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...Winslow, Lanier & Co. he was U. S. representative of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin (1893-1914) whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores...
What time royalty from Japan was viewing with disappointment the mighty cataract of Niagara (see p. 24), Mrs. William Korker, anesthetist, squirted cocaine into the beady left eye of small King Prajadhipok as he reclined in an improvised operating room at Ophir Hall. Then Dr. John Martin Wheeler went to work with tiny instruments and extracted the cataract (clouded crystalline lens) that caused His Majesty's U. S. visit. Soon the King cried gladly: "I see light...
...spokesman for polite Prince Takamatsu & Princess Kikuko of Japan, after their Imperial Highnesses had viewed Niagara Falls, said: "There was a feeling in the royal party that the illumination of the falls which we saw last evening was somewhat gaudy. We are much impressed by the sublimity of this waterfall, but to light it in striking colors is like gilding the lily." Unofficially the Princess said: "Why, this is not what I expected. I thought it would be greater...
Virtuous Husbands (Universal). "Remember that your wife is a shrinking violet," wrote Pansy Pomeroy, conductor of a colyum of advice to the lovelorn, in one of the countless letters of guidance which she left her son, Elliott Nugent. So in a hotel in Niagara Falls, while his wife is waiting for him in bed, Nugent sleeps on a sofa in the parlor. This honeymoon scene was the one which the audience, like the bride, had been looking forward to, but it is staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little...
...nature are made, not by thunder as many might think, but by giant waterfalls, according to an announcement made last week by Dr. William Braid White, acoustic expert for American Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle C (261 cycles...