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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1938
Page
7
Ernest Bingley contemplates a Bristol trip to raid banks and borrow a high powered gun while planning a costly heist. In the meantime Crump and the earl navigate domestic tensions as guests linger, with a comic detour into a costume shop for a ghostly disguise.
Zoologists announce arrival of okapis at the Chicago zoo after lengthy negotiations. The elusive African mammals, described as giraffe heads with zebra legs and goat-like habits, were captured in the Ituri forest and are said to be the only pair in captivity.
The Pride of Westminster becomes London’s first water taxi to operate a summer service on the River Thames from Westminster to Southend. If successful it could revive the river as a busy passenger highway and mark a new era of river transport in the city. Miss Neill James returns from Arctic Lapland after a winter among the Lapps step by step describes gear, travel, reindeer cuisine, and the rugged life on skis and pulka.
Traffic on the Chief Mountain International Highway rose sharply in 1937 with 27 692 passers through the customs area at Waterton Alberta Glacier Montana. The gain of 17 135 represents 160 percent year over year from 1936. The 30 mile road links Alberta and Montana across the Rocky Mountain region opened in 1936.
On returning to Europe a Dutch professor described eight months traveling in dug-out canoes along the Marowijne River in Dutch Guiana. He spent this period among tribes who had never seen a white man before, detailing their customs.
The London Sunday Referee reports a secretly printed autobiography by Dowager Queen Mary is stored in a locked vault at the British Museum. The manuscript allegedly survives in restricted access, prompting questions about its authorship and historic revelations.
Loren Carrol in Esquire argues real listening is active, not passive. Observe tone, eye contact, sentence structure, word choice, and sincerity to gain a new experience for both speaker and listener.
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