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...after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury, Sask.) missed it completely because of clouds, but scores of other astronomers' parties (the Russians alone had 22) got good observations...
...Neudorf, Sask...
Covered. In Regina, Sask., J. L. Sky, manager of the local Trans-Canada Air lines station, is assisted by a control-tower operator named A. C. Heaven...
...Cold. In Regina, Sask., Taxi Driver Ethel Sheffield swerved around a slippery curve, crashed into a lamppost, slumped unconscious in the front seat, would have frozen to death in the 16-below-zero cold if the lamppost had not upheld a fire alarm, which went off, bringing rescuing firemen...
Comeuppance. Near Swift Current, Sask., Bachelor-Farmer Alfred Bessant lived alone in his cellar through 16 profitless, bad crop years, grew a $2,500 crop this year, came out of the hole...