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...True, the Bible mentions a Queen of Sheba who was supposed to have ruled over the Sabaeans, a tribe which lived in central Arabia in the small section of inhabitable land which there is in the country. This district is little known archaeologically, however, but exploration may discover other traces of the Sabaeans. Unfortunately, they were little addicted to writing tablets telling of their actions, and this makes it much more difficult to trace their history. Mention of the Queen of Sheba herself has never been found and may never be found. She may be entirely a fictitious character...
...degenerated into scurrilous and personal appraisements of, and assaults on, officials. A conspicuous recent instance is by a writer who dared not sign his name. . . . With a little less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster...
Such questions as these the Weather Bureau has been trying to answer over since its inception. As yet it has met with little success. George II. Noyes '97, senior meteorologist of the Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...
...Capt. W. Merle Nelson of Hollywood, Calif. On the evening of the opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop. For a few moments the small night crowd saw what appeared to be a giant glowing cigar butt trace a circle in the dark sky. The circle then swooped downward, burst into flames and Stunter Nelson screamed just once as he was incinerated...
...Robert Bacon, later became a Morgan Partner himself. "Dick" married a daughter of a president of the Union League Club. By the time that "Dick'' Whitney formed his own firm, Richard Whitney & Co., in 1916, he could pass the portal of the House of Morgan without a trace...