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...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...club's purpose is to insure happier tail-wagging in all U. S. dog-homes. Careful records are kept of all dog-members, including peculiarities (such as a hoarse bark, a missing eye, discolored teeth). A number-tag is attached to each member's collar and when he strays the finder telephones or telegraphs the Tail-Waggers who notify the owner if and when the lost is found. Other advantages are free medical advice, six months' subscription to The Tail Wagger, official organ of the Tail Waggers' Club. The fee is $1 a year. Dogs have...
...coincidence, the third column on that same page carries the picture of the employer of a man who does state that he has seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been lost during the filming of Down to the Sea in Ships. The Charles W. Morgan has been, through the interest of Col. Green and others, made into a whaling...
...other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused...
...seventh he had financed for the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's Barnum Brown accompanied him, and the Carnegie Institution's Earl H. Morris. They found evidence that the extinct Basket Makers, Aborigines who preceded the Cliff Dwellers, used cotton for their textiles, inner bark of the squawberry bush for their baskets. A grooved boomerang with a handle suggested a remote connection between the Basket Makers and the boomerang throwers of Australia. On this trip he secured two boxes of dinosaur bones...