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...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...
...TRADER HORN, Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn: taken down and edited by Ethelreda Lewis. Foreword by John Galsworthy. The Literary Guild of America, New York. This is a volume of memories of a trader's life in central Africa, reeking with atmosphere. The main figure of the story is a real figure; and the subordinate characters are also real. To avoid publicity of offense surnames have been changed...
...returned. She was born a slave in 1851 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. When she was seven years old her mother and two brothers were sold to a Virginia plantation; she never saw them again. Soon after, she and her grandmother were sold to a slave trader in Baltimore. Later her grandmother purchased her own freedom, lacked money to do as much for "Pinky." But in 1860 the grandmother thought of appealing to Henry Ward Beecher, already famed as an anti-slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised...
Exchange members have considered suspended Broker Zinman remarkable because three years after he graduated from New York University's School of Commerce (1922) he had made enough money as a tax expert and securities trader to pay $135,000 for an Exchange seat...
...whereof the wit is second only to the scholarly wealth, is Editor of House and Garden, the sedentary sound of which title he dispels forever with a romantic introductory prose-poem: a series of fadeouts from the motor-clogged highways of today to the first faint trails through the trader's forest...