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...ceases to appear fantastic. The narrator, a U. S. newspaperman in Paris, gets into talk with another ex-U. S. soldier in a café, and hears a strange yarn about a signalling detachment of 40 women who managed to get up to the front. Their commander, Lieutenant Alberta Snyder, had drilled them into a fine body of women. During the drive against the Hindenburg Line they did yeoman service at the field telephones; an infuriated but harassed commanding officer allowed them to stay. Some of them were killed; their lieutenant was captured by the Germans...
...From Edmonton, Alberta, the Alberta Government's Traveling Clinic, only one of its kind, was preparing to travel north to isolated hamlets. Two doctors, two dentists, four nurses will be in the party. Medical facilities are so scant in rural Canada that patients bring their own beds to the clinic. Last year the clinic staff performed 1,408 tonsil and adenoids operations, extracted 2,775 teeth...
...case before the court was that of Mrs. Alberta O'Brien, of Cambridge, against Hyman Corman as next friend of Murray Corman 1L. The claim arises out of a contract alleged to have been made by Murray, a minor, with the plaintiff for lease of store premises. At the hearing a week ago, defendant, by his counsel the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, moved to reopen a default judgment which had gone for plaintiff when the representative of the Bureau failed to file an answer for his client by reason of misinformation as to the rules of District Courts. Plaintiff...
...during June and July of last year. To the customary work of the field geologists was added the zest of mountain climbing and the photographing of wild animals, as the region selected for the annual trip of the Department of Geology was in Jasper and Robson National Parks in Alberta and British Columbia. This portion of the Canadian Rocky mountains has recently been made fairly accessible from the main line of the Canadian National Railway system by the construction of new roads and trails. These have opened to the geologist a practically virgin territory in which there is abundant opportunity...
...Banff Festival the old contests are revived. There were 14,000 people (most of them in kilts) watching the outdoor piping and dancing contests. Among them were kilted Lieutenant-Governor Robert Randolph Bruce of British Columbia and William Egbert of Alberta, and the Rev. Charles William Gordon (Ralph Connor), Canadian Novelist author of The Sky Pilot, To Him that Hath, who conducted an open air religious service at Lake Devil's Cauldron. Some of last week's events were...