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...interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, The Indianapolis Star, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior claims of the Pioneer Oil Company-which was to receive $1,000,000 in settlement...
...UP?The sunless side of Southern mountain life softened by the first rays of civilized conception reflected...
Achille Ratti, priest, bishop, mountain climber, knew a different life. So did also Cardinal Ratti, skilled and active representative of Pope Benedict XV in Poland. But there are no serious fears for his health. All look forward to seeing him initiate and celebrate 1925, the Holy Year of Jubilee...
...management of the whole affair by the Insurance company will relieve the Class Committee of a mountain of work, which would otherwise dog its footsteps for several decades; it insures safety and no inconsiderable economy in clerical labor, collection expense and any number of similar items connected with the fund. It is gratifying to find that the interest yielded by this method exceeds that yielded by others; and it will no doubt be of great satisfaction to everyone to know that if he dies before his policy is fully paid up, the college nevertheless receives the full amount...
...American Locomotive Co., at Erie, Pa. (TIME, Dec. 17), weighing 102 tons and capable of reaching a speed of 105 miles an hour. The French roads have ordered more than $15,000,000 worth of such equipment, and the Mexican Railway Co., Ltd., ten electric freight units for mountain climbing. With a new device, the otheograph, the tests showed no "nosing," or periodical oscillation, even at high speeds. The riding qualities of both ends were excellent, and no injurious effects were observed on the trackage...