Word: sault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author McClinchey knows the Ojibways and likes them, lives part of every year on the island which is her novel's scene. Born in Sault Ste. Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...
...reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith. It may now make a new attempt, or may postpone operations until after Jan. i, 1931, in the hope that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt will be succeeded by a Republican...
...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
...well are Homer Guck's name and potency known. When Mr. Hearst's general manager. Col. William Franklin Knox, was running the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
JAMES H. MCGUIRE Sault Ste. Marie, Mich...