Canada Expands Trans-Canada Air Mail Service in 1930 Review
Forty-four air services carry mail across about 14 180 miles of routes. Trans-Canada links Montreal to Vancouver and connects with Europe Asia and Australia. New feeder lines and United States connections broaden reach. Pan American launched a northern Atlantic route to Shediac New Brunswick. War outbreak prompts censorship and base post office for army mail.
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Canada
Power
Post Office Department
Trans- Canada Mail Service
Europe
Asia
Australia
Montreal
Vancouver
United States
Central
South America
Far East
Pan-American Airways
Port Washington
N.Y
Southampton
England
Shediac
N.B
Atlantic
Imperial Airways
Boucherville
Canadian Postal Corps
Dupre Barred From Sydney Recital Prompts Entrance Chaos
Marcel Dupre faced a packed Town Hall where staff refused admittance as doors closed early. He returned to the side door and, after a struggle, forced his way in claiming he had been locked out of his own recital, drawing crowd amusement and a fire brigade warning.
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Marcel Dupre
Sydney
M. Dupre
Christian Science Monitor
Notable Authors Lacked Comfort in Life and Death
The Farmer's Advocate notes that experience and inspiration alone do not guarantee stability. It recalls the authors of Home Sweet Home and Rock-a-Bye-Baby, both dying homeless or childless, illustrating how famous tunes fail to shield creators from hardship.
Raiders Loot and Conditions on Graf Spee In British Accounts
British naval sources recount how the Graf Spee, when acting as raider, seized sextants chronometers binoculars tele scopes and even typewriters from captured ships. Prisoners describe harsh food onboard and a young, largely inexperienced crew who believed the ship invincible and Britain’s navy largely sunk.
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Graf Spee
Montevideo Harbor
Churchill
India
Britain
Nations Survived Despite Small Numbers Remain Strong
The Montreal Star notes that faith and truth endure beyond numerical majorities. It argues that Bible history shows small, defenceless nations can outlast vast empires as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome rose and fell while the Jews endured and remained resilient.
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Great Britain
Egypt
Palestine
Russia
Finland
Asyria
Persia
Assyria
Babylon
Greece
Rome
Montreal Star
Funny Accent Shift In Evacuated Child Draws Laughter
London correspondent notes Molly a Cockney evacuee child now speaks broad rural Sussex when visiting countryside relatives. Her working-class parents, who themselves speak Cockney, remain unaware until laughs occur. Teachers say such cases could be multiplied nationwide.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Molly
Sussex
Quiet Car Sale Scene Sparks All Season Car Talk
The salesman explains the radiator and fan as a woman approves the concept of an all season car. The exchange captures a practical, upbeat moment in a typical showroom dialogue.
Tighter Steering Linked to Front Brake Drag
A report notes that a stiffer steering feel can indicate dragging in the front brakes. The observation emphasizes checking braking components to diagnose handling issues.
Stage World Pledges Help for Finland Aid Drive
The New York theatre community plans a nationwide series of shows aiming to raise 500 000 for distressed Finns. Actors and managers including ex President Hoover would attend a luncheon to organize the effort. The group pledges free performances for emergencies and wartime troop support.
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United States
Finland
New York
Hoover
St Thomas Times-Journal
Wrong Impression Sparks Russian Troop Misunderstanding
Report from Toronto Saturday Night states Russian soldiers believed they were heading north for winter sports rather than a planned fight with Finland. Interviewers say the men were not informed of the real objective and expected a peaceful outing.
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Toronto
World cinema attendance hits 220 million weekly
The world films audience totals about 220 million weekly with 85 million viewers in the United States, highlighting cinema’s global reach and U.S. market size.
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United States
Deadly natural poison found in triturus salamanders
Stanford biologist Professor Victor Twitty discovered a virulent toxin in triturus salamander embryos and eggs along the Pacific slope. The substance is among the deadliest natural poisons, capable of paralyzing specimens when grafted, with presence also reported in female blood.
