Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Department of Mammals and Reptiles New York Zoological Park New York City...
...expected, what more natural than that the able husband of one of the nation's richest women should hope to succeed to his glittering job? Attesting their eligibility, Joe Davies & wife have rented for the Coronation one of London's stateliest houses, The Holme, Regent's Park mansion of the second Mrs. Marshall Field...
...Penitentiary in Philadelphia. One morning last week he asked to be permitted to visit a dentist, was motored downtown by a guard named Guy Irving. Finding the dentist's curb occupied, amiable Guard Irving said he told the murderer to go into the office alone, drove on to park his car. When he returned, Boss Bruno was gone. Four hours passed before he reported the escape to the jail warden. Guard Irving explained that he had been searching Pottsville's business district for the prisoner. Outraged, Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti sped to Pottsville...
...Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery, 60-lb., temperamental female called Jelly Roll. For almost a week they traveled, the beaver riding...
...time a cabin was built in the centre of the 2,300 sq. mi. of wilderness that make up the Park, winter was approaching, and the beaver were kept indoors. Transplanted beaver try to get back to their old homes before a freeze-up, particularly when they have stored away a winter's food supply, and in their anxiety swim long distances, get lost, "and run around in a manner directly contrary to their usual habits." Grey Owl had already wired his wife, Anahareo, who was visiting her parents in Ontario, to come help him, and the two Indians...