Youth pedals world tour ends with Turkish imprisonment
Swedish cyclist Bertil Hult and a companion rode through 53 countries in 27000 miles across 1925. They faced dangers from Rif mountains and Turkish gendarmes who jailed them as spies for eight days. Hult continued alone, detailing illness, heat, and bribes before reaching Mecca and India.
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Bertil Hult
Hult
India
New York
San Franciso
Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
France
Pyrenees
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Morocco
Riffian
Abd-el-Krim
Africa
Turkey
Ea Hult
Dildda
Mecca
Ancient Timekeepers Water Clocks and Sundials Shaping Measure
The article traces early timekeeping from the sun dial to water clocks used by Chaldeans Egyptians Phoenicians Greeks and Romans. It notes clocks varied from simple leaking buckets to elaborate devices with floats doors and falling balls. Caesar Pompey and others used water clocks, while sundials required adaptation across latitudes.
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Man Sas
Plato
Greece
Rome
Caesar
Britain
Pompey
Wolves Routed by Pack and Hunters in Wide Hunt
A dramatic chase unfolds as a box-equipped touring car releases dogs that pursue wolves across sagebrush plains near E Smet. The pack is decimated by multiple gunfire as driver Charney Cummins expertly coordinates canine packs and left-handed shotgun shots, while Cummins’ wolves-hunting method transforms rural life and local protection of poultry. The narrative then shifts to Sinaia, detailing royal life, Carmen Sylva, Queen Marie, and the Romanian court’s relaxed rituals at the mountain retreat amid postwar wealth and reforms.
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E Smet
S. D
TLRAS
Gros
Charney Cummins
West
Cummins
Nebraska
Cumming
Gen
Elizabeth
Neuthe
Red
Carmen Sylvanos
Sinaia
Michael Cantacuzene
Charles
Pelesh
Ufe
Bucharest
Carmen Sylva
Marie
Romania
Transylvania
Carpathian
Europe
Seneca Woman, 115 Years Old, Smokes and Wages Life
Orth Towanda Sept 3 reports Nancy Blaksquirrel Miller, a 115 year old Seneca woman, who has smoked and chewed tobacco since birth. She plans to keep firing as long as she can sell baskets and buy fire to sustain the habit. Her mother was 150, sister 100, and Nancy has a 67 year old daughter Carrie. She has never been ill a day, tends house, shops at the reservation store, and weaves baskets in spare time.
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Nancy
Carrie
Squay
Simple Court Life at a Royal Palace Resort in Carpathians
A National Geographic bulletin describes Castle Petesh as a popular Balkan resort in the Romanian Carpathians. The pine forests, snow-white villas, and mountain views attract aristocracy with bandstands, open-air eateries, and crowded casino gaming rooms into the night. The valley became a refuge from Bucharest summers about fifty years ago when chosen by Prince Phartas at Uahenenlinen Ginmarine.
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Castle Petesh
Carpathian Mountains
Washington, DC
National Geographic Society
Europe
Carpathians
Ifty
Bulletin
Bucharest
Phartas
Uahenenlinen
Ginmarine
Inaia
Engines to regain soul with named locomotives
After decades of plain paint and uniform engines, railroads revive character armor. The New York Central will debut a battleship gray locomotive trimmed in aluminum and shining black, while Baltimore and Ohio plans 20 engines in olive green, gold and red named after U.S. presidents.
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Ciil
New York Central
Baltimore and Ohio
United States
New York
Bible Four Students Simplify Ancient Hebrew Stories
In Chicago on a historic note, four scholars rewrite Old Testament Genesis creation tale in modern clear language while preserving sense. Eve and the serpent dialogue adopts contemporary conversational style. The Song of Solomon is rendered with vivid modern love language.
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Eve
Solomon
Soul of the Violinist Ends in Despair and Smash
An old French violinist dies in poverty refusing to sell his instrument and destroys it so no stranger may play it. Miss May Myria heard the tale on WSXYR while Howard Ackles performed a violin obligato and Miss Myrta reacted emotionally smashing the instrument.
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Arabia
Soudan
India
Bombay
Delhi
Kashmir
Indus
Hima Lyan
Silma
Benares
Assam
Burma
Siam
China
Shanghai
Hult
Constantinople
New York
America
Yracuss
Miss May Myria
WSXYR
Howard Ackles
Miss Myrta
Ackles
War veteran to return souvenirs from world war pilgrimage
Colonel George Crouse Cook, decorated for conspicuous service in World War I, plans to return about 506 war keepsakes collected during his service as he travels in Europe. He kept donor names and wishes to reunite items with their owners, or with families if the original owners are deceased.
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George Crouse Cook
Duc & Mmédal
Germany
Pelleze
York
Point Pleasant History and Battles Marked by Monuments
An article recalls the 1774 clash at Point Pleasant where Virginia militia led by General Andrew Lewis defeated Shawnee Chief Cornstalk near Fort Randolph. A 2 foot shaft marks the battlefield in a state park and nearby stands the mansion inn, old cemeteries, and Daniel Boone’s log cabin. Washington visited in 1770, surveying lands for veterans, and Civil War trenches and Indian remains dot the heights.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Fort Rendolghh
Ats
Virginia
Andrey Lewis
Cornstalk
Anne‘ Bailey
Daniel Boon
George Washington
Pointpleasant
Mason County
Gager
McCausland
Chambersburgh
Sodes
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Wolf Killer
Arcepe
Mark Royal Palace
Rumania
Charney Gummins
Old Battlefield
Boone Cabin
Col. Cook
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