World Happenings Briefly Told
The Duke of Gloucester receives a full major rank in the 10th Royal Hussars before sailing. Glasgow hosts the Canadian Bisley team. The British Commons adjourns to October 28 with no election plans before spring. The electric chair at Sing Bing Prison has 375 executions. Southern Rhodesia PM Huggins proposes a United States of Africa. Belfast unrest ends with shops reopening. Harold Sutherland, 17, Canada’s first TV piper, attends a service club lunch. Manitoba barley field day discusses crop improvements and marketing. US Army MPs guard a secret: a new mystery ray detects ships in fog and darkness.
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Duke of Gloucester
10Th
Royal Hussars
Tome
Glasgow
Scotland
House of Commons
Sing Bing
Cape
East Africa
United States of Africa
G. M. Huggins
Southern Rhodesia
Belfast
Harold Sutherland
Westville
N.S
Service Club
Charlottetown
Sutherland
Canada
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg
National Barley Committee
United States Army
Record Of Publisher Lord Atholstan 87 in Montreal Star service
Lord Atholstan Hugh Graham completes eighty seven years and continues active service as a commentator on public affairs. He has spent about sixty six years with the Montreal Star and leads the influential Weekly Star with about a quarter million subscribers. Born July 5 1848 in Atholstan Huntingdon County he founded the Star as Montreal papers lagged in vigor. Sherbrooke Record.
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Lord Atholstan
Montreal Star
Montreal Standard
Montreal
Canada
Quebec
Weekly Star
Hugh Graham
Atholstan
Huntingdon County
Quebec Province
Star
Metropolis
Sherbrooke Record
Sympathy From Governor Talmadge Editor In Atlanta
Governor Eugene Talmadge, editor of The Statesman in Atlanta, Georgia, laments low pay in newspaper work while praising discipline in keeping a paper debt free and sustaining engaging news columns. He notes his role as associate editor of the weekly political paper.
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Eugene Talmadge
Atlanta
Georgia
The
Statesman
Auctioneer Voice Recorded During Mauretania Furnishings Sale
A recording of the auctioneer’s voice during the Mauretania sale is to be stored for posterity in the Gallery of Famous Voices and Famous Occasions at Broadcasting House in London. The recording will accompany voices of Britain's greatest figures from the monarchy to notable citizens.
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Mauretania
Broadcasting House
London
Britain
Doctor and patient discussing whiskey prescription
A humorous exchange where a doctor asks for symptoms before prescribing whiskey and the patient inquires what symptoms would justify it. The dialogue highlights medical skepticism and wit in a vintage tone.
Motoring Misadventure Ends With Hayfield Blaze
A Toronto Telegram tale recounts a man parking beside a coal truck and a sedan. After misjudging a space he released the truck’s brake, dumping five tons of coal on Yonge Street. A cigarette ignited the back seat, which he removed, but the fire spread to a two acre hayfield before volunteers stopped it.
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Yonge Street
Toronto Telegram
Rubber Industry Surges With Malaya Leading World Output
The Rubber Industry shows phenomenal growth in the twentieth century. British Malaya produced about 465,765 tons last year, roughly half the world supply, and rubber exports rose to 229.64 million dollars in the first ten months of 1934, up 87.4 percent from the previous year.
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British Malaya
Canadian National Railways
Canada
Dalai Lama Chosen After Eighteen Months of Search
A seven member commission selected twenty Tibetan babies from which six were narrowed to the final candidate. The infant Dalai Lama is anointed, bathed in Ganges water, and guarded as the mother departs with wealth from the palace treasure chamber. Tibet’s vast plateau climate is noted.
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Dalai Lama
Buddha
Lhassa
Ganges
Tibet
France
Siberia
Mont Blanc
The Queen’s Full Name Array Explained
The passage lists Britain’s monarchs’ formal names as Victoria, Mary Augusta, Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Wind sor. It reflects how royal titulature extends beyond the regnal name and commonly includes multiple given names.
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Queen Mary
Victoria
Mary Augusta
Louise Olga
Pauline Claudine
Agnes Windsor
Montreal Experiments Measure Bullet Speeds
Researchers in Montreal report bullets fired from powerful rifles travel faster than most objects on earth aside from light and electricity, reaching speeds exceeding 3 000 feet per second in controlled tests.
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Montreal
Woman Learns to Drive Imagining Husband at Wheel
A humorous 2110-era cartoon caption shows a woman asking for guidance as she learns to drive. Her husband reassures by telling her to imagine he is behind the wheel. The gag hinges on role reversal and situational tension typical of the period.
Recipes For This Week Round Steak Cakes
Instructions for making beef cakes from round steak using bread crumbs egg onion juice salt pepper and milk. Form small cakes, fry until browned, then prepare a cream gravy with flour and milk, return cakes to sauce and simmer. Serves about eight.
Dried Apricot and Pineapple Jam Recipe Instructions
A historic jam recipe outlines preparation of dried apricots and crushed pineapple with sugar and fruit pectin. It details soaking apricots, grinding fruit, combining with water and juice, boiling to a rolling boil, adding pectin, skimming, pouring, and paraffin sealing to yield about 11 glasses of jam.
