Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adelbert Fernald, who found the tooth during a trip to Alaska, related the unusual manner in which it was found to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. The exploring party traveled up the Yukon until it reached the Porcupine river, a tributary extending almost due north from the Yukon. Inasmuch as there was practically no night at this stage of the journey, the sun being up 22 hours a day, the party continued on their way without a stop for 160 miles up the Porcupine. Although they were well within the Arctic circle, the temperature was about 98 degrees...
Florida still makes the most cigars, North Carolina the most cigarettes, snuff, pipe and chewing tobacco. North Carolina raises more raw tobacco than any State. (Virginia is the second-ranking State for raw tobacco and all products thereof...
Georgia raises the most peanuts; North Carolina second...
...Vermont. North-and-south across Vermont run the Green mountains, dividing the state like a spinal column. Vermont governors are usually selected according to a "rule of the mountain," which provides that the western and eastern halves shall alternate in supplying the governor. This oldtime "mountain rule" was broken last fall when Vermont voters re-elected Governor John W. Weeks. Lieutenant Governor S. Holliston Jackson, "logical" candidate under the mountain rule, was drowned when Vermont was flooded (TIME...
...John North Willys (Willys-Knight, Stearns-Knighf, Whippet) introduced his daughter Virginia to society with a very large Manhattan ball...