World Happenings Briefly Told
Dr James H Scarr 69 who helped map Lindberghs flight across the Atlantic in 1927 died in New York. A Dominion loan to British Columbia valued at 4300000 with a one year treasury bill security. A wild bee colony was found in a hollow tree near Waterford Ontario storing 125 pounds of honey. An order for 134000 pieces of grass and china for the liner Queen Mary placed with a Liverpool firm. Albert E Calnan editor of the Picton Gazette died after illness. former president of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Alberta moves toward uniform life insurance legislation with a 40 amendment bill. The Duke of York promoted to admiral of the fleet general of the army and air chief marshal. Alexander Pantages found dead in Los Angeles. heart trouble suspected at 72. Steamship reports forecast strong Churchill navigation season with increased bookings to Manitoba’s northern port.
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Dominion
Province of
British Columbia
Treasury
Howard Woodley
Waterford
Ont
Liverpool
Albert E. Calnan
Picton Gazette
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Alberta
Duke of York
Royal Air Force
Alexander Pantages
Los Angeles
Remarkable Photo-Electrical Lathe From Moscow Institute
A Russian engineer V S Wichman at the Moscow Institute of Machine Tools and Instruments has built a photo electrical lathe that can interpret drawings and auto adjust shaping tools. The institute is adopting copies for industrial use. In offices women take tasks from men and at home men follow women's wishes. New York City reportedly has more Irish residents than Cork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. S. Vichman
Moscow Institute of Machine Tools and Instruments
Wichman
Institute
Giant Permian Dragon Fly Found in Kansas Limestone
Dr Frank M Carpenter of Harvard University reports discovery of a giant Permian dragon fly fragment in limestone near Elmo Kansas. From a partial wing he estimates the whole insect reached about two feet in length and belonged to Protodonata, among the largest air masters of its time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo
Kansas
Frank M. Carpenter
Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology
Carpenter
Harvard
France
Go West Young Man novel shows Canadian unskilled workers life
Bernard J. Farmer's Go West Young Man portrays a young man from the Old Country entering unskilled labour in Canada. The hero endures hunger and hardship while working on railway crews, selling goods in Winnipeg, and mining in Northern Ontario, finding contentment in a modest job with a simple wife. The author draws on personal experience to add realism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard J. Farmer
Thomas Nelson & Sons of
Toronto
Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Ontario
Reflector posts to mark road shoulders tested on Berlin Turnpike
The Connecticut state highway department approves testing by R. O. Smith of New Haven. He plans to place metal posts 120 feet apart along a highway shoulder, each with ten reflector buttons to throw back headlight glare and help drivers see the road edge at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin Turnpike
Connecticut State Highway Department
R. O. Smith
New Haven
Oldest British Peer Lord Borwick Dies in Nice at 91
Lord Borwick of Hawkshead dies in Nice France at age 91. He served in Queen Victoria's era and once commanded a gun crew at a salute for King George's birth. He was buried in Nice.
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Lord Borwick of
Hawkshead
Nice
France
Lord Borwick
Queen Victoria
King George
North Canadian sergeant earns Royal Geographical Society fellowship
Sergeant H W Stalworthy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police based in Regina has been named a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He helped with the Oxford University Ellesmere Land expedition led by E A Shackleton, and prior to Arctic work served on the Mackenzie district, the Great War service in France and Belgium, and years at Bache Peninsula in Nunavut. The honor reflects his long record and northern exploration feats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Stalworthy
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Regina
Royal Geographic Society
Ottawa
Sgt. Stalworthy
Oxford University
Ellesmere Land
E. A. Shackleton
Sir Edward Shackleton
Stalworthy
Bache Peninsula
R.C.M.P. Post
H. E. Kreuger
Axel Heiberg
Silent Force
Oxford Arctic
England
Canada
Arctic
Mackenzie District
Sgt
France
Belgium
R.N.W.M.P
Canadian Corps
Dominion Relief Costs 1930 35 Disbursements Totals
Relief costs under unemployment relief and farm legislation from 1930 to 1935 totalled 189 381 688 dollars, in a House of Commons return by Hon Norman Rogers minister of labor. Disbursements by category include Grants in aid to the provinces 31 098 687 direct relief 61 211 621 provincial and municipal relief works 49 465 575 relief settlement 662 581 Saskatchewan relief commission 12 732 617 single homeless persons 3 398 706 expenditures of federal departments under relief legislation 27 274 226 other relief projects 3 069 776 administration 467 896.
