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...Passed bills transforming Sully's Hill National Park (N. Dak.) into Sully's Hill National Game Preserve, enlarging the area of Mt. Rainier National Park (Wash.), authorizing increased expenditures on roads leading to national parks; sent them to the Senate...
Stuart Gilbert first read Ulysses in a dak-bungalow (guesthouse) in Lower Burma, thought it tremendous...
...Madison Square Garden, Dynamite Jimmy McLarnin lashed his famous right, his jolting left against the long scarred face of Billy Petrolle, called by admirers "The Fargo Express" because he came from Fargo, N. Dak. It was a set-up for McLarnin, wagerers figured-the best welterweight in the U. S. against a washed-up lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased...
...field of belles lettres, Sculptor Borglum commissioned him to write a 500-word history of the U. S., which Sculptor Borglum would then carve beside the colossal figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt which he is hewing upon the austere face of Mount Rushmore, S. Dak. Discovering that the first hundred years were literally the hardest. Historian Coolidge took his time over the inscription, finally submitted a few paragraphs...
...Wahpeton, N. Dak., Nels Bervin's automobile stalled across a railroad track. Nels Bervin got out to crank. A train smashed the car to small bits, left Nels Bervin standing by the track holding the crank in his hand...