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...Advisory Conservation Council of New York State last week started a State conservation survey, approved the addition of one and one-half million more acres to Adirondack and Catskill State Parks...
...wild life. The Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association for purposes of their own compiled statistics showing that in 14 Southern and Southwestern States there are 4,500,000 hunters and fishermen. Total number of people interested in other sports (baseball, football, golf, tennis) was only 5,000,000. Thirteen million U. S. hunters and fishermen in 1929 (estimated total) spent $21,000,000 for firearms, $43,000,000 for ammunition, $25,000,000 for fishing tackle...
Poor in point of dollars & cents, the Chicago Civic Opera's home season ended last week and its annual tour began. Two special trains and 18 baggage cars carried 300 souls and a million-dollar equipment to Boston, where big Emma Redell of Baltimore sang Elsa in the opening performance of Lohengrin. To follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde...
...Experiences In the World War" by General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing, profitably syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance. In careful, undramatic style the Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces detailed his work of building up in France a U. S. Army of nearly one million men and his use of it to bring Allied success. What was awaited as of the largest historical importance was General Pershing's account of his struggle to preserve the national entity of U. S. forces against the persistent efforts of French and British army chiefs to absorb them into...
...million lei is roughly $12,000. At this price the funeral was dirt cheap- consisting as it did of three special railway trains with dining cars attached and an entire series of funeral services, one at each city en route with final honors at Bucharest...