Baree Survives in Desolate Wilderness and Encounters Pierrot
Baree wanders a burnt, silent forest following a creek and scavenges for food. He stalks a partridge but is interrupted by the cunning ermine Sekoosen. After starving him nearly to death, Baree caches the kill and resumes the chase for food and his lost mother, entering Pierrot’s trapping grounds where Nepeese waits.
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Baree
Sekoosew
Sekoosen
Napanao
Buaree
Napanzo
Pierrot
la Mort Rouge
Wyola
Nepeese
Montreal
Baree the Wolf Pup Faces Turbulent First Encounters
Baree a young wolf dog hybrid endures a perilous first meeting with Papayuchisen an owl. After a brutal tumble into a swollen creek he is washed ashore disoriented and hungry. He wanders through days of fear meeting other wild creatures as a thunderstorm passes.
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Baree
Papayuchisen
He Goes to Trapping Grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese
He enters the trapping grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese to face uncertain fortunes. The line hints at cautious exploration of a perilous or symbolic locale.
Early Peoples Passed Up Clams Says Science Writer
Dr Edward S Morse of Salem after 45 years studying shell heaps found Europeans never ate clams with oysters though Baltic peoples abundant in clams. Danish expert Steenstrup noted no clam shells with oysters in Europe and English ancient times show no clam consumption. Indigenous North Americans taught epicurean clam use while old ancestors spurned them for 25 000 years.
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Edward 8S. Morse
Salem
New England
Europe
Steenstrup
Edwin E. Slosson
Science Service
Collier's Magazine
Baltic
England
Signs of Progress Time Flies and Barbers in Old Terms
Detroit News notes language shifts through slang and euphemisms in business and professions, noting how terms like chiro tensors and undertakers evolve into more modern equivalents, reflecting social and occupational changes.
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Detroit News
Cowardice and vanity in politics and conscience
The fragment ponders whether safety, popularity, or conscience should guide political action, contrasting prudence with ethical duty and public approval in a provocative line of questioning.
Wanted a Driver and Found a Turning Point Romance
Winona Harwood answers a wartime classified ad for a careful driver and ends up chauffeuring Sam Warden, an irritable one-armed man. Their initial misreadings give way to mutual respect and attraction as a six week trip along mountain roads rekindles feelings, with Warden choosing to see Winona as a partner and finally declaring love on the coast.
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Sam Warden
Winona Harwood
Winona
Tye
Warden
Tam
Billion Dollars for Rural Roads Billions for Rural Roads
Estimates from the bureau of public roads show 1926 rural road construction and maintenance totaling about 1.03 billion dollars. State highway departments receive 593.85 million, with construction 461.52 million and maintenance 137.08 million, funding 6 751 miles of paving 14 320 miles of other surfaces and 8 145 miles of improved earth road. Counties and locals add about 431.70 million, while federal aid supports a growing state control trend.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
State Highway Department
Eastern 36-Foot Road Cost $100 000 a Mile
An article notes a Connecticut road fifty miles long linking a famous New York route, completed recently. It is thirty six feet wide and cost $100,000 per mile, contrasted with Ohio’s best highways at about $40,000 per mile.
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Connecticut
New York
Ohio
Model Twelve Mile Brick Road Near Galesburg
A twelve mile stretch near Galesburg Illinois is being built as a model brick road. The three inch lugless brick pavement rests on a sand cushion and asphalt filler over a concrete base. Perfection in base and cushion is showcased to ensure a smooth wearing surface with no irregularities.
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Galesburg
III
Postal Savings Aid Roads and Rural Mail Delivery
A. M. Loomis of the National Grange cites increased services at lower cost as a benefit of federal highway aid. He notes savings from rural mail and parcels post help pay the interest on highway construction spending as rural delivery expands government use of highways.
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A. M. Loomis
National Grange
Latin as Tombstone Inscriptions for Dead Languages
A concise note argues Latin remains suitable for epitaphs as a dead language. It asserts solemn, timeless weight and historical resonance for memorial inscriptions.
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Prince Rupert
Great
Hudson’s Bay Company
FNU
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Ind
Iowa
Maine
Oklo
Oregon
Texas
Utah
Wash
Brick Road
Postal Savings
Evergine
Toledo
The
Knights of the Round Table
London
Strand
Order of the Knights of the Round Table
Pathfinder Magazine
Dr Scholls
George Levy
Chester
Philadelphia
Levy
Hamburg
Germany
United States
Bell Sane
Bellans
Care Manufacturing Co
West 46Th Street
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