Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DEEP LAKE MYSTERY−Carolyn Wells−Donbleday Doran...
...first Negroes in Virginia arrived in 1619, but a few years after the white colonists at Jamestown. In the French and Indian Wars, black men did their bit, and a Negro was first to fall in the War for Independence. They were with Perry at the battle of Lake Erie and they helped Jackson repulse the British at the Battle of New Orleans. The first chief of police of St. Petersburg (now Petrograd) under the Bolshevist regime was a Negro, and it was a black man, Matt Henson, who drug Peary to the North Pole, thus enabling that gentleman...
Zuider Zee. As far as written history records, the Zuider Zee of the Netherlands was until 1395 a fresh-water lake. In that year the ocean broke through the barrier of dunes. Hence Amsterdam is a seaport. Lately, however, the Dutch have started an 8-year project to build 18 miles of main dykes 450 ft. wide, 25 ft. above Amsterdam's level to lock in the Zuider Zee. By 1952 swamps will be reclaimed, almost 1,000,000 acres of land reclaimed, and the Zuider Zee made again into an inland lake...
Lieut. Joseph C. Soper, 25, U. S. Army pursuit pilot, was killed before the eyes of 15,000 when his Curtiss plane dived into Lake Erie during an exhibition at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...utility tycoon, purchased Mellody Farm for $2,500,000, last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world-her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates...