Readings From Robert Service And Francis Labadie at Chautauqua
Two performers bring Robert Service verses and Labadie impersonations to Chautauqua. Labadie’s Alaska expertise stems from years living there and friendship with the famed writer, promising a vivid twofold literary event.
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Francis Labadie
Service
Drummond
Chautauqua
Hose
Labadie
Cannan Kipling
Robert Service
Northland
Henry Drummond
Elk as Game or Noble Race in Elk Hunting Debate
A writer argues about elk hunting in the Big Chautauqua era, questioning whether elk are true game. He laments habitat loss and dispassionate hunting, detailing elk winters, migration to lower ridges, and the hardships they endure under deep snow and civilization. He warns the future may see elk only in captivity.
Elk Sight Is A Test Of Hunter's Heart And Skill
The account recounts elk behavior during severe winters, their struggle for food, and the pity aroused in a hunter who shoots a large bull. It details the hunt on Granite creek with a tourist and guide, their approach to a lick, a fatal shot, and the hunter’s humane reaction, pondering the elk as a potential statue instead of a trophy.
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Granite Creek
Broken Wrist At Ice Rink Causes Hospital Visit
Mine Idares chief operator at the telephone office fell on the ice at the rink and broke her left wrist. W Holmes and family traveled by car with friends and relatives to Annee last week.
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Ektuting Rink
W. Holmes
Anee
Tia
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Kemmerer
Ly Frank M. Hanson
Ogden Packing & Provision Co
Cai Atte, Moat
Our Town
Chamber of Commerce
Waikiki Hawaiian Quintet
Chautauqua Orchestra
Comus Players
Treble Clef Club
Marion Ballou Fisk
A. D. Carpenter
Platt Jones
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