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...amateur title. Elation in Canadian locker rooms last week was heightened another degree. For the first time since 1926 the Canadian women's title came home from the U. S. Miss Margery Kirkham of Montreal's Forest Hills club was the heroine, at Kanawaki. Quebec. By 4 & 2 she turned back the last U. S. player, Bernice Wall of Oshkosh. Wis.. in the semifinals, then went on to whip Mrs. Charles Eddis of Toronto in the final. 3 & 2. Square-jawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J. was not there to defend her title. Neither...
This revelation, and a host of others, put a new light on the precipitous departure of Samuel Insull to Paris (from Quebec, aboard the Empress of Britain) and the flight of his brother, Martin John Insull to Canada. In Chicago the state's legal department opened an office to hear the complaints of investors, and set to examining extradition laws. But no criminal complaint had been filed and Insull loyalists insisted that the brothers expatriated themselves solely to avoid annoyance, petty litigation that would lead nowhere...
...much popular interest frightened as well as delighted astronomers. McGill University begged the Montreal City and the Quebec Provincial Governments to declare Aug. 31 an official holiday from at least the middle of the afternoon. This was to reduce traffic-jams and to help prevent the turning on of street, motor and house lights during the few seconds Montreal will be in the path of the complete eclipse...
...path, partial over the entire U. S. The path of totality moves at nearly 34 mi. per min. from northwest to southeast? from the Arctic Ocean, past the North Magnetic Pole (near where Professor Arthur Holly Compton hopes to be), across Hudson Bay, James Bay, Province of Quebec, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and southern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The eclipse ends in the middle of the Atlantic...
...exploded by Montreal Gossip Colyumist Margaret Currie. "What a thing it is to be a statesman!" wrote she. "A little bird told me that the Premier was host to all the delegates, not only for their accommodation and meals, but for the special train itself which bore them from Quebec to Ottawa. Perhaps this is the first time Canada has ever had a Prime Minister who could afford such a gracious gesture...