THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER
1926:
· COWBOYS GREAT RISKS.-The Spanish toreador who sticks & bull with a little spear, is a romentic fellow, no doubt but he doesn't run the risk.cowboys take. Those two pictures were taken at Preston, Arizona, Frontier Days celebration. On the lift a cowboy has just leaped from his horse, seized a steer by On the right, a cowboy is shown keeping his precarious the horns and gone to the ground with it-the time-honoured, dangerous sport of bulldogging.
position on the back of a bucking steer.
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CAN'T SINK.-Minerals in the water give such a high specific gravity at Salt Lake City that bathers float about like corks. It is most popular as a plonsure resort during the summer months.
"SOME" WALKER. Sturting out across the con- tinent from San Francisco five years ago, F. A. Haup mann, a naturalized Ambri- can citizen, has been walking his way eastward around the world. He has just passed' through Poking and is now going through Korea and Japan, whence he will work his way on a boat back to San Francisco. In each country he has made it a point to collect autographs of important people, and his heavy autograph portfolio is never absent from him. His original collection, including prominent Americans and Europeans, was destroyed in Arabia where he arrested as a spy and throa- toned with death.
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CAMP INSPECTION. It's the President who is the commander-in-chief, but Mrs. Coolidge, too, takes her turn at inspecting the U S. Marines camped near the summer White House" on Lake, Osgood, New York, as a presid. ential guard. Hore she is being escorted through the camp by officers. And you may be sure she found the camp spick.
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CARRIER PIGEON'S ON SUBMARINES.-The carrier pigeon has joined the U. S. navy. Further, he's shipping on submarines. The birds are put in sealed traps`` which float to the surface and opon automatically, as the diagram above shows, allowing the bird to fly in with his message. The bird shown above is named J. T. Sullivan, and is one of the navy's fastest carriers. Inset shows a sallor launching a pigeon on its Dight
BACK IN KHAKI-Col. Theodore Roosevelt, for, the first time since the World War, again dons the khaki and insignia of the 26th his old regiment, Photo shows him arriving at Plattsburg for a 15-day training period."
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NEW CABLE The s.8. Colonia is shortly to lay a new cable across the Atlantic. Above ship is soen picking up cable in water three miles doop, To tho right is shown. the new trans-Atlantic cable. Its description is: 1-Copper wire carrying electric current 2-Flexible copper tapes to, Corry curront if central wire breaks. 3-Pormalloy tapo whose wonderful magnetic qualities koop signals from jumbling. . 4-Thick covering of gutta perche: to hold our- ronts to their path. 5-Wrapping of jute to cushion the prasaure of three miles of sea water, 8-Steel armour wires to protect cable. 7-Wrapping of tarred hemp cords.
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