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Show THE BULLETIN 4 Pittsburgh Loses Old URGED Title as the Smoky City DIRECTORY Vogeler's BABY CHICKS H. Van Harten ..A DUCKS - TURKEYS For Excellent Service 1107 East 21st South SPECIAL SALE on Shoe Repair SHRUBS 35, 3 for $1.00 The Old Shoes will look good and wear better after a trip to this Modern Shop. THE PROGRESS SHOE . Time To Get Your"' TENNIS RACKETS" Restrang and Repaired " SEE OUR NEW RACKETS ! PLANTS' - 30' West First 'South East 1986 So. 11th Hy; 2111 nine-mil- mining days, with Its ghost towns and abandoned ditches; Telescope peak, the most precipitous peak in Inyo county, and mazes of small canyons, vivid In coloring and weirdly eroded, are among the features of Artists drive. Bicycles, Tricycle's, Scooters Repaired and Retired . Old and New Testament ' Manuscripts Dsslroyed BEST SERVICE BEST MATERIALS 'And It Costs No More We Prove It THE PAINT POT 1074 E. 21st So. Hy. 8739 "We Make tho World Brighter The original manuscripts of FREE Old and New Testaments FOR ONE Package Top of GRAINS of GOLD Whole Wheat Cereal Whistle Si-Re- eri FOR THE KIDDIES Highest Quality Coal GRAINS 2191 Highland Drive Hyland 2520 - 2521 .252? "Lobb's On The Job" of GOLD COMPANY : COAL CO. SENTINEL STOKERS 967 East 21st South " Bring Them In Early cold Is Edmonton, Altsu a area wide over la unearthed being the new Beaverlodge sold strike on tbe north shore of lake Athabaika, and extensive plans for development are be Jng laid" by various companies, prospectors and mining experts arriving ligh-grad- e here report Programs Booklets 2044 South 11th East In Sugarhouse lung since perished. The present form of the Hebrew text of Hie Old Tertmivnt Is that of the Mnssorctk- test, the il.it? of which Is usually placed smnewliere between the Sixth mid F.lshih eeii turlea. This lext pmlmlily Itmime j' tnhllshed un early n the Seeond century. Iiut even this earlier date leave a long gap between the original writings and the present text, says u wrUcr in the riiil.KlelpliIn. Inquirer. Except for a few" fragments all the manuscripts used by.llie early Diris tinns have vanished. Wlieu In the Fourth century the Unman empire bo came Christian, copies of the Scrlp-tnre- s were multiplied In the form of the codex, or hiNik. on vellum. Two such, dating from the Fourth eeiitury Itself, and each oYlsinnlly omtaln!! what was regnrad us a whole lble. survive. Whole Riulop, even New Testament, were always rather the four Cospels made one volume, the Pauline Epistles another; s Acts, with the other Epistles, is found hound up with the Pauline Epistles, 'sometimes separate. Counting fragments, there are approximately 4,000 Urcek manuscripts whose existence has been reported, dating from the Fourth century to the invention of printing,, the greater number coming from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth centuries. The only two existing Fourth century Bibles are the Codex Klnaitlcus. which belongs to the British museum and the Codex Vatlcanns which Is in the Vatican in Rome, Next to these the oldest Bible manuscript la the dating from the Fifth century antl ala In th RrlfJch tniiwuiOU tlen-erall- y New Gold Strike Made in Province of Alberta Invitations ImiiIi Hit? hiiv - ONE SUGAR HOUSE d, one-wa- Hy. 458 2021 So. 11th E. predicted the new Held will a greater degree of activity than tbe Great Bear lake field next summer. Prospectors reported that samples ranging from one to thirty ounces of gold per ton are being found la the It is ce 1 .1.4 Syrnmesites Expected to ter at North Pole. mine-time- , Alex-andrin- 4 En- Washington. Relics of one of the most fantastic episodes In American history have just come to light at Institution. One of these Is a rare broadside, dated September 14, 1822, by Capt John Cleves Symmes'. a retired army officer, in which h the argument that was hollow and that a ship might sail Into tbe Interior through a "hole" at the north pole. This was? one of several .circulars and news--j paper, articles on, the subject dlstrlbV uted to Institutions of learning all over-thworld between 1818 and 1821). : . ; Symmes at that time ,was urging): the United States government to sendj out an expedition to "discover" the-- , Inside .world and claim It for people under .the' patronage of. "himself, bis wife and her ten chlW dren." .It would be,' he. argued with! .considerable.. plausibility