Mounties Mark Sixty Years of Royal Canadian Police
Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police celebrate sixty years since 1870 history of frontier patrols across the Northwest. From Stone Fort to Mackenzie River posts, they built Yukon, Dawson, and Arctic policing, earning trust through discipline and only last-resort force.
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Washington
Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Great Plains
Yukon
Arctic
Hudson Bay
Baffin Island
Government of
Great Northwest
National Geographic Society
Northwest, Mounted
Stone Fort
Lake Winnipeg
Red River
Rocky ‘Mountains
Macleod
Alberta
Calgary
Regina
Northwest Mounted Police
Northwest Territories
Dawson
Shilkoot Pass
White Pass
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Dominion
Northwest Territory
Dominion Parks
Royal
Canadian Mounted Police
Mounted Police Patrol
Greenland
Alaska
Ellesmere
North Devon
Baffin
Victoria
Bache Peninsula
North Pole
Her&chel Island
Devon Island
Ellesmere Island
Canadian “Arctic Archipelago
Blue Jays Assist in Capture of Eagle by Kansas City Man
Jimmy Duffy captured an American eagle in his Kansas City yard with a garden rake aided by a flock of blue jays. The bird fought off the jays as he hooked its foot and dragged it from a tree. the eagle spread a seven foot wing span.
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Blue Jays
Eagle
Kansas City
Jimmy Duffy
Duffy
Lick Observatory A Mecca High Atop Mt Hamilton
Mt Hamilton's Lick Observatory draws over ten thousand visitors yearly to its 36 inch equatorial telescope. The isolated site hosts a small village of about fifty residents with a state supplied teacher and a public school owned by the observatory. Construction completed in 1888 cost 61000 dollars. James Lick funded the project and is buried beneath the telescope pier.
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San Jose
Calif
Mt. Hamilton
Lick Observatory
California
Mt Hamilton
Observatory
Peresd
Aqaintan
James Lick
Fredericksburg
San Francisco
Cook Who Fed Condemned Murderers for 14 Years
New Orleans report recalls Steve Elliot, prison cook for 14 years, who served breakfast to condemned inmates before execution and was recently promoted to wardership. He says good food gave courage, recounting a last meal of possum and typical reads like fried chicken and ice cream.
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New Orleana
Steve Elliot
Parish
Elliot
Eilot
Billot
Papago Elder Augustine Garcia Celebrates 120th Birthday
Augustine Garcia, Papago Indian of the Ajo copper region, marks his 120th birthday at the Papago reservation in Tuscan. He recalls being a grown man during the 1836 meteoric event known as "the stars fell," asserting his long life and ties to local mining history.
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Aris
Augustine Garcia
Here
Garcia
Local Chickens Draw Crowing Compare at Houston Farm
Mr W R Gilbert of Houston owns a remarkable chicken that crows with a rooster’s crowing voice. The bird’s talent was noted after four days of observation, drawing attention from neighbors and farm observers.
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Houston
Texas
W. R. Gilbert
Five art of pastry making taught in ten minutes
An expert explains a quick method to learn pastry. A reader is guided through mixing flour and shortening, adding cold water, chilling the dough, rolling, and baking with tips to avoid over-wetting, plus a lemon apple filling recipe and finishing ideas.
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Skagway
Soapy Smith
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
W. Frank Persons
Roosevelt
Mecca
Lick Memorial
Joyce Brooks
Los Angeles
Cook
Arizona
Ball Syndicate
WNU
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