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...chairman of the Board of Regents of the University, and it was to him in 1904 that Caetani had come seeking employment mining lead ore (not gold) with a letter of introduction from John Hays Hammond. Mr. Easton was at that time vice president and general manager of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co. at Kellogg...
...Kansas City divorce action. Daisy-&-Violet Hilton argued last week that they knew what they were doing about marriage. They cited Chang-&-Eng, the actual Siamese whom P. T. Barnum made so famed that all conjoined twins thenceforth have been called "Siamese." Chang-&-Eng (1811-74) took the name Bunker and married daughters of David Yates, North Carolina minister. The wives kept separate domiciles in which the brothers took turns living. Chang had ten children, Eng nine. Their descendants are reported still living in the Piedmont...
...huge Equitable Building at No. 120 Broadway announced that it would abandon its oil heating system, switch back to anthracite coal. Prime reason for the change was the fact that fuel oil stocks have been reduced 20% since September to a ten-year low, with a consequent rise in "Bunker C" prices from $1.05 to $1.80 per bbl. To the oil industry Equitable's decision meant not only the loss of 70,000 bbl. worth of business annually, but a dangerous precedent...
...Tories, then cursed them; and he stirred the people. But if he had lived today, he would have found a new enemy, and faced a struggle for which he could have found no words. One can no longer put an edge on the verbal sword, and dash up intellectual Bunker Hills; if one did, one would trip over the scabbard. Any one who tries to give battle at the present day can echo the despairing words of Peer Gynt: "It's like a fight among bears, half-asleep and snarling." The fact is, there's nothing...
...know has yet attributed our country's present financial condition to that custom. . . . To the thousands of friends of Chautauqua who know it and love it, a criticism of its traditions, its landmarks, and its monuments is like unto a criticism of Bunker Hill Monument, Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge, or of the custom of salute to the Flag...