Woman Fights Death on Lone Mesa Summit
Sonya Savarin, a self-appointed physician to Navajo Indians, seeks suicide to escape dishonor. She is rescued by her drunken attacker who becomes suddenly sober and repentant. She lives on an Arizona sheep ranch with her brother Serge, his wife Lila, and their daughter Babs. Engaged for a year to Rodney Blake, she loves the Navajos and avoids a wedding.
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Lone Mesa
Sonya Savarin
Arizona
Serge
Lila
Babs
Rodney Blake
Sonya Faces The Lone Mesa Trial At Chee Wash
Sonya rises before dawn to aid Two Fingers and his ailing wife Little Moon in the hogan at Chee wash. She nurses, feeds, and battles fever with medicine and care while facing two possible threats, Two Fingers’ safety and a mysterious Lone Mesa man who confronts her at sunrise.
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Sonya
Chee Wash
Lila
Moon
Rod
Cheewash
Two Fingers
Hogans
Lone Mesa
Sinner pays ten cents for twenty year old theft
A Red Oak Iowa man anonymous in a confession mailed ten cents to a local store owner for nut picks stolen about 20 years ago. He explains his conversion and urges the proprietor to accept Christ, noting he moved away and later mailed the letter from Minneapolis Minnesota.
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Red Oak
Iowa
Yves
Christ
Forges to Obtain Prison Sentence in Colorado Springs
P Z Kelly sixty of Burlington Colo a black Smith forgd two checks to be sent to the state penitentiary He claimed Bright s disease prevented paying for treatment and sought imprisonment for medical care Judge Arthur Conforth sentenced him to two to four years in prison
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Colorado Springs
P. Z. Kelly
Burlington
Colo
Arthur Conforth
The Enduring Allure of Sentimentality in Public Life
The writer condemns public sentimentality as harmful to democracy, courts, youth, and religion, citing World War costs and political power. He critiques publishers’ Africa depictions, Ford’s charity critique, and remarks on capitalism, personal habits, and temperament, urging practical virtue over idealized sentiment.
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Sobo Squad
Eight Popular Beliefs That Are Not True Persist
Two eminent scientists at Atlantic City catalogued eight widely held but false beliefs. They note these errors endure, supported by vivid anecdotes, despite authority and denial, including ideas on birth causes, life expectancy, temperament, heredity, hair growth, and evolution.
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Atlantic City
New York Sun
Airplanes Rescue 89 Marooned for 31 Days
A group of 89 travelers stranded for 31 days after their Cape Town to Windhoek rail journey was rescued by a government hired airplane fleet near Keetmanshoop. Floods turned the desert into a lake and the train crew faced money and clothing shortages while awaiting relief.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Cape Town
Windhoek
Africa
Keetmanshoop
Cripple Averted Two Wrecks for Railroads
Logansport Indiana reports A O Nethercutt sixty a farmer with partial paralysis of his right side averted two wrecks on the Pennsylvania railroad. He heard an unusual noise from a freight train and found a 100 inch rail broken away. He notified dispatchers guiding the next train over another track while repairs were made. In 1932 he was credited with avoiding a wreck by spotting an obstruction on the track.
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Logansport
Ind
A. O. Nethercutt
Jefferson Township
Pennsylvania Railroad
Nethercutt
Horned rabbit on display in Boonville scene
A rabbit with three horns on display in Boonville Missouri was killed by Floyd Day of Blackwater. Each horn extends several inches with one on the middle of its head and one on each side of its right ear.
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Boonville
Floyd Day
Blackwater
Memorial for Trapper Trail in Jackson Wyoming
A memorial is planned near Jackson Lake and Jackson Hole to honor the historic Trapper Trail through Piney woods and to name the lake and the hole after the route. The event marks a recognition of the old trail and its local route.
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Jackson
Wyo
Jackson Lake
Jackson Hole
Piney Woods
Meteorites Added to Field Museum Collection
Six meteorites have been added to the Field Museum of Natural History collection this year, boosting the world’s largest meteorite holdings to 723 of the 1 046 recorded specimens.
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Field Museum of Natural History
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Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc
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Minneapolis, Minn
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Roar Ford
Bel! Syndicate
ED Howe
Henry Ford
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Chicago
S. Broadway
St. Louis, Ma
Peterman
Yeyy
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