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...bulge in the earth were identified by inhabitants as the first traces of Mound Builders to be discovered in their state. A tumulus seemed to be the temple mound, and two serpentine ridges- 400 and 600 feet long, containing human bones-the burial mounds, of a settlement beside Beaver Creek that had crossed that stream for its rites of lustration before human sacrifices and burials. The effigies were much like the largest serpent mounds yet discovered (in Ohio...
...sort are not made from wood byproducts. "Sheetrock," made by the U.S. Gypsum Co. of Chicago, and "Gypsolite" (Universal Gypsum Co., Chicago) are of gypsum suitably treated and squeezed into board-like sheets easily handled by carpenters. They compete as economical alternatives for ordinary lathing and sheathing with "Beaverboard" (Beaver Products Co., Buffalo) and "Linofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.). Architects thoroughly appreciate these...
...Canadian papers described it somewhat cryptically as the finest automobile ever made in Canada," "a 75-horse-power limousine," "made at Oshawa, Ontario," "with a silver Canadian beaver on the radiator cap," "especially constructed so that it can be used in England, when Lord Byng returns there." Though the make was not mentioned, knowing U.S. motorists suspected the car of being a 75-horse-power "McLaughlin Buick" turned out at the Canadian Buick works, Oshawa, Ontario, and with the steering wheel fitted on the right-hand side of the body...
...spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky, Alaska, France, Baffin Land, Norway, New Brunswick, the Adirondacks, the Rockies, the prairies. His literary activities have been incessant and of great variety. But among two score titles, the best are those on wild life...
JUNGLE JOE?Clarence Hawkes?Lothrop, Lee & Shepard ($1.50). Unfortunate the boy or girl who grows up, or has grown up, without reading about Shovelhorns, the moose monarch; Shaggycoat, the astute beaver; Black Bruin, the genial bear, and a score of other wild personages whose biographies have been set down by the typewriter of painstaking Clarence Hawkes...