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...Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas miler, a 1,000-yd. run at Hamilton, Ont., setting a new Canadian record. Glenn Cunningham, a mile race at Indianapolis; from Ray Sears who fortnight before made a new American record for two miles...
...Windsor, Ont. Arthur Ryan pleaded not guilty to killing his neighbor's rooster, asserted that the rooster had committed suicide by cutting its head off with a spade...
John W. Hampshire of Ft. Wayne cannot go into Canada. His Canadian wife cannot enter the U. S. For months their only meetings have been aboard the international ferry Agoming running from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. to Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Sometimes a sympathetic captain let them sit in the engine room to keep warm and hold hands. Last week ice in the Soo temporarily stopped the ferry, ended their romance for the winter...
...engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower wing supported the craft. Passengers and crew clambered atop the upper wing, huddled in the darkness until rescuers took them ashore...
Tough Alexis St. Martin lived on at St. Thomas de Jolliette, Ont. to be 83. His family buried him eight feet deep "to make difficult attempts at resurrection...