Word: otters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early 19th Century the fur-hunting Russians came pelting down the Pacific coast from Alaska, established a colony some 50 miles north of San Francisco. War between Russia and the U.S. might have resulted, but just then the sea-otter trade began to peter out, the Court of St. Petersburg lost interest in its California and Oregon claims...
Died. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91, inventor of flaked cereals, famed director of Battle Creek Sanitarium; after long illness; in Battle Creek, Mich. Kellogg, whose white mustache and goatee made him look like an otter-shaped Buffalo Bill, was the son of Seventh Day Adventists. He took over their church's hydrotherapeutic institution at Battle Creek in 1876. Bored by oatmeal, in 1895 he boiled and rolled wheat, pronounced the flakes fine, in 1906 he sold his $250,000 interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife...
Collectors have long been interested in such huge, gay sheets. Good poster items currently bring as much as $200. The poster master, Toulouse-Lautrec, had no need of funds either from advertisers or collectors. His father was so well heeled that he could afford such eccentricities as an otter hunt, in Canadian costume, in the streets of Paris...
...Alfred F. Connors of Class A was appointed on Feb. 24 by Lt. F. J. Roberts, SC, USN, as editor of the prospective book. As associate editor was named Ens. G. A. Otter, Jr., of Class D. Ens. William E. Young of Class E will be business manager...
...Baranov made money for his company from the start. Hundreds of canoes, manned by Aleutian islanders, scoured the shores for sea otter, seals and foxes. At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth...