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...SALE: Cedar Island, .947 acre off Cedar Point, L. I., in the strait between Gardiners Bay and Shelter Island Sound. Includes historic, 97-year-old lighthouse and nine-room granite keeper's house. No conveniences, but ideal for recluse, romantic or for summer home. Send bid before Jan. 15 to U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington...
...illustrate how it becomes inoperative I will cite how about 60 voters here at Deer Harbor lost their chance to vote this last election. They had a chartered boat laying here at Deer Harbor ready to take them to a voting place at Elfin Cove on Icy Strait, but on election day the Gulf of Alaska was in an angry mood-it may have been a grudge against the New Deal-and no boat could cross...
Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
Magnin's customers are the richest and swankest between the Gulf of California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...
Into the wide blue harbor of Manila last week slid the U. S. destroyer Peary. Aboard her were 52 survivors of the wrecked British freighter Silverhazel which, bound out of San Francisco for Singapore and Bombay, had gone down with a loss of four lives in San Bernardino Strait, 350 mi. southwest of the Philippine capital...