Jungle Horror in Canal Zone Snake Attack
Brooklyn soldier Frank Rini recalls a 19-foot boa constrictor attack in the Canal Zone on January 15 1924. He and four companions hacked through jungle to exit before dark. the snake wrapped around him biting and squeezing until friends finally cut it to pieces. He remained unconscious for over an hour and recovered with two weeks of soreness.
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Frank Rini
Brooklyn
N. Y
Canal Zone
Frank
Fort Sherman
WNN Service
Professor Magill
Brownlow Report
Magill
Treasury
Auburn
Ill
Dartmouth
University of Chicago
Chicago
Columbia
Tax Commission of
Porto Rico
Supreme Court
Seckless Jerry Simpson
Commonwealth Edison
Penguins and Ice: Life Near Alaska Glaciers
The article notes Black Rapids Glacier south of Fairbanks and lists major North American ice rivers in Alaska and Canada. It also describes penguin captivity struggles, predators, and a male penguin proposing by offering a stone, linking animal behavior to survival.
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Alaska
Fairbanks
North America
Yukon
Canadian Rockies
Juneau
Mount Robson
British Columbia
Antarctic
Mrs
Miss Eccles to Wed Harold J Steele in September
A photograph shows Miss Elea nore May Eccles daughter of Mar riner S Eccles chairman of the Federal Reserve board. Her engagement to Harold J Steele of Houston Texas is announced. Miss Eccles is a George Washington university junior and Steele is associated with the electric home and farm authority. They will marry in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanore May Eccles
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Harold J. Steele
Houston
Texas
Miss Eccles
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
Steele
Electric Home and Farm Authority
Magill Tax Expert Joins Treasury Probe Endorsed by Roosevelt
Prof Roswell Magill, tapped as special assistant to the Treasury secretary, will probe tax dodging and report on the income tax maze. Roosevelt signals immediate action after Magill’s report spurs a broad overhaul, with possible investigations into large yacht write-offs and hidden funds.
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Ashington
Roswell Foster Magill
Secretary of the Treasury
Hugh Stewart
Magill
Chicago
American Federation of Investors
Harold Groves
University of Wisconsin
Groves
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Columbia
Wahoo Fish Walks on Tail Acurate Curator Notes
The tropical game fish wahoo averages five to six feet in length and about fifty pounds. It fights hard and is hard to land. It supposedly “walks on its tail” when hooked, with a latticework spine that limits bending. Scientific name Acanthocybium petrolei.
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Field Museum
City of Wooden Chimneys Earns Its Name
In Suffolk Virginia during the mid 1700s brick shortages spurred a building boom and many chimneys were built of wood, giving Suffolk the nickname city of wooden chimneys.
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Alaska
United States
Eastport
Bay
Calif
Adams
Baltimore and Ohio
Suffolk
Reflection and Revelry as Mind Flowers
The quote compares reflection to a wholesome flower of the mind and equates revelry to the same bloom gone to seed, noting how both arise from inner states and expression. It emphasizes the dual nature of thought and behavior as similar botanical growth.
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Floyd Gibbons
Clydebank
Scotland
Phillip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Canton
Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Ruth Armstrong
Ruth Bryan Owen
U. S
Norway
Robert Furman Armstrong
Robert Armstrong, Jr
John Nance Garner
Armstrongs
Washington
Secretary of
Henry A. Wallace
Southwestern
Dust Bowl
Desert
Great Plains
Penguins
Cleveland
Admiral Byrd
City of
New York
London Bridge
By Lemuel F. Parton
Social Security Advances
T’s
Anchors Aweigh
Social Security Board
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Altmeyer
de Pere
Wis
Wisconsin University
Wisconsin Tax Commission
Wisconsin Industrial Commission
NRA
Consolidated News
WNU
Golden Peacock
Golden Peacock Inc
H-325
Paris
Tenn
Seneca
Somerville
Doan
Cooleraire
Born Refrigerating Co
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