Hardy life savers of Forked River station at Island Beach
A Sun reporter visits the Forked River life saving station at Island Beach Barnegat Bay to chronicle Capt. Dave Yarnall and his eight man crew. They endure harsh winter vigils and perilous rescues near shifting Barnegat bars with notable saves such as the Babcock wreck and ongoing vigilance against wrecks along New Jersey coast. The account contrasts their rugged work with a French science note on a petrified skin case.
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Vizcaya
Hargrave
New Jersey
Island Beach
Barnegat Bay
Iife Savers
Forked River
Dave Yarnall
Dave
Sun
Fork River
Sleepy Hollow
Forked River Village
Barnegat
Jersey
Babcock
Rob Roy’s Proportions and Highland Type Across Scotland
The piece weighs Rob Roy by bone measurements and ancestry, noting rumors of a three foot shoulder width, an armspan beyond belief, and a red hair laden Caledonian physique. It links this strong frame to Bronze Age stock and the modern Scots, especially in Perthshire districts, with pale skin and blue or green eyes.
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M. D
French Academy of Sciences
St Jeanne
Rob Roy
Scott
Rob
Balquhidder Kirkyard
Highlands
Scotland
Hob
Tacitus
Caladonia
Mammoth Map project spans decades for a full U S view
The piece describes the U S Geological Survey’s massive nationwide map begun ten years earlier with a twenty five year remaining timeline. The map will publish in sections and cover every city village farm stream hill road. sample Connecticut section shown at six by four feet predicts New York California Texas and Alaska spaces accordingly.
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Atlantic
Pacific
United States
U. S. Geological Survey
Connecticut
New York
California
Texas
Alaska
Concentrate Your Efforts and Single Mindedness
A moral urges single focus over dispersed aims. Two young drivers show that when both share duties the result is worse than one clear leader, the same lesson applies to writers speakers business people and workers for life lacks a chief end and becomes unstable.
Medicine from Corn Silk
Medicine derived from silk of the common Indian corn is claimed to soothe the liver and kidneys and is presented as having an active principle beneficial to these organs.
Trapping Wolves in Siberia Described by Hunters
The article details Siberian wolf hunting, noting large packs attacking villages. It explains bait and two-pen traps, the siege danger to hunters, and that wolf hunting is a costly dangerous sport pursued by wealthier men for sport and profit.
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Siberia
Lear
Seige
Boston Commercial Bulletin
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St. Jeanne
W. N. McKeehen
Fremont
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Philip Michael
Oliver
E. C. Shupp’s
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Shupp
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