Queen Mary Not Aims Speed Dominion Or Luxury
The Times counters beliefs that Cunard White Star’s Queen Mary will reclaim Atlantic speed or be the era’s premier luxury liner. It argues the project aimed for a balanced weekly service with safety, stability, and efficiency as priorities, featuring advanced detectors, auto helmsman, fire protection, and fog navigation.
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Cunard-White Star
Atlantic
Cunard Steamship Company
Mauretania
Italy
North Atlantic
Great Britain
Clydebank
London Times
Times
the Times
Queen Mary
Seven Seas
New Uniform Calendar Plan Proposed by Rev Father Wilhelm
The reform calendar assigns fixed weekdays to month dates with four 31 day months at the start of each quarter and 30 days in the other two, December has 31, and a leap day added every four years. January 1 becomes international holiday, with January 2 a Sunday and December 31 a Saturday. Good Friday would be April 7 and Easter Monday April 9. Saturdays on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 become business holidays.
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Jacob Wilhelm
Regina
Father Wilhelm
Revival After Cardiac Massage Adrenaline Resuscitation
The British Medical Journal details the revival of Ernest Hinsley of Waterloo Asthon who died on the operating table. Dr J W Fiddian describes two minutes of cardiac massage followed by intra cardiac adrenaline, which restored heart action and breathing though the patient has no memory of the event. The heart remained tumultuous, suggesting an adrenaline overdose.
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British Medical Journal
Ernest Hinsley
Waterloo
Asthon
J. W. Fiddian
Hinsley
World's Smallest Book Goes on Sale in London
A quarter inch long three sixteenths inch wide book weighing a grain and a quarter is for sale in London. E F Thompson's rendering of Rubaiyat verses is printed from minute copper plates and bound in leather with pages stitched by hand.
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London
E. F. Thompson
Worcester
Massachusetts
Global Jewish population and distribution report
The Jewish Scientific Institute cites a world Jewish population of 16,240,000 with 5,000,000 in the Americas, 30 percent. The figure rose 1,300,000 in a decade. Over 10,000,000 Jews live in three countries: the United States 4,450,000 Poland 3,150,000 and Soviet Russia 3,080,000. Flyers need oxygen at about 18 000 feet.
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Americas
Jewish Scientific Institute
United States
Poland
Soviet Russia
Argentina Estimated Forests Spread Across Vast Area
A report estimates Argentina contains about 200000 square miles of valuable forests. The assessment highlights the extent of forested lands and their potential economic and ecological importance across the country.
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Argentina
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Claim Health Benefit
An old advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a gentle remedy to stimulate bile flow and digestion. It claims the product frees the bowels without calomel or mercury, urging readers to ask for the pills by name and reject alternatives.
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Carter
Deaf Student Overcomes Barriers To Paint Murals And Teach
Hillis Arnold of the University of Minnesota, deaf since birth, completed a three-year mural project illustrating engineering professions. Guided by his mother’s lip reading, he learned to modulate his voice and now teaches at the Minneapolis Institute of Art after graduating in engineering.
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Hillis Arnold
University of Minnesota
A. L Arnold
Hillis
University Engineering School
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Flying boats built at Rochester for Imperial Airways
More than 1,000 skilled workers in Rochester England are constructing 29 giant flying boats for Imperial Airways. The two deck craft carry 24 daytime passengers and 16 sleepers by night, powered by four 740 hp engines for speeds up to 200 mph.
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Rochester
England
Imperial Airways
Cherry Roll Tea Biscuit Bake from Crown Brand Syrup
Drain cherries and save juice boil with water sugar and Crown Brand corn syrup for five minutes. Roll out tea biscuit batter, spread cherries, sprinkle cinnamon and butter, roll jelly roll style, place in pan and bake in a hot oven.
Monroe 1935 Limberger Cheese Sniffing Contest
A 1935 Monroe Wisconsin event featured a limburger cheese sniffing contest drawing local residents and participants. The quirky competition highlighted community humor and novelty activities during the era.
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Monroe, Wis
Canada to issue new coinage with crowned art tribute
The Montreal Star argues during King Edward VIII's coronation Canada should convene artists to design a more attractive coinage. It notes the obverse traditionally bears the sovereign, and the maple leaf wreath on the reverse is dull, urging a competitive design process to showcase Canadian artistic achievement.
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Edward VIII
Canada
United States
Dominion
Montreal Star
London Film Show Revives 40-Year-Old Moving Pictures
At the Polytechnic Cinema London marks the 40th anniversary of motion pictures with clips from Lumiere era. The program includes Trewey changing hat images Louis Lumiere’s tea on the lawn and early newsreel sequences showing St James Palace a surf scene a wall collapse and a French Carabiniers charge. Cecil Hepworth funeral footage notes the journalist's camera noise at Queen Victoria’s service and King Edward VII pausing to let a shot be taken.
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London
Polytechnic Cinema
M. Lumiere
Trewey
Louis Lumiere
St. James’ Palace
Queen Victoria
King Edward VII
Cecil Hepworth
Edward
Ethics or a Hudson Trade Confounds a Freshman
A professor questions a freshman about ethics and the student admits trading ethics for a Hudson. Separately, horticultural experiments reveal seedless watermelons have been grown.
Aspirin Compared With Unknown Preparations For Pain Relief
The notice urges consulting a doctor before trying any new remedy for headaches or pains from rheumatism neuritis or neuralgia. It highlights aspirin as a safer effective option and notes aspirin tablets are made in Canada and carry Bayer's registered trademark.
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Canada
Bayer Company, Limited
Bayer
Demand and Get Aspirin Three Dimensional Toy Car Toons
Max Fleischer announces three dimensional animated car toons for regular projection without gadgets. The invention is past experimental stage and will be released in six months. The effect uses camera foreshortening to six feet and a special lens not focusing directly on objects.
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Max Fleischer
Fleischer
Floods Linked to Sun Spots Said by Scientist
Dr Clyde Fisher director of the Hayden planetarium and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society told a Providence Rhode Island lecture that recent eastern floods are definitely correlated with sun spots and that damp rainy weather may continue for four or five years as spots reach maximum intensity.
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North America
Clyde Fisher
Hayden Planetarium
Royal Astronomical Society
Providence
Rhode Island
Cockney wife charged after alleged assault on husband
A Cockney woman faces charges after striking her husband with a mop during a dispute. The incident arose when she asked if he loved her, and he took long to answer before the blow was struck.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Southampton
New York
Pearson's Weekly
Western
Tion
Hudson
Planetarium
Mecca
Calgary
Edmonton
Winnipeg
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