Hour-glass ranch feud drags Keene into Crevasse County
Gerald Keene learns his inheritance splits the Hour-glass Ranch with Joe Carr. Burwell hints at looting by Dustin and Goddard’s Broken Spur while Carr’s drinking deepens losses. Keene and ally Stone seek facts, aided by Ben Lyon’s history of Carr’s past and a looming showdown.
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Joe Car
Palisades
Keene
Joe
Frank Crewe
Gerald Keene
Simon Burwell
Burwell
Sam Dustin
Spike Goddard
Joe Carr
Jim Girton
Crevasse County
Seco
Carr
Dustin
Goddard
Old Joe
Judge Frame
Stone
Aspirin Helps Fast Pain Relief Says Doctor Prescriptions
Remember the pictures below when you want fast relief from pain mind and get the method doc tors prescribe Aspirin. Millions have found that Aspirin eases headache neuritis or rheumatic pain in minutes. In the stomach the tablet dissolves almost instantly when moisture is touched. Aspirin is safe as tests show it does not harm the heart. Look for Bayer cross on each tablet. Make sure you get Aspirin made in Canada at any druggist.
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Canada
Bayer
Peter the Great Canal: Soviet Effort to Link Baltic and White Seas
Serge Xyk led a Soviet project begun in December 1931 to build a vast canal connecting the Baltic with the White Sea. Convicts numbered about ten thousand were reformed into workers with promises of freedom if they served loyally. The work, finished in nineteen months, involved sixteen dams along the Onega White Sea route, many rock-digging locks, and massive removal of rock and trees.
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Peter the Great
Serge Xyk
Baltic
White Sea
Xyk
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Great Lakes
Onega
Ladoga
Furs by Airplane Transform Northern Alberta Trade
A flight from Northern Alberta to Edmonton carried forty four bales of furs weighing 1340 pounds valued at 125000 dollars. It marked the largest and most valuable fur cargo moved by air in the region, a stark contrast to pioneer days when deliveries took weeks.
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Canada
Alberta
Edmonton
Sky descent and underworld birth myths of Indian tribes
The text notes that eastern and northeastern Indian tribes trace human origins to descent from the sky while southern and southwestern mountain and plateau tribes believe ancestors rose from the underworld, reflecting regional creation traditions.
Modern Marvels From The High Seas To London Lights
A Jasper Alberta man chats with a Briton aboard the SS Frapreas via global telecommunication linking New York London and radio in three minutes. In Ottawa Premier Bennett dedicates a grand electric sign at Canada House in London with illuminated lettering and a lever activation. Both scenes illustrate science shrinking space and time and intensifying modern life.
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Jasper
Alberta
Britain
New York
London
Bennett
Ottawa
Canada House
England
Winnipeg Free Press
Banker's Passport Carries Engraved Bill Portrait
Canadian banker Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor secured a passport without a photograph by attaching an engraving clipped from a Bank of Montreal bill. The specific circumstances remain unclear though he preserved the bill’s serial numbers to enable replacement with a new note.
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Bank of Montreal
Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor
Frederick
Financial Post
The Rhyming Optimist
A verse contemplating youth and hope with lines about life, memory, and enduring cheer. It reflects on promises, laughter, love, and the persistence of brave hearts beyond youth.
Vaccine Discovery Outlined At Public Health Convention
Dr Maurice Brodie presented apparent success of an infantile paralysis poliomyelitis vaccine to 3000 delegates. He described experiments on humans including Dr William H Park and Dr Josephine Meal as part of New York City health department research.
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American Public Health Association
Maurice Brodie
Ottawa
Ont
New York City Health Department
William H. Park
Josephine Meal
Brodie
Bees as Messengers Across the Nation
German beekeeper Herr Berhard Guhler uses bees as message couriers. He writes notes on scraps and ties them to bees, which return to the hive with the message. He claims bees are less likely than carrier pigeons to lose or misplace the papers.
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Berhard Guhler
Catherine de Medici and early European tobacco use
The historical claim notes Catherine di Medici as possibly the first European woman to use tobacco. The statement reflects a traditional attribution discussed among historians and in period sources. The accuracy varies with sources and context.
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Catherine di Medici
Little Helps For This Week Prayer and Trust in God
A devotional note urges bringing all cares to God through prayer. It emphasizes telling God burdened thoughts, seeking refuge in Him, and rolling burdens onto Him to gain peace. The piece quotes Psalms and Leighton to encourage quiet diligence and reliance on divine carrying.
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Leighton
Romania imposes beard permit and draws controversy
Government bans beards in Romania requiring permits and dispatches couriers on horseback to villages to announce the rule. Orthodox Jews protest as Mosaic law forbids beard cutting. Also notes blue cohosh names and cautions about its bitterness and rare eating.
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Rumania
Publc
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Barperry
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