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...Passed bills transforming Sully's Hill National Park (N. Dak.) into Sully's Hill National Game Preserve, enlarging the area of Mt. Rainier National Park (Wash.), authorizing increased expenditures on roads leading to national parks; sent them to the Senate...
...movies will be chiefly Glacier Park, of the animal life in Yellowstone Park, and of Mt. Rainier. As an innovation, color pictures of the Grand Canyon will be shown. There will also be a Harold Lloyd comedy. "Never Weaken." This is a re-issue of one of the first of the comedies which made Harold Lloyd famous as a comedian. Music for the evening will be furnished by Bowers' Venice-Lido Orchestra, conducted by R. S. Bowers...
...would seem that only a hysterical craving for notoriety is responsible for a monumental selfishness as huge as Mount Rainier itself. It looks like the biggest land grab since Noah homesteaded Mount Ararat...
...That Admiral Rainier was not an obscure villain. In 1778, as a lieutenant in command of a sloop, he captured a large American privateer after a hard action in which he was severely wounded; soon after he was sent to the East Indies, rose steadily in rank to Admiral, retired, became a Member of Parliament and died leaving one tenth of his large estate to reduce the national debt of Great Britain...
...State of Washington watches the action of Congress with anxiety, divided against itself. If Tacoma loses, she has still the option of following the example of the ancient prophet: she may change her own name to Rainier...