Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the Special arrived at Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...
...Idaho Falls the President suggested in general a scheme for a consumers' league to lessen the cost of necessaries by coöperative buying. At Butte, the President had a speech to deliver on revived business prosperity. Unfortunately he was taken to a gathering at a baseball park, where poor acoustics made it impossible to speak. So the speech was just handed to the press. At Helena that evening he spoke on labor conditions, condemning on one hand capitalists for a policy of "breaking down labor," and on the other hand arousing Samuel Gompers to say that the President...
Then, having well earned a vacation, the party plunged into Yellowstone Park for two days' rest...
...Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon...
Sued for Divorce. Park Benjamin, brother of Mrs. Enrico Caruso, by Mrs. Katherine W. Doremus Benjamin. Misconduct will be charged...