Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last nine years the pair have made four trips into the plains and jungles of Africa. Previous of this they explored every island in the Southern Pacific, as well as Borneo; Mr. Johnson has calculated that of their 20 years of married life they have spent only three in civilization...
Farm. Yet though it is the 101 Ranch Show that has carried the fame of the Millers from Tulsa to Borneo, it is the 101 Ranch itself which represents the Miller Brothers' greatest accomplishment. The Ranch today includes 110,000 acres, 45,000 of which are owned by the Miller family...
Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum's original "Wild Men of Borneo," the brothers Plutano and Wano, who were reputed to have been captured on the island of Borneo and who never learned to speak English, died...
Besides the liquor smuggled, the Federal men detected and sent back to Canada some 200 aliens who had tried to enter the U. S. disguised as "razorbacks," "alligators," lion-tamers, acrobats, elephant-scrubbers, wild persons from Borneo...
...quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were not yet producing the oil that later the Royal Dutch-Shell was to control. First oil of the region was discovered at Sumatra in the late 1880's; the Royal Dutch Co. (the Dutch royal family are important stockholders) was incorporated...