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Odor of Sanctity. In Niagara Falls, Ont., the County Court demanded some new Bibles when a witness refused to kiss one, complained that it "smelled like a distillery...
There! In Chatham, Ont., administrators finally settled the estate of John McKerroll, dead since 1872, sent to 121 heirs scattered through the U.S. and Can ada their shares, ranging from 25? to $1 each...
Died. Jack Miner, 79, famed Canadian ornithologist, founder of a pioneer North American bird sanctuary in Kingsville, Ont. ; after a heart attack; in Kingsville. He clipped aluminum bands stamped with scriptural texts and his address on to birds' legs; received in 1943 the Order of the British Empire from George...
Robert Donald, Hamilton, Ont., is one of Canada's 6,900 Jehovah's Witnesses.* He had sued the Hamilton school board for $2,600 after his two sons had been expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag, sing God Save the King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing...
...Noranda, in western Quebec, an old prospector slammed down four bags of gold ore on a hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point...