Plane Escape in Arctic Mine Chase Ends in Flight
Garth overpowers Huxley with Lilith’s aid and arrests the murderer. He orders the others to abandon the site, then prepares a snowbound plane. The crew uses bear fat to grease the floats as they lift off from the ice and head south toward safety.
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Lilith
Garth
Huxley
Sue
Dillon
Squaw Lilith Accepts Marriage With Alan Garth
Alan Garth persuades Lilith Ramill to marry him after a cross country flight to Edmonton and Fort Resolution. She begs to return to the valley life, but he insists on civilization, an imminent trial, and a honeymoon plan from Japan, with Lilith embracing the prospect as she learns of his prominence.
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Garth
Huxley
Huxbdy
Laney
Dillon
Miss Ramill
Lilith
Alan
Mackenzie
Great Bend
Liard
Fort Simpson
Great Slave Lake
Fort Resolution
Airways
Slave River
Edmonton
Civilization
Orient
Mr. Garth
Hudson’s Bay Company
Royal Geographical Society
Squaw
Credit for Invention of Friction Matches Is Given to an Apothecary
An article notes early fire making and credits John Walker, an English apothecary, with inventing friction matches in 1827. It discusses the evolution from tinder boxes to lucifer matches, dangers of white phosphorus and chlorate of potash, and the failed safety-match attempts aside from one Erie factory.
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Frank A. Prometheus
Seneca
John Walker
Walker
United States
Erie
Spaniards Referred to Large Forts as Castles
Historical note explains that early explorers labeled big fortifications as castles while the term fort was used for smaller strongholds. The distinction reflects naming practices by Spanish colonizers.
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Robert Ames Bennet
Joe Saas
Doans
Long Teland City