Roosevelt Hunt Down Unknown Brazilian River
The article previews Roosevelt's travel tale in Scribner's Magazine detailing the unknown river in Brazil, its vast size, and its largely unmapped course. It recounts a tapir hunt episode where a shot misses and the animal escapes into the forest as paddlers and hounds work the riverbank.
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Scribner's
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Scribner's Mag. Caine
Elbe
Rhine
Rhone
Saone
Emily
Europe
United States
Brazil
South America
American Museum of Natial History
Royal Geographical Society
Madeira
Eionel Roosevelt
Tapir chase and peccary encounters in Brazilian jungles
A party pursues a tapir across rivers as it dives and swims. After the animal is shot, the riders face a herd of large, aggressive peccaries that threaten hunters. several are wounded or forced to climb trees, with at least one peccary later killed by the narrator.
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Cherrie
Costa Rica
Benedetto
Rondon
Grays Harbor
Electric Park
President’s Daughter Uses Steam Roller At Madison Meeting
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson supported a Wisconsin social center law amendment naming secretaries for center work. She pressed a resolution, declared it carried after the chair hesitated, then whispered it was awful yet no opposition existed.
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Margaret Woodrow Wilaont
Madison
Wis
Wilson
Wisconsin Social Center
Mate
Cary
Kentucky's New Senator Named by Governor McCreary
Sobhson N Camden a Democrat named by Governor McCreary to fill the late William O Bradley’s seat inherits wealth from his West Virginia coal interests. He will serve until the fall election to decide the remainder of the term, which would expire next March.
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Sobhson N. Camden
McCreary
William O. Bradley
Camden
West Virginia
Bradley
Ocean Soundings Aim At Titanic Wreck Site Expedition to chart vast depths tied to Challenger era
J Foster Stackhouse leads a twelve scientist expedition planned to start next December. The multi year voyage will chart soundings from London to Iceland across the Atlantic and toward the Titanic disaster site. The Pacific survey aims to aid later Panama Canal shipping. Cape Cod Canal opens July 4 with a pageant though full completion comes later.
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Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Optimist Percival and Penelope Talk Humor and Health
A dialogue shows Percival praising an upbeat attitude even while he recovers from fever and visualizes humorous small feats like eating from two baked eggs. Penelope comments on his cheerfulness as fortunate and they joke about doughnuts. A diary excerpt notes a Dutchwoman in Haarlem with many husbands who faced suspicion after each death but was never proven to have killed anyone.
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Mr. Hemmandhaw
Penelope
Les
Dudge
Muen
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