Mollison Flight Boosts Confidence In Aviation Progress
The analysis praises trans ocean flights for advancing aeronautical progress while noting dangers from poorly planned attempts. Captain Mollison's east west route shows small planes can tackle treacherous North Atlantic conditions, boosting public faith, encouraging safer piloting, and highlighting instrument development. Salutations to Captain Mollison.
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Aviaton
Mollison
North Atlantic
Post and Gatty
Mosquito Farm Aids Paresis Treatment In Columbia
Public health workers in Columbia South Carolina are rearing mosquitoes for malaria transmitting species in a labeled effort to treat paresis also called softening of the brain. Cooler humidifier and ice box resources keep the colony thriving with low mortality among young insects, a collaboration with the state hospital for the insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Health Service
Columbia
S.C
State Hospital For the Insane
Columbia Mosquito Laboratory
Health Service
London Prefers Gas For Street Lighting
London continues to favor gas street lighting with Westminster renewing its 15 year gas contract. About 55 miles of central London streets are gas lit, while electric lighting exists mainly in select areas such as Piccadilly Circus.
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London
City of Westminster
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly
Mall
Buckingham Palace
Pall Mall
St James Street
Whiteshell Forest Reserve A Manitoba Holiday Playground
A description of the Whiteshell Forest Reserve near Manitoba's southeast corner highlights the Winnipeg Kenora section of the Trans Canada Highway. The region offers lakes such as Caddy Lake and West Hawk Lake with side trips to Star and Falcon Lakes, beaches, fishing, portage trails, wildlife, and diverse scenery. The area is designated as a permanent recreational zone with public campgrounds and plans for roads and summer home sites to improve access for vacationists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Winnipeg-Kenora
Winnpeg
Kenora
Caddy Lake
Crags Lake
Whiteshell
Little Whiteshell
Crow Duck Lake
Winnipeg River
Uth
West Hawk Lake
Star and
Falcon Lakes
Repetition In Writing Flaunts Rules Of Journalism
Stratford Beacon Herald cites a forwarded booklet on a US summer journalism course and a Biblical verse from Philippians 4 8 as an example. The piece notes the paradox of repetition in strong writing and praises the verse for its force and sweeping reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Phillippians
Stratford Beacon- Herald
Man Demands Sleep Medicine in Overnight Delay
A medical journal case notes a man enraged when a chemist fails to send sleeping medicine. He orders his nurse to ring the chemist to ask if he should stay awake all night awaiting the drug. The incident highlights tensions between patient needs and pharmacist delays.
London's Police Protection Bill Tops Forty Three Million
London officials report the city spent over 43 million dollars on police protection during the last fiscal year. The figure reflects continued funding for patrols, detectives, and public safety programs across multiple precincts.
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London
Time to launch national broadcasting plan
The Ottawa Journal argues the Radio Commission should be named soon and a national broadcasting plan launched. Private station owners face prolonged expropriation delays and cannot fund improvements, risking poorer listener service.
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Radio Commission
Ottawa Journal
Soaking the Rich and British Economic Decline
The Saturday Evening Post notes that Britain's Soaking the Rich policy dried up surplus wealth, shrinking capital for industry and hampering employment. It argues government largess reduces available funds for growth and warns against overtaxing the economy. Also mentions a Canadian inventor creating a ship propeller with grooved blades to reduce vibration.
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Saturday Evening Post
Great Britain
Huge Telescope For University Of Toronto
The University of Toronto planning to erect the second largest telescope in the world near Richmond Hill north of Toronto at an estimated $500,000. Construction will begin on two main buildings including a 61 foot diameter round telescope housing on a circular 800 foot high platform. The project funded by Mrs. Jessie Dunlap in memory of her husband will create the David Dunlap Observatory and a $125,000 administration building on a 177 acre David Dunlap Park.
