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...Society boasts of no one patron who defrayed its new building's construction cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund?an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal...
Down to Earth (Fox) is a typical Will Rogers comedy. The chief charm of his pictures lies in the easy, colloquial garglings of Funnyman Rogers. Rogers is Pike Peters, an Oklahoma oil nabob who tugs darkly at his sloppy felt hat while he contemplates his wife (Irene Rich), who loves giving lavish parties, and his son (Matty Kemp), who buys a $17,000 Rolls-Royce second hand for $9,000 and tells his father that he has made $8,000 profit. Rogers: "Say, son, that's fine. You'll be a millionaire if you can keep on doing...
...junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte was a natural trail head to the Pike's Peak country. While eager immigrants pressed through to the golden mountains, more & more tarried in Denver, settled there, fought the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another. Saloons were paramount from the first, each with a "fighting ring" to accommodate customers. Rare was a day without a shooting and a spot on the east bank of Cherry Creek became the traditional duelling ground. But new Denverites kept arriving by wagon train and it was a long way back. The nearest rail head...
...eventually bring coast-to-coast traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown up. It is dominant and self-sufficient in a vast area, 555 miles from Salt Lake City...
...certainly does not create a very good impression . . . and that is the ever-attendant disorder. . . . Conventions are not conducted with the dignity and the decorum commensurate with their great importance. . . . In Denver, in 1908, on the first two days of the convention, a majority of the delegates were on Pike's Peak, 80 miles away...