Sailor’s Desert Run to Chien-se-Fu Sparks Navy Clash
Seaman-Gunner Bloggs absconds from H M S Superabundant after a night of excess. He faces desertion charges if he fails to report within seven days. He heads overland toward Chien-se-Fu with no ship in sight and a string of misadventures across the Chinese coast.
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Nancy
Mr. Moffat
Bloggs
H.M.S
Chien-se-Fu
Chien
Wilson Moffat
Royal Navy
Moffat
Peabody
Navy
Blogg
Moffat Snubs Broggs Over A W O L Promise
Mr. Moffat jeered as Broggs faced the prospect Nancy Gay might reject him. Broggs confessed breaking his pledge to abstain from liquor and games of chance after his last shore leave.
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Nancy Gay
Broggs
Mrs. Corby-Booge
Aki
Nancy
A.W.O.L
Shore
Night raid as truck bound for war loads dynamite
A rifleman beside a moonlit road watches a truck carrying dynamite bound for a new War Lord. Briggs, obsessed with Nancy Gay, imagines promotion while bullets hiss and the driver collapses from shock as danger halts the convoy.
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Briggs
Nancy Gay
Nancy
Broggs
Reed
Ammuni
Fragmentary Scene of Quiet Amid City Rush
The passage describes a moment when a character uses a short time wisely and humanity's rush becomes noisy before giving way to a startled, dim peace as figures fade away. The text ends with a note that the scene continues.
Infant Survives Pin Removal After Stomach Operation
Surgeons at Corner Brook General Hospital removed an open safety pin from a three week old infant after it was swallowed during dressing. Doctors Cochrane and Webster performed the timely operation at 5 pm with the child recovering and sent home on June 16 after a critical period. The incident occurred when Mrs Budgell dropped the pin while dressing the baby on June 5.
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Corner Brook General Hospital
Humber Herald
West Corner Brook
Takeno Hospital
Cochrane
Webster
Humber Herald Credits Doctors and Nurses for Child Care
In recounting the incident the Humber Herald correspondent credits the doctors for their skill and the nurses for the care and attendance given to the child while in hospital.
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Wating
Humber
Turn of the Corner Rubber Men and a Post Office
Two men named Wood and Stone gaze as a pretty girl passes. They both turn to rubber while the girl becomes a post office, a whimsical scene recounted in this week's Dunnville Chronicle.
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Dunnville
Wood
Stone
Thanks to Memorial Hospital staff at Tizzard's Harbour
Helena Boyd writes from Tizzard's Harbour July 10 1937 to the Twillingate Sun to thank Dr Olds and the Memorial Hospital staff for their care during her stay. She praises the doctors and nurses for alleviating suffering and wishes ongoing success to the hospital.
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Tizzard’s Harbour
Twillingate
Helena Boyd
Accident witness describes clothing details
A sergeant questions a Miss about the time of an accident. She says she wore a black beret, tan shoes and a tweed sports dress.
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