Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasantry, for he plunged at once into crisp, forthright comment: "True, gentlemen, we are adjusting a frontier dispute with our good Belgian friends. ... If I may say so without offense, it is the product of the War mentality. Belgium is claiming the two provinces lying south of the Scheldt river on the ground, that it would give them the control of the Scheldt and free the port of Antwerp from the fear of any interference in case of war. They have suggested that we take a part of Germany in compensation, but the Dutch do not desire that...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Dictator to Poles, announced last week that he will sail down the mighty river Danube-down and down about 570 miles-to an ancient Roman spa, The Baths of Hercules...
...Upper Finlay River, British Columbia, one J. Omera, a trapper, suffered frostbite in the four small toes of his right foot. Soon he observed that his bitten toes had become infected. Since there was no surgeon at hand, J. Omera seized a kitchen knife and whittled away for three days until his toes were off. Then he bound up his bloody foot and tramped to Prince George, where a surgeon said he had performed the amputation so efficiently that no further treatment was necessary...
...Bunzlau, Silesian railroad town on the Sober River, one Eduard Kemp haled his neighbors around his piano. Playing the piano was his forte and he was going to play it for a long, long time. For hours he played. Neighbors gaped, yawned, went home to sensible featherbeds. Next day they found him playing erratically, and the next day more erratically. After 82 hours he ceased. Crazily he challenged the world for his peculiar competition...
Died. John Hornby, 50, lost explorer; of starvation; in a solitary cabin on the Thelon River, west of Hudson Bay, Canada. Hornby departed northward with two nephews in June, 1926; a search was instituted in December, 1927; last week the Canadian Mounted Police reported discovering the three bodies...