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...Cunard-White Star liner Majestic stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge. The Hamburg-American liner Resolute sideswiped a freighter, erasing the last six letters of her own name from the bow. Ellis Island's Immigration Station reported it was short of food...
...Coast Guard boat on ice patrol could take her from Greenland to the U. S. The State Department, knowing full well that the ice patrol ended in August, presented her request to the Treasury. No man to refuse his country's only woman Minister is Secretary Morgenthau. The Champlain, fastest patrol boat on the New Jersey coast, was ordered to take on an oceanographer, proceed to Greenland on a "scientific cruise," get back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister...
Aboard the S.S. Champlain on his first transatlantic trip, 11-year-old Prince Varanand of Siam enjoyed his first taste of spaghetti so much that he overate and was ill. Thereafter he continued to worry his fellow passengers by repeatedly stuffing spaghetti and losing it until he landed in Manhattan. Traveling on a diplomatic passport, he entrained for Washington, where he will go to school...
...force spent by its wild overland journey, the hurricane went whining away across Lake Champlain to disappear harmlessly in Canada. In its wake it left 52 dead, $15,000.000 damages...
...descendant of the refugees of 1783, and the Lieut.-Governor of the Province. Besides the third New Brunswick Medium Brigade, oldest artillery organization in the British Dominions, the New Brunswick Dragoons paraded in their new scarlet tunics followed by white-capped bluejackets from the Canadian destroyers Saguenay and Champlain...