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When his prize Manchester terrier, Mickey, was stricken by the heat and rolled into the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle plunged in fully clothed, dragged...
...bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column of the Washington Monument, which gleamed in white marble over the well-scrubbed...
...area of 20,000 sq. mi. With the water 8 ft. above flood stage at Pittsburgh, 10 at Wheeling, 21 at Cincinnati at week's end (see map), the still-rising 1937 flood had already taken more lives than the 1936 inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood. The reason for last year's flood was that the winter was too cold. The snow stayed on the ground too deep and too long. When...
Rounding a curve just before taking a bridge across the Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...
...duckhunters laid away their guns and decoys last fortnight all of them agreed that it had been the worst season on record. From Susquehanna Flats to the Suisun marshes and from the Kankakee marshes to Pas a l'Outre all species of wild waterfowl had been scarce; canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy ducks, teals, gadwalls, widgeons, shovelers especially so. Everyone knew the reasons-drought, a hard winter, the disappearance of eel grass, overshooting. Not so easy was the remedy...