Nomad Chieftain in Tekes Valley Welcomes American Visitor
A traveler trekking toward the Tekes valley meets Sayjan Beg, Kirghiz chieftain, who greets him with wary curiosity. The Kirghiz explain tribal origins, dialects, and wealth, while the party discusses regional races, geography beliefs, and the mix of Turks and Mongols in the Tekes community. Both share greetings and map a safer path to the Tekes valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rostery
Warerington
D. C
WNU
Bukhara
Senerkand
Central Asia
Tashkent
Cathay
Kuldja
Ningyuan
Sinklang
Bagaar
Tekes
Sayjan Beg
Kirghiz
Celestial Mountains
To & Greet
Robert College
Istanbul
Russia
China
Iran
Persia
Turkey
Kashmir
Hindustan
Tibet
Afghanistan
England
America
Fael
Issyk-kad
Warn Lakes
Kazakistan
Styeria
How Prospect Eluded Marchie Schwartz
A fragment from a 1920s sports column notes a famed Creighton prospect who quit college after his wife feared streetcars. Mentions Marchie Schwartz as a Iowa successor candidate, and references to Ossie Solem, Clarke Shaughnessy, and other sports figures amid a collage of anecdotes on football, boxing, and early baseball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OSTON
Rustin Barding
Marvard
Toronto
Freedy Steele
Arma
H. W. Wendler
Ralph Sasse
Mississippi
Ohio State
Sammy Renick
Detroit University
Gus Dorals
al G. Werly
Tropical Park
Don Meade Case
Florida Racing Commission
Brooklyn
Bensonhurst
American Bowling Congress
Chicago
New York City
Tom Thorp
Miami
Marchie Schwartz
Creighton
Marchie
Clarke Shaughnessy
University of Chicago
Lreighty
Ossie Solem
University of Iowa
Bill Hewitt
Admirals Navy
Vic Bottari
U. of California
John L. Sullivan
British Board of Boxing Control
Charles Doomall
Charley Mitchell
Donmar
Hue Bier
Eisenstadts
Bakers
Wilsons
Danny McFayden
Walter Hapgood
Boston ‘Trancrot
Uncommon Hawken rifles and Gwinnett autograph value
A feature on Samuel Hawken and the famed Hawken rifles from St Louis noting their rarity and craft. It highlights the $25 fixed price and Hawken’s shop history, then shifts to Button Gwinnett’s autograph fetching record prices, including a 1926 Rosenbach sale and later auctions reaching $53,640.
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Sam Hawken
St. Louis
Samuel Hawken
Maryland
Jacob Hawken
Samuel
Kentucky
Hawken
Meramec River
Missouri
St Louis
John P. Gemmer
Sam
Gemmer
The
Missouri Historical Society
John D. Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Button Gwinnett Gwinnett
England
America
Georgia
Continental Congress
Lachlin MaIntosh
Gwinnett
McIntosh
Immortals
A. W. Rosenbach
Bo Will
Gwinett
Paine Culleelor
Erbed Paula
Busy Sunbonnet Girls Tea Towels Pattern 918
Seven small maidens in sunbonnets inspire a tea towel embroidery project. Transfer pattern includes seven motifs averaging 7% inches with outline stitches and hints for lazy daisy running stitch and French knots. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft nee 82 Eighth Ave New York for pattern 918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Needlecraft
Eighth Ave
New York
Let us live to leave no stain on time’s wing
A reflective essay urges living with propriety and consideration. It counsels rejoicing in a friend's success and avoiding envy or spreading mean stories. It uses animal analogies to stress graceful behavior and true gentility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowper
Jo Man
First Hot Air Balloon Flight Marks Montgolfier Breakthrough
The first hot air balloon was built by Joseph Montgolfier who reasoned hot air rises. Its inaugural ascent in Paris in 1783 carried a sheep a duck and a rooster. Months later Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d Arlandes flew a manned balloon. Hydrogen later replaced hot air as a lifting gas rendering the craft obsolete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Montgolfier
Paris
Pilatre de Rozier
Marquis d'Arlandes
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Kalrouck
Kalmuck
Atadise
Teliva
Uds
Er Montes
Gruilix
Bite
Soviet
France
Orioles
Johnny Kilbane
Abe Attell
Eugene Criqui
Wille Hoppe
Hoppe
John C. Bell
Pennsylvania
Paul J. Dashiell
Naval Academy
Harvard
Yale
Sayard
Crimson
Elis
Princeton
Eddie Lowery
Doyle
Reitz
Jennings
McGraw
Robert Garrett
Baltimore
Athens
Garrett
Paraskévopoulos
William A. Larned
Johnny Evers
Ed Systiant
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehring
Jimmy Foxx
Eleanor Holm Jarrett
TGR
Ubed Dn
Boothlyn
Isus
Itekes Valley
Young Ladies of
Wille Heppa
Bob Considine
Washington
New York American
Joe Malone
Joe Dundee
N. Y
Profb
Giants
Gelatka
Pittman
Duquesne
Jockey Club
Gee-Gee
J. G
Budwiser
Hot Springs
Barney Schreiber
N. T
Jesse Owens
Andy Reese
Marchie Schwarts
Longinus
Bieber TR
Kunegleman
Philadelphia
Pas Lee Anpeiis
Calif
Ioral
Vera Cruz
Quaker State
Wieter
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