River of Skulls Pursuit Across Koksoak to Rescue Heather
Alan and Noel drive a dog team along the Koksoak river valley chasing McQueen and Heather’s trail. The pair face hunger, long miles, and worsening odds as McQueen pulls ahead with stolen gold, while Heather leaves hopeful messages and the team vows to outrun the hunger and cold to reach her.
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Alan
Noel
Ungavas
Koksoak
McQueen
Chimo
John McCord
Rough
Heather
Naskapi
River of Death
Long Lake
Napayo
Fate of Six Dogs and Heather Adrift on Arctic Trail
A team of six dogs strains against four as McQueen races across a wintry expanse to reach Heather who is lost beyond the coast. The setting darkens with sunset, aurora, and cold that tightens as night falls and ice splits. The scene ends with a cliffhanger and a note that it continues.
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McQueen
Heather
Real Miracle Man Bergius Drives German Fuel Efforts
The New York Sun portrays Friedrich Bergius as Germanys pivotal innovator in synthetic fuel, noting his coal liquefaction patents, Nobel Prize with Carl Bosch, and leading role in the Stettin plant while highlighting his Nazi-era stance and distinctive bald, monocled image.
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Lemuel F. Barton
New York Sun
Germany
Reich
Friedrich Bergius
Brothers Grimm
Stettin
Harvard University
Mitchell Palmer
Bergius
Carl Bosch
Haber
Bran Muffins from Simple Old Fashioned Recipe
A vintage recipe combines Kellog's All Bran with molasses and milk to soak, then adds egg. Flour salt and soda are sifted and folded in, batter is dropped into greased muffin pans and baked at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes yielding a dozen muffins 2 inches wide.
Grayfish Trend Boosts Dogfish Demand
The US Bureau of Fisheries boosted public demand for dogfish by renaming it grayfish. A recipe notes melting butter with onions, adding crumbled crackers, milk, corn, cheese and seasonings to serve hot with soda wafers, yielding six portions.
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Christie's
US Bureau of Fisheries
Finland Sees Prolonged Winter Season Roughly Four to Six Months
The report notes that winter weather in Finland lasts about four to six months. It mentions Japan’s 600 islands of which only four are large, highlighting geographic contrasts.
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Finland
Japan
Outstanding Versatile Author Isaac F. Marcossan Praises John Buchan
In a tribute from Isaac F. Marcossan the late John Buchan is celebrated for wartime service and literary versatility. Buchan offered for active duty in World War I but was rejected for age yet became a key aide to Kitchener and Haig, then a Times front correspondent and intelligence officer. His career spans poetry, adventure and bestsellers, with a sharp epigram about his work and duties.
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Isaac F. Marcossan
John Buchan
Lord Tweedsmuir
Buchan
Kitchener
Times
Haig
The
Somme
Gems Of Thought On Labor And Time
A collection of quotable lines praising activity and effort. Thoughts from Hazlett Cowper Mason Eddy Fuller and Van Dyke emphasize that leisure harms, time is precious, and successful people earn success through work and disciplined use of moments. The passages urge purposeful living and the value of labor.
Spinach iron myth debunked by Dr. Truesdale
Dr. Roger Truesdale, a nationally known food chemist, told a Redlands civic group that spinach iron is only about 20 percent absorbable and its oxalate content binds calcium from other foods. He noted children resisted the spinach myth, which he said misleads about building sturdy bodies.
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Roger Truesdale
Redlands
Calif
The Earl of Elgin May Become Governor General
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes that if the Earl of Elgin succeeds to the Governor Generalship Canada would gain a Viceroy of versatility. An English paper calls him a good mixer hard worker keen farmer and a forthright lay preacher with powerful voice. France supplies skeletons used by medical students.
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Brockville Recorder and Times
Earl of Elgin
Canada
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London
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River OF Skulls
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Cameron
Bettair
Ly F . Peele Rey Nt
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Australia
Uckley
Lord Tweedsmauir
Hazlett
Cowper
John Mason
Mary Baker Eddy
Fuller
Kirk
Lord
Love
Henry van Dyke
the Earl of Elgin
France
Lydia EF. Pinkham
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