National Parks See Record Attendance in 1928 Season
The Interior Department reports 3,026,273 visitors to 46 national parks and monuments in 1928, a gain of 228,443 from 1927. Yosemite tops the list with 460,619 visitors, while Crater Lake Hawaii and other sites show notable increases and some declines due to agricultural depressions.
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George Sanford Holmes
Washington
National Parks and Monuments
United States
Department of Interior
America
Crater Lake
Oregon
Hawaii National Park
Carlsbad Cave
New Mexico
Petrified Forest
Arizona
Yosemite National Park
California
Platt National
Oklahoma
Rocky Mountain National
Yellowstone Park
Wyoming
Boone descendant Webb father of twenty four children
Nelson R. Webb of Whitesburg Kentucky claims direct descent from Daniel Boone and is noted as father of twenty four children. He has been married three times with the first marriage producing two children, the second producing eleven, and the current wife bearing eleven.
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Whitesburg, Ky
Nelson R. Webb
Daniel Boone
North Carolina Leads in Cleaned Up Cattle Tuberculosis War
Washington reports North Carolina becomes the first state to finish cleaning its cattle herds of tuberculosis. Officials say less than one half of 1 percent of cattle react to serum tests, with all reactors killed. The Department of Agriculture notes a federal and state funding pool near 19 million dollars for indemnity and testing.
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Washington
North Carolina
United States
Maine
Michigan
Idaho
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Scouts Pay Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt Birthday
United Press reports Boy Scouts nationwide will honor Theodore Roosevelt on October 27, the former Chief Scout Citizen. Trees will be planted and troops will dedicate ten minutes to discuss his life and services. In New York and nearby states Scouts will visit Roosevelt’s grave at Oyster Bay led by Buckskin Men, with over 1,000 expected to take part.
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United Press
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
L. I
Scout Movement
Fatima of the Nineties Banned by New York Censors
The New York State board of censors erased Fatima from a film showings of the 1893 World’s Fair dance. They argued the hoochie koochie by the famed Oriental dancer could harm modern civilization. In other news Ben Nevis site is pierced for a fifteen mile water tunnel.
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New York
New York State Board of Censors
Fatima
Chicago
Ben Nevis
Britain
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