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...Cleveland News, Republican evening paper owned by Daniel. Carl & Mark Hanna, grandsons of the late great President-maker who founded it as a political mouthpiece. Reports lately got about concerning a merger between the News and Plain Dealer, owned by socialite descendants of the late Liberty E. Holden. prospector, hotelman and publisher. Last week the merger rumors were confirmed by the formation of Forest City* Publishing Co., capitalized...
...contractor is required only to carry the mail, receives no extra compensation for flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above the Arctic Circle, a pilot must land at every prospector's shack where a letter is to be delivered, or where a signal is displayed that a letter is to be picked up. On the 200-mi. route between Tanana and Ruby, planes make as many as 26 stops. For mail service last year Alaskan Airways collected $10,340 from...
Larger than the largest diamond found in South Africa's Kimberley Mines (442 carats) or in her De Beers Mines (503 carats) was a monstrous Brazilian diamond of 574 carats found last week by an impecunious prospector in Bello Horizonte, 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro, on the lands of rich Dona Dolores Matta Machado Vidigal...
Dona Dolores, so far as could be learned, took no steps. In Rio a diamond merchant offered $80,000 for the stone, was refused by the prospector, who seemed to know a thing or two himself. (Thus in 1853 the Star of the South [254 carats and up to last week the largest diamond ever discovered in Brazil] was sold in the rough for $200,000. Jewelers who cut it down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star...
Died. Richard Stanley Ryan, 70, old-time gold prospector who helped found Nome, Alaska, headed its first vigilance committee, became its first mayor in 1899; after long illness; in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. He was the first delegate from Alaska in the U. S. Congress...