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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1937)
Jjjjgnft OP FORTUNE KING gkK AKHMRrBOORAV! XfA FREE! I'M FREE1. (once a bum, always a bumT) DVENTURE a I. . urcLk rir J K W Stamps fe wholo in : J); iMWm America AH" THE ENP'OF THAT TIME ; THE CABINET MEETS IKl" SESSION. I GENTLMEN, TUB WORST ALREADY. HIS MAJESTY KlU3 IN KLFP. TWPPP icCtaii IMPOSSIBLE. JTOMANt AM 0F A COUNTER.! . I THEV WISH TO CONFER I I yNTH VOUR. MAJESTV.J 1 HIS MAJESTY KING IN KLEP- y THERE IS TALK i"" l- " gUS IMPOSSIBLE. J TOMANt ANXOF A COUNTER. v ' (7) 7 ' CMON, CHUM, AT LAST WE CAN THROW A PARTY ANP CtLeBlcATE.THEYRE PAVING ME $10,000 A MONTH TO GIVE UP r THE THRONE. H Mb. WU.UCKCf? r AW, I WAS SICKATHE JOB, ANYWAY. IT'S FORA THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY. AND, BY THE vtAW t iit iir-i v i . - LONGER. MINISTER. J QSTHAJT SQJ. OF WAR;: G HEV, HOW ABOUT AMP THAT AMD YOUK Si THAT HOTEL BILL YACHT YOU V?36 INCOME ) YOU OWE IN yCHAlTEREpr TAX? NEW 4, WELLJ RIGHT BACK WHERE) Wfc STAKTEP FROM, EH, PALZY. WALZ.Y ? WHY, CHUM AMD DONT CALL ME CHUM! I TOOK YOU FROM THE GUTTER TO THE THIcONE, AND YOU'RE BACK IN THE GUTTER .WHER.E VOU BELONG,, YOU SPINELESS PEADBEAX XfA . t37 i m gewviet. inc. f AH, WELL, IT TAKES ALL SORTS I OF PEOPLE TO MAKE AWOKLD.I X SUPPOSE HE WANTS TO ' . I HE fever of world conquest wae on France when ad. venturous Jacques Cartier reached manhood at the turn of the 16th century. It was quite natural, therefore, that he should turn explorer. By the t'me he was 40, he had acquired the reputation of a bold navigator.-, . Accordingly, In 1534, Cartier was selected by Admiral Chabot to lead' an expedition to the northeastern coast of North America In an effort to discover a passage to Cathay. With two ships, the explorer sailed from his home city of Saint-Malo. A few weeks later and the weary little party sighted the shores of Newfoundland, near Cape Bona vista. From here they followed the coast southward. ' Skirting the shores of Labra dor, Cartier at length landed at Cape Caspe, erected a cross and took possession of the country In the name of France. The next year, with a newly equipped licet, he sailed up the St. Law rente, i At the Indian village of Stadacona, on the site of the modern Quebec, Cartier and his men left their ships and pushed on Into the wilderness to Hoch elaga, an Indian village at the foot of a great hill. This Cartier named Mount Royal (Montreal). It was then October and the party returned to their ships, spending a miserable winter aboard them. In the spring they returned to France, having won a foothold in the new world. Cartier is pictured on a 1934 French commemorative. Wo
