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How Mescal Came to the Southwest

This dissertation is the result of a question asked me by a lady dude the other day.

“What is mescal?” asked the lady dude. “A whiskey, a brandy, or a cordial?”

“Not any of them,” I answered. “Mescal is a hair transporter.”

The lady dude looked even dizzier than usual, so I went on to explain.

“Mescal is a liquid that knocks the hair off your head and sets it down on your chest.”

“Tell me more,” said the lady seductively, sitting down on her patio.

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Brings Fire to Water

Chauffeur Races Blazing Acid Truck to Extinguisher.

NEW YORK. September 24.—John Owen, chauffeur for the Kalbfleisch Corporation, manufacturers of chemicals at Ellzabethport, N. J., was loading his truck with muriatic acid at a North River pier today when smoke issued from one of the containers. Spontaneous combustion was at work.

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Alaska Explorers Quit Point Barrow

Geological Survey Party in Arctic Was Believed to Have Been Marooned.

Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey and a party of three Washington engineers who were believed marooned at Point Barrow, on the Arctic coast of Alaska, have started in canoes up the Yukon River to Nanana, the northernmost point of the Alaskan railroad, according to word received yesterday at the Geological Survey offices here.

Dr. Smith, J. B. Mertie, R. K. Lynt and Gerald Fitzgerald, who entered the Colville River basin early in the Spring after a sensational dog-sled journey over the Arctic mountain range, drifted down the stream to Point Barrow, the most northernly point under the Stars and Stripes, arriving early in September. Just how they reached the mouth of the Yukon from this village was not explained in the brief message received here, it is thought probable that they were picked up by some whaler that had got through the abnormal ice along the coast this Summer.

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The Whale’s Strength

A whale striking Essex on November 20, 1820, depicted in a sketch by Thomas Nickerson

The most dreadful display of the Whale’s strength and prowess yet authentically recorded, was that made on the American Whale ship Essex, Captain Pollard, which sailed from Nantucket for the Pacific Ocean, in August 1849 [sic – it was 1819]. Late in the fall of the same year, when in the latitude forty of the South Pacific, a school of sperm Whales were discovered, and three boats were manned and sent in pursuit. The mate’s boat was struck by one of them, and he was obliged to return to the ship in order to repair the damage.

While he was engaged in that work, a sperm Whale, judged to be eighty three feet long broke water twenty rods from the ship on her weather bow. He was going at the rate of about three knots an hour, and the ship at nearly the same rate, when he struck the bow of the vessel just forward of her chains.

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Immigration Plan Support is Urged

Commissioner Holds Aliens Would Not Replace U. S. Workers Under System.

No American citizens would be thrown out of work by aliens under a plan for extension of the principle of selective immigration outlined in a radio address last night by Harry Hull, commissioner general of immigration.

“My appeal to you, my countrymen,” Hull added, “is that we follow this far seeing vision of our President, so that in the future immigrants shall not enter the country who are unneeded or undesirable.”

Hull said 241,700 Immigrants entered the United States last year and that it was a reasonable estimate that more than 50 per cent of them “are today displacing American citizens who are gainfully employed.”

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Hunters To Take Field

Exodus From City For Opening of Season Seen

The mighty chicken hunters start out tomorrow.

North Dakota’s annual hunting season—the biggest sport of all for some—opens. Seven hundred hunters’ licenses had been issued by the county auditor today, and it was certain that there would be an exodus from the city for the first day of the sport.

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Ticonic Bridge Closed to Traffic

Postcard of the Ticonic Bridge. Circa late 19th or early 20th century.

The Ticonic road bridge was closed to traffic yesterday and from now until the new surface of creolite wood blocks is completed traffic will be diverted to the bridge used by the A. and K. electric car line. Officers have keen stationed at each end of the bridge so as to keep traffic from jamming. Workmen started tearing up the old plank and before the day was over half of the old surface had been removed. The bridge will be closed for about six weeks.