Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mineralogist W. F. Foshag is making the first scientific survey of the world's richest silver mines, in Mexico. Workings begun centuries ago by the Toltecs still produce voluminously. At Guanajuato, 12 hours from Mexico City, Dr. Foshag will visit the huge Veta Madre (Mother Vein) where the work shaft is 1,700 ft. deep and 30 in diameter through solid rock. He will see the magnificent Cathedral of Chihuahua, built in the 18th Century by two escaped convicts who, having stumbled upon the mines now called for Santa Eulalia, promised the edifice to a priest if he would...
...after being missing for months at the headwaters of the Amazon. One of his comrades was drowned in a river whirlpool; he himself nigh died of a jungle rheum. Hostile tribes, insects, vampire bats and reptiles beset his wanderings but he survived with tales to tell of unsuspected gold, silver, coal and oil deposits; and of being initiated, at rites which no woman may attend, into a freemasonry of bronze-skinned jungle nomads. Dr. McGovern, who though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time to authenticate a newspaper...
Still in his plus fours, Jones thanked the officers of the club who let him hold in his hands for a moment the cup on whose silver sides his name will be inscribed. Then he caught a midnight train for Southampton, boarded the Aquitania...
...Sunday Bishop Thomas Louis Heylen, of Namur, in France, for 20 years the president of the Permanent Committee of the Internation Eucharistic Congresses, celebrated High Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, decorated for the occasion by green, scarlet, gold and silver drapes. Eleven cardinals heard him. (The twelfth, Cardinal O'Connell, who had promised to assist, was still aboard ship.) Two thousand lesser prelates and priests and a very few laymen were there also. After Mass, Cardinal Mundelein officially welcomed Cardinal Bonzano to the Congress. Cardinal Bonzano responded...
...uleins of Berlin appeared recently with new parasols-sun-shades that ruffled in the wind like huge red roses. They were made of chicken feathers-the down of ordinary white hens, glued on the silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...