Prospector Garth Faces Treachery Aboard Quest For North Claim
Alan Garth, an ignorant yet capable prospector, travels with Burton Ramill and daughter Lilith and pilot Vivian Huxley to a Mackenzie outpost. The party disputes the value of platinum ore, plots to abandon Garth, and a bear encounter tests their resolve as they prepare for a long trek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Garth
Far North
Airways
Burton Ramill
Lilith
Vivian Huxley
Piiot
Garth
Lilith Hamill
Huxley
Rami
Ramill
Mackenzie
Ica
Valley trek and gold laden pack in harsh glacier pass
The party hauls heavy loads of caribou meat and platinum along a brutal glacier pass toward the Mackenzie, with Garth guiding while Huxley eyes the potential fortune. Lilith contends with the burden, and tension seethes over the placer’s true value and looming cache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garth
Mr. Ramill
Lilith
Vivian
Huxley
Frere
Mr. Rawill
Lilith Ramill
Wwrld
Huxby
Glacier
Alan
Mackenzie
Miss Ramill
Dad
Alan Garth
Mr. Ramil
Shovel-Tusked Elephants Dredged Swamp Food Across Lands
Pathfinder Magazine reports that 20 million years ago in a swamped Gobi and across North America mastodons used shovel tusks as dredges to gather water lilies and swamp plants. Fossil finds confirm swamps existed in the Gobi and show these elephants also lived in California Nebraska and Kansas.
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Gobi Desert
Earth
Gobi
America
California
Nebraska
Kansas
Pathfinder Magazine
Spiders and Stars Use of Webs in Fine Instrument Manufacture
Spiders webs are used to mark telescope eyepiece divisions and aid precise observations. A York instrument maker hires a specialist to collect eperira diademata spiders found on gorse bushes. Each spider winds about 40 feet of web for use in delicate scientific instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Eperira
Animal prophets pit-pony foresees danger at Markham colliery
Tit-Bits notes a pit-horse at Markham colliery refused to return after bolting, a roof fell on its driver soon after. The piece cites English authorities that pit horses sense danger before miners and recalls other cases in Britain and Burma of animals choosing perilous paths, then suffering consequences.
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Markham
Tit-Bits Magazine
England
Burma
Fragmented miscellany on beauty wars and world events
A collage of brief notes touches on a sensationalized domestic murder case in New York, Lake Titicaca’s high altitude fish stock debate, a beauty pageant challenge between Rosemary Andree and Mardee Hoff, rising highway and home dangers, Congress Townsend pension talk, the 1986 Republican convention in Cleveland, Chinese student protests against Japan, and a stratosphere earth photograph proving a round globe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Titicaca
Bolivia
Peru
Sam
Lights of New York in Bowery via L L Stevenson
A reflective piece on Bowery life in New York City recounts shifts from vaudeville dives to cheap stores and dime prices. The essay notes gender imbalance, panhandling, pushcart practices, and old era contrasts with modern street scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lights of
New York
L. L. Stevenson
The
Bowery
Steve Brodie
Chuck Connors
Mike” Salter
Department of Health
Arbor Window Rag Rug by Grandmother Clark
Attractive simple crochet rug design 32 inches using about 3 pounds of rug strips. Sections crocheted separately, slip stitched, color recommendations, part of rug book No. 24 with full directions for twenty rugs. Send 15 cents for book No. 24 or 25 cents for hook and book to Home Craft Co. Dept. C St Louis Mo with SASE.
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Address Home Craft Co
Dept. C
Nineteenth and
St Louis Ave
St. Louis
Hindu Solemnly Wed to Bihar Mango Tree
A groom in Delhi is ceremonially married to a mango tree in Dumka, Bihar, with a procession circling the tree and vermilion spots applied. He will wed his bride-elect in a ceremony rarely witnessed today, marking a preliminary ritual in the tradition.
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Bihar
Delhi
India
Dumka
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Robert
Ames Bennet
Alan Garth, You
Man
Spiders and
Brisbane
Reisman
Rosemary Andree
Mardee Hoff
Miss Hoff
Congress
Cleveland
Chicago
Kansas City
Ohio
Peiping
China
Japan
King Features Syndicate, Inc
WNU
Lower East Side
Harlem
Jim Farley
Bill
Willie Howard
Union Square
Times Square
Bell Syndicate
WNU Serrica
Clark
Select Products, Inc
23Rd St
Long Island City
Nik
Parker
Aetscox Chem
Patchogue
Duffy
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchozue
N.Y
Dean
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