Prospectors push north as gold and radium strike grows
Ernie Firth returns from Gordon Lake as Consol Mining and Smelting expands into the Arctic frontier. Eldorado radium and uranium mines near the Arctic Circle loom large while Goldfields builds a year round town of about 900. Smelters run 300 workers opening new prospects north of Goldfields and Eldorado.
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Ernie Firth
Wrights
Hargreaves
Oakes
Hammells
Prince Albert
Ernie
Northwest Territories
Gordon Lake
Goldfields
Yellowknife
Smelters
Canada
Eldorado
Arctic Circle
Firth
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Consolidated Mining
Athena Mines Limited
Holiday Train Terminal Music Lifts Spirits With Carols
Chicago passenger terminal staff pivot to festive tunes to soothe travelers during the holiday rush. The organist is urged to try seasonals and topical songs like Shufflin Off to Buffalo I Want to Go Tomorrow and Casey Jones to entertain passengers and ease delays.
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Chicago
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Morrow
Casey Jones
Delaware Lackawan
Sleepytown
Cotton Belt
Chillun
Christian Science Monitor
No universal sound without listener perception
There exist sound waves capable of producing sensation in the auditory nerves, but sound has no objective existence outside a listener's ear. The experience depends on physiological reception rather than an independent external sound.
Mount Lassen the Only U.S. Volcano to Erupt This Century
Mount Lassen in California stands as the sole U.S. volcano to have erupted in the present century. The article notes its unique activity among American volcanoes.
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Mount Lassen
California
United States
Loretto Shrine Faces Change Amid Rosary Trade Decline
The small Italian village of Loretto, once a famed pilgrimage site since the 14th century, now relies on handmade rosaries and religious images as Lourdes eclipses its crowd. Local women and children produce rosaries at low prices, some costing up to 100 dollars, while new factories expand.
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Loretto
Europe
Our Lady of Loretto
Lourdes
IJC Forecast Deliberates Montre al New York Waterway Plan
The international joint commission forecast under current conditions against a deep waterway from Montreal to New York via Lake Champlain. It filed its report with the United States and Canada and urges further study if the St Lawrence Seaway project proceeds.
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International Joint Commission
Montreal
New York
Lake Champlain
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
Tide Recedes Revealing Ocean Floor at Mont Saint Michel
A hundred square miles of sea bed is exposed as the tide withdraws near Mont Saint Michel in France. Observers note the return of high water arrives swiftly and with notable force.
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Mont Saint Michel
France
Drake's Drum at Buckland Abbey Fire Destroys Relics
The Buckland Abbey fire consumes timbered buildings and priceless Drake era relics. Sir Francis Drake's former home loses paintings and china as occupants flee the collapsing roof. A drum linked to the 1588 Spanish Armada warning and a later Royal Oak episode is copied and housed at the Royal Naval barracks chapel.
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England
Buckland Abbey
Francis Drake
China
Drake
Royal Oak
Scapa Flow
Devonshire
Royal Naval Barracks
Will of Atlantic City Historian Heston Filed for Probate
The will of 84 year old Alfred M. Heston died in November and filed for probate names no executor. It states all that is mine goes to Jessie an unmarried daughter who runs a small Ossining NY store. Estate valued at 800 dollars.
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Canadas
Atlantic
Atlantic Biological Station
St. Andrews
N.B
Atlantic Fisheries Experimental Station
Halifax
H. B. Hachey
Gulf of Mexico
Straits of Florida
Little Prahama Bank
Philadelphia
Azores
African
Arctic
Nova Scotia
Alfred M. Heston
Atlantic City
South Jersey
Jessie
Ossining
N.Y
Kipling Hymn Recessional Almost Never Published
St Thomas Times Journal notes Kipling wrote the World War era hymn After later titled Recessional or Lest We Forget. Kipling hid it in a drawer after initial drafts. Mrs Sara Norton found it, The Times published it as a hymn for church processions.
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British Empire
Kiplings
Lomt Bald Wuh Ousin
British Museum
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Charles Eliot
Sara Norton
The
Times
Sally
the Times
Edward Elgar
St. Thomas
New Year resolutions: psychologists weigh its value
Dr. McMurray and Dr. Crane offer opposing views on resolutions. McMurray says resolutions often mask conscience guilt and are rarely kept, while Crane argues that making resolutions is a prudent first step toward progress.
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Robert N. McMurray
Chicago
The
Psychological Corporation
MacMurray
George W. Crane
Northwestern University
Vienna Mint Produces Coinage for Four Nations
The Vienna mint is coining money for China, Bulgaria, Bolivia and Paraguay. The facility expands its export of currency production to four countries, reflecting growing demand for minted coins.
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Vienna
China
Bulgaria
Bolivia
Paraguay
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Northwest
London
Joint Commission
Military College of Science
Woolwich
War Ministry
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