Fifty Famous Frontiersmen Featured by Pioneer Photographer
A profile of William H. Jackson, famed frontier photographer who chronicled the Oregon Trail and Yellowstone explorations with Civil War service, Hayden expedition work, and early images of Indians. Also a look at Sam Brannan, the first Forty-Niner, promoter of California, and his rise and fall in San Francisco.
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verEex
William H. Jackson
Oregon Trail
Jackson
Council Lodge
New York
trans-Mississippi
Nebraska City
Missouri
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Omaha
Union Pacific
Yellowstone Country
Yellowstone National Park
Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Frontier
San Francisco
Sam Brannan
James W. Marshall
Sutter's
Church of the Latter Day Saints
California
Yerba Buena
San Francisco Bay
Mormon Church
Mississippi Valley
Brannan
Sutter
New Helvetia
Johann A Sutter
King of
Helvetia
Western Newspaper Union
Beech Nut Picnic In Green Forest Narrated By Thornton Burgess
In a Green Forest corner the silver-barked beech trees shed yellow leaves as brown three sided nuts fall after Jack Frost opens the prickly husks. Red Squirrel Chatterer and friends anticipate the annual beech nut picnic among the crisp foliage and quiet winter prep.
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Green Forest
Peter Rabbit
Johnny Chuck
Buster Bear
Jack Frost
Chatterer
Babies Nap Quiet Neighborhood Picnic Of Forest Creatures
In a peaceful summer scene a neighborhood quiets as babies nap and mothers sigh for calm. Nearby a woodland gathering unfolds with familiar animals like Lightfoot the Deer Peter Rabbit Chatterer and Buster Bear arriving for a nut laden beech feast before winter.
How to Cook Eggs
Cooking eggs properly relies on low heat to prevent toughening proteins. For in-shell eggs, cover with boiling water and rest 30 minutes for hard cooks. 6 to 12 minutes yields soft variants. Poached eggs use temperatures below boiling, and long slow oven cooking makes a successful meringue. Ragout of Eggs combines mushrooms and a mushroom cream mix with stuffed egg halves.
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Western Newspaper Union
Kroners Instinct and Boners in Exam Humor
A quirky collection contrasts a man’s instinct to marry with habit of returning to the same peg. It notes boners as humorous tidbits found in exams and essays by teachers. Caesar is mentioned briefly in passing as a fading or incomplete reference.
Fragmentary Prose Quiz Throws Light on 1933 WNU Language
The excerpt blends varied statements from 1933 WNU Service, noting a grand trio with Pompey, a definition of author, geometry of a rhombus, Doctor Fu Manchu as emperor, a tenant farmer, a literary mask, and linen cooling properties as a dated syndicated sample.
The Great Wall of China: Monument of Industry and Folly
The article proclaims the Great Wall as a monumental but failed project. It notes the wall’s 500 league span, 45 feet height, and 18 feet thickness as a “singular monument.” It claims the Tartars found China as accessible as before formation and breached the ram parts, proving defense inefficient across vast stretches.
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Orient
China
Special Police Squad Handles Gotham Alien Influx
New York reports a dedicated Criminal Alien Squad within the 20,000‑strong police force to deport or investigate aliens. In 1932, 504 deportations and 896 cases were handled. the unit trains linguists and defines deportable classes including those convicted of moral turpitude and illegal entrants post July 1, 1924.
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Gotham
New York
United States
Ilegally
Lost Diamond Found After Chicken Canning in Wisconsin
Mrs. Ernest Johnson of Lancaster Wisconsin recovered her engagement diamond while preparing canned chicken giblets. After searching with no luck and giving up hope she found the ring tucked inside a gizzard from one of eight hens canned recently.
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Lancaster
Wis
Ernest Johnson
Johnson
Johnsons
Baloney Sword Saves Bavarian Boy in Market Attack
In Partenkirchen Bavaria Franz Baur a farmer's son faced a knife assault. He drew a stored sausage from his knapsack brandished it like a sword and struck the attacker who fled.
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Partenkirchen
Bavaria
Franz Baur
Franz
Hungry Dogs Heirs in Will Bequest for Strays
Circuit Judge Tazwell ruled portions of a Portland will valid, bequeathing $19,000 to fund a dog home for stray care. The expanded trust directs construction of a shelter for hungry dogs in the city.
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Hungry Dogs
Portland
Ore
Hungry Dogs of
Tazwell
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Elmo Scott Watson
Hildren’s Story
Thornton W. Burgess
Happy Jack
Mrs. Grouse
Sammy Jay
Redhead
Drummer
Woodpecker
Big Tom
Gobbler
Mrs. Gobbler
Peter
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
Ice
Ga of Lawrence College
Appleton
Kitty
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Bell Syndicate
Kroners
Caesar
Seen Huang-Ti
B.C
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU
Ward
Pompey
Fu Manchu
Dada
Florida
Bayshore
Miami Beach
Bobbie Little
Baloney
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