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Pacific
Victor Twitty
Stanford University
Twitty
Lucky Sailor Thomas Martin Survives Near Fatal Voyage Event
Thomas Martin of Glasgow is described as the luckiest man alive after a summons from the Oban Sherriff Court kept him from serving as a fireman on the Rawalpindi and leaving the Athenia before its final voyage. He had previously crashed a motorcycle, spent six weeks in hospital, and was unconscious for a week, yet maintains his luck.
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Thomas Martin
Glasgow
Scotland
Rawalpindi
Athenia
Martin
Liverpool Post
Mulock Accepts Honorary Presidential Role at Institute for the Blind
At 96, Sir William Mulock takes on a new job as honorary president of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. The post opened after Sir Charles Lindsay died in November, leaving a vacancy.
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William Mulock
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Charles Lindsay
Flower Potholders Pattern Update
The notice advertises pattern 6581 for four strand single crochet potholders in unbleached cotton with color. It lists instructions charts and materials and asks readers to send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave E, Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Sugar beet crop steadies Canada wartime sugar supply
Federal Sugar Controller S R Noble says Canada will have ample sugar through wartime, thanks to a record 1939 beet crop yielding 500000 tons. Government guarantees higher beet prices for 1940, with by products like molasses feeding stock and tops fodder. Hoarding rumors denied. no tax increases planned until parliament acts.
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Britain
S. R. Noble
Prices and Trade Board
Cuba
Java
Canada
Mr. Noble
Women enter McGill architecture program alongside men
At McGill University Montreal two female undergraduates Catherine M Chard and Arlene R Scott joined the architecture program once a male stronghold. Initial fears from male students proved unfounded as the coeds adapted to the curriculum, with more women planning to pursue architecture in the near future.
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McGill University
Montreal
School of Architecture
McGill
Catherine M. Chard
Westmount
Arlene R. Scott
Mount Royal
Que
Beaver tech helps Big Piney rancher reduce washouts
Learned from beaver methods T D ONeil of Big Piney Wyoming studied how beavers weave stick and mud into dams. He adopted the technique to build small creek check dams to store or divert water, reporting far less washout damage and stronger structures.
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T. D. O'Neil
Big Piney
Wyoming
O'Neil
Sleeping sickness mystery eyed by a lone woman scientist
Dr. Alma J. Neill, physiology professor at the University of Oklahoma, has spent six years testing a theory that sleeping sickness stems from a plant toxin in corn and perhaps other grains. She believes the disease is not contagious but passed from plants to animals through eating contaminated plants.
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Alma J. Neill
University of Oklahoma
Neill
Indian Troops in France and Other Fronts During World War
The report notes Indian units arriving in Northern France in mid winter, 1914-15, facing cold and damp conditions. Most were moved to Egypt and Mesopotamia, with cavalry brigades later serving in France as dismounted troops in 1917 at Cambrai. India fielded 70,000 to France in 1914 with 400,000 overseas troops and 400,000 noncombatants in total, mainly Sikhs Gurkhas and Bengalis forming the core of the fighting forces.
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India
France
Flanders
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Cambrai
Edmonton Journal
Britain faces vast pensions bill from prior war
Sir Walter Womersley said the pensions ministry spends about 38 million pounds yearly and will have spent 1.35 billion pounds in 25 years. The department still handles 800 new claims annually from 1914 18, with about 850000 beneficiaries. Since September, 46 pensioners voluntarily relinquished pensions saving 1773 pounds per year.
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Britain
Walter Womersiley
Walter
Passenger Conversation on Patience and Persecution
A railway compartment debate pits a patient believer against a skeptic. The believer argues patience and perseverance achieve all, while the skeptic challenges carrying water in a sieve. The man responds by proposing freezing the water to make it hold.
New Damask Weaving Method By Swedish Teacher
Alexander Berger, a teacher in Jamtland northern Sweden, has invented a new damask weaving method. He has also shown works of the masters in twilled linen, illustrating the technique.
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Alexander Berger
Jamtland
Sweden
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George
Housemold
Nobile
Ottawa
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