Burroughs life of Tarzan creator and empire ends
Edgar Rice Burroughs died at 75 leaving a Tarzan legacy that built a $125 million worldwide industry. From selling pencils to publishing in 1912 he became the world’s wealthiest writer, with nine actors portraying Tarzan and the name in the New York Social Register.
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Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Burroughs
Elmo Lincoln
Buster Crabbe
Johnny Weismuller
Lex Barker
Princeton University
New York Social Register
House of Lords
Mars
Stanley
Africa
America
Nazi Germany
Tokyo
Village church bells outlive village salesmanship
A traveller teases a country village grocer about 80 years of no advertising. The grocer explains the village church on the hill, 300 years old, and the traveller notes they all ring the bell.
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Inip
Shark oil wealth from West Africa factory tale
In French West Africa near Joal Cap Vert, André Couard builds a shark oil empire from liver oil and by products. His nine vessels harvest about 40 sharks daily, yielding huge vitamin A oil while fins, teeth, leather and meat find global markets.
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Stas
France
André Couard
Dakar
French West Africa
Couard
Collard
Norway
Germany
California
Florida
U.S.A
Renault
Joal-Cap Vert
Joal
China
French Africa
Mark Twain’s Humor and Life’s Twists Across A Century
The piece recalls Mark Twain born Samuel Clemens as a master of comic insight who survived bankruptcy and illness with humor. It notes his life with Olivia, editor roles, tours in England, and later honors. Halley’s Comet foretold his death in 1910, matching his quip about the comet’s return.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
Olivia
Buffalo Express
England
Orkney Islanders Real Producers Milk and Honey Orkneys
In Orkney Islands Scotland 22 000 residents export 56 000 000 esps yearly averaging 38 pounds per person. Egg exports top cattle auctions with 4 7 fowls per acre. Cattle herds grow with 3 500 000 dollar value expected this year and milk output up tenfold since 1946. They repurpose Army huts into homes and expand arable land sixfold since 1948. Also a Tennessee bear samples illegal whisky as tax agents close a still.
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Orkney Islands
Scotland
Agrcultural Organization
Society
Orkney
Army
Navy
Orkneys
French type Horses for them and cinema built after shark day
A fisherman boasted of a superb day catching 417 sharks with his nine boats. He mentioned supplying horses of French type and funding a cinema building as a reward for the crew's success.
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Coward
Madame Coward
Collard
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Lancaster House
London
U.S
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
Schuman
Mark ‘Twain
Tom Sawyer
Paddin
Wilson
Joan of Arc
Oxford University
Hailey
Halley
Tulsa
Okla
Orkney Islanders
Tennessee Hills
Alcohol Tax Unit
Revenue Men
By Arthur Pointer
Arnulf Erich Stegmann
Deisenhofen
Stegmann
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