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...suppress Jews, last week, stimulated by news from Ecuador (see below), anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in Mexico. Mexico City's new Committee for Defense of Mexican Merchants loudly complained to the office of Secretary of Interior Garcia Tellez that: "Most of the 200 Mexicans in the fur business have been displaced by Jews!" Mexico City's conservative Novedades excitedly headlined: "THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEBREWS IN MEXICO...
Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...
...water-life. Like the mole, it burrows under ground. Like the duck, it has a broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey. No woman would choose it for its beauty or usefu1ness...
Smitty's Tack* Room, showing the jockey's iron bed, saddle & bridle on a peg, table with empty beer bottles, and the cheap fur coat and red slippers of one of Smitty's girlfriends...
Since Mr. Gibbs went into the muskrat business he has caught about 75,000 animals, which would mean more than 1,000 muskrat coats if he had sold them all for fur. Actually he sells many alive to other breeders, some as far away as Czechoslovakia. A pair of black muskrats used to bring him $50, twice as much as he gets now. Almost all the skinned muskrats are sold to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometimes the meat is retailed as "marsh rabbit," sometimes as terrapin...