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...Advisory Conservation Council of New York State last week started a State conservation survey, approved the addition of one and one-half million more acres to Adirondack and Catskill State Parks...
...vacation last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. No. 1 cabinet member. His conscience was clear. The Senate had consented to the London Naval Treaty. For a month or more he will play about the Ausable Club at St. Hubert's, N. Y. in the Adirondack Mountains with excursions into the woods to fish...
...touchy. To this period belong the electric hobbyhorse and Alice Roosevelt Longworth's remark about being weaned on a dill pickle. Paul Smith's, N. Y., 1926. The 1926 vacation was the one of the great confession. Sitting in an old green wicker rocking-chair on an- Adirondack porch, Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate was guiding my destiny. I have rather...
...roads lead to Nome, only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with...
...owned by South Dakota) with more than 30 rooms was last week being prepared for the President's occupancy. Past its porch elk, sheep and deer are reputed to stroll. Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout -a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike. As to temperature, Senator Norbeck assured the President that he would "sleep under blankets." The business headquarters of the President will be at Rapid City, some 32 miles away. Here newspapermen will be located (not altogether to their liking as Rapid City is less cool than Custer Park and scenically...