Fortune's Strange Tricks Hit Jubilee Winners in Calcutta
In Calcutta the Jubilee dip yields odd prizes a bald businessman wins a free permanent wave a poor coolie secures a cocktail shaker and an Indian cook earns a dining permit for two at a grand hotel all free of charge.
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Fortune
Calcutta
India
Lyman completes solo 550 mile kayak voyage to New York
Ida Lyman a 22 year old Montreal social worker finished a solo 550 mile voyage in a 15 foot Eskimo kayak from Montreal to New York. She described the trip as a good rest after detailing the storms and rapids faced along Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River. Captain Bill Byrne called her the first person to make the crossing single handed and noted she built the craft herself two years ago.
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Ida Lyman
Montreal
New York
Lake Champlain
Bill Byrne
George Washington Boating Association
Miss Lyman
Denmark
Richeliu
Noted Collection Honors Rev John Smithurst on Elora Death
The University of Western Ontario in London receives a collection from Thomas Connor of Goderich about Rev. John Smithurst who died in Elora, Ontario in 1867. Smithurst, born in Derbyshire, England, was cousin to Florence Nightingale and was once engaged to her before families objected. He later moved to Canada as a missionary. His former fiancée rose to global nursing fame.
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University of Western Ontario
London
Thomas Connor
Goderich
John Smithurst
Elora
Ontario
Florence Nightingale
Derbyshire
England
Canada
No Doubt About It Gunpoint Exchange
A robber confronts a victim who claims rheumatics and cannot raise hands. The assailant insists, boasting about automatics, and the victim finally yields, conceding the robber’s dominance in a brief street confrontation. The dialogue captures a tense, confrontational mugging moment.
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Mistah
Brunswick Star quilt pattern from old colonial favorite
A quilt design titled Brunswick Star features eight points with diamond borders, described as easy to sew with four materials and three pattern pieces. Pattern 5249 includes block chart, yardage, and placement diagrams, available for 20 cents from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union, Household Arts Dept.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Sunday School Lesson Refers to Body as Temple
The golden text from I Corinthians 6 19 declares that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit given by God The lesson centers on Daniel Chapter 1 and includes a devotional reading from Psalm 46 The tone matches a church bulletin card with concise religious guidance and biblical references
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I. Corinthians
Daniel
Daniel and the Babylonian King’s College Test
In the third year of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar takes Jewish youths to Babylon for three years of education in the Chaldean tongue and civil service. Daniel and three companions refuse royal dainties, propose a ten day pulse and water test, and prove healthier and fairer. God blesses their wisdom and they rise to positions beside the king.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel
Jehoiakim
Babylon
Jerusalem
Temple
Princes’ College
Ashpenaz
God
Hananiah
Mishael
Azariah
Town Crier Resigns In Cromer England After 200 Years
R H Laurence quits as Cromer town crier as the post wastes away with low summer pay and near zero winter earnings. The historic duty fades as newspapers and radio replace the old street cry. The 200 year old bell is silenced and the uniform folded.
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Cromer
England
R. H. Laurence
Crier
Laurence
Ancient Egyptian Paper Mill Still Produces Cardboard
In Alexandria today a single paper mill manufactures cardboard from locally sourced waste paper and rags. The product is used to make cigarette boxes in high demand, reflecting a long history of papermaking in Egypt.
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Egypt
Alexandria
Roman Customs on Beards and Mourning
In ancient Rome, men shaved the beard at age 21 to offer to household gods. Afterward a beard grew again only as a sign of mourning.
Little Journeys In Science Explains Alkalis andBases
Gordon H. Guest summarizes alkalis and bases origins and properties. He explains how common alkalis like sodium hydroxide potassium hydroxide calcium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide dissolve in water change litmus color and react with acids. Practical uses include soap making lime-water tests and fruit processing.
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Magnesia
Blind Students Learn to Swim at Chorleywood College
Blind girls at Chorleywood college Hertford learn swimming using their toes as guides. The pool features a raised edge and extra matting on the diving board. An official from the National Institute of the Blind notes the confidence and grace these students show in water.
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Viscountess Hampden
Chorleywood College
Hertford
Eng
The
National Institute of the Blind
Chorleywood
Treasures loaned by China guarded at Royal Academy
Chinese government treasures worth millions are kept under heavy police guard in the Burlington House basement, the Royal Academy headquarters in London, after arriving on the cruiser Suf folk. They will stay under protection until fall when shown in a special exposition.
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Burlington House
Royal Academy
London
Suffolk
Prince the drum-horse of the Royal Artillery dies at 18
Prince, the cream colored drum-horse of the Royal Artillery mounted band, was put to death after falling ill during Jubilee Review rehearsals. The 18 year old animal was well known to the King and Queen.
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Prince
Royal Artillery Mounted Band
Aldershot Veterinary Hospital
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Betty Barclay
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York
Tan of
Alice Brooks
Chis
Gordon H. Guest
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