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Sheepeaters Monument Thunder Mountain Idaho

July 25, 2010

The striking photograph reproduced above shows a curious work of Nature near Thunder Mountain, Idaho, U.S.A. This gigantic monolith is eighty feet high, and about ten or twelve feet square at the base, tapering towards the top to about seven feet or less. The great rock poised on the top is estimated to weigh fully [...]

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Oil Fire at Spindle Top 1900

July 15, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900) This photo shows an oil “gusher”, and a tank containing 37,000 barrels of oil on fire at the “Spindle Top”  oil-field in Texas. Just 3 weeks after the great fire at Jennings, the tank seen on the left of the photograph was mysteriously ignited. Everything hereabouts, even the [...]

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Caught in a Prairie “Muskeg” 1900

July 14, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900) This photograph represents an unpleasant and rather exciting experience which occasionally falls to the lot of the Western settler. The correspondent who sends us the photograph writes as follows : ” We were driving out to a ranch and had diverged from the trail in order to see [...]

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The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud

July 12, 2010

By Dorothy von Heisman. (Published 1903) The story of one of the most remarkable frauds ever perpetrated upon a life insurance company. How two men and a woman obtained fifty thousand dollars by means of a clever plot and got safely away with the money. The fraud was only discovered by the merest accident. ONE [...]

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Sleeping ship on the Delaware River – 1900

July 11, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900) This striking photograph shows a unique accident which happened recently at Marcus Hook, on the Delaware River. The French barque Alice and Isabelle was lying at the Standard Oil Company’s pier, after her cargo had been unloaded, when suddenly, after a few preliminary shakes to warn the crew, [...]

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