Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indians of the Taholah Reservation (Washington) finished an 80-foot totem pole, handsomely embellished with birds, reptiles and animals, carved and painted in barbaric colors. It is to be shipped to Washington via the Panama Canal, as a tribute to the administration of President Coolidge, will be erected on the White House grounds. It is done in gratitude for recent payments to Northwestern Indians for forest lands...
...left New York on Jan. 18. Her engines broke down at Philadelphia. On the way to Norfolk, the crew set fire to the forecastle trying to keep themselves warm. At Havana, the vessel was held for debts. At Kingston (Jamaica), a new firebox had to be installed. At Colon (Canal Zone), the Secretary General of the Association quarreled with the captain and fired him. There also the chief engineer obtained a lien on the vessel for unpaid wages. Also, the chief steward was arrested for shooting a woman there in 1914. On the return journey, the boat collided with...
...whence he entered a special railway car . . . and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine...
Interesting, if true. There is no bridge across the Canal, but only a ferry. The special train waited for him on the east bank of the Canal...
With regard to the Earl of Balfour, a despatch from Cairo stated that Balfour's train was ferried across the Suez. It is well known that there are no bridges across the Canal...