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...Great Trek (as the Boers still call it), the hardier of the early Dutch settlers, disgruntled at the cession (1814) of the Cape Colony to the British and smarting under the alien rule, moved out with their families, their herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon...
...California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians in the arts of civilization. Continuing northward. Fray Junipero by 1782 completed his rosary of missions and was given the power of confirmation which usually is possessed only by bishops. During three years, despite a crippled leg and an ailment in his much abused chest. Fray Junipero revisited all the California missions, confirmed 5,309 Indians...
...Manhattan last week the songwriting team which gave the world Is It True What They Say About Dixie?, Composer Gerald Marks & Lyricist Irving Caesar, journeyed from Tin Pan Alley northward to Teachers College at Columbia University to address a summer class in "Safety Care." The class-students, health educators and playground supervisors from all over the U. S.-soon were beating time to fox trots and waltzes with such words...
Weeks had elapsed since the Generalissimo was reported to be actually sending units of China's crack troops ("Chiang's Own") northward to throw the Japanese out of the Peiping area. Japanese airmen, still looking for these Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up which the Chinese were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting. In a further provoking challenge to Dictator Chiang, Japanese obtained the resignation of his subordinate commanding in North China, General Sung Cheh-yuan, and set up in his stead General Chang Tsu-chung...
...inevitable seasonal progression last week the North American wheat harvest rolled into the red-gold acres of Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. Northward away from the declining sun the harvest will sweep until the snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...