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William Hope Harvey was born in what is now Putnam County. West Virginia. He practiced law in Chicago, moved to Denver, mined silver, made money, listened to debates on the silver question. No economist, he published in 1894 a pamphlet called "Coin's Financial School," in which "Professor Coin" held a series of imaginary interviews with leading bankers, farmers, editors, on free silver coinage as a political cureall. "Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers...
Less precarious but equally amazing were the feats of a fleet of autogyros, flying in formation for the first time on record. Piloted by Amelia Earhart Putnam, Louis A. Yancey and others, the "windmills" flopped vertically into the air, aided by a 30-m. p. h. wind, and descended the same way. The first day's program completed, the flyers settled down to ten days of racing and stunting which were to be climaxed by the Thompson Trophy Race, prime speed test for U. S. planes...
...Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
BEGINNERS LUCK ? Emily Hahn ? Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...West Virginia last week two renegade strikers, about to enter a mine in Putnam County, were killed by rifle fire...