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...Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, buffalo, trout, natural caves, bottomless lake, needle-like rock-for-mation, Custer Park offered high altitudes and cool breezes to the presidential tourist...
...there was no Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more...
...Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...
...Cotton Belt" loops southwest from St. Louis, east of the Ozark Mountains, through Cairo, Ill., Memphis, Tenn., Little Rock, Ark., Shreveport, La., to Fort Worth, Tex., with important lines into the Texas oil and cotton country. Its freight consists of cotton, oil, merchandise...
...Harvard professors who will have Sabbaticals during the year 1927-28 have announced that they will go abroad to do research work. L. C. Graton, Professor of Mining Geology, will study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines; and O. D. Kellogg, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Division of Mathematics, will study tutoring in Mathematics as conducted in Cambridge University, England...