Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many important points of friction between the two countries, some of which have been causing irritations for decades, were eliminated by the commission. The rights of American fishermen on the treaty coast of Newfoundland were granted; the American government was declared not liable for injuries sustained by British monarchists in Hawaii during the reign of Queen "Lil" the last national march Great Britain's claims for reparation for damage done her citizens at lloilo in the Philippines were denied, but the American government was declared liable for the looting of British owned houses in Lavite, also in the Philippines, when...
...Christmas Day. And among the men of known worth who would have liked to attend that meeting was Dr. W. T. Grenfell, famed "Angel of Labrador," explorer, missioner. He wrote in a letter: "We always stood for keeping Sunday as a day of rest among our deep-sea fishermen, and all this froth talk by selfish and self-indulgent people about Blue Laws and the throwing about of cynicism can never affect the issue. Those people and those collections of people called nations, where Sunday is kept as a day of rest, are the best and happiest every time...
...Thirty Years Among the Labrador Fishermen" will be the subject of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell's lecture at 8 o'clock tonight in the Phillips Brooks House, which he will accompany with stereoptican slides of the work at Indian Harbor. Preceding the talk by Dr. Grenfell, a dinner will be given for him at 6.15 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House, to which the members of the Grenfell Club in the University have been invited...
...Thirty Years Among the Labrador Fishermen" will be Dr. Grenfell's subject when he speaks on December 16. Dr. Grenfell, who received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from the University in 1909, has worked for many years in the bleak fishing towns of Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts. An Englishman by birth, he attended London and Oxford Universities, and started his career as a medical missionary in 1887. Many Harvard students have spent summers working with the Grenfell Mission...
...parson heard and made Benoni sign a public retraction. Deputized by the lazy sheriff to read public announcements after church, Benoni omitted the retraction. Of course this was found out and the lion-marked post bag, symbol of Benoni's distinction among his fellow fishermen, was taken from...