Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle of Lake Erie and they helped Jackson repulse the British at the Battle of New Orleans. The first chief of police of St. Petersburg (now Petrograd) under the Bolshevist regime was a Negro, and it was a black man, Matt Henson, who drug Peary to the North Pole, thus enabling that gentleman to discover...
...Arawa tribe of Maoris, once the most warlike tribe in New Zealand; from Manhattan came Bishop John J. Dunn, who brought greetings, regrets from Patrick Cardinal Hayes; from many another spot came many another layman & divine. As they came to Chicago in 1926 and will go to Carthage, North Africa, in 1930, so they flocked to the 29th Eucharistic Congress in Australia...
...Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...battered pontoon, found floating last week off the Fugloe Islands, north of Norway, was taken to be conclusive evidence that Capt. Roald Amundsen, Capt. Rene Gilbaud and their four companions were dead. The condition of the pontoon indicated that it had been torn from Capt. Amundsen's seaplane by a sea crash...
Moulay Abd-el-Hafid, deposed Sultan of Morocco, last week recovered from the French Government his large estates in North Africa. A guardian was appointed, however, to keep him from becoming profligate...