Chance of a lifetime sails in on a tropical night
Nick Hastings faces a dilemma when Angela Halliday offers a lavish island trip. He contemplates leaving home and Gay for adventure, then wakes resolved to return to Bakersville. Angela changes plans by auto. Nick accepts fate and prepares to report home within a month.
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Nick
Myers
Angela Halliday
Angela
Titchfield
Bakersville
Desert
John Maxwell
Gay
New York
Kingston
Feel Young Again Enjoy Hard Work
An advert touts Kruschen Salts as a daily remedy for vitality. It claims millions use a morning glass of hot water with Kruschen to stay fit, energetic, and free from headaches, constipation, and bad breath, by cleansing the liver kidneys and bowels.
Artificial Sunlight Ushers In Healthful Illumination
The piece notes lamps that simulate sunlight are sold for home treatment and now seen as possible general house illumination. It argues future lighting will prioritize health, claiming artificial sun can rival midsummer sun and outperform smoky city and winter light, with strong relevance to indoor work and office settings. It also advertises Mother Graves Worm Terminator as a cure for wormy children.
Canada Forest Resources Estimate
The latest estimate places Canada’s standing timber at 224 304 million cubic feet capable of yielding 424 637 million feet board measure of sawn lumber and 1 121 993 thousand cords of pulpwood ties poles and other smaller materials.
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Canada
Seattle man plans large scale salvage of Islander ship
Frank Curtis of Seattle signs with Olympia firms FE H and H S Wiley to raise the Islander wrecked in Stephens Pass on August 15, 1901. He aims to move the hull into shallow water using diving bells and cables, with a barge and winches, hoping to recover gold dust and nuggets rumored to exceed a million dollars. Curtis envisions expanding into wider salvaging ventures after this project.
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Frank Curtis
Seattle
Stephens Pass
FE. H
H. S. Wiley
Olympia
Curtis
Alaskan
Nature
Radio Correspondence Courses Reach Six Thousand Students
About 6000 students are enrolled in Saskatchewan's correspondence courses started last year. Rural districts supply around 5000 of these enrollments. Aimed to aid those unable to attend schools, the program brings education to youths. The government plans a radio school to supplement the courses next autumn.
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Saskatchewan Department of Education
Saskatchewan
Department of Education
Two Decrees Tighten Land Cultivation in Spanish Estates
Spain's Republican government issues two decrees to compel owners of untitled estates to cultivate land. Local committees will set crops and wages for farm workers, aiming to curb unemployment and boost national production. Persian Balm described as a desirable beauty product with various uses across family members.
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Spain
Favorite Authors Dominate U S Popular Story Writers
A United States magazine surveyed readers over the past year and awarded monthly prizes for essays on favorite stories and why. O Henry placed first, Kipling second, Poe third, Maupassant fourth, Mansfield fifth, and Stevenson sixth among the most popular writers.
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United States
O. Henry
Rudyard Kipling
Katherine Mansfield
Robert Louis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe
Guy de Maupassant
Radio For Lifeboats Power Plant For Lifeboats
A compact self contained radio station provides 400 watts for lifeboats enabling short wave distress signals up to 1000 miles. It runs five hours on a gallon of gasoline and is designed to be standard lifeboat equipment and always ready for use. The saying about fruit and tree is noted.
Bandit Attack Ended With Narrow Escape In Valley
A narrator recounts.capture by Chinese bandits while escorting a freight train for food. bound on a donkey toward a hilltop camp, he frees himself as torches fade, then slips toward a cliff and plans a dash to safety amid a raiding night. He hints at a future photo request to Captain Jimmy in Toronto.
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Colonel
Fu Hiu
Scottie
Asa Baby
Youth Armies and Censorship Shape Totalitarian Minds
The passage contrasts Soviet and Fascist youth regimes. It argues Russian youth are molded into fanatic, insular soldiers through coercion and information control, while Fascist youth face undercover censorship and military training to foster obedience and hostility to outside ideas.
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Soviet
Russia
Italy
Train Conductor Keeps Grave Of Boy Near Elrod
The faithful Northwestern Railroad crew maintains a grave beside the tracks in Elrod South Dakota where a boy waved to conductors daily until his death. Conductor William P Chambers visited weekly with flowers. After his death Martin Redmond, the successor, paused the train to place a wreath on the mound maintaining the grave per the late conductor.
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Elrod
South Dakota
William P. Chambers
Chambers
Martin Redmond
Empire State Building Dedicated In New York
The world’s tallest structure the Empire State Building was dedicated and opened in Manhattan at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. Governor Alfred E. Smith and a group of millionaire associates led the project with state and city dignitaries, industry leaders, and educational figures attending the ceremony for the 86 story 1200 foot building and its 16 story dirigible mast.
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Empire State Building
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Fifth Avenue
34Th Street
Central Heating Development Employs Six Hundred In Winnipeg
A report from the Industrial Development Board of Manitoba notes that six hundred men work on the Northern Public Service Corporation central heating project in Winnipeg and the payroll runs about twenty thousand dollars weekly.
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Northern Public Service Corporation
Winnipeg
Industrial Development Board of Manitoba
Little Helps For This Week With Biblical Reflections
A compilation of quotes on humility faith and dependence on God from Whittier Ruskin and Mountford. Includes a health remedy note for cows using Douglas Egyptian Liniment and a warning about gold dust blindness. Mentions imports of linen piece goods into China nearly doubling 1929.
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China
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the Borden Co
George S Toronte
Christine Whiting Parmenter
Weill
Mr. Hastings
Putnam's
Putnam's Corn
Ww. Vv. U
Canada’s Forest Resources
King OF
PAIN
Radio
U.S
Jimmy
Star Building
Toronto
Borden's Chocolate
Armed Youth
John Greenleaf Whittler
John Ruskin
God
William Mountford
Castoria
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