Donner Party and Graves Tragedy Remembered in 49er Era Tale
A news picture evokes the Days of 49 recounting the Donner and Graves parties. Both Illinois groups on the Oregon trail faced disasters near Great Salt Lake and Donner Lake with starvation, thirst, strife, and the brutal winter crossing the Sierras. Only 18 of 81 reached California. 42 perished. Descendants helped inaugurate a Donner Lake monument in 1918.
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Elmo Scott Watson
California
Donner
Illinois
Oregon Trail
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Promised Land
Springfield
Til
High
Sierras
Galesburg
Ill
Death Valley
Mexico
Pacific Coast
Golden West
James F. Reed
George
Jacob
Reed
Eliza Donner
Virgina Reed
Edwin Bryant
Nebraska
Fort Laramie
Fort Bridger
Donners, Reeds
Hastings
Fort Hall
Humboldt River
Nevada
Weber Canyon
Hasting
Graves
Lacon
Lil
W. F. Graves
Jay Fosdick
John Snyder
Virginia Reed
Prairies
Spencer, Ellsworth
Lacon, Ill
Asmod
Snyder
Donner Lake
Dauntless Pioneer Spirite
Skyscraper lifespan and water power feats outlined
The associate editor of Architectural Record estimates average skyscrapers last 25 to 80 years due to rapid urban growth. With proper steel protection skyscrapers may endure a century or more. Electrolysis could shorten steel life under certain conditions. A hydroelectric plant now has 708 meter head producing 100000 horsepower and 800000 output, preventing river flood damage to ten square miles.
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Architectural Record
Nour
Sauaiks
Engineers Upend Rivers for Sao Paulo Power Plant
Engineers near Sao Paulo Brazil reshape two westward flowing rivers to turn eastward guiding hydroelectric power development. The project aims to boost regional energy output and support industrial growth.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Sanctuary for Musk Oxen Set in Canada
The Canadian government established a sanctuary spanning about 15,000 square miles to protect musk oxen. The designation creates a protected range intended to conserve the species and support their habitat.
Mother Risks Life To Save Little Son
Mrs. Fairmount risked her life to shield her three year old son from a moving harrow. The tractor engine was running in the farm yard when her sons climbed aboard and started the gear. The younger child fell from the seat as the harrow knives passed over her.
Charges of organs stolen from Buck Kelly after execution
San Francisco reports allege that heart brain and other organs were removed from Clarence Buck Kelly after his San Quentin execution and grafted into a patient in a San Francisco hospital. Attorney Milton Uren says the body was mutilated at the undertaking parlor in San Rafael before release. Warden Holohan pledges inquiry and possible action. prison physician Dr. L L Stanley notes autopsies are customary without consent.
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San Francisco
Clarence
Buck) Kelly
San Quentin
Milton U’ren
Kelly
State Prison Board
Keaton & Dusel
San Rafael
U'ren
Holohan
L. L. Stanley
Royal Bengal Tiger Attacks Stevedore Aboard City of Evansville
Christopher Ricardo a New York stevedore survives after a tiger in a dark hold lunges and rips his side while workers free him. He was near cages of tigers hyenas and other animals on the ship when a vulture cage snagged an obstruction and chaos ensued before trainer Jacob Strumm rescued him and stopped severe bleeding.
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Royal Bengal Tiger
New York
Christopher Ricardo
Ricardo
Evansville
Jacob Strumm
Flight Lieutenant Eyre's risky cockpit stumble
London based Flight Lieutenant Eyre of the Royal Air Force reached for a map and accidentally pressed the control stick, stalling the plane at two thousand feet. He unstrapped, parachuted safely, landed, lit a cigarette, and asked a puzzled farmer where his kite had gone.
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London
Eyre
Essex
Hoax Fails to Reconcile Estranged Wife Kalama700
George Kilgore of Kalama700 Michigan staged a reconciliation bid that failed after he was found bound and gagged in his room. A mysterious letter writer had sent threats to him and his wife demanding her return. Police grilled Kilgore and he confessed the assault plot was a hoax.
Rescued Sailors From Buoy Near Coronado Bay
Sidney Graham of San Diego clung to a beacon buoy in the bay overnight before rescue by sailors from a passing ship. Gran, rowing near the buoy, capsized but swam to the beacon and was saved.
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Coronado
Calif
Sidney Graham
San Diego
Gran
Moonlit voyage ties and mistaken romance on ship
Connie faces a confession as Ronny guards her heart on the voyage home. A mistaken crush emerges when Connie asks to walk the moonpath with the man she thinks is Ronny, revealing her true affection for Ronny and a cabin mate, John Vance.
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Connie
Ronald
London
Fleet Street
Ronny
Old Dickinson
Dickinson
Washington
Paris
Paul Dickinson
Ronney Dear
Moonpath
John Vance
Old Top
Dad
Monto
Ty Ronny
Cute in a Baby Awful at Three and it's by Ruth Brittain
Thumb sucking is cute in a baby but troublesome after age three and may persist to adolescence. Pin sleeves or use cuffs to curb the habit. Irregular bowel action causes weak bowels. regular daily action is advised. Fletcher's Castoria offers gentle regulation for colic, diarrhea, gas, and constipation with a vegetable formula and a booklet on motherhood.
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Ruth Brittain
Fletcher
Chas. H. Fletcher
Parliament considers 480 acre Animal Hospital near London
A bill in parliament proposes a country zoo retirement and holiday home for sick and tired animals from London Zoo. The 480 acre estate would offer ample exercise space in a natural setting about 40 miles from London.
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Animal “Hospital
London Zoo
London
Bad Example Wife Not in front of the canary humor
A Montreal Star humorous caption piece contrasts a wife scolding her husband for hammering his thumb with pride in being respectable over mere rebellious impulse.
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Harold
Montreal Star
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