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...last week Lightkeeper William Faulkner heard a crash far out in Cobequid Bay, Nova Scotia. Then came a noise like an explosion and cries for help. Faulkner ran out to the beach, roused neighboring fishermen. In the darkness they could see nothing; but again came the anguished shouts from the bay. The tide was out. For two miles from the beach stretched a sea of soft red mud on which no man could walk. For two hours the shouts could be heard while the watchers waited for the tide to rise. Just as a boat was floated, the shouts died...
Died. Frank Stanfield, 59. Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia; at Halifax, N. S. A native-born Nova Scotian. he made a fortune manufacturing underwear, was a director of Royal Bank of Canada, a leader in Conservative politics...
...June 17 on the Aquatania with the third varsity crew which was bound for the Henley races in England. Among the celebrities which the orchestra came in contact with was Professor Laski who was popular as chairman of a charity ball committee. Coming back from a cruise to Nova Scotia, the Mauretania smashed all records in a thrilling race against time...
...Vienna, and for a number of years librarian for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, comes as a lecturer on Economics for the full year. In 1928-29 he gave a number of lectures here on advanced statistics. A. K. Grifflin, associate professor of Classics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, becomes Lecturer on Greek and Latin and Tutor in the Division of Ancient Languages for the full year. L. C. Porter, for many years professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty at Poking University, Peiping, to be Lecturer on Chinese for the first half year...
...Washington the State Department filed a complaint with the Canadian Government against rum-runners from Nova Scotia who had disabled a pursuing Coast Guard crew off Nantucket last month by putting chemicals into their motors, spraying a noxious smoke screen from the exhaust. Rum chasers hereafter will carry gas masks...