Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With plans to attend the Fourth Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress at Batavia, Java, and to carry on extensive research work along the northwest coast of Australia, a region never before inspected by a marine zoologist, Professor H. L. Clark of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology yesterday announced the itinerary of a trip on which he departs March 15 and which will keep him away from the University for a period of almost a year...
Hanneken caught (and killed) his first big bandit on Hallowe'en, 1919. It was in the mountainous Capois region of Haiti. Charlemagne Peralte was the name of a blackamoor chief who was leading 700 rowdy followers to sack Grande Riviere. Hanneken, then a sergeant, took a force of 21 men through the witching night. They rushed the camp, killed Charlemagne and nine of his ruffians, escaped to cover. The feat broke the backbone of Haitian banditry. Hanneken got the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Colonel Miller had built the first barb wire fence in the district. But the very necessity for a barb wire fence was an indication that the old free days were passing. In 1893 the district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed. A Kansas City commission house, owing him $300,000, failed. Creditors arrived, drove off the cattle, left the Millers with 88 ancient horses and cattle, cripples and runts...
...University Museum, will change its abode to the southern states this summer, according to an announcement made last night by L. D. Leet, Observer of the Harvard Station. The seismograph is to be employed in searching for rich oil fields in the water-covered territory of the Mississippi Delta region of Louisiana...
Artificial earthquakes will be produced in this region by employing dynamite blasts. The resulting vibrations, recorded on the seismograph, will aid in the possible discovery of submarine oil fields which are believed to be located in that region...