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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
3
Hon. Geo. W. Peck narrates a comic Africa safari tale. Pa is duped by a king into buying green striped zebras, engages in romantic misadventures with a native wife, and survives a dramatic elephant chase. The capsule ends with plans for lions and an airship repair, closing with dated copyright notes.
The Twelfth Lancers reportedly play the Vesper Hymn the Spanish Chant and the Russian National Hymn nightly after the Last Post as a traditional custom. Origins trace to an officer’s wife gifting instruments on that condition. The Journal of the American Medical Association highlights modern sanitation as key to defeating disease and cites the Panama Canal project and Japan’s wartime sanitary efforts as lessons.
An improvised airship expedition descends into a rocky lion den in a South African veldt. Pa Wangled by steering errors, a crew lassos a lion, but the craft drags near the den and the scene ends with a chaotic salvage.
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