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...Story: In the Astor Hotel, Shanghai, a year ago, one Childs H. Baker Jr. called for a drink. A small native with shoe-button eyes trotted briskly up to him, pushing a white three-wheeled barrow; in the barrow were the materials for making drinks. Surprised by this display of ingenuity, Childs H. Baker selected a concoction of gin, lime-juices, ice & fizzy water. As he quaffed, he became thoughtful...
...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
...railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome, 68, famed author and humorist; at Northampton, England; of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was progressively, from 14 years on, office clerk, actor, author, editor; wrote Three Men in a Boat, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Wood Barrow Farm, etc. Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Hope, Richard le Gallienne, who liked him, wrote for his periodicals...
Last week the bandy legs of James Takpuc, Eskimo runner, trit-trotted over the 100 miles of trail from Beechy Point, Alaska, to Point Barrow. Tired but articulate, he grunted out good news, delivered a written despatch...
...farthest flight northwest of Barrow, made last year by Captain Wilkins (TIME, April 19), was 100 miles. The area seen by Explorers Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile from the Norge was a zone varying between 10 and 100 miles in width, due north of Barrow...