Trail of Buck McKee Brings Torture and Escape to Arizona Ranch
The excerpt follows Dick Lane and McKee amid a brutal pursuit by Mexican rurales and Apache threats. Lane endures torture while McKee guards the ransom of a treasure claim. A dramatic escape leads Lane toward a return to the desert town of Sweetwater and Allen’s Bar One ranch, with letters hinting at debts and loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heam
Lane
McKee
Dick Lane
Chihuahua
Puck McKee
Weill
Jack
Uncle Jim
Eeho Allen
IM Allen
Sweetwater Valley
Arizona
Sweetwater Ranch
Jack Payson
Lazy K
Wyoming
California
Indian Territory
Allen and Payson
Buck McKee
Cherokee Strip
Allen
Morgan
Josephine
Sweetwater
Great Southwest
Arizona Plains
Kentucky Blue Grass
Jim
Allen Hacienda
Echo Allen and Dick Lane's Western Courtship Saga
The Allen ranch tale follows Echo Allen and Dick Lane as young lovers part, the western family adopting orphans, and Echo's evolving devotion amid perilous frontier life. Dick dies in Mexico, Jack Payson steps in, and Echo weds after a nine month betrothal arranged by Colonel Allen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowhboo
Dick Lane
Warry Echo
Jack Payson
Mrs. Alien
Model of Panama Canal Lock Shows Olympic Vessel
Fullerton L. Waldo describes in Ungineering Magazine a life size model of a typical lock at Culebra, illustrating safety gates and the flow of water. The Olympic, a White Star Line Titan at 860 feet, 82 feet wide, represents vessels crossing the isthmus, with lockage times of about ten to twelve hours and potential daily traffic of around 80 million tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Culebra
Olympic
White Star Line
Isthmus
Townes
Gatun
Suez Canal
Sault Ste. Marie
Fullerton L. Waldo
Ungibeering Magazine
Lion attack on African game-warden ends with knife rescue
A game-warden in Nyika reserve rode at dusk when a lion charged. He fought off a second lion grabbing him in its jaws. He used a hunting knife from his belt to strike the lions heart three times, shocking the animal and allowing bystanders to rescue him. The man survived with injuries to his right arm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exboa
Allen
Kentucky
Beck
Polly Hope
Allens
Merry
Echo
Polly
Florence
Jim Allen
Sheriff Hoover
Children’s Aid Society
Richard
Henry Lane
Buddy
Bud
Jim
McKee
William Henry Harrison Hoover
Slim” Hoover
Pinal County
Slim
Olaina Somers
Hoover
Buck Mclxee
Bud Lane
Horse Wrangler
Payson
Dick Lane
Echo Allen
Lane
Lhick
Jack Payson
East
Jack
Col
Patter
Tracing Freights by Postcard Tracer System
A new freight tracking method uses a small perforated tracer cover and numbered cards. Each shipment creates a carbon postcard record at every division point, allowing shippers to monitor progress and identify delays or damage quickly.
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Antogetesus
Los Angeles Express
Unexplored Arabia and the Hidden Vast in Southern Arabia
Dillon Wallace argues in Outing that half of the Arabian peninsula remains a vast unknown wilderness called Ruba-el-Khali or Dwelling of the Void. He notes the western El-Abkar dunes and eastern El-Dahbna steppe, a 600000 square mile area never entered by Europeans, holding buried cities and forgotten archaeological possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon Wallace
Arabian Peninsula
Ruba-el- Khali
El-Abkar
el- Dahbna
Arabia
Place de Greve and the origin of the word strike
The London Standard explains that Place de Greve in Paris gave its name to greve as a term for strike. It notes the area’s historical use as a gathering place for unemployed workers and connects the etymology to the modern word for a labor strike, contrasting with the Strand in London.
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Place de Greve
France
England
GertMsay
London Stendard
Crumbling Cleopatra’s Needle Faces London Decay
The Egyptian obelisk on the Thames embankment near the Savoy Gardens shows rapid decay from acid smoke and damp fog after 32 years in London. Experts suggest removing the needle to a cleaner climate such as the British Museum, where two other obelisks are protected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames Embankment
Savoy Gardens
London
Heliopolis
British Museum
Bealingen Promoter Seeks 30000 Marks for Airship Model
A circular letter from Bealingen-on-the-Hen promotes an Earth-circling airship. The inventor, aged 47, is described as a practical mechanic with a manager handling affairs. The plan claims 200 kilometers per hour speed, safe travel, and up to a hundred passengers, needing 30,000 marks to build a model.
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Bealingen-on-the Hen
Menny
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Edmund Day
W Dillingham Co
Dragze
Sahuaro
Rattier
Flere
Mexico
John Paveon
Aziz U S A
Wac
Allen Ranch
Jack Jayson
Sonora
Inquirer
Lake Wiste
Beter
Bebo
New England
Boston
West
Jack Paygon
Harvard
Geronimo
Crook
Tonto Basin
Tom
Ghost Range
Po Denht
Parson
Panama Canal Locks
Col. Patterson Tel
Ing Adventure
Opere
Towson
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