Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops and Negro poets, Clarence Darrow and Ernest Boyd, a barber, a Mormon. The circulation steamed steadily ahead-42,614 at the end of 1924; 62,323 in 1925; to its peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed," as Mr. Mencken describes them, they open at once to that "fearful and wonderful" digest, "Americana," where that portion...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Smith, 96, perhaps richest New Englander ($50,000,000), who built the world's second largest stockyard in Omaha, Neb.; in Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down...
...Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench" (foothill plateau) of the Silver Peak range...
...Meadow-peak"-the mountain with a meadow at its base...
...class of 1906 of the Law School has published a report showing what becomes of law students after graduation. More than half of their number are still engaged in the practice of law. Nearly fifty are in business. Five are judges; three have reached the enviable peak of retirement; and ten have disappeared...