World Happenings Brought to Light From Berlin Ban List
A 1936-1837 reference by Helen Keller appears among topics banned by Berlin authorities. US circles debate Harry Woodring as a future Canada minister. Creaser named honorary physician to the King. A 116 year old Mexican veteran, Luis Flores, marries Agapina Ramirez after long engagement. Kenya cruiser launch witnessed by Duchess of Gloucester and 15,000 workers. Frank Greenland dies after surgery in Toronto. KLM suspends most routes amid pilot mobilization. Tree class minesweepers planned with Acacia Pine and Fir names. BC plans send 200-300 youths to survey routes for the BC Alaska highway.
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Kenya
Clydebank
Scotland
Duchess of Gloucester
Frank Arthur Greenland
London
Toronto
Always Practical Chinese Brides Inverted Sedan Chairs
Amid civil war and Western influence two brides in sedan chairs sheltered from a storm and swapped chairs by mistake. The error went unnoticed due to veils until arriving at their husbands homes where a feast awaited. Four families, equal in status, accepted Fate and the mispairing.
British Columbia Poultry Sales Rise After World Congress Display
At the 7th World Poultry Congress in Cleveland Ohio the British Columbia Congress Committee ROP breeders sold several birds and hatching eggs. About 200 birds were shipped to Denmark New Zealand Cuba and several U S states. The display featured Buff Orpingtons Light Sussex White Wyandottes Silver Spangled Hamburgs Rhode Island Reds Barred Plymouth Rocks White Leghorns Pyle Game Bantams and Rose Comb Black Bantams.
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Cleveland
Ohio
British Columbia Congress Committee
Denmark
New Zealand
Cuba
United States
Rhode Island
Plymouth Rocks
Bees Attempt Sea Raid on British Cruiser at Portland Harbour
Report recalls earlier robins nest in an aircraft and now notes bees that invaded a British cruiser at anchor in Portland Harbour. The insects seized a boat on the davits, prompting the ship to call police to repel the trespass, an episode described as possibly unique in naval history.
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Portland
The
Christian Science Monitor
Canadian House Finches Found Far From Usual Range
A pair of house finches nested in Okanagan Landing B C in June with five eggs. They fledged a week after hatching then disappeared. This species also appeared in Penticton and Victoria confirming its establishment in Canada.
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Oregon
Idaho
Wyoming
Okanagan Landing
B.C
J. A. Munro
Department of Mines and Resources
Penticton
Victoria
Weather instrument uses cascade mirrors to read upper air
Dr C H Heck of North Carolina State College announced a delicate new weather device for the American Meteorological Society. Through a cascade of mirrors concentrating sky light onto a thermocouple the system detects thousandths of a degree changes in upper air temperature and moisture to forecast the next day. It works by measuring light changes from invisible clouds and works day or night.
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American Meteorological Society
C. H. Heck
North Carolina State College
Heck
Pirated Fingerprint Textbook From Scotland Yard Stirs Leap
J Edgar Hoover reports a United States piracy of a Scotland Yard fingerprint text book. Three Yard experts spent three years on a new single fingerprint system used to train police. Copyright held by HM Stationery Office. The pirate marketed a postal course claiming degree eligibility for employment at Scotland Yard.
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Scotland Yard
United States
Metropolitan
J. Edgar Hoover
G-Men
Yard
H.M. Stationery Office
Selected Pumpkin Pie With Rich Corn Syrup Glaze
Two eggs and pumpkin pie mix combine with brown sugar corn syrup milk cream and spices to fill a raw pastry shell. Bake at first 450 then 350 degrees until set. Garnish with whipped cream and a Crown Brand syrup center for a glossy finish.
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Benson's
Canada
Bacon Waffle Recipe From Bran Mix Note
A recipe describes mixing bran with sour milk and egg yolks, then folding in beaten egg whites and flour with baking powder and salt. Add melted butter and bacon, pour into a hot waffle iron, and bake four four section waffles. One cup raw bacon may replace cooked bacon with bacon sprinkled before closing.
A Lucky Woman Finds Tudor Era Burial Ship Loot
A coroner's jury at Ipswich England ruled the burial ship unearthed on Edith May Pretty’s property belongs to her. The August 2 discovery contained coins gold ornaments and utensils and is believed to be the tomb of Raedwald king of East Anglia.
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Ipswich
Eng
Great Britain
Edith May Pretty
Raedwald
The
East
Angies
Cloak of Marshal Foch Donated to Hazebrouck Museum
The long black cloak worn by Marshal Ferdinand Foch during Great War inspections was presented to the Casse Museum at Hazebrouck, France, by Foch’s widow known as “Papa” Foch’s family.
