Red Auto and Missing Rope Bring Sue and Bob Home
In a private road near The Maples, a sleeping young man in a bent red automobile confronts Sue Varian. He and Bob Morrison clash over trespassing and past memories as Wilson coordinates aid while Sue and Bob reconnect at Greyrocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tue Varian
Sue
Shore Road
Lahore Road
Red Auto
Arian
Hartley Varian
Ignind
Miss Varian
Wilson
Glengore
Wattan
Varian
Gem
Suzanne
Susie
Susie Freshie
Varian Bliaked
Bob
Glenmore
Bob Morrison
Greyrocks
Europe
Bue
Suzanne Susie Sue
Real City of the Sea Dead City Tour Anecdote
A fragment depicts a city of graves where each tomb has a house reflecting the deceased’s joys such as furniture and personal items. A traveler from Central Columbia is noted in the text, though the passage cuts off before full details emerge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Lukens
Central Columbia
Ontario firms face new companies act tightening audits
Hon. Mr. Hanna to introduce a sweeping Ontario companies act reform. It centralizes incorporation under the Provincial Secretary, requires annual audits of all companies, tightens public utility franchises oversight, limits perpetual municipal bargains, and strengthens director liability for prospectus statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna
Thomas Mulvey
K.C
The
Globe
Ontario Companies
Provincial Secretary's Department
Provident and Benevolent Societies
Clerk of the Peace
Otter and Cheese
Registrar of Deeds
Provincial Secretary
Railway and Municipal Board
Statute Revision Commission
Ontario
Europe
Mr. Hoyle
High Court
Boers Candle Exit Custom Baffles Washington Visitor
Harper's Weekly recounts Mrs. Early’s adaptation of a Transvaal bore tradition in her Washington home. Candles replace electric lighting and a pin in the candle signals guests to depart, a prank she explains as a joke from South Africa about sending home the Boers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Early
Washington
Transvaal
Staylate
Ealler
Harper’s Weekly
Blade of Grass Meaning and Life’s Subtle Significance
A reflection on a single blade of grass as a symbol of life and responsibility. The writer contrasts earthly life with stars, noting roots reach to life’s origin while its tip aims at the sky. Water the blade in a rocky place to nurture the thoughts it stirs.
Brave Ontario woman saved crew of wrecked Coloma at Vancouver Island
Minnie Patterson of Cape Beale Ontario born 29 years ago and wife of the lighthouse keeper braved a five mile boggy and storm swept trek to Bamfield cable station to warn the Qua dra. The steamer arrived in time to rescue ten men after they clung to the wreck for 20 hours. Patterson had remained at her telegraph post for a day and night aiding boats from Victoria and assisting survivors. Captain Allison called her deeds noble and essential to preventing a greater tragedy.
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Ontario
Minnie Patterson
Cape Beale
B.C
Pacific
Valencia
Patterson
Bamfield
Dominion
Quadra
Coloma
Allison
British Columbia
Ontaro
Mrs. Patterson
Brighton
Ont
Thomas Patterson
Huff
Victoria
Vancouver Island
Canadian Trapper Life In The Far North Frontier
Edmonton correspondence recalls John Macdougall and L C Ward in the Hudson Bay Company and independent sale with Indians and half breeds. Trappers roam moose elk muskox and Arctic fox in a hunter’s paradise where travel relies on dogs snowshoes canoes and no horses. Earnings run 500 to 1000 a season with summer splurges, minimal contact beyond a mail carrier.
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John Macdougall
Canadian Northwest
L. C
Ward
Mr. Macdougall
Hudson Bay Co
North
Mr. Ward
Purdy
Edmonton
Pittsburg Gazette-Times
Antiquated Inventions Echo Modern Tech In Old Articles
Alfred Lang notes in Engineering Magazine how a tin foil phonograph preceded Edison devices, using a brass cylinder and weight actuation. He recalls Paris Academy reports from early 1700s describing a typewriter with ivory keys built by M. Leroy of Versailles, horlogeur du Roy to Louis XIV.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Journal Des Savans
Academy of Sciences of Paris
M. Leroy
Versailles
Horlogeur du Roy
Louis XIV
Alfred Lang
Engineering Magazine
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Koby Douglas
Real City of the Sea
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