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...less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River. He has hired a convict to take him to the spot where the last...
...beauty," declared President Hoover as three Maine Congressmen presented him with the first salmon (164 Ib.) caught this year in the Bangor Pool. Catcher: Harry Chapman...
...which the Bee calls ''Superior California." The San Joaquin Valley, stretching to the south, was until a few years ago swayed by Editor Chester Harvey Rowell's morning Fresno Republican, long famed throughout the State as a fearless journal. In 1920 Publicist Rowell sold out to the Brothers Chase Salmon and George Augustus Osborn, sons of former Governor Chase Salmon Osborn of Michigan. Quick to seize the opening, the McClatchys invaded Fresno, established the afternoon Fresno Bee in 1922. Slowly, steadily the Bee has nibbled away at the Republican's circulation and advertising. Last week the McClatchys acquired the Republican...
...years George Armsby had been vice president of J. K. Armsby Co. with headquarters in San Francisco. The firm had grown until it was the biggest packer of California dried fruits, biggest distributor of salmon, second biggest distributor of California canned fruits and vegetables. He decided that one big firm combining all functions of the industry, amalgamating big competitors, should be formed. To do so he had to convince some one that he should lend 16 million dollars...
Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...