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...statement seems a gross exaggeration. It is none the less true. For Geneva is not what it was before the War. It is a great deal more. Prior to 1920 Geneva and vicinity were favorite haunts of American travellers. The beautiful lake, the clear, crisp air, the surrounding hills, Mont Blanc in the pink glow of sunset, and certain historical connections,--all these conspired to bring pilgrims to Geneva in the past. All these attributes are still there. But something has been added: The League of Nations has taken up its abode in this famous city...
...will have giant beacons of 600,000,000 candlepower at the terminals, smaller beacons every 25 miles and emergency landing lights every three miles. The French are following in our footsteps by inaugurating night flying and will have one beacon of even greater candlepower. This will be located at Mont St. Afrique near Dijon, 2,000 feet above sea level, operated at 8,000 volts with a candlepower of one billion-some 20 times .more than the most powerful marine lighthouse...
That this question may be answered, Senator Wheeler was, last week, brought to trial in the Federal Court, Great Falls, Mont., before Judge Frank Dietrich...
...most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler's senatorial...
Immediately after his graduation, he hurried to England to an officers' training camp. Commissioned in 1915, he was twice promoted and was killed in action at Boisleux-au-Mont on March 30, 1918, one week after having been appointed captain...