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Along the coasts of Oregon and Washington last week, captains of U. S. Coast Guard cutters were waiting the arrival of the Pribilof fur seals, whose annual migration was reported on the move. When the seals were sighted, plunging and barking on their way to the Pribilof Islands off Alaska, the Coast Guardsmen would chug out to follow them, to guard them in their curious hegira...
Embassy officials are now confiding to their friends: "He's a great chief!" And last week the interest of U. S. citizens in Germany was aroused when Great Chief Sackett put on his long, heavy, fur-lined coat, sank his square jaw in its black Persian lamb collar, and went out to have a look at the famed Leipzig Fair (TIME, March...
...worries that beset fox-farmers now, such as parasites, ear mites, worm trouble, tailmites, thieves. They were killed, usually late in December, by the weight of a man's foot placed over the lungs or heart so as to leave no blood stains on the fur. Their skins were sold at fabulous prices until fur dealers in Prince Edward Island investigated, bought Charlie Dalton's business and 20 pairs of Charlie Dalton's foxes for $500,000. The highest price ever paid for a fox skin was $2,819 paid in 1911 for a black pelt from...
Dyers can now make a red fox fur look almost exactly like a genuine black one, once more valuable than silver. There is no way at present to duplicate the coat of a silver fox, whose long guard hair is blue for two inches closest to the body, black for the next half inch, white the outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward...
...Dartmouth. Some of the girls had come up that morning, and some the night before. They brought dance-dresses, high rawhide boots, Jaeger sweaters, fur coats, skates; the boys who had asked them up gave them skis and snowshoes if they wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood...