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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexandria, N. H.: Open slopes of Mt. Cardigan have a hard crust with several inches of wet snow on top. The trails have not been broken but have an unbreakable crust with three inches of corn snow. Laconia, N. H.: Gunstock trails are fairly well covered but unbroken for the most part. Open slopes have abundance of snow but inclined to be sticky. Near melting temperatures. Pinkham Notch, N. H.: Washington and Wildeat trails partially broken. Thirteen inches at summit and 11 1-2 inches average of wet snow over hard crust provides good skiing, not too fast. Stowe...
...inspecting our equipment for the following day. We scraped off the old wax down to the wood with a homemade scraper and applied out native Klister, which is a mixture of pine pitch and oil. We then heated the skis over the fire (as wax will not stick to wet wood) and with a wax mitten rubbed them to a high glassy finish, making them waterproof. The patience and tireless efforts of these Lapplanders has convinced me that waxing is almost as important as actual skill, as by proper waxing one can lessen slipping backward when climbing, and also prevent...
...doctor was called. Noon Paris papers announced officially the natural death of the Minister of Interior by heart failure. In the late afternoon Lille buzzed with rumors of suicide. These became official at 11:30 p. m. and M. Salengro was an nounced to have placed wet cloths around his kitchen windows to seal them, turned on the gas stove, died asphyxiated...
...wet, grey dawn was breaking over Texas last week when a strapping, six-foot figure in cowhand clothes strode out. on the 80,000-acre Storey Ranch near Cotulla. The hard-preaching, hard-riding pastor of South San Antonio's First Baptist Church, Reverend Robert Gaddy Baucom, faced an impressive, tensely quiet assemblage. Lined up in front, 257 eager hounds strained at their leashes. At one side a Master of Hounds and twelve field judges sat their horses. Behind the dogs ranged 150 other mounted Texans, more than 1,000 in automobiles and trucks of every size and shape...
With their dogs cooped in trailers behind sturdy automobiles, Texas wolf hunters gather at 2 or 3 a. m., motor far out into the brush. Best time to cast the hounds is just before daybreak, when the land is wet and the dogs, running with heads up. can catch the wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield...