Christmas Eve Rescue: Army Private Survives Icy Wharf Plunge
Ray Hopper of Roslindale recalls a near fatal accident at Fort Greble Rhode Island on December 24 1900. A horse reared at a boiler on the end of a narrow wharf sending Hopper from a two wheeled cart into 30 feet of freezing water as rescuers and a brave buddy pull him to safety. He emerges unharmed after being fished from the cold sea. the horse is saved too and the captain asks only if the horse is safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond J. Hopper
Roslindale
Ray
United States Coast Artillery
Fort Greble
Rhode Island
Cook Shack
Ray Hopper
Quartermaster’s Department
WNU
Pearl diving in Japan by young women fuels export trade
A Kansas City Times correspondent notes Japanese girls aged sixteen to twenty five dominate pearl diving, producing about 5,000,000 pearl oysters annually. Known as ama divers of Pearl Island in Miye, they work despite birth and marriage, with Kokichi Mikimoto enforcing dress code and public duty.
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Japan
United States
Kansas City Times
Pearl Island
Miye Prefecture
Kokichi Mikimoto
Minos
Crete
Morgan Horse Dates to 1793
The Morgan horse lineage traces to 1793 with the sire Justin Morgan named for a farmer. Morgans are noted for ruggedness style courage intelligence and usefulness in harness and saddle. They were army remounts and influenced many trotters saddle horses worldwide including Japan China Canada and Cuba.
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Morgan
Justin Morgan
United States
World
Japan
China
Central and
South America
Canada
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Guam
How the Honey Bee Lives and Performs His Very Important Duties
National Geographic Society summarizes the life cycle of honey bees. It covers the queen’s mating flight, worker and drone roles, colony odor recognition, queen introduction, winter storage, and how bees survive cold seasons.
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National Geographic Society
Ashington
D. C
WNU
Iule
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Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
Henry Ford
New Dearborn Veterans Hospital
Detroit
John Russell Pope
America
John J. Pershing
Montfaucon
France
King Carol of Romania
London
Regent Street
Harold Dahl
Champaign
Ill
Paris
Dahl
Iron Lung
Frederick D. Snite, Jr
Chicago
Rosemary O'Farrell
Mary
Santa Ana
California
Joffre
The
Marne
Maxime Real del Sarte
Burbank
Calif
Aerial Nurses Corps of America
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