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...Lomen Reindeer Corp., in which are also engaged his four brothers, George, Harry, Ralph and Alfred. He was born in southern Minnesota of Norwegian stock, was raised to follow his father into law. In the summer of 1900, after much persuasion, the elder Lomen took Carl to Nome for the summer. The Nome gold rush was in progress and Lomen Sr. found many a client there while his son prospected the territory. Their visit lasted two years, then father and son returned to St. Paul, but only to pack up the family and move back to Nome. They prospered...
Rescue Machinery. Hampered for weeks by fog over open water in the Bering Strait, the rescue machinery assembled to deliver Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, lost since Nov. 9 (TIME, Dec. 9), began to rustle last week with activity in Nome, Alaska...
...would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting...
...Hooey is proceeding from Manila to Cambridge via Honolulu, the Aleutian Islands, Nome, Seattle, and Chicago, in a desperate effort to reach Harvard before the CRIMSON eleven goes on the field against Bates next week...
Eielson Line. Carl Ben Eielson, Polar flyer with headquarters at Nome, Alaska, last week merged with Bennett & Rodebaugh Co. of Fairbanks and the Wien-Alaska Airways of Nome and Fairbanks. Alaska Airways, Inc., the new concern, is a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...