Word: sask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have It" . . . Let's have it up here. The Capitol Theatre at Regina, Sask., is the place...
...emaciated, unkempt, aging man who looks more than his 50 years was taken out of prison in Prince Albert, Sask. one night last week, bundled hastily into a railway car. On the eastern edge of Canada, at Halifax, a ship awaited him. He would be put aboard, taken to his native Russia. There, he felt sure, waited Death. He was Peter Verigin II, leader of Western Canada's 17,000 Doukhobors. With him were government officials, to hustle him along, keep his progress quiet. When the train reached Montreal Peter Verigin II was hustled through the station so that...
...races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
...Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
Major Douglas presented a paper at the recent World Engineering Congress at Tokyo in which he expounded the fallacy of Socialists and Communists that the rich are rich because the poor are poor. W. DIAMOND Saskatoon, Sask...