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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0930 Enlarge and print image (2M) |
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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0930 Enlarge and print image (2M) |
| GIANT BOULDER AS WAR MEMORIAL. This huge stone, which is estimated to weigh over forty tons, is being rolled from Lincoln, Mass., to Concord to be placed in Monument Square as a metnorial to the World War heroes of that town. The distance is about three and a half miles, and it is being hauled on a wrooden track above the state highway. On one side will be affixed a bronze tablet with the names of the soldier dead. Keystone View Company MOTHER HERON AND HER DOWNY CHARGES.—Egret or snowy heron and her young in a tree on the grounds of the Louisiana Coast- Club, New Iberia, La. They are very plentiful in that section, constituting a colony estimated at 150,000. Before the cruel practice was prohibited by law, aigrettes were plucked from the bosom of the living bird, inflicting wounds that caused the bird to die in misery. LET WOLVES TRY TO BITE THROUGH THIS.—Stanley Carlson of St. Paul, Minn., in suit of cowhide covered with spikes one inch long, a heavy helmet, a wire mask and spiked gloves, which he proposes to wear while slaying wolves in Northern Ontario for the sake of the Government's bounties. There are 1,280 nails in the outfit, which, however, weighs but 27 pounds. Wide World Photos ALMOST AS BROAD AS HE IS LONG. Teodulo Valenzuelo of Los Angeles, Cal., who weighs 745 pounds, despite the fact that he eats but two moderate meals a day. He is said to have weighea 22 pounds at birth and has put on weight consistently since that time. Shown;here with him are his wife and two children, Theodore and Edward. Wide World Photos COMMANDER OF THE G. A. R. CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE.—Gaylord M. Salzgaber of Van Wert, O,, chosen at the last convention as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He called on President Cool idge recently to discuss the question of increased pensions for the old veterans of the Civil War. Wide World Photos © Maryland State Archives mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0930.jpg |