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Mrs. Oscar S. Straus Returns from Expedition

May 9, 1929
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Returnign from a four months expedition in the heart of Africa, Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, widow of the late U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, arrived in New York on the Ile de France.

Mrs. Straus said that 300 specimens of birds and animals were obtained for the American Museum of Natural History and 5,000 feet of film depicting scenes in the African jungle.

For twelve days the party, which included Mr. and Mrs. Rudyerd Boulton and Edward Schafer of New York, grandson of Mrs. Straus, penetrated the jungle, making their own roads and building bridges. Fifteen thousand miles by land and sea were covered.

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