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...jagged sluice of the Lehigh River cuts through the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Thither from great passenger stations and greater freight terminals on New York Harbor run the rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, clean as carving knives. Across north central New Jersey they go?through manufacturing city butted against manufacturing city...
...Congress set off much of what is now Oklahoma as Indian Territory. Thither were moved the Five Civilized Nations - Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles. Then the U. S. regained the Indian Territory by a treaty and opened it for settlement (1889). In 1890, Oklahoma Territory was divided from the Indian Territory. More Indians were sent there - Sacs, Foxes, lowas, Pottawatomies. Also Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Then more Cherokees. Then some Kickapoos. In 1907, the Indian Territory was lumped with Oklahoma Territory and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma, famed since for oil wells, yellow pine, Ku Klux Klan...
Martha Norelius swam a mile last week faster than any woman had ever done it before. Stop watches clicked as she kicked hither and thither over the 55-yard course of the Biltmore Shores Yacht Club at Massapequa, L. I. establishing five world's records...
...small plateau lies the Capital City of Luxembourg, seat of that pastoral realm, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany, populated by 200,000 sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto...
...city. (Capital of Australia. Thither travels the Duke of York with his Duchess...