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...only at the very beginning of Pleistocene time (many hundreds of thousands of years ago). On some of the tablelands, to quote Coleman's words, "No signs of glaciation were seen above the edge of the escarpment at 970 feet (aneroid), and a walk of four or five miles inland over the rolling surface of the tableland reaching 1.908 feet (aneroid), showed only angular blocks of Archaean rock of local origin. No foreign boulders were found, and the conclusion was reached that the southern part of the Long Range had never been glaciated...
Modern missionaries lead safe lives; the years are long past when cannibals ate them. But at the Africa Inland Mission Station in Kijabe is a little dwelling some 300 yards from the rest of the buildings. Hulda Stumpf, Secretary to the Head Missionary, lived there alone. She was 63, had been in Kijabe for 20 years. She had grown deaf in the Lord's service. Last week her body was found, attacked, bruised, smothered to death...
Fire swooped upon "Hobcaw Barony," island mansion of Bernard Mannes Baruch at moss-hung Georgetown, S. C., and totally destroyed it. Mr. Baruch and household, uninjured, withdrew to Kingstree, S. C., 30 miles inland...
...Republic-Youngstown amalgamation, which has on several occasions appeared all but ratified, may yet be arranged, and Chicago's Inland Steel Company, in which Mr. Eaton is heavily interested, is also a potential member of the combination. The Republic group at present lacks a rail-making member-a gap which Inland would fill. Present ranking of the leading steel companies...
Addition of Youngstown and Inland to the Republic Co. would give the Eaton consolidation an ingot capacity of about 10,000,000 tons...