Minnesotan paddler sails from St Paul to New Orleans
A Minnesota sportsman Harvey L Andersen paddled over 2000 miles from St Paul to New Orleans in a seventeen foot birchbark canoe as part of a long river voyage. He then raced from the river source to Minneapolis with Fred Hance of Mankato as his teammate in a 500 mile marathon, outpacing white competitors and most Indigenous paddlers. The journey included early dangers on the Minnesota River and Muscatine Iowa during a storm.
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Mankato. Minn
Minnesota
Gulf of Mexico
Harvey L. Andersen
New Orleans
Bt. Paul
St. Paul
New Orleans i
Minneapolis
Schoo
Fred Hance
Mankato
Anderson
Minnesota River
Mmippij
Orleans
Tees
Muscatine
Iowa
Uncultivated Varieties Have Seeds Hard as Bullets
Chicago AP reports that wild banana species can have seeds as large as hazelnuts and as hard as bullets. The seeds are exhibited at the Field Museum of Natural History. Cultivated bananas lack seeds, being propagated from sprouts rather than seeds, and scientists seek to understand when seed degeneration occurred.
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Chicago
Eleld Museum of Natural History
B. E. Dahlgren
Turatar
Bolang
Lincoln Crossing Detail Found in Perry County Record
A long debated Ohio River crossing by Thomas Lincoln and his family from Cloverport Kentucky to Tobinsport Indiana is documented in a Perry County courthouse record unearthed by Circuit Judge Oscar G. Minor. The August 20 1866 entry by Jacob Weatherholt Jr. describes the family traveling with oxen a cow a cart and camping gear by canoe and raft from Clover Creek Kentucky to Indiana with overnight camps and Indiana bank travel.
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Cannelton
Ind
Thomas Lincoln
Ohio River
Kentucky
Tidiana
Perry County
Lincolns
Cloversport
Tobinsport
Oscar G. Minor
Jacob Weatherholt, Jr
Weatherhalt
Jacob Weatherhalt, Sr
Nancy
Sarah
Abraham
Indiana
Clover Creek
Indiana Banks
Ohio
River trek and ferry lineage near Cloverport recalled
The fragment recalls a canoe journey along the Indiana and Ohio rivers with overnight camps and a second night at Rock Island near the Lafayette wreck in 1825. A duplicate doc names Clarice C. Leaf, descendant of Jacob Weatherholt Jr., who owns land and runs a ferry between Tobinsport and Cloverport, linking to a boat trip that once ferried Lincoln.
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Clover
Indiana
Ohio
Rock Island
Lafayette
O. Clarerice C. Leaf
Jacob Weatherholt, Jr
Leaf
Night fliers to gain neon guidance on Paris routes
Air traffic safety advances mark night travel from Paris to London Brussels Marseilles and Perpignan with orange neon lights flashing along airways and Morse symbols identifying routes. French aviation trains pilots to navigate by instruments in dark simulators while ground controllers provide double checks to prevent errors.
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le Bourget
Paris
London
Brussels
Marseilles
Perpignan I
Leipzigers Favor Pigs Knuckles and Beer in Feast
AP reports Leipzigers lavish on pork knuckles with horseradish and beer, followed by extensive hot dogs and sausages daily. The beer drinkers prefer simple vegetables and sauces over wine. Men pair meals with cheese while women favor ice cream and Paris postal losses are noted.
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Leipzig
Germany
Knuckles
Éalves
Leipziger
Paris
Local Stamp Postloss Cancelled Over Postage Issue
A garbled OCR fragment notes a local policy dispute over canceling stamps and postage due items. It references loss and attempts to avoid charges, indicating a postal handling issue without clear names or dates.
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Jesse Bilyeu
Joe King
Russell Hughes
Boone County
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Wye
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T. J. Halliday
Albion
Neb
America
Boone
Ial
Scotland
Maryland
Ilinois
Conoco Amalie
Conoco
Amalie
Ender
Continental Oil Company
Arkansas
Idaho
Nansas
Missouri
Montana
Newacas
New Messcs
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Ferryman’s
Lincoln
United States
Palmer Tire & Battery CO
Houdaille
Lovejoy
Carvask
Nash Motors Company
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