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...picnicking with my wife and 16-year-old son on Chatham Island. I observed a heavy wash coming down the Gulf [of Georgia] from the north. I thought at first it was just a tide rip. Then I was amazed to see huge coils come out of the top of the water like a snake. . . . The total length of these coils must have been at least 80 ft. and they were five feet thick, I should think. They came twisting out of the water so high that I could see light under them...
...William Kondrat, 18, who hitchhiked from Chatham, N. J. to see Niagara Falls: a fight against the rapids in the lower Niagara River, through which no one else ever swam though several able swimmers have been drowned trying. Carried away by the current as he was foolishly trying to swim across the river to the Canadian shore, he emerged safely after being boiled and tossed the whole length of the rapids and the whirlpool below...
...trigger of a machine gun. B-B-R-R-R-AM ! A dozen bullets whizzed post King Carol's nose. In Rochester. Minn, four surgeons from famed Mayo clinic boarded a chartered plane shortly before 8 p. m., flew 500 miles to Detroit, motored 51 more miles to Chatham, Ont. behind a police escort, arrived at 1 a. m. Then they performed an emergency abdominal operation on Mrs. Fred M. Zeder, wife of Chrysler Corp.'s famed chief engineer. In a stateroom of the Santa Fe Chief, Mrs. John J. Mitchell, onetime Lolita Armour, whose cure from...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...
Last week the story of Dr. Dewing's resignation broke through the screen of rumor. He had withdrawn gold before the bank holiday, not for his personal account, but as president of Chatham Water Co., to protect a construction contract which the company had undertaken. He redeposited the gold immediately after the bank holiday ended. Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School criticized his act as having made the School subject to possible public criticism, objected to his criticisms of Administration policies. Hence Dr. Dewing's resignation. Since Dr. Dewing was guilty of no lawless hoarding, some...