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Dominion
House of Commons
Norman Rogers
Saskatchewan Relief Commission
Vision on the Mount and Healing in the Plain
Sunday lesson recalls Jesus with Peter James and John on the Mount of transfiguration where his inner glory shines and Moses and Elijah appear. Returning to the crowd he heals a demon afflicted son, restoring him to his father as witnesses marvel at the power of God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jairus
Lazarus
Gethsemane
Jesus
Matthew
Moses
God
John G. Paton
Moffatt
King George’s Navy Youth Joke Echoes in Sun Piece
The New York Sun recalls a favored tale of the late king as a youth in the navy calling to his elder brother Eddie to sing God Save Your Grandmother, a moment highlighted by H. S. Phillips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S. Phillips
The
New York Sun
King George
Navy
Eddie
Asiatic Explorers Return With Tibet Flora And Fauna
D Dolan of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and E L C Schafer of Berlin zoological gardens complete a two year Tibet expedition returning with a wild yak specimen and a deer likeness to wapiti. They traveled from Vancouver to Chicago and Philadelphia via Calgary and Winnipeg. The yak is housed in Leningrad and the deer in the British Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tibet
D. Dolan
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
E. L. C. Schafer
Berlin
Leningrad
British Museum
Softening well and spring water with washing soda or substitutes
For household softening of hard water washing soda or soap substitutes are usually effective. If not, a crystal chemical preparation from a druggist can treat water, though treated water should not be used for drinking or cooking. The eider duck nest, lined with breast down, keeps eggs about 28 degrees warmer than surrounding air.
Queer Wedding Sealed With Ashes In Tokyo
Miss Masaka Sugisaki vows to wed the ashes of her lover Yyoichi Oya in Tokyo after his death in the United States. Oya left for America 30 years ago to seek fortune, she studied in St Petersburg as a tutor, and his cremated bronze urn has reached Japan. The vow fulfills a 30 year pledge made in their youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugisaki
December Canada fruit imports rise sharply with pineapple leads
Imports of canned and preserved fruits into Canada in December totaled 101 663 dollars, nearly double the prior year. Pineapple was the top item, with shipments from the Straits Settlements and Australia dominating the value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Straits Settlements
Australia
Rocket Planes May Bring Rocket Aircraft
Professor Alexander Klemin of New York University tells Electrochemical Society that rocket planes could become a weapon at 200 miles range without a pilot. He foresees mail and passenger rockets, notes jet propulsion as objective, and cites four main hurdles: fuel efficiency, low speed performance, wing area needs for takeoff and landing, and nozzle material erosion from high temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Klemin
New York University
Electrochemical Society
New York
Atlantic
Klemin
Pamela and Sport Tale Upsets Domestic Discipline
A fragment shows Pamela scolding a dog named Sport for eating a doll’s slipper. The mother agrees punishment and Pamela claims she punished the dog by going to the kennel and drinking its milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pamela
Clock Watching Turns Man Into One Of The Hands
A apocryphal saying notes that those who constantly watch the clock become part of time itself. The imagery links daily labor to the metaphorical machinery of work and routine.
Moose Grow 78 Inch Antlers in Three Months
A report notes the remarkable growth of moose antlers reaching about 78 inches within a three month period. The observation highlights rapid development in seasonal wildlife biology.
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Scott's
James H. Scarr
Lindbergh
Churchill
New York City
Cork
Ireland
Grove's
Grove’s
Edad
Wincaruss
Rt Ao
All Good Drug & Dept Stores
Far North
R.c.msp
Vision and Service
Peter
Bayer Company. Limited
Bayer
Crooks
Tun Bo de
Poyislar
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Alice Brooks
Rocket
D. D. Dennis
Campana
Ramsay Co Peat
Calgary
Edmonton
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