Echo Bay Awakens As Women Enter All-Male Gold Camp
The Echo Bay mining camp swells with permanent residents while law and order arrive via a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment. Mrs J G Gerhart arrives as the first white woman July 27. many newcomers plan wintering with stocked outfits, delaying cabin construction to reach Conjurer Bay before open ground closes.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Fort Franklin
Echo Bay
Royal Mounted
Cameron Bay
J. Gerhart
Berwyn
Alberta
J.J. Byrne
Great Bear Lake
Hunter Bays
Byrne
Fort Resolution
Mackenzie
Bear
Lake
Conjurer Bay
Free Gold Found in Great Bear Lake Mineral Field
Free gold, first found in the Great Bear Lake mineral field, was reportedly picked up on the Oro Group staked in spring 1931 by Charles Sloan. The discovery adjoins the Eldorado and Sabine Point groups with work advancing to determine extent. gold grains are coarse about the size of wheat kernels in quartz.
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Oro
Charles Sloan
Cameron Bay
Great Bear Lake
Eldorado Group
Sabine Point
Brief remark on Eski tos in Arctic region
A clipped exchange notes there are about 40 000 Eski tos in the Arctic region. The speaker urges brevity in delivery while a second speaker agrees. The quotation appears to reflect a humorous Madrid sentiment.
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Arctic
Champion commuter of the nation adds world tour miles
Addison H. Day of Chatham New Jersey completes his sixty fourth year as a regular commuter to New York. The 81 year old official of Marine Midland Trust started his thirty ninth so called world tour daily rides. Lackawanna officials estimate Day has logged 956000 miles in sixty three years on the railroad to and from work.
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New Jersey
Addison H. Day
Chatham
New York
Marine Midland Trust Company
Broadway
Lackawanna Railroad
Day
Oddest Of Odd Jobs In Auto Factories
In auto plants a cornet player tunes a special horn by tooting a four note motif. An assistant with a musical ear tests pitch. if correct the horn moves to market. If not, it returns for further tuning.
Strike at price cutting eyed by Canadian druggists
Dr. R B Stanbury secretary of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association spoke in Toronto after sessions of the Canadian Association and the Ontario Retail Druggists Association. They discussed possible legal methods to fix prices on marked goods and amendments to the Combines Act to allow distributors to charge reasonable prices.
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R. B. Stanbury
Canadian Pharmaceutical Association
Toronto
Canadian Association
Ontario Retail Druggists Association
Two experts fail to fish before girl hooks prize catch
Two experts in costly outfits fish all morning without a bite. A young girl casts and pulls a two pounder from the water, prompting a passerby to ask the species. The girl explains the men call it a damlimit, a jokey local name for the fish.
Professor warns sharply drawn line on pilot safety tests
A university professor, after conducting flight tests to study safety, concludes that the distinction between careful and reckless flying by airplane pilots must be clearly defined.
The Oath Of Allegiance stirred Irish political debate
Ireland faced controversy over the oath of allegiance sparking opposition from figures like Sir David Salomons and Baron Lionel de Rothschild. The dispute traced back to 1858 removals of religious wording and later included Charles Bradlaugh’s refusal to swear.
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Ireland
Great Britain
David Salomons
Baron Lionel de Rothschild
Charles Bradlaugh
House of Commons
Advertising Pays Actress After Pearls Returned
A young actress lost a string of pearls and advertised the loss in a weekly journal. When asked if she recovered the pearls she exclaimed that the ones returned were the real thing and remarked on advertising. Australia supplies 65.3 percent of China's wheat imports, the United States 18 percent, and Canada 14.5 percent.
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Australia
China
United States
Canada
Canada imposes strict inspection on all future canned salmon
An Ottawa order in council requires all imported canned salmon to pass a rigid inspection similar to British Columbia packed salmon. All shipments for sale in Canada must enter through a British Columbia port and be inspected by the permanent BC board of inspection before release.
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Canada
British Columbia
Ottawa
Pacific
Permanent Board of Inspection
Inchcape bequeaths 400 officers with gifts totaling over 40000
Legacies totaling more than £40 000 were bequeathed by Lord Inchcape to about 600 officers of the Peninsular and Oriental and British India Steam Navigation Lines in London. The will says the gifts are a slight acknowledgment of their loyalty. Two hundred and two captains receive £100 each, and 200 chief officers and 200 chief engineers receive £50 each.
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Lord Inchcape
London
England
Fatherly Advice Sparks Railway Ticket Gambit
Black jokes about confessing love with limited funds prompting White to recall a fatherly tip about investing in a one-way railway ticket with no stopovers, implying a drastic commitment rather than a gift.
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Black
White
Priceless Peacock Throne of India Seen in Tehran
In a visit described by Penelope Beadnell, the famed Peacock Throne of India valued at $35,000,000, created in the thirteenth century for the Great Moghuls, was viewed in the Shah’s Treasure Room in Tehran. The visit details the palace gates, courtyards, mosaic rooms, and the throne set in gold with emeralds and diamonds, along with a white marble successor throne.
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India
Penelope Beadnell
Illustrated Weekly of India
Delhi
Teheran
Nadir Shah
Persia
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Buen Humor
Madrid
Tnique
Fountains Abbey
Yorkshire
Duchess of York
Karikaturen
Oslo
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