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...salaries ($72 a year each) as members of the town board. All agreed it was a practical move, even though Loyaltonian Charles Sylte, 71, described the mood after the vote as "kind of like there is no joy in Mudville." "It sure was a good town," said Edna Oban, 86. "Everyone knew each other...
...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...
Business-wise, the 2,650-mile, $42 million cable between Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, and Oban. Scotland (financed and owned 50% by American Telephone & Telegraph, 41% by British Post Office, 9% by Canada's Overseas Telecommunications) was an absolute necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays...
Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler...
Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...