Through the Blizzard They Strive to Reach Shelter
Jean and an Englishman battle a freezing blizzard as they push toward the pine woods and a hotel, binding together with a strap to survive. The man risks safety to protect her, carrying her at one point before a fall nearly ends their escape.
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Jean
Egyptian Government Plans Vast Nile Delta Drainage Scheme
A British report outlines a sweeping project to drain over two thousand square miles of salt-filled Nile Delta land. It envisions a network of canals and fifteen electric pumping stations powered by three power stations to move fresh water to the sea and three nearby lakes, with protective equipment and insulated stations to handle high pressure currents.
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Nile Delta
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Mediterranean
The Rhyming Optimist and Immortality
Poem fragment by Aline Michaelso examining immortality as a distant goal and life's fleeting moments. It ponders injustice and the soul's movement through time, framing Earth as a brief pause in a larger journey.
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Rhyming
Aline Michaelso
Curious Powers of the Number Nine
A newspaper item explores Nine’s curious properties in arithmetic. It notes that multiplying any number by nine yields a digit sum of nine, and that reversing digits and subtracting yields multiples of nine. It also mentions normal feats like the 9 times table and repeated digit sums ending in nine. The piece ends with a quip about feasting the nest with fox furs.
Feather image used to imply quiet bearings ad
Advertisements feature a feather paired with the word quiet to suggest silent operation of ball bearings. The image shows a couple of feathers and the trade name, illustrating Clever Advertising of the era.
Radio Equipped Airmail Planes Across Prairie Route
Canadian Airways plans full radio equipped airmail fleet this fall with three Boeings two Fokker F-14s two Laird and Fleetster ships joining. Beacons at Regina Maple Creek Sask Forest ready. Red Deer Lethbridge work ongoing under Capt. W L Laurie. Two new Boeing planes acquired at Vancouver plant.
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Roy Brown
Canadian Airways
Moose Jaw
Regina
Weather Bureau
Brown
Boeing
Canada
Vancouver
Maple Creek
Sask
Forest
Red Deer
Lethbridge
Alberta
W. L. Laurie
Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Canadian Airways, Limited
Glaciers and Their Duckling Descent Across Arctic Ice
The article describes glaciers dislodging from land and sailing over the Arctic Ocean with lines of smaller icebergs following. It notes moss and seeds growing on resting ice, and mentions the Eskimo term duck and ducklings for this phenomenon. It shifts to advertising Persian Balm, praising its complexion and skin benefits for women men and children.
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Arctic Ocean
Nations urged equal sacrifice as world salvation at St Andrew's
Sir William Clark, British High Commissioner in Canada, told St Andrew's College students that nations must share equal sacrifice to save the world. He warned that over 20 years the world faced disasters and a deep global depression, and feared nations had not learned their lesson.
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Sir William Clark
Canada
St. Andrew's College
Sir William
Secret Of Lipton's Success Revealed By Advertising Faith
Sir Thomas Lipton built Lipton Tea and his mercantile empire on consistent advertising. His death marks the loss of a firm believer in publicity as key to Lipton’s worldwide recognition. Fifteen London Boy Scouts recently took an air trip to Paris.
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Thomas Ballt
Thomas J. Lipton
Glasgow
Mercantile Corporation
Sir Thomas
Lipton
London
Paria
Rest in Duty and Harmony in The Work of Faith
A sermon-like reflection on meekness and rest for the soul. It contrasts the rest Christ offers with active duty, urging obedience and loving service. The text references Matthew 11 29 and cites Frederick William Robertson on inner harmony through effort and faith.
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Christ
Frederick William Robertson
Douglas Egyptian Liniment Promises Swift Relief
Report notes Douglas' Egyptian Liniment advertised as unmatched for muscular rheumatism lame back inflammation burns and felons. Major James Workman Belfast Ireland discovers sheep horns 45 inches long in Northern British Columbia. July gold production in South Africa reached 19 475 000 dollars. Bakelite houses proposed for Europe.
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Douglas
Major James Workman
Belfast
Ireland
British Columbia
South Africa
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