World happenings briefly told from the globe
The snippet notes the Eagle carrier and 15 naval ships arriving at Singapore boosting base defenses. It mentions William McKay of Timmins with 154 stitches after windshield injury. It lists honors for Earl Baldwin and four others by Dr Nicholas Murray Butler. It reports Canada’s unusual capital inflow in securities in early 1939 and June relief figures. Iraq to pay widow of George Monck-Magon. rural mail carriers to get metal markers. and Germany urging wooden street signs to replace iron ones as scrap-drive moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
William McKay
Timmins. Ont
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Earl Baldwin
Bewdley
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Labor Department
Norman McLarty
Ottawa
Germany
Eskimos Observe Ice Filled Air Conditioning On Train
A Eskimo party touring the viceregal train at Churchill watched CN car service workers fill ice bunkers for air conditioning. They laughed and puzzled over heating the inside while storing ice outside, noting the white man’s ways as strange. They lingered hours as the train’s work finished, then returned to their boats to tell relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir
Eskimos
Canadian National Car Service
Not A General Failure There Will Be No 400 Million Bushel Wheat Crop
The Lethbridge Herald notes there will be no bumper 400 million bushel Western wheat crop but argues that 300 million could suffice. It says every part of the West has some grain, with seed and feed available, and that while optimism wanes after late rains, the region remains better off than in past years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Island shipwrecker crew awaits rescue after long exile
A desert island castaway tale ends when a liner drops a small boat ashore to deliver newspapers from the captain who doubts the crew wishes to be rescued. The text notes that the body stores vitamins other than vitamin C found in citrus, tomatoes, and greens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desert Island
High standard of living praised by British poultry chief
Percy A. Francis the British Poultry Commissioner told a Connecticut service group during his World Poultry Congress tour that Americans enjoy a high standard of living with many comforts not found in less favored lands. He contrasted Britain's prosperity with European unemployment and noted Americans and Canadians may underestimate their blessings. Brantford Expositor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy A. Francis
Great Britain
Connecticut
World Poultry Congress
Cleveland
Francis
Britain
United States
Canada
Brantford Expositor
Carved Miniature Home Clock Remembers Swedish Romance
A 1767 carved three story miniature home by Gustav Ellshoff, a Swedish farmer near Stockholm, recalls a love story halted by blood poisoning and amputation. The 13 window clock features figures, grape vine porch, and hourly chimes with one of four tunes. Michael Horvath owns the piece in Miami, Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Horvath
Miami
Fla
Gustav Ellshoff
Stockholm
Elishoff
Indian woman farmer wins best dressed in Merritt parade
An Indian farmer claiming to be 102 years old won first prize as best dressed Indian in a stampede parade at Merritt British Columbia. She chose cash over a 50 foot garden hose prize. her farm relies on wells and irrigation ditches for water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabby Fish
Merritt
B.C
Britain Prorogation Spurs Massive Defence Build Up
After a nine month session Parliament prorogued and outlined a vast rearmament plan. Nearly 3.5 billion earmarked for annual defence costs. Military aid pledged to Poland Romania Greece and Turkey. Conscription to 200000 yearly, territorial army at 340100, aim for 1000000 under arms this fall. A 19 division field force to lead on the continent. Ministry of Supply created to oversee 500 million yearly war purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Rumania
Greece
Turkey
Britain
Ministry of Supply
Munich
Chamberlain
Ottawa Journal
Canary Witness Caper in Strassburg Divorce Case
London Listener recounts a Strassburg 1928 case where a canary acted as witness in a divorce. A man claimed his wife abused him and the judge had the wife pretend to strike him, provoking the canary to frenzy and causing the wife to confess, guiding the judge to rule for the husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancelot Robson
Strassburg
London Listener
Popular Cowboy Songs Booklet Offer From Winnipeg Paper
Home Service Dept offers Popular Cowboy Songs featuring 19 tunes with words music and piano. Includes The Border Affair Ridin Down That Old Texas Trail In The Gold Fields Of Montana and The Stutterin Cowboy. Also available are 110 Hand Made Gift Novelties 129 The Meaning of Dreams 159 Build Your Own College Background. Send 15c per booklet to Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gold
Montana
Bill
Texas
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Soft Becoming Shirtwaister From Anne Adams Pattern 4185
Slimming shirtwaister pattern 4185 by Anne Adams features a gored front skirt for slim lines and fullness below the front yoke for bodice softness. Choose air cooled sleeve slashes or straight cuffs in white or bright colors with a scalloped collar. Available in multiple sizes, order includes 20 cents. send size, name, address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Selected Recipes For Lemon Dessert Serve Six
Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored. Stir in lemon juice and rind, sugar, corn starch and milk. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites with corn syrup. Pour into a 10 by 6 inch oiled dish. Place in a pan of cold water and bake slowly until set. Serves six.
