White Prairie Death tale of horse guiding homesteaders
Homesteader Bill Simpson from Saskatchewan recounts a 1908 blizzard trek with Barney to a distant prairie grocery. With the trail obliterated, a horse kept bearings, guiding them to a straw pile shelter and then to a light at a neighbor’s house where they spent the night. The tale ends with Bill recalling the horse that saved them from freezing.
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Adventurers
Java
Sweetwater
British Columbia
Bill Simpson
Bill
Saskatchewan
Barney
Silica Black And Glaciers In A Glimpse Of Nature
A writer notes silica black forms when coal is crushed and mixed with silica and heated in vacuum to 600 degrees Fahrenheit yielding a much blacker residue. It has uses in pants and shoe polishes insecticides and fume absorbers due to oil miscibility and color fastness. The piece also surveys glaciers Pamir in the Himalayas Hubbard glacier Alaska and Svalbard noting growth from snowflakes into granular ice and Kilimanjaro hosting ten glaciers at 19 710 feet despite its volcanic status.
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London Tit-Bits
Pamir
Himalayas
Hubbard
Alaska
Svalbard
Spitzbergen
Africa
Kilimanjaro
Tanganyika
Not I, Says John Denies Cannes Mayor Attack
John Roosevelt, youngest child of the President, arriving home from Europe, again denies squirt of champagne in the face of Cannes mayor and striking him with a bouquet during the battle of flowers. He says two other men did it and confirms engagement to Miss Anne Lindsay Clark of Boston.
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New York
John
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Europe
Cannes
France
Anne Lindsay Clark
Boston
Jimmy Walker Childhood Sparked By Talkative Beginnings
In Greenwich Village in 1881 a young James John Walker earned the nickname Jimmy Talker for his chatter. His early talkativeness led to a public speech at a political rally, helping his father’s aldermanic bid and foreshadowing a later rise to mayor of New York City. He pursued law, wrote songs, and built a successful practice before entering politics officially in 1925.
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Childdren
Jimmy Walker
James John Walker
New York City
New York
Greenwich Village
Jimmy Talker
Jimmy
Union Surety Guarantee Company
Orville Wright Early Life and Path to Flight
Orville Wright born 1871 in Dayton Ohio moved from bone selling to a printing press and newspaper with Wilbur. They ran a bicycle repair shop before pursuing aviation and achieved the first successful Kitty Hawk flight in 1903 and a 62 minute 15 second flight in 1908.
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Orville Wright
Dayton
Ohio
Orville
Wilbur
United Brethren Church
Kitty Hawk
N. C
WNU
Household Tips From The WNU Service
Practical tips cover sewing tough fabrics with soap on hems and softening sugar in the oven. Recipes suggest an easy smoked haddock savory, salad eggs arranged on lettuce with mayonnaise and cheese, and tea cosies lined with chamois leather. Cleaning black frocks uses crumbed bread to lift powder marks.
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WNU
Black-Draught Offers Constipation Relief
An advertisement promotes Purely vegetable Black-Draught as a sensible remedy for constipation. It claims safe, stomach friendly relief from vegetable leaves and roots, finely ground, with refreshing results for both men and women.
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Adventurers’ Club
White Prairie
Floyd Gibbons
Agai
Senorita
Anita Lizana
United States
Forest Hills
Shanghai
Nancy Felio
Far East
Seattle
Safe and Sound
Atlantic City
N. J
Bette Cooper
Hackettstown
Bette
Berlin
Germany
Navy
Annapolis
Whitehead
Washington, D. C
Jeanne Kavanagh
Iowa
Roosevelt
Denton
Denton’s Facial Magnesia - Select Products, Inc
23Rd Street
Long Island City
N. Y
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