Mongolian Travel By Car Across Gobi Desert Feat
Ethan L. Le Munyon of the China American Trading Company delivered a routine to Urga by Nippon Maru then rode 680 miles across the Gobi in a car backbone of a camel cart to deliver the package. The trip took ten days, faster than any camel train prior, with Le Munyon praising Mongolian hospitality while noting the Lama’s bath customs and local beliefs about cleanliness.
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AN Francisco
Tisha Lana
Mongolia
Sud
Biwite
Urga
Gobi Desert
Ilmounlo
Ethan L. le Munyon
China- American Trading Company
Tent #in
Urea
Nos
Winter Palace
le Munyou
Cat's Conduct in City Court of Public Opinion
In Minnie the cat of the Inus tarh Home for Aged Woman faces a mock trial in public opinion over ripping a tin roof above a library on Garfield Place. William A. Robbing In accuses her of felinyny with malice aforethought. Minnie’s defense uses blunt claws as evidence while Susan Lane acts as interpreter amid neighborhood division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Minnie
Inustarh
Garfield Place
Minnieta
William A. Robbing
Health Department
Susan Lane
Minnile
Elawe
Humernine Wittaches
Minnle
Godberom
Mary Doe
Board of Health
Lane
Fat Juror Excused for Sleepless Municipal Court
In Chicago a 210 pound butcher named W White, likened to the late Liaby Bilas, was excused from jury duty after nearly a week in the Municipal Court as he could not stay awake. Bailiffs prodded him. lawyers grew impatient as the warm courtroom lured him to sleep. White blamed Judge Walker for impaneling him and cited sleeping sickness from heat and fatigue.
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W. White
Liaby” Bilas
White
Walker
South Fifth Avenue
Cincinnati banana eating man bets on big finish
John Breen of Cincinnati planned to eat thirty dozen bananas in thirty days as a wager, aiming to finish April 11 after long nightly contests at restaurants with milk. The 190 pound, 6 foot 2 eater began six years ago in Flemingburg Kentucky and works as a freight handler.
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Atian
John Breen
Breen
Ike
Cincinnati
Flemingburg
Hamilton
Dayton
John
O'Meara
Weill
Ain
Funeral sermon and assorted anecdotes from old town notes
A rugged collection of funeral oration lines, coffee warnings, and village vignettes. Anecdotes include a Bloomville delegation, a joke about Waterbury, medical notes on coffee dangers, a Postum testimonial, a misread placard tale, and a railway dining room tale with an egg mix up, all presented in a breezy old newspaper voice.
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Merchants Bank
Jasper, Missouri
T. H. Tiller
R. L. Roberts
N. H. Patterson
J. N. Marsh
Ass’t
J. A. Cozatt
Sasetie S ™ Nissocni
T. H. Hammond
Bishop’s Grocery Store
H. L. Bishop
H. R. King
South Main Street
W. H. Knott
M.D
North Main
W. H. Woods
Sharp Merc. Co
W. H. Hendricks, M. D
Jasper, MO
Methodist Episcopal
Tpworth
Woman's Home Missionary Meeting
WV. O. Thompson
M. E. Church
South
Charles Edwards
Presbyterian
Christian Endeavor
A. K. Gurley
C. W. Sample
A. mi
Spm
Jasper Lodge
Morota
Vini Brother
Perry
Aber P Boer
W. A. Johnson
N, G
O. ‘. Embree
Foo
Tasha Lama
Cat
Castor
New York
Bears
Castoria
Poplar Iriahman
Medenddenty
A. O HH
Bloomville
Pat
Waterbury
Walter
Sealth
Poetam
Joog Intervaly
Tam
Darkey
Emiling
Harpere Weekly
Bis Word
Fiseen
Élberna
Er Renee
Eels
Renee
W. A. Hogere W
Ninth St
Ranseeity
W. NM
U., Kansas City
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