World Happenings Briefly Told
A Belgian industrialists group plans a May visit to Canada to boost trade. A King George V gold crown piece from the silver jubilee era sold for 200 pounds. The University of Saskatchewan reports Apex wheat sells rapidly since January 18, reaching 70 000 pounds. Japan bans Freda Utley book Japan's Feet of Clay. Winnipeg approves a 6 million relief works program including a 1.5 million city hall. New York borough offers music lessons to delinquent children. Jessie McBeth Goodfellow, 70, first white child born in Prince Albert, dies. The London Times personals notice seeks a dangerous but legitimate job for a cultured, multilingual caravan expert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Saskatchewan
Apex
Manley Champlin
Japan
Freda Utley
Manchester Guardian
Winnipeg
Civic Relief Works Committee
New York
Jessie McBeth Goodfellow
Prince Albert
John McKay
Time Busy Lord Macmillan Leads Broad B B C Advisory Work
The busy Lord Macmillan, succeeding the Archbishop of York as chairman of the B B C Advisory Council, presides over many commissions and inquiries in 12 years while maintaining legal work. He handled lunacy, miners wages, pharmacopoeia, fences, finance and industry, income tax, wool, shipbuilding, Canadian banking, and Holland Norway disputes. He also supported the Pilgrim Trust, Carnegie Trust, hospital, National Library of Scotland, Scottish legal society, and King George Jubilee Trust. A judge’s quip about him noted patience stakes with Macmillan as top and the rest as runners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Macmillan
Archbishop of
York
B.B.C
Holland
Norway
Pilgrim Trust
Carnegie Trust
National Library of Scotland
Scottish Legal Society
King George's Jubilee Trust
Macmillan
Job
Russia Plans Record Wheat Planting Across Vast Soviet Farmlands
Moscow reports spring planting targets of 235 million acres with about 8 percent by kolkhozes and 11 percent by sovkhozes. Individual peasants under one percent. Schedule promises quality measures and forecasts unprecedented speed-up and harvest gains, especially in grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Boots Too Worn to Walk Piecing Parker’s Jury Tale
Private Parker seeks new boots while a gruff quartermaster notes the old pair wear far from gone. Parker protests the soles are thin, claiming they wear so thin he can tell a dime’s head from tail by stepping on it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Mammoth Bones Found Near Lebret Saskatchewan
Near Lebret Saskatchewan sketches accompany this article show mammoth bones found by half breed road workers. Dr V Rondeau of Rouleau Sask possessed the bones, dated about 10 000 years old. The animal stood near the size of an Asian elephant with thick skin and woolly fur, two tusks, and bones including a 3 1/2 inch molar, an 12 inch vertebra, a 2 foot shoulder blade, and other bones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebret
Saskatchewan
V. Rondeau
Rouleau, Sask
Slenderizing Work A Day Frock Pattern 4319
Anne Adams offers pattern 4319 for a flattering light cotton frock with trim panels and capelets. Sizes 34 through 48, size 36 uses 3 yards of 36 inch fabric. Send 20 cents and address details to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Jack Miner Tags Wild Geese to Track Sanctuary Value
The article highlights Jack Miner's duck and goose tagging system, outlining how tagging reveals hunter activity across provinces and states. It notes sanctuaries limit kills, show birds return to safe havens, and enable study of migration routes and shooting patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Miner
Canada
North Carolina
Manly
Jasper
Outsiders Get Posts Throughout the Empire
Frank Parkinson, guest of honor at Leeds University, notes a trend of top science and engineering posts going to United States citizens. He cites university training and provincial British universities as factors, with British older universities drawing from different social strata. He also mentions his $1,000,000 donation to Leeds. In other items, Glasgow street coal is found and San Salvador laments German goods overstock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Frank Parkinson
Leeds University
Parkinson
Leeds
Britain
Great Britain
Canadian Dramatists Praise Dominion Drama Festival Adjudicator
George De Wartaz of London England lauds Canadian dramatists for their keen interest and vitality as three Canadian plays win festival final spots. He notes the works are authentically Canadian and not imitations. Adjudication spans Saint John, Montreal, Ontario cities with plans to Vancouver and Ottawa final in late April. Michael St Denis to be final adjudicator in Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George de Wartaz
London
England
Saint John
N.B
Montreal
Ontario
de Warfaz
Vancouver
Michael St. Denis
Ottawa
St. Denis
Theatre Ecole
Test of good manners as response to bad ones
A sage explains the test of good manners is the ability to endure unpleasant behavior with pleasantness. The tale reflects on patience and composure in social encounters.
Rainfall and Snowfall Conversion Fact
An inch of rainfall yields about 100 tons of water per acre. Twelve inches of snowfall equate to one inch of rain, reflecting water equivalence for precipitation.
Language diversity across the Americas exceeds over a thousand tongues
The region hosts more than 1 600 spoken languages across North South and Central America reflecting rich linguistic diversity and cultural heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
South
Central America
Resurrection and Life in the Lazarus Story
A Sunday School lesson summarizes Jesus’ return to Bethany for Lazarus four days dead, his dialogue with Martha, and his miracle of Lazarus’s rise. It notes Jesus declaring, I am the resurrection and the life, and includes brief nonbiblical notes on time, a frog’s development, and British housing.
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Lazarus
Jesus
Perea
Martha
Mary
Bethany
God
Judea
Thomas
Palestine
Christ
Toscanini Conducts Jewish Refugee Orchestra in Palestine
Arturo Toscanini, famed for his anti fascist stance, leads a Jewish refugee orchestra in Palestine. He was honored with an orange grove named after him, expected to bear fruit next year, and suggested the group may tour Paris next summer to showcase its work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arturo Toscanini
New York
Palestine
Germany
Signor Toscanini
Toscanini
Paris
Dolls Send Princess Elizabeth Tiny Hand Made Gifts
Eileen Martin and her sister Betty of Weymouth sent two miniature handmade dolls to Princess Elizabeth, receiving a letter from the queen approving the gift. The dolls, so small they fit in a matchbox, followed the girls’ idea of matching the princess’s larger dolls. Savings banks of Australia hold deposits totaling 1.11 billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Eileen Martin
Betty
Weymouth
Eileen
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Cor
The
London Times
Africa
B.B.C. Advisory Council
Russia
Lebret, Saskatchewan
America
Glasgow
Scotland
San Salvador
Canadian Dramatists
Dominion Drama Festival
Czechoslovakia
Aid
T. P
Tommy" Gorman
Montreal Maroons
Qien
Imap Montert Toen
Maroone’ Homacteree
Paul Haynes
Marty Barry
Pete Ke
Dave Kerr
Roy Wogters
Ave” Hailey Art
Les Frankie 4
Marty Burke
Ales Levinsky
Carl Vowslager
Jenkine
CROWN
Edwardsburg
Canada Starch Company Limited
P.O
Princess Elizabeth
Savings Banks of
Australia
Para-Sani
Para- Sani
Appleford
ONT
Calgary
Edmonton
Regina
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