World wrap: fires, crashes, and political moves across the globe
Reports from Toronto to Seattle describe a Wawa hotel fire at Lake of Bays with nine missing and 25 injured, a Pensacola seaplane crash killing five, a Mississippi launch sinking drowning ten, Western tariff talks led by eight governors, and multiple other disasters and political notes from the era.
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Toronto
Wawa
Lake of Bays
Muskoka
Pensacola
Fla
Santa Rosa Sound
Camp Walton
St. Paul
Mississippi River
South St. Paul
Denver
Western Tariff Association
San Pedro
Cal
General Petroleum Company
Billings
William T. Simpson
Ed Raines
Cody
Wye
Calexico
Mexico
Messiah Lutheran Church
J. Carrick Trost
Veterans of the Mounted Police Meet in Montana
Major James Walker of Calgary, a veteran of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, visited Montana and met Colonel James T. Stanford, president of a western association. Walker recalled directing the early fight against whisky runners of 1874, Montana whites who aided Canadian Indians, amid harsh elements and mounted police dangers.
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Veterans OF the Mounted Police
Montana
Western Canada
James Walker
Calgary
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Winnipeg
Great Falls
James T. Stanford
Colonel Stanford
Fort MacLeod
Lethbridge
Alberta
Federal
Western frontier tales move through Big Sky memories
Colonel Walker recounts a storied career from Toronto military school through the Fenian raid to organizing Canadian volunteers and the Mounted Police. He describes early maps of the Montana region, vast buffalo herds near Sweet Grass, and service in a forestry battalion in World War I. Three Forks selects Thomas Lefever as president of the Labor National Bank of Montana.
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Walker
Toronto
States
Fort Coburn
Buffalo
N. Y
Royal School of Gunnery
Kingston
Mounted Police
French
Lethbridge
Dominion
Winnipeg
Colonel French
Sweet Grass
West
Canada
Great Britain
Flanders
Three Forks
Thomas Lefever
Labor National Bank of Montana
Cream Cheese Pimento Filling Sandwich Recipe
Soften cream cheese with Carnation Milk then mix in chopped pimentos salt and cayenne. Spread between thin unbuttered Carnation Bread slices as shown in Lesson 2.
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Hong Kong
Evanston
Wyo
John Pavlison
Kemmerer Coal Company
Frontier
Kemmerer
New York
Caribbean Sea
Swift Star
U. S
Cyclops
Atlanta
William J. Simmons
Ku Klux Klan
Edward Young Clarke
Indianapolis
Klan
Clarke
Seattle
Oktzebue
Alaska
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Cord LpuIiy
Bueyke, EP
Weaw
Lyear
Firestone
Fisk
Wvar
C. Se
Abash Ave
Paad
Carnation
Mrs. Es
A.B. Q
Taotatee
Carnation Milk Products Co
Stuart Bidg
Seattle, Wash
Freez Examinations
Edmonson
E. E. Edmonson
Lapeyre
Great Falls, Montana
Third St. S
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