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Ferdinand Foch
Hazebruck
France
Etiquette Advice Promotes Polite Summer Hotel Etiquette
A Winnipeg newspaper notice promotes a 32 page etiquette booklet and related pamphlets. It stresses proper introductions, conversation inclusion, and courteous deference in social settings at a summer hotel while offering the guides for 15 cents each.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Anne Adams Pattern 4137 Frock For Misses And Women
The ad promotes Anne Adams Pattern 4137 a cotton day dress with front buttons wide side panels back panel scalloped collar and optional trimmings. Sizes 14 through 42 offered with date and yardage guidance and a 20 cent price to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Interesting Antarctic Icebergs and Wildlife Notes
Mr Mackintosh recounts five years aboard Discovery II studying Antarctic mammals and iceberg dynamics. Glaciers calve into seas forming bergs that may look black from dust and thin ice layers. Antarctic seas host rich marine life despite a sparsely populated continent and supply most of the world whale oil.
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Mackintosh
Discovery II
Antarctic
London
Carnegie fortune and Cambridge founder facts
Andrew Carnegie amassed about 400 million dollars and donated more than 350 million. Hugo the Bishop of Ely established Cambridge's first college in 1257.
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Andrew Carnegie
Hugo
Ely
College of
Cambridge
A Vision of God and Isaiah’s Call in Isaiah 6
The devotional passage analyzes Isaiah 6 1 13 focusing on the vision of God in the temple the seraphim and their reverence the prophet’s self conviction “Woe is me” and the later call “Here am I send me” linking vision repentance and service. It cites A B Davidson and Phillips Brooks to frame the imagery. The text blends scripture with interpretive commentary on holiness and mission.
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God
Uzziah
Isaiah
A. B. Davidson
Phillips Brooks
Jehovah
Remembering Slim’s 132-Horse Drive to Vulcan in 1923
Regina Leader-Post reader S. A. Kingston from Prescott Ont. says he owns a photo of a man named Slim who, with 30 horses drawing nine tanks loaded with 1,140 bushels of wheat, drove 16 miles to Vulcan Alberta in 1923. Western papers called it a championship feat, unmatched in wheat country.
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Slim
S. A. Kingston
Regina
Leader-Post
Prescott
Ont
Kingston
Vulcan
Sask
Alta
Saskatchewan
MacLeod
Lethbridge
Western Wheatlands
Weather Prophet Links Storm Signs to Nervous Dog
Henry E. Hathaway of the Hartford Weather Bureau notes that a dog's alert can precede human thunderstorm warnings. The first clap often traces to the Blue Hills area as a dog’s peculiar bark signals the approach and the animal seeks shelter in its doghouse.
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Henry E. Hathaway
Hartford
Butterfly Lifespan Highlights Short and Long Adults
The text notes that average butterfly life spans five weeks with some living up to ten weeks while others survive only a few days, and many cannot eat during their brief lives.
Millet usage spans day and silage worldwide
Millet serves as day and silage fodder in the United States and feeds a third of the global population through flour for daily bread.
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United States
Lemon a Day Keeps Scourge of Scurvy Away
Historical notes describe scurvy’s impact on the Abyssinian army on the Somaliland front and Ethiopia’s defeat. It cites 30,000 cases per foreign doctors in the Ethopia Red Cross, contrasts immunity in Mussolini’s army from lemon daily rations, and explains vitamin C cures. It cites James Cook and modern prevention via fresh fruit and vegetables.
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Ethiopia
James Cook
Great Britain
Editorial Notice on McCullough Cancer Articles
Readers may obtain the complete Dr McCullough cancer article set by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont.
British Columbia Clydesdales Dominate Golden Gate Exposition
British Columbia bred Clydesdales swept prizes at the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco. From 70 horses in competition, 15 BC horses led the awards, including 10 finalists from Dominion Experimental Farm Agassiz and five mares from Colony Farm Essendale. The BC exhibit was organized by the BC Horse Breeders Association under W H Hicks.
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San Francisco
North America
British Columbia
Dominion Experimental Farm
Agassiz
Colony Farm
Essendale
B.C
Horse Breeders’ Association
W. H. Hicks
Association
How to avoid doors in the dark
A Practical tip from Popular Mechanics explains cold avoidance of door hits in darkness. It advises crossing arms to block contact and using a spread hand technique to locate objects overhead.
Longest range photo captured of Mt Shasta from 23000 feet
A U S Army Air Corps captain took the world’s longest range photograph at 331 miles distance from 23000 feet, covering the greatest amount of earth’s surface in a single exposure.
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Mt. Shasta
U.S. Army Air Corps
Earth
El Capitan Stands as World’s Largest Unfractured Granite
The 3000 foot cliff El Capitan in Yosemite Valley is described as the world’s biggest piece of unfractured granite.
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el Capitan
Yosemite Valley
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Helen Keller
Berlin
Harry R. Woodring
Creaser
Royal Naval Hospital
Gosport
Luis Flores
Senorita Agripina Tovar Ramirez
Atel
KLM
Paris
Stockholm
Admiralty
Alaska
W. J. Asseltine
B.C. Congress Committee
U.S
Hoover
Home Service
Germany
Russia
Ontario
DR. J. W. S. McCullough
Clydesdales
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