Rescue Experts Train in Everglades Trek
Twelve air force rescue specialists from the 5th Rescue Squadron endure a 26 mile Everglades hike to train doctors medics and teams in swamp jungle traversal. The program includes salt water Arctic and desert phases to prepare for locating crashed aircraft nationwide. Parachuting in and living off nature are described as the initial survival exercise.
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Immokalee
Fla
Air Force
Everglades
Florida Gulf Coast
Alaska
Arctic
5Th Rescue Squadron
Chief Petty Officer Lambert's Family Struggles in Transit Mixup
Oakland tale of Chief Petty Officer John Lambert who was shifted from Alameda to a missiles site then to Pasadena and Pt. Mugu. His wife joined him in Oakland as police focus on a confused sublet and a speeding ticket. She suffered nervous exhaustion and was hospitalized.
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Oakland
Calif
John Lambert
Alameda Naval Air Station
Navy
Pasadena
Pt. Mogu
Lambert
Lamberts
Cromwell on Olympic training and distance racing
Dean Cromwell notes that Olympic games repeat similarly due to abundant talent and coaching across the country. He highlights strong U S sprint success while European stamina shines in longer events, saying distance racing remains a challenge for Americans despite top training and factors like war and nutrition.
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Dean Cromwell
University of California
Pindar Sang
United States
U. S
Europe
Cromwell
Glenn Cunningham
Bill Bonthron
Jack Lovelock
Gunder Haegg
Lovelock
Johnny Hayes
England
Hayes
Dorando
Grinnel Rides for Sheridan For Abilene Gang Escape
After breakfast Grinnel declares himself well and rides to Sheridan with the mail sergeant, racing ahead of protective action and forcing Donovan’s group to hurry east. The delay stalls trains and keeps Sue in danger as Grinnel’s party gains a day’s head start. Abe gathers locals in Hays and funds a posse of saddle horses to pursue the Abilene crew.
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Grinnel
Sheridan
Willie
Terry
Abilene Gang
Santa Fe
Donovan
Iron Trail
Kansas City
Barlow
Abilene
Hays
Abe
Eastlake
Hays City
Hopes
Prairie Guns in Abilene Pursuit Ends with Capture
Abe Donovan Terry and allies chase four outlaws to a sod house hiding Eastlake and his wife as Susie Leonard seeks safety. A gunfight frees their captive and reveals a plot to hunt Leonard, while Terry vows to expose the gang and protect her.
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Terry Donovan
Sue Leonard
Morgan Hapes
Barlow
Mrs. Plyly
Willie Andrews
Abe Plyly
Terry
Sue
Button McTague
Abe
Ft. Wallace
Susie
Eastlake
Donovan
Plyly
Abilene
Willie
Hapes
Grinnel
the Solomon
Woodrow Wilson Nicknames Revealed On Faculty Portrait
In Middletown Connecticut the 1880sWoodrow Wilson gave faculty colleagues nicknames such as Redhead Winch Van Benny Our Bobs and Little Billee. The composite picture shows Wilson’s handwriting labeling himself Woodrow and assigning the sobriquets to high ranking professors at Wesleyan University.
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Middletown. Conn
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Winch
van Benny
Bobs
Billee
Wilson
Wesleyan University
Woodrow
Bargain Hunter Rents House for $35 Then Finds Vacant Lot
Houston man H. M. Padgett believed he secured a house for 35 dollars a month. He sent his wife and daughter to Illinois while he checked the property, only to discover a vacant lot at the address. The man who rented him the “house” received ten days in jail and a 35 dollar fine.
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Houston
Texas
H. M. Padgett
Illinois
Padgett
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Grantland Rice
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Haegg
Cunningham
Bonthron
Gil Dodds
Lovelock Eases
Berlin
Hardihood
E.e.halleran
Pardee
Leonard
Jasper
Glamour Hollywood
Houston School of Photography
Louisiana St. Houston
Business & Invest
OPPOR
Jack Casey
Falfurrias
Elmer Smith
Pascagoula St
Pascagoula, Miss
Riverside Dance Hall
East Bernard
John Beran Pearl
Rosenberg
Jones Jewelry
Columbus
Marion Walker
Marfa
Tex
Farm Machinery & Equip
W. H
Jensen
R. Bosworth Canadian Pacifi Railway
Union Station
St Paul, Minn
B. H. Rader
S.W. 1St
Ontario
Oregon
Fosters
Foster Products CO
14Th St
U.S
Thornton & Minor
W. H. Bull
W. Bull
McKesson& Robbins
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