World Happenings Briskly Summarized
Gas pressure in Turner Valley declines as tests show. The Prince of Wales foresees returning better times this year. Eva Mitchell 11 earns bronze for saving her sister at Thorndon Park. Sir Alan Cobham inspires a young aviator after first Mansfield flight. China orders 40000 pounds worth Marconi Wireless apparatus for Shanghai beam station. Egypt Britain telephone link inaugurated by Baldwin and Sidky Pasha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner Valley
Britain
Richard Threlfall
Edgbaston
England
Essex Girl Guides
Thorndon Park
Brentwood
Princess Royal
Eva Mitchell
M. Stansall
Mansfield
Alan Cobham
Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited
Shanghai
Chicago
Great Britain
Egypt
Baldwin
House of Commons
Sidky Pasha
Memory Experts and Notable Mnemonic Feats
The article discusses memory specialists who can recall long numeric sequences after brief exposure such as a passing freight train. It notes memory for books and legal texts, and mentions spies memorizing orders. It highlights Mme Bessy Neumann who has memorized the Old Testament and is now learning Shakespeare by heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Bessy Neumann
Randell to lead radium field expedition from Edmonton
Captain John T. Randell formerly of the rum runner I'm Alone now sails from Edmonton to the Great Bear Lake radium fields. He will command a boat used by a party examining claims in the radium area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Randell
United States Coastguard
Edmonton
Great Bear Lake
Randell
New Electric Apparatus Delivers Hot and Cold Air
An electric device invented to produce adjustable temperatures, sending a hot current in cool seasons via a fan and heater, and allowing cold air by passing over cracked ice or ice water in warm weather.
Defense overbidding in contract bridge analyzed for rubber play
The article outlines how vulnerable overcalling requires stronger high card and trump-taking strength, and explains defense bidding tied to penalties and potential losses. It discusses two key factors for defenders: certainty opponents can make and estimating losing tricks, with examples of set requirements to save first game rubber and partial scores.
Winnipeg Fashion Pattern for Modish Day Dress
An advertisement offers a full day dress with built-up waist and draped cowl neck in dark blue and white crepe silk print, plus options in striped cotton voile and dotted prints. Size range 36 to 48 inches bust. Pattern No 650 requires 2 4 yards of fabric plus 1 2 yards plain material. price 25 cents in stamps or coin.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern No. 06k cen guide lists Winnipeg address at 172 McDermot Ave. for ordering. It notes town name and how to place orders with the Winnipeg Pattern service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Stork Hoax Draws Crowds as Grimsby Roof Fascinates
Hundreds gathered in England to tempt a stork perched on a Grimsby roof with food, while a private zoo owner and bird collector named A Sutcliffe intervened. The scene sparked chatter about the bird’s motionless stance on one leg and public curiosity over the adopted spectacle.
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England
Grimsby
A. Sutcliffe
Rhubarb Juice Making for Fresh Beverages and Desserts
Rhubarb juice suits fruit drinks and tart jelly flavors. Use tough stalks simmered with water until soft, strain, and sweeten with two cups sugar per quart. Boil briefly, skim, and seal in hot jars or bottles.
Creole Custard With Coffee Twist
A simple Creole custard recipe cooks hot milk with sugar and salt, then thickens eggs in a double boiler. The mixture blends with cold coffee, strained and chilled to serve as a coffee flavored custard dessert.
Memorial for Adventurers of Denmark and Norway
Announcement in Winnipeg by Rev. B M Hefrenning of Pine Creek Minnesota plans a memorial cairn at Churchill for Captain Jens Munck and 66 adventurers who founded Winterhaven on Hudson Bay shores in 1619. Munck was sent by King Christian the Fourth with Chaplain Rasmus Jensen Aarhus who died in 1620 after the harsh winter.
