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Prof. Alexander Silverman, head of the Chemistry Department of the University of Pittsburg, an authority on glass, ceramics and gems, says that synthetic jewels of as good practical and esthetic value as the natural gems are now being made in quantity. Artificial rubies and sapphires of various colors are made from alumina, by the addition of varying chromic or ferric oxides. They sell at $2.00 a carat...
...Princeton, Penn State, Cornell, and Georgetown, while the Chicago team will appear in the position of the "dark horse", not much being known of its possibilities. The complete list of entires in this realy is: Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy Cross, Kansas, Navy, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pittsburg, Princeton, and Syracuse. Although then men competing in the hammer throw this afternoon have not been announced, Marshall, the University entract, will undoubtedly meet a strong field in his event...
...dramatic and musical clubs. The following colleges will probably be represented this year: Amherst, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, University of Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, Carnegie, Dartmouth, Haverford, Illinois, Iowa, Lafayette, Lehigh, Maine, Mass. Agricultural College, M. I. T., Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire State, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pittsburg, Princeton, Purdue, Rochester, Stevens, Tennessee, Trinity, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Lee, Washington and Jefferson, Wesleyan, West Virginia, Williams, Wisconsin, and Yale...
Under the " Pittsburg plus" system, freights on steel and steel products are based on Pittsburg. Thus, if a purchaser in Milwaukee bought steel in Chicago, he would have to pay, not the freight rate from Chicago to Milwaukee, but from Pittsburg to Milwaukee. The difference in rates would be added to the price of the product bought...
...Pittsburg and Gary plus" systems have cost farmers and builders enormous sums every year, and the farm bloc is resolved to have them condemned under the Sherman Law as being " in restraint of trade...