Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...illustrated lecture on "Labrador Life," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, not at 7.30 o'clock as was previously announced. The stereopticon views illustrating the lecture will show the animal life, fjords, and mountains of Labrador, and scenes of winter travel by dog-team...
...Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Grenfell has been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador for over 14 years. In the summer he has cruised the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona," in winter making long tours with his dog-teams. He has recently been made a companion of St. Michael and St. George by the King of England for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell gave this lecture in the Union two years ago, and showed himself peculiarly well-fitted to treat his subject from a point of interest...
...Grenfell has made the welfare of Labrador and its inhabitants a life work. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship and his dog-teams, he covers great distances in his tours among the sparse and needy population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...
...program includes the following acts: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; the Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly"; Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet"; Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed"; the biograph, including pictures of the Harvard-Cambridge boat-race last summer...
...program includes the following: Arthur Fisher, impersonator; Fitzgerald and Gilday, conversationalists and parodists; The Labakans, grotesque gymnasts, and their dog "Folly;" Rogers and Deely presenting their original conception "The Singer and his Valet;" Hawthorne and Burt in their comical sketch "And I Laughed;" the biograph, including the picture of the Harvard and Cambridge boat race...