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Q Modern Business Correspondence. Effective Speaking. Q Railway Accounting. Stenography—Stenotypy. Q Commercial Spanish. Name Present Position Address JUNE, i 93 o r 2 June. 1930 AMERICAN Vol. 8, No. 6 Qflonthly Contents Cover Design: juni by Edwin Earle Skyscrapers and Pyramids by Walter P. Chrysler 4 Decoration by Franklin Booth The Backfire by Peter B. Kyne 7 Illustrations by Frank Street Super-Babel by Richard Washburn Child 10 Cartoon by T. D. Skidmore Big Moments 1 Illustration by V. E. Pyles Saint Botolph s Other 1\)\vn by Alexander Gardiner Illustrations from etcirin gs by Sears Gallagher and Sa muel V. Chamberlain Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 18 Livingston Brothers-. Part Six by Leonard H. Nason 20 /II ust rations by Harry Townsend The Demonstration by Wallgren 24 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 25 Keeping Step by Right Guide 26 He Wrecked His Way to Fame by William F. Sturm 29 The Capture of Geronimo by Henry W. Daly 3° Bursts and Duds (i nducted by Tip Bliss ji Boy town, Wisconsin by Philip Von Blon 32 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 33 The Unfinished Battle 35 The Message Center by The Editor 64 THE STARS IN THE FLAG evada: The 36th State, admitted to the Union Oct. 31, in the Union, (1920 U. S. Census), 0.7 per sq. mile. Rank N' 1864. Jedediah Smith, an American, is credited with among States, 48th in population, 6th in area, 48th in being the first white explorer to cross the land in 1827. It density. Capital, Carson City (1920 U. S. Census), 1,685. was part of the province of New Mexico under Three largest cities (1920 U. S. Census), Reno, Spain and Mexico. The United States acquired 12,016; Tonopih, 4,144; Sparks, 3,238. Esti- it at the signing of the treaty of peace that con- mated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $541,716,000. cluded the Mexican War, 1846-1848.