World Happenings Briefly Told From Various Lands
Five buffalo for Prince Albert National Park arrived by train from Elk Island Alberta with a pad dock prepared for the animals. London officials rename mental hospitals to hospitals. An automatic stocker device may cut grain labor in half. Canadian fowl gift to Leipzig Zoo Gardens noted. Judge McKinley urges more parental time with children. Canada may seek new trade pacts with New Zealand as Jordan visits Toronto. An old anti-aircraft shell from 1915 found in Norbury garden. Jumbo H Barratt retires from royal service after 35 years. A 100 year old Indian grave uncovered near Red River with knife and flint tool nearby.
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Prince Albert National Park
Elk Island Park
Alberta
Henry Smith
Toronto
Leipzig
Germany
Leipzig Zoological Gardens
John F. McKinley
Ottawa
Ontario Parole Board
Canada
New Zealand
W. J. Jordan
London
James Parr
Norbury
England
Royal Household
H. Barratt
Red River
Were Seeing Things Ghost Hunt After Stage Incident
Two actresses in Nawabshah report a ghostly sequence after a performance. They claim an old fakir lured them upstairs where two cats with glowing eyes appeared and a man on the roof cried for help before vanishing. They fled and sought safer lodgings.
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Nawabshah
India
Lost Purse Recovered by Museum Janitor
E A Cook of a British Columbia museum found and kept a purse for an hour before returning it when a frantic woman claimed it. She opened the purse and counted $915, then thanked him and left. A stray line notes seasonal cooks and gender longevity.
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E. A. Cook
British Columbia Museum
Cook
Empire Shipping Lines Backed by Sir Edward Beatty in Pacific Unite
An editorial in the London Daily Mail calls for a British rescue of Pacific shipping. It highlights Sir Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, leading British lines to meet foreign competition and secure government subsidies as American vessels gain subsidies and coastal privileges.
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Empire Shipping Lines
Pacific
Sir Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
London Daily Mail
Edward Beatty
British Empire
United States
Honolulu
Beatty
Nazi seaside resort for workers on Ruegen coast
A colossal seaside resort for the working class is planned on Ruegen island between Binz and Sassnitz. Twenty thousand workers and their families will occupy 3,350 sea-facing rooms with a 10 day stay, daily arrivals of 3,000, extensive bakeries, laundries, and 10 large food houses. The beach will feature five miles of promenades and a 2,250 foot pier.
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Binz
Sassnitz
Ruegen
Baltic Sea
Speechcraft of King Edward at Vimy is a model of appropriateness
The Ottawa Journal notes King Edward's Vimy Pilgrims address as a rare example of fitting public speech. It contrasts impromptu eloquence with ritual oratory and warns against rulers mimicking famous phrases. The piece praises simple diction, reverent tone, and genuine connection with the audience.
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Edward Ias
Prince of Wales
Canada
Edward
Buckingham Palace
John Morley
Morley
Vimy
Vimy Ridge
Stalin
Marx
Hitler
Nietzsche
Mussolini
Napoleon
Burke
Otawa Journal
Cosmic Rays Used As Speed Trap In Chicago Lab
A giant 12 ton magnet built at the University of Chicago under Dr. Arthur Holly Compton aims to slow cosmic rays racing at near light speed. The device generates extreme currents to perturb particles and pull them from their line, symbolically like a traffic cop for the universe.
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University of Chicago
Arthur Holly Compton
Paris Sewers Open to Tourists Draw 1107 Visitors in 1935
The underground tour from Place de la Concorde to Madeleine Church, taken by small boats, attracts few visitors but funds the French government. Tours run only in summer, one day a week, at 3 francs per person. Last year revenue totaled about $285. Paris's sewer system spans 600 to 700 miles, though only a quarter mile is accessible to tourists. Ethiopia remains the last independent African nation. Birds possess the highest body temperatures of any creature.
