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...Lake Chautauqua, N. Y. It was the 50th anniversary of the coming together of a little band of people who studied the Bible together in a Summer camp in 1874. They had been invited by Dr. John H. Vincent, preacher, later bishop, and his friend Lewis Miller, mowing-machine maker. The little band reassembled the next year and the next and many more. Their numbers grew. The original program of religious contemplation grew, reached out into other fields of human interest - Music, Education, Art, Politics. Each year the object was to make Chautauqua a richer, more color ful, more "improving...
Instrument-maker Watt, of the Univ. of Glasgow−Steam locomotion...
...tonnage of the crop was 400,000-valued at $20,000,000, or $5 a ton. Production then fell to 375,000 tons in 1920, and to 310,000 tons in 1921, while prices rose to $75 and $82 respectively. But at this point the "home brew" wine maker apparently got busy. In 1922 the crop jumped to 450,000 tons, and last year was 428,000 tons, despite a severe rail-dew. Meanwhile prices fell to $65 in 1922 and to $40 last year...
...whence they came. The author, Myron C. Fagan, seems to have turned Devil's advocate, for no reason at all. He summons Mephistopheles to earth, for the purpose of sending an erring wife back to her struggling husband, and of reproving characters whenever they speak unkindly of their Maker. At times the play sounds like Faust being run backwards. It is simply propaganda for the author's private views on practically everything. Fritz Lieber in the leading role is enamored of his interminable speeches. It is a case of the drooling passion...
...Ford has not replied to Col. Leland's personal, attack upon him, and it is generally supposed that the veteran automobile maker will take his grievance to the courts, to force at settlement with the Fords...