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...Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess of Thurn & Taxis, for an accounting...
...Koizumi died, leaving four children, three of whom still live in his house. An invalid for several years before his death, he had been blind in one eye since he was 16, was painfully nearsighted in the other. As his sight failed he developed a hyper-acute sense of smell. It was Lafcadio Hearn's boast that he could smell the difference between a brunette and a blonde...
...their public statements regarding Communists in our State university, and have precipitated a wave of "Red scares," which your article so sarcastically infers. It is positively not true, however, that I (or anyone else, as far as I know) has ever been "hired by the U.S. Secret Service to smell out Communism in the University" as your article so boldly states. What is of greatest concern to me, personally, is your impudence in placing those words in my mouth. Your positive statement that I said I "had been hired by the U.S. Secret Service" is utterly false and a very...
...wild" rubber (collected from virgin forests), putrefaction produces a disgusting smell. But most U. S. rubber comes from man-arranged plantations. Plantation rubber gets its smell from the sulphur or nitrogenous accelerators required to cure the rubber for commercial use. The Rubber Growers' chemists, H. P. Stevens and E. J. Parry, have been unable to find substitute accelerators as good as the smelly ones. On the other hand they found that zinc carbonate added during the manufacturing process reduced smells to a minimum, and very simply. More complicated and costly is the purification of the latex (the original rubber...
Most notorious of the old-time dives were the Billy Goat, named for its foul smell; the Bull Run, where the pretty waiter girls entertained privately for 25? to $1 ; the Opera Comique where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were...