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...largely a hope in the heart of Mr. Gabrielson and fellow duck shooters. One sure source of income was from the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of 1934. In its first two years that brought about $1,000,000. Then, after much dallying. Congress unanimously passed the Pittman-Robertson Federal-Aid-to-Wildlife Bill to appropriate to the various States the 10% excise tax on sporting arms and ammunitions. It assured the program an annual $3,000,000 as a friendly President signed it at Hyde Park last week...
...fissure in the earth split the farm of Harley Robertson, soon widened as its sides fell in, became a canyon 200 ft. deep, its bottom crawling, heaving, puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached...
...upper crust cooled and hardened, while the lower lava continued flowing. Along the buried canyons the sub-lava flood tore out everything it could carry along, leaving vacant spaces roofed over by the cold crust. As the material weathered it began to collapse. This is now taking place on Robertson's farm...
...Louis Municipal ("Muny") Opera (not opera at all but musicomedy well-mounted on a revolving stage) has been running since June 4, when Bernice Claire, Gladys Baxter and Guy Robertson sang in The Great Waltz. Last week St. Louis applauded Oldtimer Blanche Ring's performance of Music in the Air by Hammerstein & Kern...
...appears to have tracked down this lunar divagation, which he calls the "X factor," is Dr. James Robertson of the Naval Observatory, who has been prophesying eclipses for 26 years. Dr. Robertson now believes the "X factor" to be a resultant of three irregularity cycles, one of a lunar month, one of eleven to 13 months, the third varying over a long period up to 70 years. According to first reports from Canton Island, Dr. Robertson's time predictions for that spot, allowing for the "X factor," had hit the actual eclipse times on the nose...