Reminiscence of a Panama Canal Voyage 1939
Mrs. C W Haweins recalls a 1939 voyage from Alameda to Panama via Oakland and Los Angeles. She describes tropical scenery, flying fish and whales, vivid night skies, and the Panama Canal passage through Miraflores and Gatun Locks, noting crew, pilots, and rope-work by colored stevedores.
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Alameda
Oakland
Golden Gate
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Long Beach
California
Lord and Taylors
London
Victoria
Panama
Cape San Lucas
Gulf of California
Tropics
Canada
Carlyle
Arcturus
Orion
Sirius
Pleiadus
Shinar
Miraflores Locks
iMiraflores Lake
Kia
Pedro Miguel Locke
Guillard
Guillard Cut
Jhilla
Isthmus
Gatun Lake
Chagras
Gatun
Gatun Locka
Atlantic Ocean
Colon
Gems for Your Scrapbook Education Quotations Collage
A collection of quoted lines on education from Spencer Eddy Jefferson Broug ham and Tryon Edwards. The excerpt highlights education as character formation, self-driven understanding, enlightenment of people, and the move from mere knowledge to practical wisdom.
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Herbert Spencer
Tryon Edwards
The Ginter Wood Pairy Joke
A playful verse describes a young woman named Ginter who marries a man named Wood in winter. The couple then humorously becomes “the Woods” with a cute little splinter as a pun on their shared surname.
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Ginter
Wood
Roosevelt Quote Praises Religious Revival Spirit
A World War II era excerpt cites Franklin D Roosevelt urging a spiritual revival to unite the nation. The text contrasts Hitler’s regime with faith powered renewal and calls for reawakening belief and dedication to God’s will.
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President Roosevelt
Tallest Man in World Robert Wadlow Dies in Michigan
Confederation Life reports the death of Robert Wadlow age 22 in Manistee Michigan on a Monday from a foot infection. He stood about eight feet tall and weighed around 1491 pounds with all clothing and accessories custom made including pocket handkerchiefs and neckties and shoes sized 39.
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Robert Wadlow
Manistee
Michigan
Accidents at Sea Prompt Dramatic Wording
An officer suffers severe cuts while opening a bottle of wine aboard ship. The incident prompts the question of a safer phrasing and a calmer headline.
Public Notice on Firearms and Explosives Reporting
Under the Defence Regulations dated July 16 1940 the Commissioner for Defence requires any person possessing firearms ammunition or explosives within named areas to report to the designated authority by September 30 1940. Reports must be written with firearm or ammunition details owner location and use. in St Johns reports go to the Chief of Police.
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Defence
Commissioner For Defence
A.D
St. John’s
St. John's
Defence Firearms Regulation Areas Defined for Newfoundland
The notice by the Commissioner for Defence under Regulation 1 of the Defence Regulations dated July 16 1940 sets the St Anthony Area to include all land north of a line from Flower's Cove to Conche. The La Scie Area covers the White Bay District and coast between Cape St John and Shoe Cove, excluding St Anthony Area. The Bonne Bay Area comprises part of the St Barbe District excluding the portion included in St Anthony Area.
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St. Anthony
Island of
Newfoundland
Flower's Cove
Conche
la Scie
White Bay
Cape St. John
Shoe Cove
Bonne Bay
Island of Newfoundland
St. Barbe
St. Gorge’s
St. George's
St. George's Port Au Port
Cape Ray
Margaree
Burgeo
Burgeo and LaPoile
Harbour Breton
Fortune Bay
Hermitage
Boundary Descriptions for Newfoundland District Areas Vague and Incomplete
The text defines several Newfoundland areas and districts including Corner Brook Area St Georges Port au Port Harbour Breton Grand Bank Marystown and Piacentia Areas. It lists geographic boundaries by districts and coastal settlements but contains incomplete phrases and truncations, indicating an OCR fragment of a legal or administrative boundary description.
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Panama Canal
Scotland
C. W. Haweins
Kilsyth
Hawthorne
Dryden
God
Glasgow
Dodds
Acapulco
Cape Corientes
Gulf of Tuantupic
Panama Territory
Cape Malle
Canal
Balboa
Panama City
Sears
Gharald S. Doyle Ltd
Horace
Mary Baker Eddy
Thomas Jefferson
Lord Brougham
Toronto
Hitler
Confederation Life
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Pure Society One
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
Nan
House of Assembly
L. E. Emerson
Qerald & Doyle Ltd
Distant
Corner Brook
District of
Humber
Grand Bank
Grand Bank Area
Burin
Marystown
Placentia
Terrenceville Exclusives
Clattice Harbour
Isle of Valen
Merasheen Island
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