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...Haven, Conn., March 20--Buffalo Bear, tribal chief of the Oglala Sioux, and chief attraction of the New Haven Sportsmen's Show; and his pal, Chief Crazy Bull of the Hunkpapa Sioux outfit, have been affording Eli students of Linguistics and Anthropology a unique opportunity to ply their science...
...Because of the patented Daimler "fluid flywheel," a device which eliminates the clutch and gives a softness of action which hard British sportsmen describe as "all right for an elderly couple out shopping...
...caused Representative Fish to intro duce a resolution in Congress and the Hearst Press to roar: "The Revolution is AT HAND." U. S. hunters outnumber the U. S. Army 30-to-1. The cartoon summoned them to take up arms against the Government. It showed a mighty army of sportsmen, scientists, bird-lovers and miscellaneous conservationists armed with double-barreled shotguns and high-powered rifles marching on Washington, forcibly dragging a bewhiskered "Congress" off his perch atop the Capitol...
While a great roll of blueprints was arriving at a Shanghai shipyard last week, a number of wealthy U. S. sportsmen were receiving in their morning mail an illustrated brochure entitled "A CRUISE FROM HONG KONG TO PARIS ABOARD AN OCEAN-GOING NING PO JUNK. It is the idea of a few men who have sailed together before. They need a few additional subscribing shipmates." Subscription for a six-month cruise in the poop of a Chinese junk: $3,000 in advance. Not quite so mad as it sounded was the Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow...
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