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■■ [Reuters Telegrams.] ’QUAKER IX ALASKA. VANCOUVER, February 23. A rei>ort front Reward, Alaska, states earthquake tremors wrecked chimneys there, broke water pipes, and sent the residents to seek safety in the streets. The United States Signal Corps Cable south of Reward was broken by the shocks. The tremors were the heaviest felt in that section for many years. NEW RECORDS. BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 2-t I'edro CatidicLi, swimming in the Parana River from Santa Ee to Rosario, covered 93 miles, thus establieiing a new world’s distance record. Htwas in the water for 35 hours. At Tampa, Aliss E. Lackic, ot the United States, swam 110 yards ill 70 1-5 seconds, thus clipping two seconds from her own Olympic world’s rocor!.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1925, Page 2
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121AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1925, Page 2
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