Nick is Safe as Gay Recovers on Island Rescue
In a remote island episode, Simeon learns Nick Hastings is safe after Gay awakens from a fainting spell. A nurse is summoned as doctors treat Gay while Angela plots to win Nick, and Halliday reveals a Maine coast memory as tensions rise aboard the vessel.
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Simeon
Gay
Uncle Sim
Nick
Dearie
Brattleboro
Angela
Nick Hastings
Sea Bird
Amy Myer
Amy
Colonel Nowell
Painter
Halliday
The Woman Motorist and Rising Female Drivers
The piece argues against stereotypes of women drivers and notes a sharp rise in women motorists. It asserts practice makes perfect and compares women’s driving ability to men, suggesting skill grows with experience and is not limited by gender.
Half-breed driver takes odd carriage from Valmarie to Montreal
Alfred Choquette of Valmarie Saskatchewan drives a half carriage pulled by two grey horses toward Montreal. He left his farm after crop failures and travels with a gopher and two badgers as companions. He once farmed in Mariapolis Manitoba. An audience note mentions varying ocean salinity from 3.5 percent in open Atlantic to 1.3 in the Siberian Ocean and 5.1 in the Suez Canal.
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Valmarie
Montreal
Alfred Choquette
Saskatchewan
Choquette
Mariapolis
Manitoba
Atlantic Ocean
Siberian Ocean
Suez Canal
Navigator Gatty’s Sun Observation Method of Winnie Mae
Harold Gatty, longtime navigator and aviation instructor, studied at the Royal Australian Naval College and worked in the merchant marine before moving to the United States in 1927. He trained under Weems and ran a celestial navigation school near Grand Central Airport, teaching future famed aviators including Charles and Anne Lindbergh. His method enables fixing a ship’s location in under a minute using sun or star observations, prompting a special cabin opening on the Winnie Mae.
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Harold Gatty
Winnie Mae
Royal Australian Naval College
Gatty
United States
Phillip van H. Weems
USN
Weems
Annapolis
Grand Central Airport
Weem
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Bill to keep seas clean introduced in Commons
Sir Cooper Dawson introduces a bill in the House of Commons to force oil carrying ships to evacuate crude oil discharges at sea. He cites an estimated 2,000,000 tons daily and says the pollution harms fisheries and coast resorts while urging passage.
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House of Commons
Cooper Dawson
Cons
Brighton
Cooper
Britannia
The Seeker and The Rhyming Optimist Verse Fragment
Aline Michaelis presents The Rhyming Optimist and The Seeker poems about pursuit and longing for enlightenment. The text also notes Douglas' Egyptian ointment praised for quick relief of burns sprains toothache neuralgia and sore throat.
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Douglas
Canada Secures Space at British Industries Fair
The Department of Trade and Commerce Ottawa reports the Canadian Exhibiti on Commission has reserved a Canadian section at the Birmingham show next year. The space matches this year and remains central in the exhibit hall. The Canadian Government exhibit draws notable attention as the sole overseas Dominion and Colony display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Trade and Commerce
Ottawa
Birmingham
Canadian Exhibition Commission
Smarter Than Teacher and the Student Absence
A teacher questions Jim’s week long absence from school while his mother argues Jim is educated beyond his years and has brains. The fragment also notes a new multi function farm machine that combines harrowing rolling and grain drilling tasks.
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Jim
Disseminating Knowledge Free Health Radio College Concludes
The Canadian Social Hygiene Council wrapped up its third annual term of the Free Radio College of Health. Thousands across Canada heard lectures on preventing diphtheria typhoid fever cancer signs milk safety child life Tuberculosis mental hygiene and regular physical exams. Sixteen radio stations and many papers aired the courses free. Lectures were offered in French and English and the program ran at minimal cost with goodwill as its only endowment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Social Hygiene Council
Free Radio College of Health
Canada
Harold Gatty and Post plan world flight record
A blue eyed traveler Harold Gatty visited a Los Angeles newspaper officer and along with Wiley Post plans a world circumnavigation in about ten days. They predicted 107 hours flying time but completed the journey in 106 hours 8 minutes at an average speed near 150 mph. Brazil acts against public land frauds.
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Los Angeles
Harold Gatty
Wiley Post
Chicago
Post
Gatty
Little Helps For This Week Devotional Passages
A compact Sunday column presents brief spiritual quotes from 1 John iv 12 Saint Francis de Sales and Littell's Living Age. It highlights loving one another as divine dwelling and a daily duty to act with grace rather than seek mystic beliefs. It frames forgiveness and charity as paths to salvation.
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God
Saint Francis de Sales
Nelson hair relic to be sold at London auction
A lock of Admiral Nelson’s hair goes to auction in London where such relics fetch high bids. Previous curls have topped $1,575, far exceeding Napoleon and Wellington mementos. Byron fetched $65 and Sir Walter Scott’s hair has not risen above $40.
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Nelson
London
Napoleon
Wellington
Byron
Sir Walter Scott
Evening Times
Glasgow
Scotland
Signal For Level Crossings On Highway 21 Near Ridgetown
The Department of Highways tests a crossing device on Highway 21 that rattles as cars roll over a sound box. The mechanism fools drivers into thinking they hit missing fenders or an axle and prompts a stop to check for trains.
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Ridgetown
Ontario
Department of Highways
Quiet Birds Prompt City Health Orders in Poughkeepsie
The city health officer orders owners of a rooster parrot and flock of pigeons to muffle or remove their noisy birds after resident complaints. The note emphasizes quiet urban life and cites local enforcement action.
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Poughkeepsie
N.Y
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Dr. Fowler
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