World Happenings Briefly Told
Royal commission members end public hearings on Canadian penal conditions. Lethbridge to get a 700 acre airport for trans Canada air mail inauguration this summer. Home improvement loans totalling 2 091 158 aid 5441 property owners in four months. C L Coggan Moose Jaw railway mail clerk earned perfect score in exam. Roosevelt to appoint Mrs J B Harriman US minister to Norway. Winnipeg council approves 1960 for coronation celebrations including four British pageants. Halbert L Dunn says one third of mobile crash fatalities are tourists. Canadian mining growth boosts railway revenue, reducing deficits says Eugene Paquette.
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Royal Commission
Lethbridge
trans-Canada Air Mail
C. L. Coggan
Moose Jaw
Post Office
Post Office Weekly
Roosevelt
J. Borden Harriman
New York
Washington Society
United States
Norway
Winnipeg
Welcome for John Buchan at Columbia Library Opening
The 1934 visit of John Buchan to Columbia University for the opening of its grand library earned him a warm reception. The Times notes his official return with a Scots title and praises his contributions to literature and the English speaking youth. The President invited him ben the White House, signaling cordial US hospitality.
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John Buchan
Columbia University
Ben
White House
United States
New York Times
Japan Buys Iron Machinery For War Drive
Japan purchases construction machinery once used at Boulder Dam to aid military and industrial expansion. The Nailsea Court, a chartered steamer, carried 450 tons of such equipment from Los Angeles to Yokohama, while the City of Los Angeles sailed for Osaka junk yards with 6,000 tons of scrap in tow.
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Boulder Dam
Japan
Nailsea Court
Los Angeles Harbor
Yokohama
City of
Los Angeles
Osaka
Pneumatic Horse Collar Aims to Heal Sore Shoulders
Harry C. Kirby of Sunbury Ohio patents a pneumatic horse collar inflated via a regular auto valve to ease sore shoulders. If successful, filling stations may offer stalls for horses while they are serviced with air and water. London plans streamlined trains in its subways.
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Harry C. Kirby
Sunbury
Ohio
Dobbin
Canadian sergeant shoots for Pathe a world record shot
Sergeant Robert Pickrell of the Canadian National Railways police at Winnipeg, a top revolver and pistol shooter, outlines a U S Pathe newsreel target at Fort Wadsworth. He fires 15 shots at Bud Donahue with cameraman Larry O Reilly filming. A U S Army squad watches as Pickrell places five shots around his first to make a bulls eye, showing precision at 40 yards.
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Robert
Bob” Pickrell
Canadian National Railways Police
Winnipeg
United States Army
Fort Wadsworth
Bud Donahue
Pathe News
Pickrel
Donahue
Larry O'Reilly
Eighteenth Battalion
United States Infantry
McGehee
Pickrell
New York
Marking Ransom Money Revealed By Bell Labs Metallurgist
Bell Telephone laboratories unveiled a method to mark ransom money so prints mineralize and glow under ultraviolet light. Dr. Francis F. Lucas directed research showing prints as permanent dark lines using Fleming's reagent fumes, then enhanced by fluorescent dyes visible only under black light.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
Francis F. Lucas
Fleming
Lucas
Metallurgy
Potatoes Canned on Virginia Eastern Shore
Undersized potatoes are being canned on the Virginia Eastern Shore with closely graded uniform size. Opened cans taste like fresh young potatoes and are praised for creaming, salads, or browning with roast beef. Hotels favor them for banquets ensuring uniform servings.
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Virginia
King George V planned servants’ building society before 1931 crisis
Sir Ralph Harwood recounts how the finance crisis forced King George V to abandon a proposed 250000 civil list cut and a building society that would lend at two percent for mortgaged properties to help his servants. The scheme aimed to foster thrift and permanent benefit but was scrapped. Television’s future faces early hurdles says Jesse Lasky.
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George V
Ralph Harwood
Ralph
Building Society
Many Occasion Frock for Little Girls Pattern 4301
Anne Adams offers Pattern 4301 a versatile dress for girls in sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. Described with puffed sleeves Peter Pan collar and a skirt flare the design suits school and party wear using sturdy cotton or dainty fabrics. Includes illustrated step by step instructions and requires fabric and lace quantities. Send 20 cents and details to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Watt’s Horsepower Defining 33 000 Foot Pounds Per Minute
In February 1782 James Watt, from a scrap in his scrapbook at Birmingham Reference Library, calculated horsepower from horse help. He used Wrigley’s millwright experiences and raised the 22,000 foot pounds per minute base by 50 percent to 33,000.
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James Watt
Birmingham
Wrigley
Watt
Britain
Englishwoman Dines Yankee Lunch at Park Lane
An English woman newly arrived in America visits Park Lane for her first American luncheon. She orders fried chicken and a mint julep, then ice cream for dessert. The waiter retorts that Park Lane is famed for small portions, sparking her admonition.
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Park Lane
California orchardists test giant fans to prevent frost
Orchardists experiment with 40 foot tower mounted fans to defrost orchards. When temperatures near freezing, electric propeller fans blow cold air upward and outward, mixing with warmer air above to protect crops.
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California
Destruction of Sodom and Lot's Split with Abraham
Sunday school lesson centers on Genesis 13 13 19 23 25 Genesis 13 13 19 23 25 and Deuteronomy 3 2 31 33 Proverbs 23 29 32 and Isaiah 5 11 14 with a devotional on Sodom and Gomorrah. It notes Lot's choice toward Sodom ends in doom and his escape to Zoar, while warning against wine using various translations and moral commentary.
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Sodom
Gomorrah
Abraham
Lot
Sodom and
Zoar
Jordan Basin
Moffatt
Retirement ages fixed for RCMP officers in Canada Gazette
Amendments set retirement ages of 62 for the commissioner 61 for the deputy and 60 for all other officers. Officials believe the rule will quicken promotions within the force. A light joke follows about a butcher weighing a baby at thirteen and a half pounds with bones.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Canada Gazette
Sowing a Balanced Lawn Seed Mix for Permanent Turf
The piece advises combining expensive permanent grasses with cheaper fast germinating seeds for a durable lawn. It stresses cool weather sowing, multiple levelling, double sowing for even spread, windless days for planting, and firm soil with a roller. It also covers early flower and vegetable sowings and urges using high quality Canadian seed as foundation.
Modern Pioneer wins prize in Western Canadian tale
Kathleen Redman Strange’s A Modern Pioneer wins a thousand dollar prize from George J. McLeod Limited and Dodge Publishing, with Canadian Authors' Association backing. The book, set on a prairie farm, highlights farm women’s lives between 1920 and 1930 and debuts this month featuring praise from Dr. Pelham Edgar. The article notes the seven Big Dipper stars by name.
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Kathleen Redman Strange
George J. McLeod Limited
Toronto
Dodge Publishing Company
New York
Canadian Authors’ Association
Strange
Pelham Edgar
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The
United States Census Bureau
Conference of State Health Officers
Eugene Paquette
Cons
Lauzon
Senate
London
News of the World
King George
Tives
Fund For Servants
Jesse Lasky
Lasky
Adder Moffatt
Matthew Henry
New York Post
Erat
Ana Tiasia
Kathleen Redman
Dubhe
Merak
Phecka Megrez
Alioth
Mizar
Alkaid
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