Four Hundred Miles Yet To Build Trans Canada Highway
The Trans Canada highway remains unfinished after five years of work with about 2000000 dollars spent per the article and over 400 miles still to complete. The Nova Scotia link and Rockies segments face the easiest timelines, while the 270 mile Lake Superior gap may extend longer. Ottawa and provinces have shared costs with federal grants covering half the expenditures.
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Vogue Films plans three hour color Bible film
A British firm Vogue Films proposes a £400000, year long production of a color Bible feature using three directors and many international actors. The project aims for 15 000 feet, risking censorship rules on religious material and theatrical restraints, noted as a bold but contested venture in London Observer reporting.
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Vogue Films
Red Sea
L.cc
Cecil B. de Mille
Korda
Mary Borden
Victor Sjostrom
London Observer
Motorist Must Pay Damages for Pedestrian Causing Accident
An Ipswich case holds a driver liable for damage caused in avoiding a careless pedestrian yet allows compensation to the driver when an emergency is created by the pedestrian. The ruling stresses drivers’ responsibility on public roads and notes compensation rights for cautious motorists faced with sudden pedestrian danger. The report also recalls New York’s first auto show with a circular Madison Square Garden track to demonstrate cars moving under their own power at low speed.
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England
Ipswich
Toronto Telegram
New York
Madison Square Garden
Population figures and migration for Canada and Australia forecast
The Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada's population at 11,196,441 with 278,992 births, 140,177 deaths, 23,049 immigrants and 38,257 emigrants this year. Australia expects to produce 20,000 tons of dried currants this year.
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Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Australia
Grandmothers' Club of Chicago Showcases Modern Busy Women
A Stratford Beacon-Herald summary notes a Chicago Grandmothers' Club with 39 members. One runs a candy factory with 300 workers, another heads a railroad women’s department, and a sixth has sold insurance since age 54. Members balance work and recreation, from riding to gardening, leaving rocking chairs to the older stereotype.
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B. and O. Women's
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Easter Parade at Sea On Ile de France Cruise
The Ile de France sailed on April 15 for the West Indies and held Easter Sunday services. After services, passengers donned their finest bonnets cutaways and toppers and paraded on deck. The festive mood suggested there was no reason to stay home.
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Ile de France
West Indies
Britain Sets De Facto Protectorate Over Hadhramat
Britain establishes an undeclared protectorate along Hadhramat on the southern Arabian coast east of Aden. Independence is formally recognized while agreements allow Royal Air Force authorisation to restore order when needed.
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Arabia
Aden
Great Britain
Hadhramat
Royal Air Force
Women as Travellers and Emancipation Note
A Montreal talk by A A Gardiner cites railway data from Canada and the United States showing women as mostly teachers and nurses who travel by rail. He notes romance and emancipation influence travel. women compare fares, tip for service, and ask many questions. wives lead family trips and spending. honeymoon inquiries and baggage handling are highlighted. men may monopolize dressing rooms. The piece closes with a Harsh Vienna tale and a reference to Dr. Dieckhoff’s Austria question in The New Yorker.
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A A. Gardiner
Westmount Women's Club
Montreal
Gardiner
Canada
The
United
New Yorker
Origin of cornerstone ceremony dated to ancient rites
The origin of laying a cornerstone is traced to ancient times with historians noting possible sacrificial rites practiced when foundations were laid for buildings.
New Brunswick Debtor Law to Be Renovated
Plans move to overhaul a long criticized debt act in New Brunswick amid calls from the Barristers Association. The statute allows creditor executions against both debtor goods and the person, with six debt prisoners jailed monthly in St John.
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New Brunswick
Dickens
Micawber
David Copperfield
New Brunswick Barristers’ Association
St. John
Rust Resistant Wheat Breakthroughs and Alfalfa Guidance
Rust resistant wheats from the Winnipeg based experiment station show potential to eliminate barberry rust in North America. New wheat varieties RL1097 and 975.1 resist leaf rust, covered smut and stem rust. Also covered are alfalfa cultivation tips on soil sweetening, inoculation, and fertilization for various soils and climates.
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Winnipeg
Associate Committee On Grain Research
C. H. Goulden
Goulden
Dominion Rust Laboratory
North America
Maritime Provinces
United States
Canada
Saskatchewan
Ontario Agriculture College
Ottawa
Gartons
Peatland Bar
National Fitness Drive Aims To Link Diet And Exercise
The British government plans to connect fitness with better cookery education. Officials consider expanding evening cookery centres for adults and improving usage of existing ones. The move targets gaps between school cooking lessons and married life, and urges stronger dietetics in public health.
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Ministry of Health
Board of Education
Board of Trade
The Right Way To Lift A Heavy Weight
The guide explains improper lifting causes back strain as a person bends and lifts with straight legs. It prescribes a straight back, bent knees, hands on the object, and pushing with the legs to transfer effort from the back to the stronger leg muscles.
Byron the superstitious man with many daily cautions
Byron believed in lucky and unlucky days and avoided Friday tasks. He shunned being helped to salt at table and feared spills and breaks, interpreting salt or oil spills bread falling or a broken mirror as signs of dire events to come.
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Byron
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