Man Who Defeated Black Jack Becomes Oil Millionaire
Mulgef Oklahoma reveals W B Pine, who beat former Governor Walton for Senate, built a fortune in oil after arriving 15 years ago with 1315 dollars. He now runs an 1000 barrel a day well and gas properties, yet lives simply in a cottage and reads geology. Pine, born 1877 in Bluffs Illinois, earlier farmed, taught school, sold farm implements before venturing into oil.
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Black Jack
Mulgef
Okla
W. B. Pine
Jack Walton
United States Senate
Oklahoma
Wichita
Pine
Bluffs
Kellums Set Sail On Warm Winters Quest In Far Seas
M R Kellum a retired Fort Myers banker sails from San Francisco aboard the lumber schooner Kaimiloa transformed into a floating palace. A party of six scientists from Bishop Museum will join at Honolulu to study and the family plans two year cruises toward the South Seas and Alaskan waters.
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Kellums
Palm Beach
Golden Gate
South Seas
San Francisco
Alaskan
Honolulu
Kellum
H. Dale Miller
Miami
Fila
Lone Arctic Trapper Describes Hourly Harvest and Isolation
Walter Baikin, 28, details a seven month solitary trek from Rigolet through Labrador’s Arctic traps. He lays 72 miles of fox traps across riverfront, north and south grounds, endures blizzards, and foregoes company. Annual earnings average about 1000 dollars, with a peak of 1800, while winter supplies and summer work on fishing ships fund a rugged, independent life amid peril and loneliness.
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Artic
Walter Baikin
Labrador
Rigolet
Rimes Labrador
Hamilton Inlet
Lake Melville
Naskatipi
Northwest River
Northland
Hgins
Willie Montagu
Willie
Detective Weds Woman He Hired to Shadow Rum King
Federal agents used Elsie Caroline Parshhe known as Vivien Potter to shadow Roy Olmsted, a West Coast rum runner. She revealed she was his wife so she could not testify, ending the undercover watch. Olmsted’s home raid halted radio broadcast of Aunt Vivien stories.
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Montagu
Seattle
Federal
Prohibition
Roy Olmsted
West Coast
Elsie Caroline Parshhe
Montreal
Vivien Potter
Elsie
Olmsted
Vivien
Peter Tabbit
Bre’r Fox
Mr. Wolf
KIQXM
Nisie Parshe
Irl
Toy ‘Olmsted
Peter Rabbit
Ohio law bars aliens from owning drug stores
Fred J. Mery of Toledo, president of the Ohio Pharmaceutical Association, says the wartime law barring aliens from drug store ownership will be used as a model for similar measures in other states this winter and has already prompted many requests for copies.
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Columbus
Ohio
Fred J. Mery
Toledo
Ohio Pharmaceutical Association
Connaught Tunnel Opens Through Mount Macdonald
Canadian engineers complete the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Range on the Canadian Pacific main line. The five mile bore through Mount Macdonald reduces mileage and snow-shed needs, costing over 4.6 million dollars and delivering 700 000 cubic feet of air per minute to the tunnel.
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Mount MacDonald
Connaught
Selkirk Range
Rockies
Canadian Pacific Railway
Duke of Connaught
Canada
Field
B. C
Glacier
BK. C
Maogazuine
Aunt Vivien Returns to Air as Grand Jury Investigates
Beattie area residents recall Aunt Vivien resuming his nightly broadcast while the grand jury examines a separate matter. The community watches closely as two stories unfold in the same locale.
Dawes Brother of Vice President-Elect Plans Resignation
Henry F. Dawes federal comptroller of the currency says he will resign soon. He is a brother of Vice President elect Charles G. Dawes.
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Henry F. Dawes
Federal Comptroller of Currency
Washington
Charles G. Dawes
Jule Merke Named Son of Minnesota Governor Couple
The six week old son of Governor and Mrs. J A O Preus of Minnesota was named Jule Merke after a conference. Einar Hotboell, a Danish post office clerk alleged as godfather, is linked to the Yuletide seal idea.
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J. A. O. Preus
Minnesota
Jule Merke
Einar Hotboell
Now he's teacher's husband in Canby Oregon
Clifford Leroy Samuedson, 17, was the teacher's pet and brightest student. Now he is married to his teacher Rosemonde Lee Shaw, 27, who says she will continue teaching perhaps to fund his college. The town watches what happens next.
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Clifford Leroy Samuedson
Canby
Ore
Rosemonde Lee Shaw
Husha
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Mrs. Pine
Okmuli
Volynesian Islands
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Ida
Ned
Jim
Betty
Ida Kellum
M. Rh. Kellum
Locatelli
L. A. Cotton
U. 88
Richmond
Arctic
United States
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Walter Baikia
North Woops
Kirl
Aunt Vivienr
Ers
Bell
Beattie
Grand Jury
Washington Township
Fred
Edward
Miezysian
Poland
England
Armorica
Dayton
Oraille
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