Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regrettable indeed that a lady of her apparent intelligence classifies our State as one "where 'Graft' runs wild," and in my despair at reading such slander hurled against our noble commonwealth, I see a ray of probable sunlight, that I glean from the very beginning of her second paragraph, in which she states something about changing her residence, and I sincerely hope that she will cross the. State line, be it east, west, north or south, when she makes that change, as the State of New Jersey will be well rid of such...
...Along Macon Ridge, La., deer and wild turkey fought for food. Other deer and fawns, frightened, hungry, entered refugee camps, were made pets by children...
...Around Richland and Madison, La., the flood swept through the finest hunting grounds on the continent. Here Theodore Roosevelt and Flood Relief Director John M. Parker used together to hunt quail, deer, bears, wild turkey...
Died. Major William E. Cochran, 74, onetime Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...
...bears at play, leopards on the hunt, snakes in death struggles, monkeys a clowning, elephants nudging a village into oblivion. Dramatically, it is an account of the family of one Kru, of Siam, how he preserves his life and propagates his kind in the face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw...