Fleming's Folly Dam Feud at Star Loop Ranch
Link Fleming battles drought and debt while pursuing an irrigation dam on the Triple H and Star Loop ranches. Buzz Hamilton's parole sparks tension with Kilgo and Jackpot Mell as workers’ safety, wages, and sabotage fears escalate. Fleming confronts threats and arms tense standoff atop the dam site.
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Triple H
Star Loop
Helen Hamilton
Silver Creek
Captain Range
Link
Link Fleming
Boone County
Buzz Hamilton
Helen
Kilgo
Fleming
Buzz
Buster Townsend
Torney
Rawhide
Roper
Roper Kilgo
Jackpot Mell
Townsend
Buster
Roper Kfigo
Jackpot
Vaille
Iron Spring
Gyp Vaille
Luster
Tall Abyssinian drum major Balihu rises to royal role
Balihu, a 7 foot 7 inch Abyssinian drum major from Jimma, was brought to Addis Ababa in October 1934 to face murder charges. The ahillot court, often led by the emperor, heard cases weekly. The emperor, astonished by Balihu’s height, settled the dispute with 1000 thalers, then Balihu entered royal service as umbrella-holder before joining the band as drum-major.
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Balihu
Haili Sellassie
Addis Ababa
Jimma
Ahillot
Abyssinia
Daily Bible Reading Cited By British Leaders
The Watchman Examiner urges daily Bible reading noting Prime Ministers Gladstone Salisbury Asquith Balfour MacDonald Bonar Law Lloyd George Baldwin and others as devout believers. It recalls John Bright as a Bible grounded orator and King George V promising daily scripture reading to his mother Queen Alexandra.
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Great Britain
Gladstone
Lord Salisbury
Asquith
Balfour
MacDonald
Bonar Law
Lloyd George
Stanley Baldwin
John Bright
House of Commons
King George
Queen Alexandra
Halas opens museum showcasing famed Halas race product
A museum in Halas Hungary debuts as one of the first of its kind. It presents a single product the Halas race, crafted by descendants of the Cumanians a Turkish origin tribe that settled in Europe in the early thirteenth century and spread decorative arts to the East.
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Halas
Hungary
Europe
Cheerful funerals become fashion in Manchuria
A regional report notes a shift in funeral customs in Manchuria with brighter ceremonies gaining popularity. While traditional mournful rites persist, planners emphasize customization, color, music, and personal scripts to celebrate lives rather than emphasize loss. Local firms report rising demand for themed services and decorative elements.
Prince Albert National Park Seen As Prime Canoeing Destination
Indications point to a big tourist season in Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert National Park. Officials explore routes across lakes and waterways linking Waskesiu Kingsmere Ajawaan and Lavallee, with boat liveries and portage circuits offering weeks of canoe trips and camping along sandy beaches.
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Saskatchewan
Prince Albert National Park
Department of the Interior
North Country
Hudson Bay
Prince Albert
Lake Waskesia
Waskesia Lake
Kingsmere Lake
Ajawaan
Lone Island
Sanctuary
Lavallee Lake
Kingsmecre Lake
Crean
Hanging Heart Lakes
Worlds largest one piece carpet woven in Glasgow
The 80 by 27 foot rug, weighing nearly a ton, was completed in Glasgow for the Maharajah of Jodhpur. Weighing a ton, it will ship to India in a tin lined hermetically sealed case. Gold colored with a blue green border, the carpet used the widest loom and nine thread strands per yarn, totaling 30 million tufts.
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Clasgow
Glasgow
Jodhpur
India
First Blood Banks to Aid Transfusions Here
For the first time in this country blood banks for preservation of human blood for transfusions will be installed in the County Hospital Chicago. The banks are refrigerators where blood with added citrate is kept just above freezing to prevent clotting. Blood can be preserved for several weeks, Dr Fantus said.
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County Hospital
Chicago
Fantus
Tea exports: England and Scotland drink majority worldwide
World tea trade figures show England and Scotland consume more than half of the tea exported annually. The observation highlights the prominence of the British market in global tea consumption and its impact on production patterns.
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England
Scotland
Little Helps For This Week Reflecting on Romans 12:1 devotion
A devotional meditation explores offering our bodies as a living sacrifice and invites readers to recognize all facets of service. It notes mental and spiritual power, urging generous acts, kind words, helpful errands, and practical works as daily offerings to God. The piece appeals for humility, willingness, and self-offering in daily life.
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Brethen
Border house straddles Franco German border in Lauterburg
A 63 year old woman lives with a bedroom in Germany and a living room in France as taxes are paid to both nations. Her niece who will inherit the border house is engaged to a youth on the French side. The woman avoids politics while on German soil but says neighbors must co exist if both nations share the border.
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Lauterburg
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
France
Mademoiselle Maria Morgan
Lauerburg
Fraulein Maria Morgan
Fraulein Morgan
Germain
Fraulein Maria
Mademoiselle Maria
Ilfa
Parks As Memorials For Late Royals Considered
Buckingham Palace hosted King Leopold in January where he discussed children parks in Belgium to honor Queen Astrid. It is now likely memory of King George will be kept in England similarly by royal figures famed for child welfare. The piece notes desert creatures’ adaptations to sand and wingless insects to prevent being blown away by winds.
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George
Astrid
Leopold
Buckingham Palace
Mary
Belgium
England
Army service pride and wartime wages remark
An ex service man recalls praise for serving. He notes he received only wages, not a commission. The passage also mentions pepper once valued as highly as precious metals, reflecting wartime scarcity.
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Dhe
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Nees Wich
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Mo Treate
Nees Bes
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Fleming’s Folly
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Chapter
Gyp Yailie
Tom McLendon
Tom
Silver Lake
Marty Bush
Hamilton
Puncher
Marty
Bush
Otto Pieper
Ife
Plainty Townsend
Mell
Dr. Pierce
Alberta Oram
St. Hamilton
Manchuria
Iver
A. Aubry
Montreal
Hye
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