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...Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Last week the El Paso County (Col.) Pioneers' Society requested the Secretary of War to permit the removal of his remains to Pike's Peak. In 1806, as an army lieutenant, Pike went out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase, scaled a neighboring mountain, looked upon what is now called Pike's Peak, and declared it "never could be scaled by man." After the Pioneers' Society has shown him, he will not be so incredulous...
...Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley, MacDowell and Sowerby...
...buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats and coal barges; his factory forges; his skyscrapers lifting, tier by tier, their walls and towers and denticulated terraces into...
...Name the highest U.S. mountain...
...Mountain climbers were downcast last week. From Calcutta came a wireless saying that Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, commander of the 1924 attempt and failure to reach the highest spot on earth, Mt. Everest's peak,? had learned that the Tibetan authorities** had "definitely decided to prohibit any further expeditions...