Amundsen Plans Air and Radio Arctic Quest This Summer
Roald Amundsen launches a five year Arctic expedition using airplanes and radio to chart up to 1 000 000 square miles and relay daily reports from the Maud. Vilhjalmur Stefansson heads for Wrangel Island with dog sled, while Captain Pedersen hints at mineral wealth behind the ice.
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North Polar
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Norway
Arctic
Northwest
Maud
Siberian
Seattle
Lake Union
Amundsen
America
Washington
Uncle Sam
Arctic Circle
Pole
Jules Verne
Northland
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
C. D. Pedersen
Lone Wolf
Hermann
Pedersen
San Francisco
Great Britain
Stefansson
Wrangel Island
Wolf” Pedersen
England
Point Barrow
Russia
United States
Omdal
Odd Dahl
Dahl
Spitzbergen
Stavanger
Alaska
St. Paul
Behring Sea
H. A. Sverdrup
Carnegie Institute and Smithsonian Institution
Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States Weather Bureau
Norwegian Army and Navy
Torup
Physiological Laboratory
University of Christiania
Oskar Wisting
G. Olonkin
Bering Sea
North Pole
Pennsylvania
Borje
Northwest Passage
Magnetic Pole
Gjoa
Christiania
Mission of Soviet Russia relocation party lands in Riga
In Riga Latvia a delegation of 57 men and 11 women from the United States travels to Russia to recruit skilled workers and plan two year stays. Led by Dr. William Mahler of Newark and engineer William Vanhoffen of Chicago the group includes miners and farmers from across the United States. They plan to import labor to coal and steel sites in the Kuznetsk basin and Ural region with arrangements for return and pay.
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N. J
America
Siberia
Riga
Latvia
William Mahler
Newark
William A. Vanhoffen
Chicago
United States
Arizona
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California
Pennsylvania
Dakotas
Washington
Oregon
Mahler
Vanhoffen
Russia
Kuznets Hasib
Nadejdenski Steel
Ural Mountains
Sophie Lyons Burke Beats the Game in Detroit
A profile of Sophie Lyons Burke tracing her rise from crime to wealth in Detroit. Once connected to 50 prison cells and married to reformed criminals, she built a million dollar real estate portfolio, owning 40 rental houses and supervising all business details herself.
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Etroit
Aracksman
Sophie Lyons
Sophie Lyons Burke
Detroit
Success
Burke
Ned Lyons
Billy Burke
Bearded Beards Rule in Sutter Celebration Whim
In Sacramento California a seventy fifth anniversary of Capt John A Sutter is marked by a kangaroo court that forces men to grow beards. Offenders were harassed by police and volunteers during the festivities with threats and mock punishments. Some men vow to return bearded within forty eight hours. The sight of beards grows as the crowd grows.
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Acramento
Calif
John A. Sutter
William D. Stephens
Kangaroo Court
Harvey
Seavey
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