Quintuplet visit sparks road trip saga at Dionne hospital
Percy Hamilton and a group of relatives travel from Lake McGreggor to Callender Ontario to glimpse the Dionne quints at Dr Dafoe’s hospital. The party, traveling in a jitney, discuss the trip and the quints’ remarkable survival as Canada’s rare quintuplets.
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Ercy Hamilton
Gatinéau
Callender
Ontario
Dionne Quints
Percy
Doctor Dafoe
Arin
Mr. Hamilton
Quints
Jack
Hamilton’s Landing
Lake McGreggor
Grand Lake
Quebec
R’arin
Hamilton
Lake MacGreggor
Grand
Powe
Crossing the Marsh Bridge: A Narrow Escape
George Kerr drives a six ton load across a fragile marsh bridge to Salem. The bridge sinks under him as warnings about a six thousand pound limit are ignored. With faith in luck and duty to his family, he crawls to safety and survives the peril.
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Evelyn Kerr
Somerville
George R. Kerr
Evelyn
Dad
George Kerr
Medford
George
Salem
Lynn
Sir Walter Raleigh suit and Marine Corps notes
The piece describes Raleigh's attire with a white satin vest and embroidered brown doublet, a ruby and pearl hat sprig, white breeches and stockings, and gem covered shoes. It also notes the U S Marine Corps command structure, headquarters in Washington, recruit depots at Parris Island and San Diego, and training locations by region.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Secretary of the Navy
Corps
Navy
Washington, D. C
Parris Island
D. C
San Diego
Calif
Rocky ‘Mountains
Parris At
Atlantic Coast
Anaual Gree
Star Dust Notes on Edward VIII Ab abdication Fame
Newspaper column surveys impact of Edward VIII abdication on radio and film. Highlights Janet Gaynor free-lance move and film projects for Bing Crosby, Simone Simon, James Stewart, Loretta Young. Mentions Tyrone Power, Tyrone Power's father, and Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Broadway plans and Shirley Temple family quirks.
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Edward VIII
England
Seventh Heaven
Simone Simon
Janet Gaynor
James Stewart
Charlie Farrell
Henry King
Lloyds of London
Tyrone Power
Twentieth- Century Fox
Loretta Young
Joan Crawford
Franchot Tone
Joan
Hollywood
Zeisberger’s 63 Years Among Indians Shaping Moravian Missions
David Zeisberger spanned 63 years of missionary work among Native Americans, founding 13 towns including Schoenbrunn and Gnadenhutten. Born 1721 in Moravia, he moved through Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio, earning the role of sachem with the Six Nations before enduring the Gnadenhutten massacre. He led missions to Wayalusing, Schoenbrunn, Gnadenhutten, Fairfield, and finally Goshen, ending his life in 1808 after a long, faithful struggle.
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America
David Zeisberger
Zeisberger
Moravia
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Count Zinzendorf
Nazareth
Bethlehem
Shamokin
New York
Six Nations
Wayalusing
Allegheny
Beaver
Ohio
Schoenbrunn
Buckeye
Gnadenhutten
Michigan
Canada
Fairfield
Thames River
Tuscarawas River
Goshen
Real Estate Promoter Barlow and the Gallipolis Venture
Joel Barlow a lawyer diplomat and poet used a French emigration scheme to sell 3 000 000 acres in the Northwest Territory to a Scioto company and bring French settlers to Gallipolis in 1790. William Duer seized lands to settle debts and founded the town opposite the Mouth of the Great Kanawha.
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Republic
Joel Barlow
Garden of Eden
Ohio
Ohio Associates
Scioto Associates
Congress
Northwest Territory
Barlow
France
Scioto Company
America
Alexandria
William Duer
Duer
Ohio River
Great Kanawha
Gallipolis
Rufus Putnam Oethers
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Floyd Gibbons
WNU
Selznick
Bing Crosby
Ace
Shirley Temple
Anking
Shirley
William Powell
Mrs. Kower
Dana Tis
Jack Roney
Kenny
Watts
Phillips
Magnesia
Oley
Foley
U. S
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
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