Air Mail Flyers Braved Mountain Perils for Postal Service
The article recounts Post Office air mail pilots enduring brutal weather and rugged terrain in daring deliveries. It highlights pilots like Sted Andert and G C Vance, detailing fog bound climbs, fuel shortages, snow, and forced landings, with humor amid heroism across routes from Salt Lake City to Pasco and Reno to Colfax.
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Colorado
Wyoming
Oregon
Idate
Loise
GC. K. Vance
Nevada- California
Colfax
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Piloto
Eugene
Johnny” Johnson
Sacramento Valley
Reno
Motherfield
American Canyon
The Legend of Old Drum and the Loyal Dog
A long account traces dog legends and memorials from Ser Se g eant Major Jiggs to Balto and to Old Drum. It recounts Senator West’s famous eulogy and the Missouri lawsuit over Drum the hound, detailing the overcharge shotgun incident and ensuing legal battles and verdicts.
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George G. West
Missouri
Old Drum
West
Will CG. Ferrril
Rocky Mountain Herald of
Denver
Colo
Ferrlil
Thia Hound
Sama
East
Teese James
Drath
Leonidas Hornaby
Charles Burden
Horngby
Drum
Supreme Court of Missouri
Hornsby Place
Johnston County
Uncle Lon
Mombara
Charley
Hornsbys
Tennessee
North Carolina
Kentucky
Virginia
Burden
Hornsby
Juatica of the Peace
George Norman
Court of Common Pleas
Chaultecourt
Drom
Crittenden & Cockrell
Charisy
Phillips & West
Elliott
John BP
Phillips
United States
Kanaan City
George Gi Vaart
Misasour
Casa
Foster P. Wright
Blodgett
Crittenden
Cockrell
Vest
Brinkley Hornsby
Lon
Euprema Court of
Spectator Fatally Struck by Bat During East Orange Baseball Game
Emil Muler twenty six of this city was killed at East Orange New Jersey when a bat swung from player Sumper Curry struck his head as he watched a baseball game. He died from the impact and the incident shocked attendees at the field.
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East Orange
N. J
Emil Muler
Entering Poorhouse, Deserted Couple Reunited in Lancaster
Charles Trotter, seventy six, and Bertha, seventy three, meet at the Lancaster poorhouse door after 56 years apart. Bertha says he deserted her as a child wife and left in sorrow after the death of their infant. She now refuses to forgive, saying he vanished when she needed him most.
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Lancaster
Ohio
Charles Trotter
Bertha
Trotter
West
Kansan Keeps Soddy Home Over Modern Living Trends
Quiet community holds fast to original sod house of Mrs Mary Springer age seventy nine near the post office in a town of about one thousand. She insists the earthen dwelling is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than surrounding modern homes while sharing space with Mrs Sophia Baird and tending a garden and poultry. Her four married children urge relocation but she stays, citing long memories and duties to neighbors who rely on her for eggs and meat.
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Flo
Andert
San Francisco
Post Office Department
Rocky
Kan
Gove County
Mary Springer
Spridger
Witle
Springer
Uves
Irish Navy Submarine Sold for 100 Dollars
The Irish Navy submarine built by John P. Tolland for fenion supporters sold in New York for 100 dollars to a Junk man. The transaction closed at that price with the vessel changing hands to a buyer described as a junk dealer.
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New York
John P. Tolland
Fenion
Who Is Firat? New York World’s Record Holders
Two handsome young bachelors claim world records for photographers and newspaper space. The prince of Wales ranks first while he is said to be second, in a curious air of celebrity trivia and pageantry.
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New York
Prince of Wales
Piedmont Plain Distinction in Upland Atlantic Region
The Piedmont geographic division lies between the Appalachian Highlands and the Atlantic coastal plain, characterized by rugged, eroded terrain and older rocks. A marked escarpment line, the falling, separates it from the softer coastal plain, with rivers plunging in rapids or cataracts. The Piedmont is narrower in New England, wider toward the south, about 300 miles across in North Carolina.
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Byrd
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Valetcla Island
Ireland
National Geographic Society
Albert H. Bumstead
Big North Pole
Great Circle Line
New York
Paria
Piedmont
United States
Atlantic Coast Plain
Appalachian Highland
Low Coastal Plain
New England
North Carolina
Relieving Body Tension Through French Gymnastics
French gymnastics aim to make the body flexible and free from muscular tension. Relaxing exercises target each part of the body in sequence and finally release all tension from the joints.
Early Christian Basilica St Apolinaris in Ravenna
The church of St Apolinaris in Ravenna Italy is one of the most important early Christian basilicas. Begun in 584 it features a singular circular tower rising about 120 feet.
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St. Apolinaris
Ravenna
Italy
Pertiapa
Army Calls Differ The Reverse Is The Same For Fran
A compact note claims that the reverse holds true across histories and nations with parallel evils, suggesting a shared pattern in conflicts and national spirits across the United States Germany and England.
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Fran
United States
Germany
England
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U. S
Washington
United States Post
Herodotus
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York-to- Paria
Cyrus the Great
Tr. Cabot Lodge, Jr
New York Herald-Tribune
Lindbergh
Jess
Anders
Hla
Honda
Troy
Afather
Johnson
Utah
Salt Lake
Nowel
Charles A. Dana
Concord
Calif
Sted
Pasco
Wash
Ing
Onice
Elmo Scott Watson
Jiggs
United States Marine Corps
Stubby
4. EB. F
American Red Cross Museum
Rufus
Lou Wescott Beck
Los Angeles
Balto
Nome
Cleveland Zoo
Senator West
Malica
Thia
Ila Hla
Kansas
Irish Navy
Firat
London
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