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Richmond Hill
Toronto
University of Toronto
Jessie Dunlap
David Dunlap
England
Dominion Government Observatory
Victoria
B.C
Advertising plea for milk and butter
An exchange argues milk and butter should be promoted as vigorously as cigarettes and autos. It claims dairy products are easy on the throat satisfy appetite and convey health. The writer notes milk and butter aid the weak reduce fat and should be priced with strong advertising rather than by price alone.
It would be terrible neighbors talk about us
We wonder if neighbors discuss us as we discuss them. We hope they don’t. It would be terrible to learn they say our wife dresses too young and that she must be at least fifty.
The Choker Collar Through Time In The Times Journal
The St Thomas Times Journal recounts the old stiff choker collar once worn by men, its discomforts, and how William A Lord from New York invented a neck tie keeper that briefly eased wearers. The piece notes the device appeared with the collar but the fashion soon faded.
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Wilam A. Lord
New Yorker
Mr. Lord
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Rare Greek voting sherds exiled Aristides and Themistocles
Ancient Athens voters used two pottery sherds to banish leaders Aristides and Themistocles about 2400 years ago. The ostraca found in an old well at the market place point to the fifth century B.C. practice where a majority vote could exile a citizen for ten years. Themistocles ostracon is only the second of its kind. Aristides’ is the first unearthed.
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Athens
Aristides
Themistocles
T. Leslie Shear
Princeton Department of Art and Archaeology
American School of Classical Studies
B.C
Megacles
Xanthipps
Pericles
Peculiar Dessert Ties Taste to Scent at New York Dinner
At a New York congress of eugenics dinner a dessert of candies tested flavor perception when noses were held. Diners tasted peppermint wintergreen clove violet licorice lemon orange grape lime with no clear flavor, supporting Carnegie Institution findings that smell loss dulls flavor for most people.
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Congress of Eugenics
New York
Carnegie Institution
The Indispensable Zipper in Evening Gown Design
A style show demonstrates a zipper device on pajamas that converts to an evening frock with a full circular skirt. The zipper is sewn inside the seam and hidden, with a lace cap completing the outfit.
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Milady
Youngest Women Steeplejacks Help Father in Fort Worth
Two girls, Juanita and Beatrice Wilson, aged ten and twelve, are active in assisting their father George E. Wilson, a steeplejack and fireman, as he works on tall Fort Worth buildings, possibly the world’s youngest female steeplejacks.
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Juanita
Beatrice Wilson
George E. Wilson
Fort Worth
Canada Has Lots Of Space
The New York Times notes Canada’s population about 10.38 million vs New York metro area 10.90 million, with a land area over three and a half million square miles and one person per roughly three acres. It argues vast unoccupied zones invite adventure and may ease temperate-zone congestion.
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Dominion
New York
Canada
Iceland
Greenland
Mongolia
South Australia
Queensland
Falkland Islands
United States
New York Times
Ancient Church at Tiberias Unearthed Figures of Feasting Miracles
Archaeologists near Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee report ruins of a church connected to the feeding of the multitude. A Jesuit spokesman says the find matches known religious history and mosaics show serpents birds plants and depictions of bread and two fishes near the altar.
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Tiberias
Sea of Galilee
Jesus
German Oriental Institute
Jeru
Illustrazione Vaticana
Chrysologus Spellucci
Christ
Pencils Use Initials to Mark Lead Hardness
The article explains pencil lead codes such as H B and B to show hardness and softness. H denotes hard with more clay and B denotes black or soft graphite. An H B pencil is the standard for grading, with H H and H H H indicating increasing hardness and B series indicating softer leads.
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H.B
H.H
B.B
H.H.H
Fragmented observations on workplace talk and distant etiquette
The excerpt contrasts speech patterns in a workplace with phrases about tenure and authority. It notes casual claims of authority by newer staff and the confidence of older ones, while also including a remark about a girl described with stereotyped eyes and foot size, attributed to Vart Hem, Stockholm.
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LS. Health Service
Mexico
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Madrid
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Manitoba Lake
U.S. School of Journalism
Kent
Hoop
Starchel
Tates
Salem
China
Vart Hem
Stockholm
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