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...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
Utah Deer. Hunters and fishermen will do well to trek to Utah this autumn. For them, David H. Madsen, State Fish and Game Commissioner, has announced a para dise: "More deer than any white man ever saw in the State . . . 30, 000 to 40,000 pheasants in Salt Lake and Utah counties this fall... the largest fish producing plant in the United States." Utah has public shooting grounds of 12,000 acres with accommodations for 1,000 sportsmen...
...Herbert S. Dickey of the Royal Geographic Society and his bride turned up last fortnight at Para, Brazil, after a busy honeymoon spent in crossing the Andes from Guayaquil, Ecuador; making cinema records of the art of curing human skulls among the savage, head-hunting Teveros...
Cuba. President Gerardo Machado y Morales signed a Sanitary Convention negotiated on Nov. 14, 1924, by Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Para guay, Peru, Salvador, Santo Do mingo, the U. S., Uruguay, Venezuela...
...long run, as in the case of the Brazilian coffee monopoly, the rubber syndicate will probably defeat itself by encouraging tremendous new production, especially in the Dutch East Indies and the Para and Upper Amazon portions of Brazil. But it takes several years to bring rubber trees to bearing age, and meanwhile the British rubber growers will "sit pretty...