Lost party saved by bell tied to a skunk
A Chicago group venturing 70 miles into northern wilds for a tough experience got lost after a misty rain. They followed a tinkle from a skunk bell to a trapper’s cabin where Peteois guided them to safety. Cain broke an ankle, Dubois cut his leg, and Wilson injured a thumb before medical aid arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surver
Louis Dubois
Staring
Stubby” Wilson
Chicago
Jerry Cain
Dubois
Wilson
Cain
Watson
Peters
Girl Trapped in Cave by Bears Bats in Pennsylvania
Fifteen year old Sadie MecMicken sought refuge from a black bear in a Kettle Creek area cave. The door latched shut from outside, leaving her inside with bats and mice for four hours until searchers located her in hysteria near maple grove paths and cattle pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galeston
Sadie MecMicken
Kettle Creek
Whitch
Maple Grove
Sheffield Uses Millions of Ringbones for Knife Handles
Sheffield employs over 2,000,000 ringbones annually for knife handle production, illustrating a large scale use of material in blade manufacturing.
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Sheffield
Bears Rule Wheelerville Areas With Clever Beachmen Tricks
Report from Laquin Pennsylvania details black bears near Cold Spring and Wheelerville performing persistently sly acts. Bears strip apples from a farmer’s orchard in two nights and previously topple a hand truck with cubs riding it. They also scare a huckster’s horse, spilling eggs and honey, and a bear on a railroad grade taunts a locomotive before fleeing. Train crews in the Susquehanna and New York line carry rifles for protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laquin
Wheelerville
Cold Spring
Wellsgrove Junction
Grover
Susquehanna & New York Railroad
Ellenton
Pleasant Stream
Susquehanna & New York
Monroetown
Ralston
Not Heroic. A taunting kiss sparks wary exchanges
A maid protests a kiss with indignant phrasing while a man dismisses the scene as unserious. The Chicago Daily News notes a skeptical remark about microbe theory as the banter persists. The Milwaukee Sentinel records a teasing remark about Miss Wadleigh being reserved for the previous night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily News
Roosevelt kin to Maine hunting trips and alfalfa quest
Kermit Roosevelt will join William Sewall in Maine for a hunting visit to Sewall camps near Mattawamkeag Lake while Quentin Roosevelt stirs a Mass avenue school classroom. Prof. Hansen reports success in identifying arid climate alfalfa varieties for northern regions, with seed en route to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kermit Roosevelt
Maine
William Sewall
Roosevelt
Old Maine Woods
Sewall
Mattawamkeag Lake
Island Falls
Mattawamkeag
Hook Point
Aroostook
Quentin
Force School
Massachusetts Avenue
Great Boom in Shipbuilding if Current Pace Holds
A Commerce report by Commissioner Chamberlain forecasts the United States will set a half century high in shipyard output this fiscal year. It cites 1 221 vessels totalling 418 745 gross tons built so far with 40 Great Lakes steamers and 232 266 gross tons, and notes 25 006 documented merchant vessels at 6 674 909 gross tons as of July 30. The report backs the merchant marine commission bill and anti discrimination pilotage reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Commissioner of Navigation Chamberlain
Great Lakes
Gemeis
Merchant Marine Commission
Senate
South America
Virginia
Texas
Rio de Janeiro
Chamberlain
Taft Reviews Western Army Posts for Brigade Readiness
Secretary Taft returned from a western trip to inspect army posts. He deemed Fort D A Russell Wyoming adequate for a brigade, Fort Riley Kansas already brigaded, Fort Sill Oklahoma large land and forest reserve, Fort Leavenworth Kansas expandable, Fort Robinson Nebraska needs more land, Fort Sheridan Illinois unsuitable, and Fort Sam Houston Texas nearing brigade status with land purchases and full infantry and four cavalry regiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Fort
D. A. Russell
Wyo
Fort Robinson
Neb
Fort Sheridan
Chicago
Ill
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Riley
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Fort Assinniboine
Chicago Mother Runs Blaze to Save Son From Hell
Mrs. Stella Bowman of Chicago set fire to her California avenue home to free her dead son from torment, kneeling with a Bible as flames surrounded her. Firefighters rescued her. she claimed a vision urged the sacrifice and blamed removing the Bible for his death. Her family cites mental strain from caring for her ill son Peter Bowman Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Stella Bowman
California Avenue
Peter Bowman
Grace
Dutch Reformed Church
Peter Bowman, Jr
Peter
Jesus
Hell
Deer Dashes With Train Along Rail Line
Foreman John McCarthy and section men witness a deer race the Fitchburg flyer Monday near Grover lane cut. The animal runs about 500 feet ahead of the express before the train strikes it and hurls it down a 50 foot embankment. The deer rises, clears a wire fence, and vanishes into the woods.
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John McCarthy
Fitchburg
Had Its Drawbacks
Mrs Upmore Yes is a wonderfully talented woman and her vocabulary is praised by Mrs Suddyn Klymer. The item broke down far from anywhere and cost $15 to haul it to the nearest repair shop.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Belled Skunk
Peteois
Bear
Miss Wadleigh
Milwaukee
Prof
Hansen
Siberia
N. EB. Hansen
South Dakota
Department of Agricultural
Eria
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Turkestan
Son
Legiate
Northwestern University
Northwestern Dental School
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