Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene. Flemington is the seat of Hunterdon County, on New Jersey's western border. A meticulously neat, elm-shaded town of nearly 3,000, it serves as a trading centre for a rich old agricultural community. About ten miles to the southeast is Sourland Mountain, where the child was kidnapped...
Kokomo, Ind. is located 125 mi. southwest of Kalamazoo, Mich, and 100 mi. southeast of Kankakee, Ill. In 1842 a trader named David Foster bought for a few dollars from Chief La Fontaine several hundred swampy acres in the Miami Indian reservation. Two years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
Twelve miles southeast of Hot Springs, Ark. on the Ouachita River is a power dam. Behind the dam is a good-sized lake. In the lake is an island and on the island is Couchwood, summer home of Harvey Crowley Couch. Mr. Couch built not only the rambling redwood log cabin that accommodates 25 guests in every luxury but also the dam that made the lake. The lake he named after his daughter Catherine; the dam, which he built for his Arkansas Light & Power Co., he named after onetime State Republican Boss Remmel...
Richard Mott Gummere, new Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and lecturer in Latin, will move into the famous Palmer House at the Southeast corner of the Yard sometime during mid-year examinations this February, it was announced yesterday by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of Harvard...
...seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside. The bal loon drifted southeast across Lake Erie, slowly rose to ten miles. Radio communi cation with the ground was fragmentary. Mrs. Piccard worried because she could not see the ground for clouds. Gas was valved and the balloon went down. As it flirted with the treetops, the Piccards donned football helmets. When the bag was snagged...