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...Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then on it was nip and tuck between the green and the primrose. Over the last fence soared Workman, half a stride ahead of MacMoffat, and galloped into the stretch...
...residents of the little village of Alder, Wash, heard the sedate rumble of her four 1,100 h.p. engines change to a snarling roar as her pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...morning last week Gordon Morrow, 19, was hunting rabbits on a snow covered trail of cut-over land 50 miles north of Tacoma. Following rabbit tracks he cut through an alder thicket, stumbled over something. It was the naked body of a small boy, with head bashed in, lying stiff and frozen in the snow. Hunter Morrow rushed home, told his father. The local sheriff and his deputies came, examined the body lying 200 feet from a highway, studied fresh tire tracks and footprints, decided the child had been murdered elsewhere and been dumped there the night before...
...history, traced the outlines of its prehistory. Ireland was not inhabited in Pleistocene times, as Britain and Europe were. Settlers arrived from Britain about 7000 B. C., bringing Stone Age implements some 10,000 of which the Harvardmen found. In geological strata of this period pollen grains of elm, alder, beech and oak and fossil shellfish reveal a warm climate. The Bronze Age began about 1800 B. C., the Iron Age not until 100 A. D. From then until the Anglo-Norman conquests (12th Century) the Irish lived in wicker huts, wooden houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being explored...
...Born in Alder Gulch, Mont, in 1869, son of a well-to-do timberman, Thompson went to school at Exeter, was popular but undistinguished, formed a friendship with Thomas W. Lament that lasted all his life...