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...found many traces of an extinct culture higher than the present Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...
...Mount Wilson, Calif, (near Los Angeles), to pursue what has been his special study for many years, the heat of stars. Dr. Abbot has climbed the world's most arid mountains to study the sun's heat. Subordinates of his are at present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than the sun's heat, and of more abstruse scientific value, is the heat of stars many light years† away...
Died. James Clarkson Gillmore, 72, last Commodore in the U. S. Navy (rank became extinct in 1899); in Washington, D. C. When Filipinos took him prisoner during the Spanish-American War he was lined up to be shot, refused to have his hands tied, said: "It is not a fit way for an officer and gentleman to die." His captors debated, were interrupted by a rescue party, finally released...
Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...
...beer mugs, undergraduates told stories of the star fullback who found $100 bills under his door after each game and of the agile shortstop who played baseball on Sunday and who was wagered $50 he could not jump over a bat. But today, such practices are supposed to be extinct...