Word: newfoundlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Curtis, Medical Superintendent of the Grenfell Mission, last night told an audience of 150 in the Geographical Institute of the work of the organization which provides medical care, school and work for the inhabitants of Newfoundland and Labrador, where medical calls have to be made by dog sled over vast areas...
...Before Sir Wilfred Grenfell came to Newfoundland 40 years ago, the fishermen's only medical attention came from doctor men,' who had widespread reputations just like someone on Beacon Street," Curtis said...
...American tour: 45 days from Plymouth to Plymouth. Disembarking from H.M.S. Repulse at Quebec on May 15, they will spend 29 jampacked days seeing and being seen in Canada from coast to coast, sandwich in four days on U. S. soil, wave final farewells to St. Johns, Newfoundland, June...
Last year a Dutchman named John de Boers began making mistakes, biggest of which was to dream of a fortune he would scoop in three years from St. Paul's waters. He bought a Newfoundland trawler, L'lle Bourbon, spent a small fortune transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer...
...ships so frequently effect. Last week, as luck would have it, the U. S. Liner American Traveler was just 70 miles off when fire broke out in the hold of the 21,046-ton, U. S.-bound Hamburg-American liner Deutschland 200 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. At the Deutschland's SOS the Traveler doubled back, stood by with the Norwegian Europe until the Germans whipped the fire...