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Today Michigan's Copper Country, on Lake Superior, looks desolate to visitors, gives the impression of having outworn its history. Beneath the birch, poplar and jackpine trees are innumerable outcroppings of lava, last traces of the volcano which brought up the rich copper lodes from the earth's depths. Agriculture is stagnant, and the mining towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hubbell, Lake Linden, studded with company-built houses, have the melancholy look of semi-depopulation. But the streams near the stamping mills still run red with crushed ore rock...
Last week the Rt. Rev. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, addressed the Anglican Church Assembly thus: "I talked the other day with six of the Reddest Communists in Poplar [London borough]. Their revolution was only skin deep; all they wanted was a square deal! In dealing with these people we are dealing with men of respect and courtesy...
...campus of St. John's College, Annapolis, stands a tulip poplar which some say is 600 years old. In its shade the white colonists made a treaty in 1652 with the Susquehannock Indians. Alumnus Francis Scott Key ("The Star-Spangled Banner") grew nostalgic beneath it in 1806 when he was trying to raise money for St. John's. Here in 1824 the old, fat, crippled Marquis de Lafayette reviewed local troops. Under this venerable poplar are held St. John's commencements every June. Last week it was the scene of the inauguration of St. John...
...owner is one Harold Mallard. He carried it across busy streets into a park where it is the cat's habit to stroll at the end of a-leash. The cat saw a squirrel, leaped from Mr. Mallard's arms, chased the squirrel 30 ft. up a poplar. The squirrel ran down. But the cat feared to follow, yowled until police came with ladders...
...Poplar Bluff, Mo., "Uncle" Tommy Kemp, 118, complained of feeling old. Said he: "I've been puny most of the spring and couldn't do my farming. . . . About all I can do is sit around the house and be a grouch...