Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little, swart Fernando De Soto (1499-1542) who discovered the big, fatherly Mississippi River...
...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
Died. Brigadier General Charles Lewis Potter, 64, Army engineer, president of the Mississippi River Commission, two months after his Army retirement; after a gall-bladder operation; at St. Louis...