to injections of the vaccine, although warned that its effects might be serious...
...made assignments from the Price Greenleaf Funds for the academic year 1916-17 to the following additional students: Emery Magnus Anderson '20, Brockton High School Brockton; Geoffrey Baker '20,Brockton High School, Newton; Nat D. Hirsch '18 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennis Bruce Campbell Hopper uC, University of Montana, Missoula, Mont...
...Roosevelt '13 presided, and appointed the following committee of four to take charge of the formal organization next week: E. Bacon 1L., of New York, N. Y.; R. S. Richardson '15, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; N. Roosevelt '14, of Oyster Bay, N. Y.; J. S. Snoddy, Sp.Gr., of Missoula, Montana...