The Hour-Glass Ranch Veiled in Family Feud
Gerald Keene meets banker Simon Burwell who reveals his late uncle Peter’s will splits Hour-glass Ranch with Joe Carr as partner. Keene and his friend Duro learn of cash trouble, looting rumors, and a feud with the Broken Spur next door. A nearness to trouble grows as Keene heads to Creyanse County to inspect the Hour-glass.
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Crevanee County
Keene
Simon Burwell
Drovers Bank
Cato
Gerald Keene
Peter
West
Joe Carr
Hour-glass
Fea
Lfe
Judge Frame
Burwell
Stone
Oial
Joel Carr
Carr
Dustin
Goddard
Aspirin Quick Relief and Safety Highlighted
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 helps even a bad headache neuritis or rheumatic pain in minutes. In the stomach as in the glass here an Aspirin tablet dissolves almost instantly. It begins taking hold of your pain as soon as you swallow it. Equally important Aspirin is safe. For scientific tests show this Aspirin does not harm the heart. Look for the name over the cross on every tablet.
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Canada
Flag and bill notes in early American markings
A fragment recalls a store billing dispute marked insufficient funds. It notes the United States flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes in official use from 1785 to 1818. A small companion star is described near the Big Dipper’s middle star.
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Minor
Vast Baltic White Sea Canal Carried Out Under Soviet Plan
The article praises engineer Serge Xyk for linking the Baltic and the White Sea by a canal, begun in December 1931 and completed in nineteen months. It notes convicts built the project, with promises of freedom, and outlines the massive scope including sixteen dams, twenty two basins, nineteen locks, and extensive blasting and tree removal.
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Peter the Great
Serge Xyk
Baltic
White Sea
Fiooda
Xyk
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Great Lakes
Onega
Ladoga
Furs By Airplane Highlight North Alberta Edmonton Cargo
A recent fur shipment worth 125000 dollars, 44 bales totaling 1340 pounds, flew by airplane from Northern Alberta to Edmonton. It is the largest fur cargo to reach the city by air, contrasting with the slow, weeks long journeys of pioneer days. The piece also notes indigenous traditions about sky descent and underworld ancestors.
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Canada
Alberta
Edmonton
Modern science shrinks space and time in everyday feats
A Jasper Alberta resident talks with the Empress of Britain via rapid wire and radio link. In Ottawa Premier Bennett dedicates a giant electric sign on the Grand Building in London, London England, then activates its illumination. The Winnipeg Free Press hails these feats as examples of science shrinking distance and time, adding zest to modern living.
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Jasper
Alberta
New York
London
Bennett
Ottawa
Canada House
England
Winnipeg Free Press
Bankers Passport With Engraved Portrait Patch
A Canadian passport uniquely lacks the holder’s photograph. Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, former Bank of Montreal director and manager, had an engraved portrait clipped from a $10 Bank of Montreal note attached to his passport application. The exact reasons remain unclear, but he kept the serial numbers to allow replacement with a new note.
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Bank of Montreal
Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor
Frederick
Financial Post
The Rhyming Optimist by Aline Michaelis
Aline Michaelis presents a hopeful verse on youth and promise. The speaker portrays life as a struggle yet insists optimism survives despite scorn and fading youth. It celebrates laughter love and the enduring spirit guiding brave hearts toward keepsake dreams.
Discovery of polio vaccine explained at public health meeting
Dr Maurice Brodie presented what appeared to be an effective infantile paralysis vaccine to 3000 delegates and lay members at the American Public Health Association. He described experiments with poliomyelitis vaccine showing apparent success on human volunteers including Dr William H Park Dr Josephine Meal and Brodie.
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American Public Health Association
Maurice Brodie
Ottawa
Ont
New York City Health Department
William H. Park
Josephine Meal
Brodie
Beekeepers Use Bees as Messengers in Germany
German beekeeper Herr Berhard Gubler explains bees can carry written messages on paper scraps attached to their backs. The bees reliably return to the hive, delivering the goods, and are considered less prone than pigeons to go astray.
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Berhard Gubler
Catherine di Medici Said First European Woman Tobacco User
Report notes Catherine de Medici is claimed as the first European woman to use tobacco, a controversial historical attribution with limited corroboration and disputed sources.
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Catherine di Medici
Whatevers Thou Care For This Week Prayer Guidance
Psalm verses frame a week of prayer and trust. A Reformed devotional urges readers to lay every concern before God, turning anxiety into prayer and relying on divine care rather than bearing burdens alone.
Romania Bans Beards Need Permit For Facial Hair
Government bans beards across Romania with a permit required. Couriers on horseback drum and bugle announce the rule in villages, provoking consternation among orthodox Jews. Also notes poisonous blue cohosh known as paPoose root and blue berry root. A quip remarks that a man with one meal a day can write poetry.
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Rumania
New Brunswick
Manitoba
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Doncal
Core
M. McFarlane
the Tenderfoot
George B. Rodney
Coronado
Chapter
Joe Car
Devine
Palisades
Joe
Frank Crewe
Hourgiasa
Mr. Burwell
Sam Dustin
Spike Goddard
Jim Girton
Creyanse County
Seco
Toe
Lazy M
Nebraska
Stock-raisers Association
Free Silver
Ben Lyon
Prac Hcin
Ben
Old Carr
Crewe
Lees
Run
Nowe
Fanaa
Sage Wescsnse Atty Dewarm Hose Lena
George J. McLeod, Ltd
Ming St W
Torcate
Carriea
Rhyming Optimist
Aline Michaelis
Wes
Liniment
R. Leighton
Malaeton
oaTaNo
Denicotea Ette Holder
Denicotea Cigarettes
Tobsces
Emoka
Bealeee Warr
Cghantler & Chaniler, Ltd
Toronto
Unr
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