Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colds and pneumonia, and should never even in the warmest weather be bathed in the open air, or exposed to any draft while the least bit wet. So many of them surfer severe aftereffects, as well as torture from extreme fright, which cats who are not accustomed to water always have of being put in it. Give 15 minutes excitement at a County Fair, and set a bad example of animal treatment to all children present...
...Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate . . . wonderful water...
...Executed. Bacha Sakao, "The Water Boy of the North," Afghan chieftain, usurper of King Amanullah's throne; at Shepur Cantonment, Afghanistan; by order of Nadir ("George Washington") Khan, his vanquisher, recently chosen king (see P.31...
...Portland, Me., Willie L. Sanborn has for 17 years gone to a well on the grounds of Pennell Institute to obtain water for his boarders. Recently he was convicted of the larceny of ten quarts of water valued at one dollar. Sentence was suspended; Mr. Sanborn was put on two years' probation...
...Louis two lawyers have put their skill at the disposal of two rodents-a common or Egyptian mongoose and a slightly larger water mongoose. The lawyers are Cleveland Alexander Newton, one-time (1919-27) Missouri Congressman, and Thomas Cobbs. What aroused them was the fact that the two mongooses, which resembled large nervous rats in their cages at the St. Louis Zoo, had been condemned to death by the U. S. Government. Reason: The Government forbids the importation of mongooses. Although they are valuable in India and Africa as snake destroyers, in the comparatively snakeless U. S. they would...