Long Overseas Highway Bridges Span Keyed Seas
Overview reflects an ocean spanning highway project of 170 miles as the longest continuous overseas route. Upper view shows the work landscape. left depicts workers removing rails. below features the Long Key bridge once a single track railroad bridge crossing lagoons and currents with multiple viaducts.
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Long Key
Florida
Key West
Public Works Administration
Peter Rabbit Dodges Reddy Fox in Narrow Escape
Peter Rabbit faces a tense chase as Reddy Fox stalks him for dinner while Peter weighs whether to reveal Busy Bee’s honey store to Buster Bear. He dodges behind trees and a brush pile, aided by Blacky the Crow, winning a narrow, safer escape.
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Peter Rabbit
Green Meadow
Green Forest
Peter
Buster Bear
Busy Bee
Buster
Reddy Fox
Reddy
Blackyahé Crow
Informal Afternoons Hat by Meadowbrook Styled for Betty Furness
Betty Furness, a petite Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress, wears a tiny off-the-face pink wool crepe hat designed by Meadowbrook. The plain hat is tied with a simple bow at the back.
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Betty Furness
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Meadowbrook
Drapes Solve Window Dilemma In Baby's Room
Reader seeks help replacing venetian blinds with draperies to suit a living room door flanked by two small windows. Suggestions include swagging to frame the door, extending drapes over the wall to enlarge windows, floor length versus sill height, and using sheer or gold union fabrics to complement cream wallpaper with a gold wreath.
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M.L.S
Water Proof Matches Save Two Men in Arctic Drama
Lloyd D. Henderson of Paterson New Jersey recounts a 1926 Quebec moose trip where a waterproof box of matches saved him and his Indian guide Eli after they fell through thin ice at Kidney Lake. The brave dog Maro perished dragging the sled, and Eli later died of pneumonia after they reached safety.
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Ello
Lloyd D. Henderson
Paterson
N. J
Quebec
Lloyd
Moose
Eli
Maro
Kidney Lake
Aklavik Near North Point Barrow Rival Claim
Aklavik lies deep in the Arctic Circle on the Mackenzie river delta and is the region’s largest trading post. Temperatures in winter reportedly plunge to 65 below zero, per National Geographic Society.
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Aklavik
Arctic Circle
Point Barrow
Alaska
National Geographic Society
Mackenzie River
Saint John's Wort and the Aug 29 Red Spots Tale
A Rural New Yorker writer claims Saint John’s Wort is linked to red spots on August 29, the day St. John was beheaded, noting traditional beliefs about the herb's effects. The text discusses superstition surrounding Hypericum and medical folklore.
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St. John
New-Yorker
Arkansas Name Derived From Native Tribes
Arkansas was the term used by Illinois Indians for the Quapaw near the Arkansas River mouth. It likely came from a Sioux clan that later included the Omaha Ponca Osage and Kansas peoples.
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Arkansas
Arkansas River
Kansas
Weapons Displayed by Museum Show Civil War to World War I
A museum exhibit highlights an array of weapons from pre Revolutionary days through World War I. Guns pistols revolvers cutlasses swords and bayonets illustrate the historical scale of violence across eras and conflicts.
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Conin
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