Breck Defuses a Canyon Showdown and Fires Fire Crew
Breck and Breck’s cowpunchers raid a canyon camp and overpower a Brown outfit rider. They drive a prisoner toward Brown’s line while fire from a cattle panic and a looming storm threaten the mountain front. Breck orders Weller’s nesters to form a fire crew at the Potholes and heads toward a burning nesters camp near Lost Horse Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kit
Woods
Jackson
Breck
Bald Dome
Fred
Mac
Johnny
Brown
Black Mountain
Weller
Donny
Slim
Nesters
Cook
Tillson
Wester
Breck Waits for Rain in Dry Sierra Fire Watch
Breck stays near Rock House Station in early July as a drought looms over the Sierras. He speaks daily with Kern Peak lookout and awaits Donny’s report while watching for smoke and possible fire, hoping for rain to ease the tinder dry conditions.
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Breck
Cook
Rock House
Donny
Donaldson
Kern Peak
Lost Horse Creek
Lost Horse
Bear Trap
Sierras
Cannibals Spurn White Man's Flesh for Relatives
An ornithologist from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences reports Dutch New Guinea cannibals prefer eating relatives over white men. He spent a year among the Karoon cannibals, noting governance, rituals, and a practice where a punished offender is killed during a ceremonial feast and roasted to taste. He also mentions cannibal lore tied to colonial attitudes and notes he collected 1000 animal skins and 70 live birds.
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Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia United Press
Detroit Free Press
Philadelphia
New Guinea
King Alfred the Great and Early Bible Translation
The article notes King Alfred the Great translated the Bible with the aim that all freeborn youth learn to read English Scripture. It states he died while translating the Psalms and mentions Archbishop Aelfric translating portions of the Bible into Anglo-Saxon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred
Alfred the Great
Aelfric
Guidance in life and the gospel's European reach
A sermon on divine guidance through the Holy Spirit guiding Paul into Europe via providential hindrance and inward prompting. It contrasts false guidance with Scriptural counsel and shows how faithful witnesses, like a receptive businesswoman, support the gospel’s spread to Macedonia and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Europe
America
Paul
Macedonia
Ili
Towels or Picture In Quick Stitchery Patterns
Qua int motifs for towels and small pictures or pillow-tops 10 to the inch cross stitch with simple stitches. Pattern 6242 includes a transfer of 6 motifs, color schemes, materials, and stitch illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 West 14th St New York NY with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Dept
West 14Th St
New York
N. Y
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Mountain Man
Gyiction
Ranger
Temple
Uniform International
Schoolesson
Harold L. Lundquist
D. D
The
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Western Newspaper Union
International Council of Religious Education
Globe Seed CO
Dept
St. Charles, I
Associated Studios
Grand Avenue
Kansas City
E. E. Sparr
M.p
Shecinice
Jarvis A. Wood
Adlerika
Jas
Labor
WNU
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