Peaceful Gardens for All Prairie Dwellers
The article extols home gardens as sanctuaries offering rest and nourishment. It urges small and large spaces, seed selection over years, use of native plants, and drought aware cultivation to create enduring beauty and productive plots on farms and in villages. It cites Annette Thomas of Erskine and Alberta with Forest and praising waste field stone walls and England style garden walls to enhance aesthetics.
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Prairies
Prairie Provinces
Annette Thomas
Erskine
Alberta
England
Bliss Carmen
Largest model whale nears completion at Natural History Museum
A ninety-foot model whale, the largest ever built, advances at the Natural History Museum in London. Two tons of timber and two hundred weight of nails used. Data drawn from the Discovery voyage in the Antarctic. Horse traffic in London fallen by sixty six percent over a decade.
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Natural History Museum
London Daily Sketch
Antarctic
Fragmented class discussion on economics and a civic pledge
In a college lecture a professor debates commerce with a student amid restless chatter. A Milan merchant honors his deceased daughter by gifting Italy a model town for 50 000 poor mothers and children. Oak Park I limits frying doughnuts to one hundred per resident.
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Milan
Loneliness Across Borders and Mussolini’s Gamble
Three Albanian princesses visiting New York confess homesickness and missing their homeland as cities overwhelm with loneliness. The piece shifts to Mussolini’s Ethiopia plans, noting Italy’s costly conquests, rising budgets, and shaky wartime prospects amid discontent and rationing rumors.
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Ethiopia
New York
Italy
King Zog
Woodstock Sentinel
Parchment Sack Yields Historic Page Fragments
A second-hand bookseller in Chancery Lane bought a sack of old parchments for sixpence a pound. He now reports remarkable finds including a 1543 deed withEdward VI signature and a Great Seal of James I, a Latin Papa document likely an annulment, and a James I drawing. An Irish bookseller notes a Meath land deed with an upside down George II portrait.
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Chancery Lane
Hampstead
Edward VI
Meath
George II
Manchester Guardian
Oldest explorer Sir Flanders Petrie Still Digging at 85
Pearson's Weekly notes Sir Flanders Petrie at 85 continues excavations at Tell Aijul after starting in 1880. The 21 year hat size was six and a half, at 40 it was seven and a quarter, and by 50 another quarter was needed as he remains active in archaeology and once influenced a Smithsonian inquiry on aging brains.
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Pearson
Sir Flanders Petrie
University College
London
Tell Aijul
Sir Flanders
Washington
Smithsonian Institute
Army and Navy Plan Massive Mobilization Scale
The Army and Navy outline plans to mobilize over two million personnel within four months of a war declaration. About 375,000 army and national guard personnel would be ready, with the Navy at a third of that. Estimates call for 1,250,000 army recruits and 500,000 navy recruits in four months, with 306,000 volunteers sought in the first month.
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Mussolini
Ethiopia
Ludwig Lore
New York Post
Rome
Haile Selassie
Ministry of
Italian Africa
Italy
United States Army
National Guard
Army
Navy
Ticks Survive Months Without Water and Food, Scientists Say
Scientists report ticks can live up to eight months without water and up to three years without food, highlighting their resilience and potential impact on ecosystems and disease transmission.
Faraday Foundations of Modern Electricity
A century ago Michael Faraday made fundamental discoveries that underlie the dynamo transformer induction coil electric motor wireless telegraphy radio and many modern applications. The piece notes that early value is in future growth and urges effort with people at their beginnings, as today’s leaders did.
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Michael Faraday
Faraday
Washington Monument Sinks as Pisa Tower Swings
At a Connecticut Academy clinic on sick structures, Prof. Dimitri Krynine of Yale reported that the Washington Monument is settling slowly due to deep clay layers. The Leaning Tower of Pisa, measured with a Girometti Bonechi inclinometer, showed northward movement in September 1934 then reversed, and again moved north in January.
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Washington Monument
Pisas
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dimitri P. Krynine
Yale University
Pisa
Girometti-Bonechi
Krynine
Unemployed Capital and the American Economy
The piece argues that capital unemployment and a weak dollar worsen unemployment by pushing governments to tax and regulate, stifling enterprise. It warns that a fair wage and low risk are needed to revive investment and employment, noting the era’s fear of confiscation. It also cites a Sun editorial on life expectations and labor.
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Brandon Sun
Flattering Summer Frock Pattern 4746 by Anne Adams
Inexpensive sewing project for a slenderizing dress with capelets and soft bodice. Choose chiffon or voile for a dainty printed sheet or georgette for formality. Includes illustrated steps and available in sizes 34 to 48. size 36 with capelets uses 4 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric. Order to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
MacDermot Ave. E
Rare Coin Collection Seized, Then Released by British Authorities
A Toronto dealer J C Smith sent a large coin collection to London for disposal. Impounded six weeks at Liverpool due to foreign and colonial bronze coins. Release granted after assurance the coins would be sold as antiques to genuine collectors only. The set includes five Charles I silver pounds minted for the royal war efforts.
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London
J. C. Smith
Toronto
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Smith
Cromwell
Paris streetcar PA stunt drew noisy complaints
Paris suspended loudspeakers on municipal streetcars and buses after conductors announced street names. The idea succeeded in promotion but public quarrels spread the conversations to all riders, prompting a rethink. Separate report notes New Zealand sales tax revenues rose eighteen percent last year.
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Paris
New Zealand
Naval race grows as powers plan over 35000 ton ships
Britain and the United States back the escalator clause of the London treaty to build battleships over 35000 tons, citing Japan as the trigger. France and other signatories eye a possible breach after consultative talks with Japan, which has refused to provide plans.
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Great Britain
United States
France
Japan
Only Two Survive From Borden Cabinet in 1937-38
A Toronto Star report notes Canada’s 1911 Borden cabinet has dwindled to two surviving members after the 1937-38 period. It lists the late Sir Robert Borden at 82, W. J. Roche at 78, Douglas Hazen at 77, George Perley at 80, and Martin Burrell at 70 as the remaining living members once the others have died, with ages indicating lifespans of most members.
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Canada
Borden
Robert Borden
W. J. Roche
Douglas Hazen
George Perley
Martin Burrell
Toronto Star
Manufacturing Miracles in Modern Plastics Use
The article notes plastics production via machines in Canada that inject colored granules to produce finished combs and other shapes. Injection moulding is in its infancy but may drive the next era in manufacturing.
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Canada
Immigration to Britain rises from Ireland, 1930s figures
The Calgary Herald reports figures from the British House of Commons show rising immigration into Great Britain from Ireland. The Home Secretary cites a net figure for last year between 20,000 and 22,000, compared with 11,000 in 1934.
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Calgary Herald
House of Commons
Great Britain
Ireland
Dominions Secretary
Irish Sea
Half of Americans Carry Life Insurance Today
About half of the U S population currently holds life insurance. The reach varies by age and income but remains around fifty percent nationwide, reflecting evolving marketplace access and consumer awareness.
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