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Churchill
Jens Munck
Winterhaven
Hudson Bay
Winnipeg
B. M. Hefrenning
Pine Creek
Minn
Munck
Christian the Fourth
Denmark
Norway
Rasmus Jensen Aarhus
America
Sir Hall Caine Honored At Literary Dinner
The guest of honor Sir Hall Caine attended a literary dinner where Thomas Nelson Page introduced him. Page, eager to secure a signed autograph, urged Caine to sign his menu card before speaking. Caine obliged and later asked why the rush. Page replied he wanted to claim he had read something Caine wrote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Hall Caine
Thomas Nelson Page
Page
Caine
Sir Hall
An Innocent Question About a Grandfather Bust
A small boy studies his late grandfather’s bust on a circular stand and asks his mother if that was all there was to grandpapa. The scene captures a child’s candid, humorous reflection on ancestry.
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Grandpapa
Defendant Demands Justice In Courtroom Outburst
A defendant loudly calls for justice as the judge call for order and reminds him of courtroom decorum. The exchange highlights tensions inside a legal proceeding.
Sport and Adventure In Northeastern Manitoba
Northeastern Manitoba offers historic canoe routes from Norway House to Cross Lake and Island Lake with vast water networks and timber fringed shores. The area hosts large lake trout up to fifty pounds, speckled trout, and four to five pound small streams fish. guides, canoes, and trading posts serve anglers and tourists exploring the pioneer routes to Hudson Bay.
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Canada
Manitoba
Island Lake
Red Lake
Ontario
Flin Fion Lake
Norway House
Lake of Winnipeg
Selkirk
Red River
Winnipeg
Hudson's Bay Company
God's Lake
Oxford House
Cross Lake
Nelson River
York Factory
Hudson Bay
Cross
Molson
Oxford
Island
Silence Rules at Marawald Monastery in Eifel Germany
In the monastery of Marawald in the Eifel region of Germany monks of the strictest penitential order live in perpetual silence. Abbot and lay brothers work for sustenance, while food remains simple and robes change only every eight days. All inmates sleep on plain boards in a single room.
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Marawald
Eifel
Germany
Sheep on Berlin airfield raise safety concerns
The scene shows two flocks of sheep placed on the Berlin Central aero drome to keep grass down. Sheep dogs and shepherds are employed to prevent sheep from entering aircraft paths while pilots watch for hazards.
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Berlin
Germany
Canada Expands Use of Domestic Wool Despite Exports
Major Douglas Hallam of the Canadian Woolen and Knit Goods Manufacturers Association notes a threefold increase in Canadian produced wool bought domestically versus exports. The National Research Foundation report details market routes from abattoirs to mills, with 108 firms selling Canadian wool and about five million pounds used in home industries.
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Douglas Hallam
Canadian Woolen and Knit Goods Manufacturers Association
Toronto
Canada
National Research Foundation
Burglar Alarm Demonstration Shows New Jewel Protection
A South end On Sea demonstration shows a new alarm system for jewel thefts. A jeweller pretends to be a robber as a hole is cut in a shop, a siren sounds, a gas and smoke bomb deploy, and a hidden steel panel seals off the window to guard the jewels.
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Southend-On-Sea
Brain controls reading speed and processing
The brain, not the eye, sets reading pace. Eyes move in jerks with pauses to perceive text and grasp meaning. Six words per second equals about four and a half hours to read a standard book, a speed many aspire to but must be supported by mental processing.
Glacier Priest Returns From North After Crusade To World’s Largest Crater
Rev. Father Bernard R. Hubbard, Glacier priest of Santa Clara University, arrives at Victoria after five months of exploration of Aniackchak largest active crater in the world. The expedition notes a 21 mile circumference crater and a 3000 foot depth, reached by air and foot, with an official record of the highest crater bed temperatures known to man.
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Aniackchak
Bernard R. Hubbard
Santa Clara University
Victoria
Australians Complete Overland 12000 Mile Dover Tour
Four women and two men began in Melbourne six months ago and arrived in Dover England after traveling 12000 miles by car across land.
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Melbourne
Australia
Dover
England
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Pontiac
Oakland County
Gus
Gulliver
Glacier Priest
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