Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A Train in a Snowdrift

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New York, 1895 When a quarter of a mile east of Southhold Tuesday morning the early Greenport express, bound for Long Island City, butted in...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Dwellings of Eskimos

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1901 It is a mistake to suppose that the Eskimos of Greenland live in huts made of ice or snow, even though some of the writers of geographi...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Fits Horse With Snowshoes

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1919 Mail Carrier Fulfills Contract Despite Heavy Drifts. VANCOUVER, B. C., Canada. — By fitting his horse with snowshoes, "Ole the Bea...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Faithful Shepherd Dogs

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1901 A cold spell in Montana killed a sheep herder in the Great Falls district. Two feet of snow covered the range in places, and the thermo...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A Faithful Dog

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1900 How He Saved The Lives Of Some Prospectors Deeds of heroism have been enacted in Alaska which history will never chronicle. Truth print...
Sunday, January 6, 2008

Drifted Together; Hogs Freeze Fast

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1909 Sad Plight of Porkers Near Lake City During Blizzard. LAKE CITY, Feb. 20. — Fred Fry, who lives north of town, relates a mighty interes...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Captured Baby Lynx

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1905 W. W. Bridges of Athens, while hunting recently, came upon a peculiar track of some animal, which he followed. He captured the animal, ...
Friday, July 6, 2007

Runaway Returns Home

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1915 This is going to be a Merry Christmas at the Mohr home, 10 St. Mark's place, New York City. For Sophia has returned. Her voluntary ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Puzzle Jugs

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1896 Water or puzzle jugs were made in England as early as the seventeenth century, and at the beginning of the present century were still b...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Melting of Winter Snows in Alaska

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1899 Daily Freshets To most people who live in the temperate zones, the annual freshets occasioned by the melting of the winter snows and by...
Friday, June 8, 2007

Five Hens Lay Eggs in Deep Snow Nests

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Feb. 1920 Fowls Dig Their Own Snug Roosts on Roof of Barn HILERTON, New York — It being the warmest day of the winter, Chester Wasselton, a ...
Thursday, June 7, 2007

Chicken Thief Pursued, Riddled

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Pennsylvania, 1908 Enraged Farmer, After Chase, Puts Twelve Holes Through Him Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 7. — Exhausted after a long chase, Isaac...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Loss of Wife's Love Worse Than Jail

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Feb. 1920 Released Spy Hopeless When He Learns She Will Rewed SAN FRANCISCO — The highest hope of Wilhelm von Brincken, cherished by the for...
Sunday, June 3, 2007

Courtesy All Too Scarce

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Ohio, 1914 Cleveland Man Set Fine Example of the Duty of a Gentleman to the Fair Sex The youthful Walter Raleigh spreading his velvet cloak ...

Mail Carrier Puts Snowshoes on Horse

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Feb. 1920 Man and Beast Finish 45-Mile Trip in Three Days SEATTLE, Wash. -- "Old the Bear" (A. R. Westerberg), mail carrier betwee...
Saturday, June 2, 2007

"Rides" Avalanche, Killed

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1914 Rancher Thought It Great Sport to Slide Down Mountain Side on Mass of Snow Jackson, Wyo., Feb. 7. — That "Windy" Hickman, a r...
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Novel Snow-Plows — Kurds Use Horses, Charge the Drifts

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1878 Novel Snow-Plows In his recent travels in Asia Minor Captain Burnaby on one occasion, between Erzeroum and Van, found his road blocked ...