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...coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous 2,600-mi. hop from Khabarovsk across the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Bering Sea to Nome. Pilot Mattern steeled himself with plenty of rest...
Died. Balto, 14, famed black, white-footed Alaskan husky, lead dog on the last lap of the mush from Nenana to Nome with diphtheria antitoxin for the 1925 epidemic; of old age; in Cleveland's Brookside Park and Zoölogical Gardens...
...members of the Ornery Men's Club the acquisition of a new and noble member?Governor 'Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars...
...again, showed a dumpy, henna-haired old lady standing perched on a platform, her immense bosom shining with sequins as the Old Lady hesitated, looked at the words she had written on a paper before her, began a little gingerly to sing the first staccato notes of the Caro Nome from Rigoletto...
Died. Richard Stanley Ryan, 70, old-time gold prospector who helped found Nome, Alaska, headed its first vigilance committee, became its first mayor in 1899; after long illness; in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. He was the first delegate from Alaska in the U. S. Congress...