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First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...
...Detroit, discovered studying at Southwestern High School, were Pauline ("Paulyann") Taylor and Pauline E. ("Neene") Taylor. Born within two hours of each other on Sept. 22, 1920, they are both redheaded, freckled, look alike, dress alike, prefer the same food, swim and play the piano equally well. Inseparable, they are unrelated. Pauline Taylor was born at St. Ignace, Mich., Pauline E. Taylor at St. Catherines...
...crow flies between New Orleans and Kansas City the distance is 650 mi. From Kansas City to Port Arthur, Tex. it is 625 mi., from Port Arthur to New Orleans 250 mi. Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration...
Another step in what may be Harvey Couch's plan for a Southwestern rail empire was a new application to the Interstate Commerce Commission early this month in which the L. & A. sought permission to buy the Rock Island, Arkansas & Louisiana R. R. First proposed last summer, this acquisition would connect the L. & A. with Little Rock, Arkansas' first city...
...excavation of the ruin of Awatovi in Arizona, John O. Brew discovered important clues to the history of the Hopi Indians. A program of excavation in this area has been mapped which it is hoped will present a connected history of southwestern life from the early centuries to the burning of Awatovi...