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Obstacle Course. In Butte, Mont., Lloyd Beach, rearrested while on a 30-day suspended sentence for vagrancy, explained to the judge that he had been trying to leave town as ordered, but there was one bar too many between him and the city limits...
Mountain climbing came into its own 98 years ago, thanks largely to a London physician named Albert Smith who could not keep his enthusiasm to himself. Among the first ever to scale white-domed Mont Blanc, the highest (15,781 ft.) of Alpine peaks, Smith produced a play based on his trek. It was no great shakes as drama, but it caught on like the Wild West shows in the U.S., ran six years in London, and gave people who had never seen a mountain the urge to climb...
...Swiss mountains 75 climbers had died (against 14 last year). Fifty had been killed in France, 28 of them on Mont Blanc and its neighboring ridges alone...
...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...
Depositor. In Great Falls, Mont., hospital attendants, after looking high & low for the rare type of blood needed to give Jacob Dirkes an emergency transfusion, found that the only pint available was the one that Dirkes had donated a few days before...