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Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Arctic explorer, will tell of his adventures on the Putnam Expedition last summer to North Greenland, in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7:30 o'clock...
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, in charge of the schooner Morrissey on the Putnam expedition to the Arctic last summer will relate some of his adventures in northern Greenland at the Union tomorrow night. Captain Bartlett is among those who figure largely in the books written about the expedition by David Bruney Putnam, aged...
...object of the Putnam Arctic Expedition was twofold; to investigate life among the Esquimos, now fast disappearing of North Greenland, and to secure specimens of all the sea mammals and fish of the region, these to be placed in the American Museum of Natural History...
...pills which his father, Joseph (later Sir Joseph) invented as a farm boy and peddled on country roads until he could make the backs of barns, signboards and fence-rails peddle for him. "Beecham's Pills,"* the newspapers and country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest man in England ($140,000,000) in 1916, having virtually invented mass advertising-at least been its record utilizer. The genius that struck off those advertisements which some called vulgar, others "priceless," such as- Hark! the herald angels sing Beecham...
...16th instant to hand a day or two ago. You should have been with us this summer. The finest weather that I have ever seen in the Arctic. No ice, no wind, sun-plenty of it-all the time. We covered 8,500 miles. I never saw "Greenland right, nor the opposite shore until this time...