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...Kozlov discovered were made of wood and consisted in a typical instance of one chamber, measuring about seven by ten yards, placed inside another so as to leave a rather large corridor around the outside. Within the inmost chamber, a heavy, lacquered and decorated coffin lay upon a thick woolen carpet. In the second chamber were found the valuable textiles and other objects. No golden or silver pieces were found in any of the tombs due to the fact that they had already been broken into by robbers at a much earlier date. Human remains were also...
Once Senator Smoot tried to start a woolen industry in Provo, Utah. Business genius though he is, he soon gave up. Why? 1) Because it cost him $2.25 a hundred to get wool from San Francisco whereas Bostonians got wool from San Francisco for 75c. 2) Because Bostonians could ship their finished product to Chicago for 50c whereas it cost him $3.40 from Provo...
...Senator Smoot would have founded a woolen industry in Utah. What prevented? (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Republican* Democrats Arthur R. Robinson- Evans Woolen! Oswald Ryan Ward B. Hiner A. G. Graham James R. Norrels The Indiana primaries fall on May 4. According to the state law, unless one candidate receives a majority the nomination is decided by a state convention. So the Democratic nominee for the long term and the Republican nominee for the short term may be chosen in that...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...