Kazan Saves Baby and Joins New Home After Winter
In the tale from By The Links, Kazan the husky drags a frozen sledge to reach a cabin where Joan and her baby are saved by a stranger. He is welcomed, learns the baby’s crying, and follows Joan’s voice to a new life with her husband, while Gray Wolf lingers near the forest. The spring brings a new era, with Kazan facing the Great Change.
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Kazan
Joan
Ile
Jouan
Baby Joan
Pierre Radisson
Gray Wolf
Pierre
Cabin
Kazan Returns to Cabin as Voice Haunts Wilderness
In springtime Arctic scenes Kazan the wolf dog moves between wild comfort and cabin life. Gray Wolf fears the mysterious Voice calling Kazan away, while Kazan battles loyalty as Joan tends their baby. The sledge-dog’s instinctive caution contrasts with his fierce protectiveness.
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Gray Wolf
Kazan
Kiazan
Joan
Kazan the Alaskan Sledge Dog Heroine and the Frozen Bride
Joan discovers Kazan is a great prize as the vicious one quarter wolf saves master Thorpe and accompanies him to civilization to meet his bride Isobel. McCready assaults the party. Kazan kills him, flees, joins a wolf pack, then drives it away and keeps near Joan as Pierre dies and the pair strive toward the settlement.
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Kazan
Thorpe
Isobel
McCready
Gray Wolf
Pierre
Joan
They Must Be Durn Lazy In This Town
A tramp in a bustling western town complains that everyone offers work, shaking dust from his boots after a day or two of hustling. He snarls at the locals claiming laziness.
1100 Buildings for New Camp Site at Battle Creek
An army officer notes Battle Creek will house 1,100 buildings for a division of troops 35,992 strong. A marching division forms a 20 mile long line with paraphernalia. Vehicle and animal counts are extensive, with 12,000 rifles and hundreds of vehicles. A motorized supply train could reduce horses and mules but raise motor car and truck needs.
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Battle Creek
Signal Corps
Michigan Happenings and War Prep at Home
Veterans at the Michigan Soldiers' Home could work on farms and gardens in the summer if home rules were suspended to allow light outdoor labor. The report notes various local incidents, deaths, and civic actions across towns including Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, and Ann Arbor, with brief notes on individuals, accidents, and official notices.
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Sleeper
William E. Rice
Grand Rapids
State Association of United Spanish War Veterans
Battle Creek
Michigan Soldiers’ Home
Rice
Ann Arbor
Allentown
Saginaw
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Tom
John C. Krull
Leslie White
Pere Marquette
Melvin
Here
William Hannon
Detroit
Flint
John Richards
Genesee County Poorhouse Colony
Richards
County Poorhouse
America
Kent County
Monroe
Mike Galbrath
State Anti
St. Clair
Bruce Schleinkert
C.M. Burkett
Grand Rapids & Indiana
Hersey River
Burkett
Detroit Engineer Edges Toward A New Plane Motor
A prominent Detroit engineer has perfected a superior aeroplane motor intended to boost allied air power. Michigan designers combined strong features from several engines to craft a model offering high climbing power and durability. The wooden prototype has been submitted to Washington for final judgment, with details kept secret.
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Detroit
Michigan
Washington
Prices Paid for Milk in Michigan June Report
Michigan milk price list shows varied payments by location and company. Grand Ledge delivers at factory $2.12 per hundredweight for 8.5 percent milk. Adrian Van Camp Packing Co 3.5 percent milk at $2.15 with +/-2 cents. July prices projected at $2.10. Chicago prices noted as June $1.60, July $2.13, August $2.30, September $2.39.
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Michigan
James N. McBride
Grand Ledge
Coldwater—Western Reserve Milk Company
Morenci and
Seneca—Ohio Dairy Company
Wbly—Page Milk Company
Adrian—Van Camp Packing Company
Webberville—Chapin Sacks Company
Howell—Borden Company
Chicago
War Costly Now Outlay in Gun Metal and Powder
An analysis of the massive munitions needs for the European war notes more than 24 million soldiers under arms and estimates daily costs for guns and ammunition. It details trench construction material, barbed wire, sandbags, and the massive munition industry expanding across Britain and France, with Germany controlling much of coal and iron.
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National Geographic Society Bulletin
Europe
Great Britain
England
France
Germany
Grape of Brazil Jaboticaba Tree Noted in Rio Gardens
In Rio de Janeiro area gardens a jaboticaba tree stands out as the grape of Brazil. It grows 35 to 40 feet tall with branches close to the ground and a leafy top. The fruit, maroon purple and half to one and a half inches, grows directly on bark and roots and yields a juicy pulp with a Muscatine-like flavor.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
United States Department of Agriculture
Queer Sort of Butter from Trinidad Birds
The guacharo is used to make a butter substitute in Trinidad. Young birds yield rich fat after boiling in their own fat, as natives harvest nests in dark caves. The bird is rarely seen in daylight and cannot be photographed alive.
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Trinidad
Illustrated World
A Green Rookie and the Clock Wound
A humorous exchange shows a sergeant reporting a new recruit who marked time in the drill room until the sergeant returned and scratched the clock face with a pencil, causing a minor mischief in a military setting.
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James Oliver Curwood
The
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Hudson's Bay
Arctic
Sabin
St. Louis
A. H. Laury
Charlotte
Fred C. Curtis
Port Huron
Willie Hudson
Pontiac
George E. Belmont
Marquette
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad
Robert J. Lounsbury
Lounsbury
Traverse City
R. W. A. Saquam
Northport
East Lansing
I. S. Kedzie
Army Corps
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