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Globe Trotter is Visitor Here On Last Leg of Long JourneyE. K. Carlson with 71,000 Miles to Credit Nears Goal; H ears Mattie Crawford.E. A. Carlson, with 71, 000 net nnles to his credit, walked into Caldwell last Friday and walked out Saturday morning, bound eastward He is on the last leg of a hiking trip around the world, a ttip wluch has altrady taken loin thiongh 41 countries.Carlson, who is a young man oi about 30 years, started July 26, 1910.He sailed to Europe an has been going steadily eastward ever since.His method of keeping a time table is by the simple means oi visiting newspaper offices and obtaining from them a statement of the date and hour of his visit thereHis visit in Caldwell was not with I out interesting incidents He *‘took I in” the Mattie Crawford revival and i healing meetings and stopped over I night in the local tourists park. Not J being equipped with a car and the ordinary tourists accessories, lie protested paying the newly levied tourist f park fee. As a result. Ins best persuasive abilities were necessary to | prevent his arrest on a vagrancy I charge. IOf the Crawford meetings Mr. Carlson remarked that this meeting was one of the real wonders he found on his trip. The other outstanding event on his tour was the Japanese earthquake, Mr. Carlson says.Carlson finances Ins trip b the simple expedient of taking phutograps of interesting places and incidents. He is writing for magazines of his travels and has been paid generous sums for several of his photographs, one in particular netting him $750 At present he has about 12,000 photo graphs.Mr. Carlson carries no baggage except a knapsack of letters, pictures and documents.
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The Caldwell Tribune
Caldwell, Idaho, US
Fri, Aug 15, 1924
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