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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1937)
cnLDIER OF FORTUNE AT LAST I'M MONARCH OF KLEPTOMANIA-THE CAPTAIN OF MV SOUL ' HERE'S THE PROGRAM POR TODAY, YOUR. MAJESTY: A MILITARY REVIEW A CABINET MEETING, 3 LUNCHEONS, 9 SPEECHES ' .lAlllAI I 11 rt mil UZTwun RUNNING? A PERMIT ME TO WARN pv VAl ikTtov amviaav? vni ic ma. icctv tuat n L I A AJi N I IV. f f i ' " ' ' . y , w w - I I I i i i i if1'-7 n -r n i nrn i t- ajan. pnim INTERNATIONAL COMPLICA- WAK. I GOTTA THROWlTHERE ISN'T TIME, YOUR MAJESTY. A PARTY AND SULTAN BEN AB0O-B00 FEVVfcK CELEBRATE BE- IS HERE 'TO UAVEHIS PICTURE COMING KING. TAKEN WITH Ft'"" , YOU. C WE MUST STRIVE ) EXACTLY. A. MARRIAGE: BETWEEN YOU ) BUT I DON'T WANTA GET .TO PRESERVE 7AND PRINCESS TW1TTUE-T WATTLE OF J MARRIED! YOU HEAR? I WANTA PEACE. rVTWERP IS IMPERATIVE. yYTTV THROW A PART VI V T 7 iMraSSlBLEEWHAHsU ARE AFFAIRS OF STATE J TO BALANCE THE THE UNEMPLOYMENT yANDQf DOES A KING V '' T PGET?X-v5n"UATION? ysTWE LABOK HAFTA PO ALL F fGRAClOQS! U 30MB, YOUR MAJESTY ' '-'A vKS? WAS THE PE5KV ICALS ARE ,VS why, CERTAINLY! that's) the fate of the . WHAT A KING 19 FOR. A NA7 ?J?' 5'' UN VUUK HANUp. J T , ' , ' ' ' ' HUMPH! PRETTY SOFT FOR i vlfcwAs V NOU-NOTHIN&TODOBUT A n DVENTURE Stamps Joined he Atlantic U..T PACIFIC & - CI HE dream of linking the Atlantic and the Pacific had occupied men's minds four centuries. Balboa first broached the idea of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama to the Emperor of Spain in the early days of the 16th century. Surveys were made in succeed ing years but all failed of de velopment. , Came the Mexican War in 1848, and the subsequent ces sion of Texas and California to the United States. The Pacific coast of the nation had been cre ated. Henceforth interest in the canal project became a national fever. But America did little ex cept to look on; France was al ready at work. She had begun in the 80s. And by 1890 she had failed! , The United States stepped in then in earnest, bought out the French, proceeded to rid the Isthmus of the plague, yellow fever and malaria in one of the most sweeping sanitation cam paigns the world has ever known. In June, 1904, canal construction operations began. Less than 10 years later, Jan. 7, 1914, the first boat navigated the great canal. This was a crane boat. Commercial traffic was inaugurated on Aug. 15, by the passage of the government steamship Ancon carrying the secretary of war and 200 guests. Thus, at a cost of $375,000, 000, the. United States had finally linked the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. The Isthmus is shown on a 1905 Panama map stamp. X 1 . ( X Witt w. m &, i-z I
