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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1927
Page
7
Effective April 1 1927 service details and contact information for the Winchester Williamsburg and Cincinnati Bus Line located in Croswell and Williamsburg Ohio with phone number 64 R 8.
This item lists diverse trivia from 1920s era quiz prompts. It covers sports champions, historical figures, geography, institutions, quotes, and world events across American and European topics.
The list cites names and facts: Daniel Webster and Owen Wister, Colombia and Venezuela, Hubert and Margaret van Eyck of Flanders in the late fifteenth century, E G Chandler of California, a bending stick in water due to light refraction, dog days heat before and after the Dog Star, Half Moon, George Washington 1793, John Quincy Adams 111, Fort Schuyler 1777, sudden throat lump from emotion, Death Valley, R T Jones Jr of Atlanta, Wagner, Europe, Samuel Pepys, General Bee, and Belgium.
The state highway between Ouray and Durango is described as the most expensive road in the United States at about $50,000 per mile. Built along an old toll route, it required blasting, masonry embankments, bridgework, and stone walls, cutting through rugged terrain with deep canyons and vast drops, attracting auto tourists.
The article profiles John Wesley as a premier eighteenth century horseman famed for vast daily rides. It notes he covered 60 to 70 miles per day during activity, and 4,000 to 5,000 miles in a year after age eighty, often riding by 3 a.m. and, when possible, with a loose rein while reading history.
The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, famed for the South Pole race, said even in misery he craved hot coffee and bread with butter. He noted that travelers in harsh lands yearn for ordinary comforts from home rather than luxury dishes.
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