Take the Lead Out of Your Legs Chapter IX
In late afternoon Hammond and Kenning audit a new beach shaft as gold nuggets surface in gravel above bedrock. Kay learns Olson sold out and fled with Mrs Carewe to Wrangell aboard a plane, while suspense builds over a possible English syndicate and shifting claims as the North’s autumn edges in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Olson
Els
Jack
Kay
Kenning
McKenzie Joe
Theo
Tve
Bruce
Router
Kennings
Carewe
Wrangell
Timmy
Wrange
Jack Hammond
Ham- 4
Kencing
England
Kenny
Seved Kenning
Carewe Hammon
Gold Strike Tangles Love and English Plot on Beach Pit
In Jack's cabin Hamid Kay and Kenning debate the value of a gravel bed and a hidden English syndicate. They reflect on past promises, possible traps, and the lure of gold as a cliffhanger leaves their fortunes and loyalties uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Hamid
Kay
Kenning
Hammond
Bunk
Collectors Rally To The Latest Hobby Dolls Craze
The Chicago Antique Exposition and Hobby Show reports dolls as America's top collectable fad. Dealers from New York to California display 300 exhibits showing mustache cups, famous buttons, old bells, and numerous relics. Yvonne Sohn's French aristocrat bisque doll and John Conover's 1740s dolls illustrate diverse tastes. The appeal spans both genders with interest in Indian relics, early American china, glass, sheet music, and harness buttons. Mrs. K L Brown of Kansas City reportedly owns 31 000 buttons.
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O. C
Chicago
New York
California
Yvonne Sohn
John Conover
Ossining
Sly
K. L. Brown
Kansas City
Caterpillar Film Highlights Queensland Prickly Pear Fight
An educational film from Brisbane Australia spotlights a South American caterpillar, decacy tabblastis, as the star in a campaign to reclaim over 60,900,000 acres of land in Queensland from prickly pear. The cactus, introduced from America as decoration, had blanketed the region before the caterpillar's natural control.
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Decacytablastis Caterpillar
Brisbane
Australia
Queensland
America
Honeymoon Ends Over Car Wreck Talk In Wales Ban
A fragment notes a domestic dispute moment with a sarcastic line about a wreck and asks if the car is okay. The report also mentions Wales banning the practice of attaching notices to trees, reflecting local regulatory action.
Piano sold for eighteen hundred at Dawson tale told
A Portand woman recounts how a Hong Kong made piano bought for 106 dollars by Bill Huson earned 1800 in Dawson during the Klondike rush. They hauled it eight miles in 25 days across Dyea and across Chilkoot Pass, wrapped in yarn, then sold to Bill Emerson for 1800. After unwrapping, they bought and ran a restaurant and later sold the instrument for nine thousand, totaling over a hundred thousand dollars in earnings. The Husons now live in Sumner Washington.
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Chilkoot Pass
Dawson
Klondike
Portland
Oregon
Bill Huson
Juneau
Dyea Trail
Bill
Hong Kong
Huson
Alaska Yukon International
Husons
Dyea
Bill Emerson
Sumner, Wash
Guardian Trout Protects Injured Pintail at Sanctuary
George Pickering, a naturalist at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary, notes a ten inch Eastern brook trout guardian of an injured pintail duck. The trout blocks attacks by a Chinese duck named man darin with rapid head bunting as onlookers view the unusual scene in a tank. Both the trout and the Mandarin reportedly lived peacefully until the pintail's injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Pickering
Inglewood
Calgary
Mr. Pickering
Farmer loses hand in rabbit trap misfire in Natmax Australia
A Natmax Australia farmer set three rabbit traps to catch a marauding eagle that was preying on lambs. The first two traps captured neighbor dogs, and the third trapped the farmer’s hand. The eagle was last seen flying away with a lamb.
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Natmax
Australia
Bobbie and Charlie Exchange About Fathers in Simple Joke
Two children joke about their fathers professions with Bobbie asking what Charlie's father does and Charlie replying that his father does whatever his mother says. The exchange highlights playful family dynamics and humor without further context.
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Bobbie
Charlie
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Achans
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Hannon
Tiger
Phere
Joe
Wales
Canada
Ramsay Company
Ottawa
Conaga
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