Trappers Paradise Bill Beeman Seeks Fortune in North
Bill Beeman returns to Los Angeles with $10,000 after months trapping north of Lake Winnipeg. He endures 35 below zero, sleeps in a lean-to beside a raging fire, is boxed out of ice for three days, and sells pelts in St Louis before resuming life in golf knickers at local hotels and clubs.
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Las Angeles
Calif
Bill Beeman
Los Angeles
Lake Winnipeg
St. Louis
Bill
Elbow Lake
Rice Lake
Martin
Pine Forest
St Louis
Westminster Abbey Receives New Honor Book
A hand written illuminated Gold Book with British Army Medical Corps names who fell in battle is placed in Westminster Abbey. It cost 12500 dollars and took Grailey Hewitt three years to complete with six assistants. The book imitates fifteenth century Italian style and is praised for its legible, perfectly formed letters.
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London
Westminster Abbey
Grailey Hewitt
Hewitt
Tit-Bits Snippet Reflects Boxing Talk And Fatalism
Dialogue excerpt shows a boastful claim about boxing gloves and a fatalist remark about dying in the same way. The fragment evokes a gritty street voice and rough humor, capturing a moment of taunting bravado and implied danger.
Woman Sets Pace For 80 Men In Forest Planting
Colorado Springs June 15 Helen Henderson is the first woman to join the LA and forest service tree planting crew on Pike National Forest near Colorado Springs. She plants about 600 trees a day, setting a pace for 80 male workers who typically plant 500 trees daily. She balances field duties with study for Colorado College forestry courses and will graduate next year.
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Colorado Springs, Co
Helen Henderson
Forest Service
Pike National Forest
Colorado Springs
Jack
Miss Henderson
Forestry Service
Colorado College
Thousands to welcome U S fliers in Austria
Vienna June 18 Most of Austria’s population gathers for the arrival of Clarence D Chamberlin and Charles A Levine tomorrow. Thousands plan to view the air parade at Aspern air field with trains running every ten minutes. Fliers from Hungary and Jugoslavia join the event with German and Austrian aviators. Austrians expect Mrs Chamberlin and Mrs Levine and a large entertainment program is planned.
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Vienna
Austria
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Aspern Air Field
Hungary
Jugoslavia
Bootleg Autos Are In Demand
Albany report tells of a seized rum car auction near Malone New York where a buyer inspected car bodies for value. A man who bought the car two years earlier found a secret compartment with whiskey and liquor and sold it for ten dollars more than his original price prompting a quick sale of all cars.
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Albany
N. Y
Malone
New York State
Canada
John Barleycorn
Coolidge Discovery of Dakotas Reveals Bad Lands Wonder
Rapid City June 18 Calvin Coolidge visits the Black Hills area revealing the Bad Lands a vast 30 to 50 mile wide by 120 mile long fossil rich expanse formed from a dried lake bed sculpted by glaciers. The landscape features beige cliffs arches towers and cedar shaded pass views attracting curious travelers. Fossil hunters probe for sabre tooth horse dinosaur and other prehistoric relics preserved in the paleosand.
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Rapid City, & D
South Dakotas Prairies
Calvin Cool
Rapid City
Washington
Cedar Pass
Lexington trainer Elijah Brewster dies after illness
Elijah G. Brewster, 64, a renowned horse trainer, died at his Lexington home after a five month illness. He was widely known for his participation in races across the country and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Brewster.
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Lexington
Elijah G. Brewster
Emma Brewster
One Hundred Buried in Colombian Textile Plant Collapse
Bogota reports say a plant collapse at Rosellon near Medellin buried about a hundred textile workers. Initial accounts indicate many dead or injured and relief trains are moving the injured to Medellin for treatment.
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Bogota
Colombia
Rosellon
Mein
Traies
Medellin
Former Local Man Returns from West China Missionary Work
The Rev. B. F Lawrence, formerly of this city and a long time Episcopal church missionary in West China, is visiting family in Bluefield after leaving China during the revolution. He will speak tonight at Bland Street Methodist on Chinese refugees and missionary departures. Lawrence, born in Lafayette, spent a decade in mission work and studied at Concord Normal, WVU, Drew Theological Seminary, and Northwestern.
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B. F. Lawrence
Bland Street Methodist Church
B. F Lawrence
Episcopal Church
West China
Morgantown
Bluefield
J. R. McCulloch
G. M. McCulloch
China
Lawrence
Lafayette
Concord Normal School
Athens
West Virginia University
Drew Theological Seminary
Madison, N. J
Northwestern University
Evanston, Il
Evening Cape with Gold Net and Velvet Collar Details
A description notes a gold net evening cape featuring a high ruffled black velvet collar. It also records that John Bardsley of Philadelphia brought the English sparrow to America in 1770 to control insect pests.
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America
John Bardsley
Philadelphia
Konjola Praise From Huntington Man At Bluefield Drug Store
John Waugh of Huntington credits Konjola with restoring sleep and improving digestion and energy after years of kidney and liver trouble. He says his stomach, liver and kidneys improved, he now sleeps well, and he can eat freely. The Konjola Man tour and product will be at Bash Penn Drug Store in Bluefield.
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John Waugh
Huntington
Collig Ave
Konjola
Easley-Penn
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield
Mr. Waugh
Bash Penn Drug Store
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Quimier
Dick Creedon
U. S
Gainaday Electric Company
Gainaday
W. S. Hill Co
P. O. Box
Pittsburgh
Gainaday Electric Co
Kitchen Equipment Coo
Raleigh Stree
Coolidge
Dakotas
FP. W. Hayden
The
South Dakota School of Wines
Heldred
Lewis
Leces
Leonard
Mntuse
Bluefield, W. VA
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