Fleming Folly dam conflict rises on Silver Creek
Link Fleming confronts Kilgo Mell and Roper Kilgo over dam work at the Silver Lake bed warning of danger as Townsend and Vaille pay workers. Buzz Hamilton questions the project while bonds, debts, and a parole taint loom. Fleming fights to keep the money and men on the job.
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Gyp Vaille
Kilgo Fleming
Vaille
Buster Townsend
Link
Tom McLendon
Tom
Silver Lake
Fleming
Triple H
Star Loop
Helen Hamilton
Silver Creek
Captain Range
Marty Bush
Buster
Helen
Buzz Hamilton
Buzz
Hamilton
Lake-To-Be
Puncher
Townsend
Otto Pieper
Roper Kilgo
Mr. McLendon
Kilgo
Jackpot
Roper
Fileming
Soak Torney
Berrens
Stephen
Jackpot Mell
Iron Spring
Tall Abyssinian Drum Major Balihu Joins Royal Band
In October 1934 Balihu, a 7 foot 7 inch Abyssinian drum major from Jimma, was brought to Addis Ababa to face murder charges. The emperor Haili Sellassie halted the case by paying 1000 thalers to the dead man’s relatives and Balihu later joined the royal service as an umbrella holder and then drum major.
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Balihu
Haili Sellassie
Addis Ababa
Jimma
Abyssinia
Royal Band
Fruit-a-tives touted to aid kidney and liver trouble
Mrs A Aubry of Montreal credits Fruit-a-tives with transforming years of liver complaints headaches and constipation into improved health after short use. The advertisement claims Fruit-a-tives are fruit and herb extracts that cleanse elimination organs and provide a tonic energy boost.
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A. Aubry
Montreal
Living Sacrifice Prayers and Reflections
A devotional meditation on Romans 12 1 urging believers to offer their bodies and all faculties as a living sacrifice. It questions envy of mental power and asks for grace to give willingly the daily acts of love, kindness, and service.
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Brethen
Border life in Lauterburg woman split by Franco German line
In Alsace Lorraine town Lauterburg a 63 year old woman occupies a house straddling the Franco German border. Her bedroom lies in Germany and living room in France while taxes are paid to both nations. Her niece, engaged to a French resident, will inherit the border house and future children may have German or French nationality depending on birthplace.
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Lauterburg
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
France
Mademoiselle Maria Morgan
Fraulein Maria Morgan
Fraulein Morgan
Germain
Fraulein Maria
Mademoiselle Maria
Ramon Rebates
New York
Parks as Memorials for Royals in England
The text notes King Leopold during a January stay at Buckingham Palace discussed plans for Belgian children's parks to honor Queen Astrid. It suggests England may similarly memorialize the late King George through parks, reflecting royal concern for child welfare and popularity with the people.
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Leopold
Buckingham Palace
Mary
Belgium
Astrid
George
England
Blood banks to store donated blood at County Hospital Chicago
For the first time in the country blood banks will be installed at the County Hospital Chicago. These refrigerators preserve blood with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and keep it just above freezing for several weeks, according to Dr Fantus.
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County Hospital
Chicago
Fantus
Halas Bazaar Opens First Lace Museum in Hungary
A new museum at Halas Hungary showcases a single product the famous Halas lace. The lace is made by descendants of the Cumanians a Turkish origin tribe that settled in Europe in the early thirteenth century and brought decorative arts to the eastern world.
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Halas
Hungary
Europe
Army man recalls service with a sharp remark
An acquaintance asks if an ex soldier became an officer. He replies with pride that he served but received no commission, only wages. The exchange highlights ordinary veterans and a bite of humor about military rank.
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Ilkey
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