Dominion Botanist Pleads for Botanical Gardens in Canada
Dominion botanist Dr. H T Gussow urged creation of botanical gardens in Canada to study native and global plant life. He noted earlier calls by Dr. William Saunders, cited Kew Gardens as a model with 2,000,000 annual visitors, 500 acres, two million specimens, and a world library.
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Dominion
Canada
Globe
H. T. Gussow
University of Mantoba
William Saunders
Australia
India
Ceylon
Mauritius
Jamaica
West Indies
Gurson
Kew Botanical Gardens
Kew Gardens
Lost Titian Madonna Valued At 1.5 Million Taken For Experts
Henry Cint of Stafford Springs Conn owns three paintings claimed to be Titian works. Two other paintings accompany the Madonna in faded canvases. Mrs Grimes took the works to New York for evaluation, with several experts deeming them very valuable and at least the Madonna possibly a genuine Titian.
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New York
Henry Cint
Stafford Springs
Conn
Robert H. Grimes
Park Avenue
Grimes
American reportedly offers 500000 for famed Transvaal diamond
An unnamed American reportedly offered 500000 for the Jonker diamond, the world’s fourth largest at 176 carats. If accepted by the Diamond Corporation, the gem may be cut into ear drops and a necklace. Discovered January 1934 near Elandsfontein, Transvaal, by a claimant of Jacobus Jonker.
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Jonker
Diamond Corporation
Jacobus Jonker
Elandsfontein
Transvaal
Africa
Russia's Cheap Airplane Powered by Auto Engine
Russian experts announce a two seater plane using a common light auto engine from the Gorky motor factory. It runs on ordinary auto gasoline and reaches about 76 miles per hour. Its value lies mainly in touring and tokuming uses while defective vision causes about 20 percent of personal injuries in accidents.
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Gorky
Newfoundland forms Mountie style ranger force
A Newfoundland commission government plan, awaiting Dominions Office approval in London, to create a 52 man Royal Mounted style ranger corps. It will base 18 posts on the island and five in Labrador, with a chief ranger and 45 other ranks. They will use planes, cars, boats, horses, and dog teams for police work and administration including customs relief forest protection.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Newfoundland Commission
Dominions Office
London
Labrador
Canada
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Newfoundland
Avalon Peninsula
Four world’s most accurate clocks on exhibit in Berlin
The Reichs Institute for Physics in Berlin displays four highly precise quartz crystal clocks said to deviate only 0.002 seconds in six months. Each crystal vibrates 60 000 times a second inside vacuum tubes wrapped by copper air aluminum and feather walls to stabilize temperature. An electric current drives the crystal and sustains the timekeeping.
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Reichs Institute For Physics
Berlin
Amend Criminal Code Proposal Shields Female From Death
A proposed amendment filed with the House of Commons clerk by T. S. Church Cons Toronto East would bar death sentences for any female. The Toronto Globe notes the act would require one third of jurors in a female trial to be female, qualified as male jurors.
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House of Commons
T. S. Church Cons
Toronto East
Toronto Globe
The
Globe
King’s Shadow Henry Fitch dies in London at 58
Henry T. Fitch a former Scotland Yard detective and King Edward’s bodyguard known as the King’s Shadow died suddenly in London. He aided in tracking spies during the Great War and helped trace the master German spy Steinhauer. Fitch recounted anti espionage work on Britain’s east coast and details of disguises and espionage in his book Traitors Within.
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Henry T. Fitch
Scotland Yard
Edward
King's Shadow
London
Fitch
Steinhauer
Great Britain
Soho
Lenin
Trotzky
Flat Earth Belief Gathers Niche Support Again
A fragment notes renewed interest among a subset of people who insist the world is flat, reflecting ongoing debate about science literacy and skepticism in contemporary discourse.
Man wins national kitchen planning contest at age 75
Anthony Trew, a 75 year old retired architect from Poole, wins the British Commercial Gas Association national contest with a modern labor-saving kitchen plan. Ten-thousand women competed. Miss Elliott Douglas and Mrs N Collins share second prize. Trew used cardboard ground plans and cut-out cards to map fittings before selecting the winning concept. France imported 10,953,159 bushels of foreign wheat in 1934 with Canada accounting for 9,606,530 bushels.
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British Commercial Gas Association
Anthony Trew
Poole
Elliott Douglas
Kelso
Roxburghshire
N. Collins
Stoke on-Tren
France
Canada
Aye-aye thumbwater sip noted in Madagascar report
In a Madagascar note scientists describe aye-aye feeding behavior dipping fingers in water then pulling them through the mouth. In Deal England two hundred anglers fished six hours and caught 976 fish in a fishing contest.
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Madagascar
Deal
England
Candid Photography and the Amateur Snapshot Craze
John van Guilder explains candid photography as taking natural unposed pictures of people unaware they are photographed. Focus on action, close proximity, and using miniature cameras for quick, unobtrusive shots. The piece notes practice and patience and previews next week’s discussion on equipment and requirements.
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Congo
Florida
Asitep
John van Guilder
Baldwin Warns Nations Drift Toward War Through Fear and Nationalism
In remarks echoed from the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph, Stanley Baldwin cautions European powers not to follow dangerous paths toward conflict. He likens disarmament deadlock and economic nationalism to病 a ward of fear, mentioning gas masks as a tragic necessity and criticizing Germany’s use of the League of Nations as a tool for domination.
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Stanley Baldwin
The
Council
Assembly of Free Churches of
England and Wales
Paris
Locarno
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Baldwin
Germany
League of Nation
Early plantings and rock gardens for Canadian soils
Garden guidance urges sowing tender vegetables early and hardy greens after soil is workable to gain early harvests. It explains frost risks, succession planting, and creating artificial rock gardens with embedded boulders and Alpine features. Emphasis on seed catalogs and selecting varieties suited to Canadian conditions.
Cooking Pudding Under Thames Lime Reaction
An Englishman attempted to cook a pudding at Thames bottom. He placed it in a tin, put the tin in a lime filled sack and lowered it into the river. After three hours the lime’s heat cooked the pudding as the sack was retrieved.
Quote on agriculture as root of well being by Shou-ning
The ancient Chinese emperor Shou-ning credits agriculture as the root of a people's well being. He warns that damage to the root harms the tree of life, affecting manufacture and commerce as fragile branches.
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Shou-ning
New Heart Disease Drug From Be-Still Nut Named Thevelin
Dr. Albert S. Hyman of Beth Israel Hospital and Dr. KK Chen of Lilly Research Laboratories announced in Toronto the discovery of thevelin, a heart medicine derived from the be-still nut. The drug reportedly outperforms digitalis and can be injected rather than ingested, with experimental use showing remarkable success at Beth Israel since last September.
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Toronto
Albert S. Hyman
Witkin Foundation
Beth Israel Hospital
KK Chen
Lilly Research Laboratories
Indianapolis
Hawaii
India
Hyman
Chen
Band of Chinese Bandits Murder Rail Workers Over Superstitions
Reports from Laiyang district southwest of Honan describe an enraged group killing 16 railroad workers and abducting 43 more on the Canton to Hankow line. Local residents fear the fate of the 423 abducted men and cite beliefs in underground spirits and sacrifices to bring weather luck for construction. The piece also notes the sacred African lily is native to India.
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South China
Laiyang
Honan
Canton
Hankow
Afar Chioukuoan
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