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Your D. A. R. story was a darb. As one who, although descended from revolutionary warriors, has always enjoyed laughing at this aristocratic organization I can't thank you enough. Ever since I read Rabble in Arms and Drums Along the Mohawk I've been unable to reconcile the haughty dames with the haggard, dirty, ragged, hungry and thieving horde that fought well but didn't put on half so good a show as we get today from its descendants. Pardon me while I go out and wave a red flag so our friends can call...
Deep Rays. Near Mohawk, Mich., the Seneca Copper Mining Co. has a mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson...
...mining town of Tonopah and began to rake in the shekels. Before long he was known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization of $50,000,000. Wingfield's share was $6,000,000, built...
...employment levels would be hit. But there seemed no way to force the company to continue in business against its will. Trustees of the railroad asked court permission to sell or scrap its nine vessels-Priscilla, Commonwealth, Providence, Plymouth, Chester W. Chapin, City of Lowell, Pequonnock, New Haven, Mohawk...
...Ithaca College and of Cornell's University Theatre. Union College at Schenectady is also very summer theatre-minded. Dixon Ryan Fox had just become president of Union three years ago when he persuaded his trustees to set up an Institute of the Theatre which would sponsor an annual Mohawk Drama Festival in July and August. Governor Lehman, the Boy Scouts and civic bodies all over the Mohawk Valley have enthusiastically sponsored the Festival. Colonel Frederick S. Greene, State Superintendent of Public Works, had Festival road signs posted in a 50-mi. radius of Schenectady, and this year, the Festival...