In the lights of .the geophysics' of the .day, a warm fertile, and probably Inhabited world, .almost as great In extent as the onter. surface of tlie globe, i Symmcsitss Were Organized. All this seems Incredibly fantastic1, today, lint at the time groups of Syuiuicsites were organized all over the United States, and several petitions were presented to congress asking that such un exiwdltion actually All the petitions were laid on the tuble by eongrexs, some of then with considerable "kidding.". There-were- , however, two tangible results. First, the interest , aroused In exploration by the Syrnmesites may have-bee-n one-othe I actors which led. to the Wilkes exploring expedition, which! resulted. In turn, In the first dlscov-- i ery of land below the Antarctic dr--v cle, according to many competent: geographers. Second, the Symmes scheme furnished the basis for one of the most stirring tales of Edgar Allan Poe, "The. Adventures of Arthur Gordon-- , y.H ,v Pyin." Tbe fantasy may have Inspired some "of the writings, of Jules Verne. Pamphlet Offers Objections. , With the broadside. Is , an lowed pumphlet almost ludicrously cautious and circumspect to the read' er of today in which objections to the Ideas of the former; army officer.. With the broadside Is Symmes- map; of "Symmesonla," the supposed con-- ; tinental mass beyond snd below "verge" of the world, wltlil the "Symmes river" pouring south- -' wardlnto tlie Atlantic at about .thelocation, of .Pavis', strait. This wouldi-be, Symmes said, by far the greatest river in the world, since it was one or the main outlets of the oceans of the interior into the. oceans of the exterior.. Altliough the Symmcsite enthusiasm antedated tbe establishment of the Smithsonian institution, tbe material probably was sent to the old Columbian institute in Washington and tbo-eart- e Artists' Drive In Death Valley .': Artists' drive In Death Valley, Calif, y Is a highway containing two and mounting' to an elevation of loops e course. It 1,0(10 feet in its lies between Golden canyon and a point opposite the salt pools In the foothills of the Black range. The Panamint range, scenes of feverish activity In the Sharpening and Repairing of LAWN MOWERS GARDEN TOOLS "Just Bring In the Pieces" Wire Works . IDEAL REPAIR SHOP Welding Granite Welding & Lobs Life . SOUTH EAST REPAIR SHOP 1113 East 21st South long-live- Phone Was." 804 ' "Purity Seeds Best by" Test- I Pennsylvania Tennis Balls Can . $1.19 Phil & Joe's , Crp Hu Methuselah, a giant carp at the London zoo aquarium, is 150 years old. This fish turns the scales at 28 pounds. Bis slategray body Is heavily scaled and over 2 feet long. . Carp' but the pike la are usually One," confined veteran. more a of still ' ' to a" fish pond, ' lived 287 years. Salmon occasionally become, centenarians live, and 'goldfish bave been known in' captivity for over 50 years.' The average life of an eel Is 00 years. Herring live about four years and trout fft aiv vaaM Paoraon'a WaoUt Rose Bushes 29& 4 for $1.00 REBUILDERS . - ' TO GRAB CENTER OF EARTH: . White Leghorn Rhode island Red BARBER SHOP 1059 East 21st Sooth Pittsburgh, Pi. No longer will Pittsburgh be referred to as the Smoky city, If the words of visitors can be taken literally. , That people of other cities no longer look upon the Iron city as a smoky, dirty metropolis became known when Elwood Farra of Lexington, Ky., came here to discuss methods of smoke regulation and abatement for that city. "Pittsburgh," Farra said, "may have been the Smoky city of yesterday, but right now It is a step ahead of a lot of places known for' their cleanliness." Farra recalled a visit he made here ten years ago and recollected the great pall of smoke, which bung over tbe city at that time. "That really wasTsmoke," he said. U.S. the-Americ- . -- . -- f . ' - -- - ( ; age-yei- -! are--raise- d . the-norther- . - . , ( formed, part- - of the Smithsonian's, heritage from that establishment. Heme of Leagae of Nations For centuries lleneva '. has - enjoyed such a reputation for culture and Inter- - . national liberalism that it was s log-leal choice for. the home of the greatest experiment in internationalism, tha, League of Nations. Here on the shores Ionian gather the statesmen , of for discussions of the world tbe of most baffling problems. It. Is the city; In which Rousseau was born snd nears the place where Voltaire lived. . be . 1 |