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...average U. S. citizen, the wild boar is an exotic hog who lives in the Indian marshes and whose life is made miserable by handsome Bengal Lancers pursuing him with spears. This month in the rugged Great Smoky Mountains of southeastern Tennessee in Cherokee National Forest, a few U. S. sportsmen will have a chance to gain closer acquaintance with the animal...
...birth lightning will strike, only large urban communities are medically prepared for it. No one expected a prodigious childbirth in the Bridges log cabin last week. When it did occur, Dr. Speidel, who delivered a dead set of quadruplets 30 years ago, imperturbably anointed the four Bridges children with hog lard, wrapped them in towels and rags. He told the wide-eyed neighbor women to give the babies, who weighed only 2½ to 3½ lb. each, "a little sugar water now and then." Next morning the boy and a girl died, next day a girl. The survivor, transported...
Rumors have been wafted about Harvard all week that the Navy was to go out all hog over the game and was to dispatch three battleships from Annapolis to Boston Harbor, where they would anchor for the night...
...become more and more radical while his friends like Walter Lippman grew steadily more reactionary. He was the only one of the brilliant New York group of pre-War liberals who actually went whole-hog for the Soviet experiment. His old mentor Lincoln Steffens bailed out on him, and at the news of his death Charles Townsend Copeland lamented his association with those awful Bolsheviks. John Reed is a legand, a fascinating legand. His story can stand retelling many times...
...Hog-Calling, contrary to the notions of most city folk, is a practical necessity on farms, only becomes a standard sport at fairs throughout the U. S. Hog-callers make a noise whose nearest printable equivalent is "Su-ee Su-ee Su-ee-Pig-ee Pig-ee Pig-ee." If done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope...