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Some two centuries ago His Majesty George III (1738-1820) assigned to Newfoundland the "coast" of Labrador. Upon the meaning of "coast" and a few similar technicalities has hung for more than a generation the most important case ever submitted to the Privy Council, a case involving $250,000,000, a case now finally decided...
...Padden of Indian Harbor, Labrador one of the foremost assistants to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, will be at Phillips Brooks House at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. He will receive all former workers for The Grenfell Missionary and also all men interested in working for the Mission in Newfoundland or Labrador this summer...
...tuned' or syntonized system of wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton and Cod from Cornwall and I noted, for the first time...
Capt. Hartley, S. S. Leviathan: "On the roughest passage of my ship's career, to Cherbourg last week, a white owl took refuge in a funnel on the ship, 1,000 miles from Newfoundland. I shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...
...President Roosevelt made him Secretary of State. Then after a bitter skirmish with William Randolph Hearst,† Mr. Root entered his international era. From Venezuela to the Newfoundland fisheries, from the Pan-American Conference to the Hague Court, this shrewd lawyer became the angel of arbitration. He was made head of the Carnegie Endowment, an organization with an income of $10,000,000 to spend for international peace. In 1912 he won the Nobel Peace Prize...