Arctic Drama Retold Heroism Rouses Newberry
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry authorizes sending long missing Jeannette expedition papers to the Smithsonian for preservation. The 25 year search uncovered Lieutenant DeLong and crew diary pages detailing the Ill fated Jeannette rescue effort, survival ordeals, and voyage notes. The findings, described as historic and instructive for the navy, will be safeguarded as a key government record.
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Secretary of Navy
Smithsonian Institution
Melville
Offeet
Jeannette
Navy Department
Suttering
Herolam
Newberry
Post
United States
State Department
Smithsonian
Rell
Secretary of
Tre Navy
George W Lelong
Jeannette Anf Ford
Traut DeLongs
Lena Delta
Ty Engine
Mi Slot Abdadeana
Star
Brive
Liegt Delong
Tig I Stat Trent
Wiliam
Louis
Noros
Delongs
Wint
Nindemann
Sweetman
Admiral Melvale
Pole
Arctic
North Pole
Survivor's story of lost polar ship Jeannette
Immense hardship and peril mark the Jeannette Arctic expedition. George W. De Long's final letter details drift for months, ice damage, and heroic endurance by Melville Dunbar Erickson Bartlett and Sweetman as the crew seeks liberation from ice before perishing.
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Arctic
Herald Island
Marteh
Jeannette Island
Henrietta Island
Melville Wr Dunbar
Nindermann
H H Erickson
J H Bartlett
Walter Sweetman
George W DE Long
US Nevy
The Prescient Mexican Mule Tales
An observer recounts legendary Mexican mules famed for intelligence and restraint. He recalls a gray mule guiding him through Sonora’s storm, stopping calmly as lightning split a pine, while the rider grudgingly admits the animal’s superior knowledge of the road.
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Old Mexico
Republic
la Point
Sonora
Phosphates Rise From Pacific Islands in Modern Boom
A new Pacific phosphate boom emerges on Nauru and Buonaba as German and British firms mine vast beds. Hundreds of workers from diverse nations extract rock, with initial yields over 2000 tons yearly. Excavation shows thick, extensive phosphate layers, many acres underlay. Rock travels by small boats to anchored steamers due to rough surf.
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Pacific Islands
Pacific
Nauru
Marshall Group
Buonaba
Courageous ride of Buffalo Bill across hostile plains
In 1881 Col William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill rode and walked 55 miles in 58 hours through a dangerous Kiowa and Comanche country to deliver dispatches. He traveled from Larned to Zarah to Hays to Dodge to Larned, reaching Fort Larned by mule and foot after a fatigue laden trek.
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William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
I Aas
Sheridan
Hazen
Oklahoma
Plains
Satanta
Kicking Bird
Lone Wolf
Batank
Fort Harker
Indiana
Cody
Fort Zarah
Fort Hays
Shendan
Port Dodge
Dodge
Hays
Fort Larned
Aga
Fort Larne
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Maine's Grand Old Man John Gilkey of Augusta
The long life of John Gilkey of Augusta Maine is recounted from a 1818 death record found with a Yale founder Dr Nathan Smith manuscript. The note, dated 1818, claims Gilkey died aged 112 after a dirty marriage and ten children. A lock of hair accompanies the paper. James G Blaine verified the claim as historically known. A Chicago News excerpt presents a clerk and stenographer dialogue about novels of the day and night.
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John Gilkey
Augusta
Nathan Smith
Yale University
Smith
Gilkey
Ireland
Maine
William Burns
James G Blaine
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