Steel man to hunt strange rhinoceros
Birmingham magnate Dr. Dan W. McMillan plans a Rhodesia expedition to hunt an unknown rhinoceros like creature sighted in northeast Rhodesia. He has led four prior African safaris, including a 6000 mile auto trek and encounters with bushmen. his Field Museum specimen of Ingala is on display. The 1929 return is planned after a May start and a later Arctic detour.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Rhodesia
Dan W. McMillan
Field Museum of Chicago
McMillan
Africa
Steel Corporation
Arkansas Fires Claim 46 Lives in January February
Forty six Arkansans died in fires in January and February this year, with fourteen fatalities in February and thirty two in January, per state fire prevention bureau statistics. The note also mentions steamships in trans Atlantic tourist traffic touching at fifty ports of Europe.
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International News Service
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
State Fire Prevention Bureau
Europe
Boyer Named Head Of Citizens Training Camps Committee
Captain James W. Boyer Jr. of Washington DC is appointed chairman of the Veterans of Foreign Wars national committee on Citizens Military Training Camps by Commander-in-Chief Frank J. Strayer. A Boston native and Yankee Division veteran, Boyer has led VFW education efforts in the District of Columbia promoting national defense and citizens training camps. The piece notes the origin of the term spooning as a medieval custom involving a love spoon with two bowls on a stem.
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Hy International News Service
Kansas City
Kan
James W. Boyer, Jr
Washington, D. C
National Veterans of Foreign Wars Committee
Frank
J. Strayer
Boyer
Boston
Mass
Yankee
Citizens Military Training Campa
District of Columbia
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