Its a Gift on luck and human achievement debated
The article cites Norman Macphee and Emergon to argue luck is not fate. It emphasizes that success stems from training, research, sacrifice, and disciplined effort, not chance. Great leaders like Edison and Banting are praised as rewarded by work, not gifted by luck. Nature favors steady progress and known principles over random chance.
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Canada Downtown
Toronto
Mr. Macphee
Emergon
Lord Kelvin
Sir Frederick Banting
Thomas Alva Edison
Old Age Pensions Listed For Canada Three Month Total
The Labour Gazette reports 120 462 pensioners in Canada as at Sept 30 with Dominion government aid for the quarter of 4 629 241 dollars. Provincial totals show Ontario 54 960 Alberta 8 644 British Columbia 10 480 Manitoba 11 281 New Brunswick 8 728 Nova Scotia 13 410 Prince Edward Island 1 693 Saskatchewan 11 259 Northwest Territories 7. Cumulative government contributions since act inception amount to 82 343 535 dollars.
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Labor Gazette
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Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan
Northwest Territories
Lethbridge Chosen as Central Forecasting Point for Trans-Canada Air Mail
Ottawa dispatch says Lethbridge will host the main weather forecasting station between Vancouver and Winnipeg when the trans-Canada air mail begins. A full staff of observers will be stationed there and forecasts issued every three hours. Japan is described as the world's largest market for phonograph records, purchasing about 10 million discs annually.
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Lethbridge
Vancouver
Winnipeg
trans-Canada Air Mail
Ottawa
Lethbridge Herald
Moscow Doubles Ice Cream Output Grow in 12 Months
Moscow Russia reports tripled ice cream production compared with last year as factories boost capacity and local brands expand demand. Growth reflects sustained consumer appetite and state driven industrial push in the city.
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Moscow
Russia
Britain opens first crime college at London University
Scientific detectives and keen young doctors will train at Britain's first crime college in London University. In collaboration with Scotland Yard, the program studies murder methods, poisonings, forgeries and coinings. A vast laboratory will analyze bloodstains, fingerprints, blood groups and related criminal evidence. Forensic medicine will be the core subject.
Largest Steel Wire Rope From Warrington England
The world records a new steel wire rope from Warrington England. It measures 4 inches in circumference about 71 miles long in one piece without joints and weighs around 57 tons. Production took eight weeks. The rope uses 144 wires in six strands of 19 wires each and is capped by a manilla center. Its operating speed in service is 1344 miles per hour.
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Warrington
England
Manilla
Historians Question Early American Name Fu Sang Visit
Some historians claim America was once called Fu Sang and that a Buddhist missionary visited it as early as 450 A.D., suggesting an ancient transpacific contact debated by scholars.
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America
Fu Sang
Will Study Wintry Blasts Fairbanks Alaska
Commercial pilot Harold Gillam will fly twice daily until March 15 from Fairbanks to study wintry cold waves. He will use serometeorographs to record temperature pressure and humidity three miles up. The United States government pays $60 per flight under Bankhead-Jones Act funds for upper air research to aid weather forecasts in Seattle and analyses in Washington.
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Alaska
Harold Gillam
Gillam
United States
Seattle
Washington
Carter’s Little Liver Pills Ad Claim Health Benefit
An old advertising copy promotes Carter’s Little Liver Pills claiming to stimulate two pounds of bile flow daily to aid digestion. The ad asserts the product is harmless, gentle, mercury free and substitutes calomel, urging customers to ask for the pills by name and pay 25 cents.
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Carter
Post Office vaccine test against common cold yields negative
An experiment testing inoculation with an anti cold vaccine invited many volunteers and ran for three years but produced negative results. The Overseas Daily Mail notes that while humanity defeated diseases like diphtheria and smallpox, success against the common cold remains elusive.
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Post Office
Overseas Daily Mail
Date Nut Loaf Recipe From Mildred Mae MacKenzie
A dated kitchen recipe outlines a date loaf using chopped dates, corn syrup, brown sugar and walnuts. It details mixing, adding melted shortening and baking at a slow oven for one hour, with a butter glaze step near the end to finish the crust.
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Mildred Mae MacKenzie
Milk Toast Molds With Ham In Individual Dishes
Milk soaked crackers with ham and seasonings baked in greased dishes until firm. Fold in beaten egg whites for light texture. Bake at 375 degrees F for twenty minutes. Remove from molds and serve with tomato sauce. Six portions.
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Christie's
Hidden Christmas Aid Reaches South Wales And Monmouthshire
An anonymous Londoner arranged emissaries to locate sixty thousand needy children in South Wales and Monmouthshire, ensuring Christmas stockings would be filled for those lacking gifts. The note adds a social observation on how bathroom habits reveal one's upbringing.
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South Wales
Monmouthshire
Canada’s air mail traffic hits new high in 1936 totals
Canada’s air mail for 1936 reached at least 1,250,000 pounds, up from 1,189,000 the prior year and 691,000 two years earlier. Officials credit growth to mail to isolated areas, mining regions, and new routes, with nine new services since May and plans for more in January.
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Edmonton
Protection hinges on 118 guns in empire defense
The piece argues that while vast forces exist in Army Navy and air power, the Empire’s safety rests on 118 guns. It highlights thirteen battleships with 15 and 16 inch guns as decisive in sea battles, nearly indestructible despite damage, capable of continuing fire after wrecks.
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British Empire
C. A. Lyon
Lord Beaverbrook
Sunday Express
St. Thomas
Los Angeles Court Rules On Teeth as Property
An appellate court in Los Angeles ruled that false teeth are part of the owner’s body when worn but are personal property when kept in a pocket. Actor Walter A. Merrill had claimed he lost his teeth from his pocket and sought to collect a personal property insurance policy. The exchange includes Merrill’s quip about stage roar and a remark from a young admirer.
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Los Angeles
Walter A. Merrill
Odd Exchange Over Weight Then Cooking Tip
A man comments on a woman's thinness and she replies with a stark admission about her weight loss. The dialogue then shifts to a culinary tip noting that applying a little glycerine around a saucepan rim prevents milk from boiling over.
Geologist Arthur Coleman Wins 1936 Penrose Medal
Dr. Arthur Philemon Coleman emeritus professor at the University of Toronto is named recipient of the 1936 Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America for eminent pure geology research and original achievements.
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Arthur Philemon Coleman
University of Toronto
Geological Society of America
University of Cincinnati
Death rays as engines of war deemed imaginatively possible
Prof. G Russell Harrison of MIT Experimental Physics says death rays may be imaginatively possible but science today lacks practical perfection. He notes radium or X rays are deadly at close range and that electromagnetic radiation could detonate fulminite, yet no ray would work at any distance.
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G. Russell Harrison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experimental Physics Research Laboratory
Not Settled Yet In Durham Chronicle Editorial Debate
The Durham Ontario Chronicle ran two editorials titled Whats Wrong With The Church and Whats Right With The Church. A local minister followed with a full sermon on Whats Right With The Church. The paper notes neither question is settled and says educators should teach students how to think, not what to think.
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Durham
Ont
Chronicle
Bank of England Opens Doors January 1, 1695
The Bank of England began active operation on January 1, 1695 marking the start of its official functions and monetary role in England.
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Bank of England
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