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Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...
Fleishhacker foolery reaches its summit in endless pranks with Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, head of Standard Oil of California. Once when Mr. Kingsbury was bound East, Banker Fleishhacker had great bunches of onions delivered to him at every station. Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking...
...scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord of the bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather to the hair of a demon perched on the summit of the tower. A cowled personage is seated beside the demon on the roof holding what may be a tile in his hands, while over his shoulder appears a cutting hammer, the stock implement of the mediaeval mason. The connection of this scene to the others is rather obscure...
There was no real need for 70-year-old Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane of Kane, Pa. to operate on himself for a rupture last week. Young Dr. William Blair Mosser, surgeon-in-chief of the Kane Summit Hospital and, like Dr. Kane, good enough to be a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, might have done the work. But old Dr. Kane likes to do things to himself. Eleven years ago he anesthetized himself and cut out his own appendix. Three years ago he began signing his operations by tattooing in India ink the Morse telegraph code...
...worth while. But last week the old surgeon decided that he might just as well mend his rupture. To assist him he called Dr. Howard Martin Cleveland, whose birth? was one of his very first confinement cases, from Mount Jewett twelve miles away. To the operating room in Kane Summit Hospital he summoned a, reporter and a newsphotographer. While they recorded details he propped himself on an operating table, cleaned the left groin where he was to cut, gave himself a local anesthetic, proceeded to operate. He chatted and joked with the nurses as he cut, sponged and sutured...