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From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
Seaton Pippin, famed hackney mare owned by Paul Moore of Morristown, N.J., beat all hackney mares her own age and then all hackneys of any age for the hackney championship...
Numerous other diversions were provided. Oldtime fiddlers had a contest, rasped out "Money Musk," "Soldier's Joy," "Leather Breeches." At the live stock and horse show blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate...
...that time they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious citizenry, making mock of bump tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy, gives up four potsful of soup
...Howard Bruce of Baltimore, will carry many thousands of pounds sterling on his dark brown nose. Last year, as this year's cheering crowds will well remember, Billy Barton all but won. Leading, he reached the last fence. As his feet left the ground Maguelonne, a riderless French mare, barged against him. He cleared the obstacle but the evenness of his jump had been broken and he crashed. Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1, the only other mounted horse to survive, came on to win. Little Tommy Cullinan, Billy's jockey, rose, shook himself, remounted and rode...