Portrait Heads From Giza Excavation Sent to Museums
Boston experts announce four of eight Egyptian royal portraits from the Giza cemetery will go to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts while four are to be housed in Cairo. Dr. George A. Reisner cites artistic and historical significance and notes the heads suggest possible mixed heritage in fourth dynasty rulers. One princess head is described as distinctly negroid.
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Cheops
Boston
Royal Cemetery
Giza
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
George A. Reisner
Egypt
Cairo
Dr. Reisner
Myceblus
Chephren
Reisner
Huckleberry Finn at 90 recalls Mark Twain days
Portland resident B F Finn who inspired the Huckleberry Finn character turned ninety at his McKenzie River ranch. He recalls working with Mark Twain on a Mississippi steamboat and explains Twain borrowed little from him beyond the name. Finn notes he was nicknamed Huckleberry and Tom Sawyer was his friend.
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Mark Twain
Portland
Ore
B. F. Finn
Huckleberry Finn
McKenzie
Twain
Clemens Charley
Finn
St. Louis
Huckleberry
Clemens
Tom Sawyer
McKenzie River
Colorado Convicts Build Good Roads And Pikes Peak Route
Colorado Springs and Canyon City highway projects showcase convict labor as a model for mountain road building. The 50 mile route through Red Rock and Dead Man canyons features engineered grades, wide crowned beds, and scenic vistas while inmates earn time off for service and good behavior. Prison warden Thomas J. Tynan touts cost savings and 5,000 miles of future roads at under $300,000 yearly taxpayer burden, noting high food quality, morale, and low escape rates among camps.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Canyon City
Pikes Peak Ocean To
Ocean
Ute Pass
United States
Red Rock Canyon
Dead Man's Canyon
Colorado
Thomas J. Tynan
State Penitentiary
Warrior Marines at Eighty in Colfax Wedding Return
Colfax Washington resident E. D. Lake aged eighty, Civil War veteran, returns after two years with his bride Mrs. Anna Wells of Port Orford. Lake has lived in Colfax for nearly forty years.
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Colfax
Wash
E. D. Lake
Anna Wells
Port Orehard
Two men arrested after intruding on Mrs. Jacoby’s home
Police in North York arrested Clyde Smith of Homestead and Charles Bowers of York after they forced Mrs. William Jacoby to cook a stolen steak from a butcher’s wagon. Arthur Jacoby arrived to find the intruders at the meal as officers intervened.
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North York
William Jacoby
Arthur Jacoby
Clyde Smith
Homestead
Charles Bowers
York
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Allentown
Tuinix
New Life
Samuel Farley
Columbia Silk Mills
Augustus D. Bowers
Bedford
Charles Bausman
Robezonia
Joseph G. May
Mount Carmel
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Sloan
Leeper
Foreat K. Ittle
O. H Berger
B & QO
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A. Sheely
J. H. Duttera, Jr
Weaver's Warehouse
Hanover Street
TP. Frazier
Jauer
York Pike
L. Eicholtz
New Oxronp
Geo. A. Miller
Philadelphia Street
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Newark
Ohio
Donald P. McPherson
Gettysburg
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Oxford
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Center Square
G. F. Grove
Hanover, PA
W. B
Wentz Bros. & Frey
Baltimore Street
Stur
Farmers & Merchants Bank
S. Miney Minter
Pres
Z. H. Casman
V. Pres. Gro. Meceley
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Y. Jno
N. Hersh
J. McC. Gilbert
Wm. F. Sheely
J.C. Geiselman
E.H. Markley
F. M
Dr .™. R. Snyder
Garlisle Street
New Oxford, Pa
Pew
Hamilton Roller Mill
East Berlin
J. R. Hartman
Ohio & Kentucky
Kentucky
H. W. Parr
Hanover, Fa
Kentucky Horses & Colts
East Chestnut Street
Hanover
HA. Smith
York County
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