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Paris
Place de la Concorde
Madeleine Church
Victor Hugo
Peter’s Gentile Gospel Visit and Vision in Acts
The Acts 10 11 accounts show Cornelius and household receiving the gospel and baptism. Peter explains his actions to the Jerusalem church recounting the trance vision of a sheet with unclean animals and God’s cleansing command, signifying that God shows no partiality between Jew and Gentile.
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Peter
Jerusalem
Cornelius
Luke
Joppa
Cesarea
German Envoy Ribbentrop Appointed Ambassador to London
German Ambassador to London Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s emissary, is appointed ambassador to London, a high prize post. Former champagne salesman, he recently received rank as ambassador at large with special duties and previously sought wartime alliance with France. He is described as tall with a thin face and wavy hair and once was popular in Ottawa society.
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hitler
London
von Ribbentrop
S.S
Reich
Great Britain
Ottawa
Butler Warns Nations Face Debt Tether in Coming Year
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, returns from a European tour warning that nations spending on unemployment relief totaling about 10 billion dollars annually risk exhausting borrowing capacity within a year. He urges restoring confidence in capital markets to revive trade and lift national incomes while reducing relief needs. A second note explains Japanese samurai salaries once paid in rice, with high ranking samurai earning about 250 tons of rice annually.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Butler
Detroit News
Decorative embroidery panel transfer pattern 15 by 20 inches
Feathery cosmos inspired embroidery panel shown in rope silk or wool adds charm. Pattern 5633 includes transfer panel 15 x 20 inches color chart key stitch illustrations and material list. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Pioneer Captain John Irving Dies at 82 in Vancouver
Vancouver obituary for Captain John Irving a pioneer of Pacific coast steam navigation at 82 after four months illness. He launched the Irving Pioneer Line born aboard a San Francisco Portland sailing vessel and built major ventures including the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co and Yukon Navigation Company with later transfers to White Pass Railway. He also served as British Columbia legislator for Cassiar elected in 1894 and 1897.
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John Irving
Victoria
Mainland
Vancouver
Irving
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
John
Irving Pioneer Line
Irving Line
Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian Pacific Navigation Co
Canadian Pacific Railway Co
Columbia and Koote
Child’s Observation Sparks Wedding Turnabout
A church wedding scene unsettles a little girl who asks her mother if the bride “changed her mind” after seeing the bride walk up the aisle with one man and return with another. The moment captures innocent doubt at a social ceremony.
Garfield the jeweler sets jewel after seat request
In a lecture, General Garfield seated a woman who thanked him as a jewel. He replied I am a jeweler I ve just set the jewel. In South Africa tractor trains 75 feet long are being tested.
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Garfield
South Africa
Famous Figures and Superstitions Across Cultures
A survey of notable figures reveals widespread superstitions from Queen Victoria avoiding Friday journeys to airmen carrying mascots. Lindbergh trusted an elk tooth, Napoleon bowed to French caution, boxers like Baer rely on a gollywog, actors guard stage traditions, and Kemal Pasha shuns house flowers.
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Victoria
Scotland
Colonel Lindbergh
Napoleon
France
Palace of
Fontainebleau
Max Baer
Carpentier
Martin Harvey
Eleanora Duse
India
Sarah Bernhardt
Willie Clarkson
Kemal Pasha
Turkey
Stocking Festival to Honor Troyes Heritage Next September
In Troyes France historians of the hosiery trade announce a colorful festival next September celebrating four centuries of silk stockings. The city, famed for Joan of Arc ties and France’s wooden Gothic church, is labeled the stocking capital with nationwide and overseas distribution. Pocket flight instruments are being offered to air tourists.
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Troyes
France
Henry VIII
Spain
Elizabeth
Joan of Arc
Leather Use in U.S. Auto Industry Declines Since 1922
The article notes a steady drop in leather consumption by the United States automobile industry beginning in 1922, reflecting shifts in materials and production practices within the sector.
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United States
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