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...notably receptive, at once identified themselves as watchful guardians of the Petrine Rock. When their magazine appeared, many reflected that, though tacitly represented by scores of unofficial publications, Protestantism has no lay organs definitely and forthrightly wedded to its cause. Split two ways, into various denominations and into various strata of orthodoxy, it is doubtful that Protestantism could have such organs. Moreover, not being greatly given to organization, it is doubtful that Protestantism will ever seek to have them...
Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...also hampered by evil-smelling volcanic gases, which came up wherever there was a small fissure in the ground. At the bottom of the crater, I walked for a few yards quite easily upon what I discovered to be a mass of hardened snow, protected by a thick strata of ashes...
...States. The greatest sensation of the year in human fossils came to light on the Rancho Cunajo, near Los Angeles, Calif. A construction company, building a sewer, turned up a petrified skull and bone fragments of five human frames in a sand pit 23 feet below the surface. The strata are of the Pleistocene age, antedating the last great ice age, which ended at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Several trained scientists happened to be near, including Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution; Dr. Robert T. Hill, geologist; Dr. William A. Bryan, Director...
...more than 5,000 years old. A human deposit of the late glacial period, found near Trenton, N. J., however, is considered genuine by many paleontologists. Dr. Hill and his colleagues are men of excellent standing. The location of the fossils might be due to slides of more recent strata, but Dr. Hill says there is no possibility of such geologic intrusion there, as there was at Santa Barbara. Drs. F. W. Hodge, W. K. Gregory and Clark Wissler, leading anthropologists and paleontologists of New York, are inclined to give credence ito the reports. If, therefore, further investigation confirms them...