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...themselves be strewn with island blossoms and lei (wreaths). They were made to feel tremendously important when the Maui left Honolulu by a dozen planes hawking, towering, swooping over the harbor in their honor. A dark shaft struck through their glory when an Army monoplane maneuvered by Lieut. Charles Linton Williams plummeted down and was wrapped, plane and man, in sea death...
...SARAH LINTON WELLS...
...record globe trot was made by Linton Wells, and Edward S. Evans in 1926. Their time was 28 days, 14 hours, 86 minutes and 5 seconds...
...having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...
...Linton, N. D., swellings and a bulge in the earth were identified by inhabitants as the first traces of Mound Builders to be discovered in their state. A tumulus seemed to be the temple mound, and two serpentine ridges- 400 and 600 feet long, containing human bones-the burial mounds, of a settlement beside Beaver Creek that had crossed that stream for its rites of lustration before human sacrifices and burials. The effigies were much like the largest serpent mounds yet discovered (in Ohio...