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Five gentlemen from the U. S. Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, visited Ottawa, Ont. They went under the leadership of McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. They conferred for four days with representatives of the William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canadian) Cabinet. They brought a number of proposals for the better enforcement of prohibition along the Canadian border. They discussed and departed, leaving their proposals to be acted on by the Mackenzie King Cabinet...
Died. Mrs. Emily A. McNally, 67, wife of James McNally, Vice President of Rand, McNally and Co., map publishers, at Lake of Bays, Ont., Canada. She had locked her door after taking a sleeping powder and could not be wakened when the Wawa Hotel, where she was staying, caught fire...
...years old, the son of a farmer living at Alliston, Ont. He worked on his father's homestead until he was 19, when he entered the University of Toronto. Graduating from medical school, he entered the Canadian Army, became a battalion surgeon with the rank of captain. Wounded at Cambrai, invalided to England, he returned to Canada in 1920 and became a laboratory assistant at the Western University, London, Ont., where by chance he soon became interested in the internal secretions of the pancreas from the so-called " islands of Langerhans " (TiME, April 21), and began experimenting with methods...
...association singles, he beat W. E. G. Gilmore, of Baltimore, who two weeks ago won the Canadian quarter-mile title at St. Catherine's, Ont. He then splashed over a choppy mile-and-a-quarter course to the national singles championship. In his wake struggled Hilton Belyea, fisherman-oarsman of St. John, N. H., 1922 Canadian champion, and Paul V. Costello, of Philadelphia, 1922 national champion...
Canada. Bones of a mastodon were excavated near Loudou, Ont., by Prof. A. D. Robertson, of Western University. The teeth are a foot long and 18 inches across, the tusks 8 feet long, the jawbone weighs 40 pounds. The animal is estimated to have weighed over 30 tons. Few complete mastodon skeletons have been found. This one may have lived before man inhabited the continent...