Hidden Egyptian Tomb Drives Starr toward Fear and Fate
Starr Ellison, raised among Egyptian relics, accompanies her Professor father on a dig to uncover a hidden tomb of Tut Amen Ra. The discovery sparks fierce dread in Starr as desert mysteries and a foreboding sunset hint at danger to come, ending with the explorers entering the tomb.
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Starr Ellison
Ellison
Egypt
Starr
Star
Tut-Amen-Ra
Ama-Sun
Desert
John Lessing
John
Professor Ellison
Austrian Youth Swimmer Suspended for Refusal to Participate
Ruth Langer, 15, member of Hakoah Jewish sports club, suspended two years by Austrian authorities for refusing to join the Olympic team. Her action aligned with the Maccabi union boycott. Earlier, 17-year-old Judith Deutsch received the same two year suspension for a similar refusal.
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Ruth Langer
Hakoah Jewish
Miss Langer
Maccabi Union
Judith Deutsch
Has Never Changed Address Mrs Layton Celebrates Eightieth
Mrs T Layton of Graf ton Australia has spent her life at the same home since birth in 1856 on the day her parents landed in Australia aboard a sailing ship. Her carpenter father built the house, once the sole dwelling along a brush track now a main street.
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T. Layton
Grafton
Australia
World fallacies in economic self sufficiency and nationalism
The Toronto Star argues nations cannot become self sufficient economies. It criticizes withdrawal and protectionism, noting modern science and industry rely on dispersed sources. It warns against trading partners turning enemies and contrasts old global trade with today’s export led promises to pay.
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Britain
Toronto Star
Bomb proof underground house raises council concerns
Alan Daly of Elstree says a wealthy client commissioned a bomb-proof underground home. Barnet Rural Council doubts the plans meet building ordinances and officials fear the project may be rejected. Daly may submit drawings to the Ministry of Health. estimated cost around 150000 dollars.
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Europe
Barnet Rural Council
England
Alan Daly
Elstree
Daly
Ministry of Health
Vancouver Hosts Lobster Turtles For Jubilee Banquet
West Indies chef Cornelius Muysenberg studied four West Indian turtles sent from the Cayman Islands. He plans to boil the 280 pound reptiles shell and all for soup to feed about 500 guests at a London lord mayoral banquet, while shells remain intact for the jubilee committee.
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Cornelius Muysenberg
Vancouver
Cayman Islands
Muysenberg
London
Athlete on a Diet Or Traveller on Commission
A big business man, forced to a quick lunch, orders the best available. Opposite him a fit but thin young traveler eyes the plate with envy. The man explains sympathetically that the rival is not an athlete but a traveler on commission.
Breakfast grapefruit overnight tip sparks cold shower idea
A household hint suggests leaving the breakfast grapefruit in the refrigerator overnight to start the day with a cold shower as an invigorating routine.
Treasures From China At Vancouver Jubilee Fair
The article описes an exhibition in Vancouver Chinatown celebrating the citys 50th birthday. Art treasures from China are shown on a sawdust lot with joss sticks burning before grand gods. Olive cheeked Chinese girls guide tourists as soft drinks and bamboo gateways frame the portal.
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Vancouver
China
Four Deuteronomy Papyrus Fragments Found in Manchester Library
C H Roberts of St Johns College Oxford announced in Two Biblical Papyri that four papyrus fragments inscribed with Deuteronomy in Greek belong to the Septuagint and predate other manuscripts by about three centuries. The scraps, part of a cartonnage wrapping mummies bought in 1917, have no origin marks.
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John Ryland
Manchester
England
C. H. Roberts
St. John’s College
Oxford University
Roberts
Alexandria
Ptolemy Philadelphis
Montreal woman claims traffic light system is her achievement
Miss Fanny Florinda Drummond, nearing 100, says a 10-year-ago accident spurred Montreal to install traffic signals. She denies being that old while asserting she campaigned for safer streets after being knocked down at a crossing. She still uses antique terms like apothecary for pharmacist.
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Montreal
Fanny Florinda Drummond
Miss Drummond
Row Across Bay of Fundy Stuns Historic Feat
Harry F. Phillips became the first man in fifty years to row across the Bay of Fundy. He crossed from Jonesport, Maine to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia aboard a 13 foot, 112 pound double ended dory after three years of planning.
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Bay of Fundy
Harry F. Phillips
Yarmouth
Nova Scotia
Jonesport
Maine
Boston
Phillips
Platform questions and political definitions provoke debate
The Montreal Star quotes Popper defining a platform as a declaration of unattainable aims designed to confuse voters. It notes politicians make such statements for quick consumption while most readers skim. The remark is followed by a whimsical line about loons swimming.
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Popper
Montreal Star
Walking with God in daily life and trials
A devotional meditation on Genesis 5 24 asking if modern believers can walk with God in work, home, and street life. It stresses a daily, divine presence as essential to endure annoyances, failed plans, and life’s rushing tides. The piece urges living by a conscious inner love that lifts and strengthens.
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God
Australia to Form Native Bushman Police Academy
Australian bushmen known as black trackers of the Northern Territory will be organized into a native constabulary to aid white mounties. The trackers, famed for following trails across rugged terrain, will contribute courage and endurance to maintain order among their own people.
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Australia
Russian jazz tied to folk roots says Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff, former Moscow Art Theatre member, claims American jazz is nearly as old as Russia’s folk tunes and equates it to Caucasian zurna music. He compares the zurna’s sound to the saxophone.
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America
Russia
Akim Tamiroff
Moscow Art Theatre
Caucasus
Smallest Woman Dead in Germany At 24 Inches
The so called smallest woman in the world, known as Princess Elizabeth, has died in Bad Pyrmont south of Hanover Germany. She was 22 years old though described as 24 to 25 inches tall and weighed about 22 pounds. She was the daughter of normal parents and sister of two brothers of normal height.
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Princess Elizabeth
Bad Pyrmont
Hanover
Germany
Record Heat Hits Nome Alaska With 83.8 Degrees
An Arctic heat wave was logged in Nome as the official high reached 83.8 degrees. The prior record stood at 81.4 and before that 80 degrees, both noted in earlier years.
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Nome
German monk Berthold Schwartz and early firearms
Berthold Schwartz, a German monk, is credited with inventing firearms. He is said to have worked on crude weapons between 12320 and 1354, marking an early chapter in weapon development.
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Berthold Schwartz
Schwartz
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