San Pedro Martir and the San Bernardino Range
The San Pedro Martir mountains atop the Baja peninsula rise to over nine thousand feet with a broad elevated tableland that supports forests and herds. The range forms a harsh eastern face and a desert edge to the Pacific with deer, bighorn, and occasional mountain lions. Western slopes host streams like San Antonio Creek with trout and a lush tropical oasis in a canyon cove.
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Coast
San Gorgonio
San Bernardino
San Antonio
San Jacinto
Palomar
Cajon
Lower California
San Pedro Martir
San Telmo
San Juan de Dios
Pacific
San Pedro
San Francisco
San Quintin
Boston
Mexico
Canyon Diablo
Gulf of California
Socor- Fo
San Antonio Creek
Jack Frost
Most Silent Club in World A National Deaf Club
The National Deaf club in London boasts quiet premises with nearly two hundred members and a president who is deaf and dumb. Members include a railway firm head in Syria and a world traveler, plus teachers and a nurse. women are admitted, and signaling relies on lights and signs. An annual banquet honors deaf and dumb persons.
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London
National Deaf Club
A. J. Wilson
National
Deaf Club
Syria
Chicago Tribune
Quiet Streets and Sound Minds
A discussion argues that human nerves evolved in quiet to detect danger and that loud city noise harms the susceptible. It calls for eliminating unnecessary bells and cries, quieter pavements, and playgrounds for children to vent energy without disturbing others. A person who can quiet streets would be celebrated.
Ships Grow Longer as 1250-Foot Vessels Loom
At a Philadelphia congress experts predict 1950 will see the twenty largest Atlantic ships average 1,100 feet, beam over 100 feet, and draft near forty. Earlier forecasts hint this may arrive earlier. Dock facilities worldwide are expanding with Tilbury docks planning 1,250 foot ships, 130 foot beam and 39 foot draft. Suez is set to deepen to 39 feet by 1915.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic
Tilbury Dock
Suez Canal
Eldorado Man Quips About Kansas After Fight
An Eldorado man encounters a troubled citizen with injuries including a split lip two missing front teeth and a blackened eye. They debate Kansas with the Eldorado man calling the other a liar as the altercation ends with a sharp retort about Kansas.
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Kansas
Kansas City Star
Prophet George Harvey Reflects on Prophecy Legacy
George Harvey, famed for predicting Wilson’s 1912 victory, quips at a New York luncheon that prophesying well is forgotten while a wrong forecast endures, noting the futility of prophecy in public memory.
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George Harvey
Wilson
New York
Fishing on the Dwina Ends in a Late Night Haul
A six-member party on a river voyage aboard a two sail boat casts fifty yards of netting along the Dwina. After several fruitless attempts the fourth cast yields a mixed catch of white gwindes, perch, dace, flounders, and a large salmony fish, with wild horses watching from the shore as dusk deepens and night approaches.
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London Evening Standard
Sage
Ikra
Laika
Moujik
Anon
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