Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...
...proposed exchange offer whereby it would take over the half-billion-dollar United Light & Power Co., operating in nine middle States and Manitoba, Canada...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...
...Best known Canadian institutions are the Universities - Toronto, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Ottawa, McGill, Queen's, Trinity, Victoria, Laval, Dalhousie. † Approximately 200 U. S. magazines and 30 newspapers are sold regularly in Canada. For U. S. magazines Canada spends some $15,000,000 yearly; for British magazines, some...
...oldtime musher from Nome, Alaska, loudly exhorted his fine-bred Siberian huskies in the annual three-day Eastern International Sled Dog Derby and finished 17 minutes ahead of Frank Dupuis, a St. Lawrence River Lighthouse keeper with a team of snapping mongrels. Behind Dupuis came Emil St. Goddard of Manitoba...