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Benson's
Canada
Mazda
Ham and Mushroom Omelet with Tomato Parsley Sauce
Cut ham and mushrooms into thin strips and brown in half the butter. Crumble crackers, mix with milk, beat eggs, combine and cook covered on low heat. Prepare sauce by frying onion in remaining butter, add peeled tomatoes and simmer. Fold omelet, plate, ladle sauce around and sprinkle parsley. Six portions.
Civil Pilot Vacancies Open in Britain with High Pay
Britain offers civil air pilot jobs paying up to 5500 dollars yearly with two months holiday and paid leave, but demand outstrips supply as pilots are retained by the RAF. The nation expands reserve schools across Britain training thousands of volunteer reserve pilots, raising need for instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
RAF
Japan US silk trade links in economic cycle
Eighty five percent of Japan's raw silk goes to the United States. Japan uses the money earned from silk sales to buy cotton, creating a cyclical trade between the two nations.
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Japan
United States
Yeziah's Piety and Pride Guide Uzziah's Reign in Judah
The lesson recounts Uzziah's rise to the throne of Judah at age sixteen and a 52 year reign, aided by Zechariah the priest. His piety brought prosperity until pride led him to intrude into the priests’ sacred duty, resulting in leprosy and exile from the temple. His son Jotham ruled as regent.
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Yeziah
Uzziah
Amaziah
Judah
Jerusalem
Jehovah
Zechariah
Azariah
Bennett
Jotham
Record Strength Growth Spotlight at BC Legion Convention
Brigadier W. W. Foster of Vancouver, Dominion president, spoke at Kamloops B C for the 13th annual British Columbia command convention. He praised consolidation and unity in Canada, urged leaders to seize opportunity, cited a national veterans survey, and warned the Legion would act if liberty is threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Legion
W. W. Foster
Vancouver
Dominion
British Columbia
Kamloops
B.C
Foster
Canada
National Veterans
Mackenzie King
Legion
England's women farmers stand out at Windsor show
At the Royal Agricultural Societies centenary display in Windsor, it was disclosed that one in twenty British farmers is a woman and nearly all succeed. Mrs Enid Southey, once a London actress, runs a 500 acre Lincolnshire weed farm profitably, breeding belted gallows and hunters while growing pedigree wheat and barley.
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Great Britain
Royal Agricultural Societies
Windsor
Enid Southey
London
Lincolnshire
Nice Gull Confusion and Beehive Fact
An Irishman misidentifies gulls as a flock of pigeons while aboard a ship. The piece then notes the beehive composition with 50 to 75 thousand workers, several hundred drones, and one queen.
Insulin patent protection and mining safety patent discussed
At a Chicago conference on medical patents, F Lorne Hutchison of the University of Toronto described why a basic patent protected the public for insulin since 1922 and how a second patent shielded a silicosis reducing machine used in mines from profiteering, with rights dedicated to the world via the Ontario Mining Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Frederick Banting
Dr. Best
Toronto
American Medical Association
Chicago
F. Lorne Hutchison
Connaught Laboratories
Insulin Committee
University of Toronto
Banting
Best
University
Ontario Mining Association
Editorial Note on Dr McCullough's Cancer Articles
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCullough's cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont. The notice directs readers to request the full series through the specified Ontario address.
Young collector catalogs global woods in scrapbook
Ten year old Roland Williams of Kirkland Ohio gathers wood from around the world. His scrapbook includes 50 species of native wood and over 600 foreign woods such as lancewood from Australia snakewood from Dutch Guiana koa and Hawaiian samples. The oak is noted as most lightning struck. England has had no beech birch horse chestnut or holly struck since 1930.
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Roland Williams
Kirkland
Ohio
Australia
Dutch Guiana
Hawaii
England
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Iraq
George Monck-Magon
Mosul
Mary Ann Burns
Bird
Home Service
Christie's
Uzzziah
Health League
DR. J. W. S. Mscullough
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