Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police authorities in the above named cities, under the able direction of city editors, herded droves of the inscrutable Orientals into local station-house bull pens for questioning. All declared they knew nothing, their leaders asking in reply, "What tong war? There is no war!" Disgusted lieutenants turned the droves loose. Flags with Chinese characters, denoting peace, after three days' absence, perhaps because of the inclement weather, were seen flying over all Chinese headquarters buildings. The TONG WAR FLARES disappeared from the headlines. The war, if any, therefore ended...
Since 1890 a branch station has been operated at Arequipa, Peru, but as cloudy weather handicaps the observation in that spot, it has been decided to move to the high platforms of South Africa where better conditions prevail throughout the year...
...past four years the Peruvian station has been under the direction of Dr. John Paraskevopoulos, and he has superintended the transferring of the equipment from Arequipa to Bloemfontein. This includes a photographic telescope with a double lens 24 inches in diameter, one with a triple lens ten inches in diameter and three other photographic telescopes. The first two instruments are being provided with new mountings...
Proceeding to Dunedin, New Zealand, the Duke was greeted amid a frenzy of enthusiasm so great that 107 persons, mostly children, fainted in the crush. Concerned, H. R. H. went personally to a first aid station where doctors were working over the unconscious patriots and did not leave until all there had recovered...
...Nestor of funnymen, older than sly Art Young or odd Tom Powers, is Eugene ("Zim") Zimmerman, active at 65 as president of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Born Swiss, he early removed to Horseheads, N. Y., where now the store, hotel, firehouse and railway station are as thickly hung with his sketches as Florence is with busts of Dante...