Mountain Peak Lighthouse Guides Trans-Canada Planes
Five operators and a handyman couple endure a hard winter atop Mount Carmi to run a new radio range station that guides Trans-Canada Airlines over the Rockies. The 4950 foot perch hosts automatic transmitters and weather reports, with signals aiding pilots when visibility fails. The Carmi station anchors a straight route from Lethbridge to Vancouver, with Crescent Valley and Cowley others as backups.
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Mauntain
Trans-Canada Airlines
Rockies
Memmit
Mount Carmi
Vancouver
New Dominion Trasport Department
Lethbridge
Alta
Arms Station
Nelson
Cowley
Grand Forks
Carmi
Canton Chop Suey King Returns to Rebuild Fortunes
Charlie Toy of Canton once earned a million dollars in Chinese American cuisine and built a Chinese industrial plant in Canton. Now, ten years after leaving for China, a Japan bomb destroyed his stake and he returns to the United States with limited funds and a cane, aiming to rebuild his remaining American interests, including Milwaukee ties.
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Charlie Toy
Canton
United States
Canada
Charlie
Milwaukee
China
America
Town Leader Proposes Toast To Departing Resident John Jones
A town mayor invokes a farewell toast to John Jones, a man born and married in the community, noting the wish he would die there. The remarks include a wry aside about his wife and provocation. The exchange hints at local humor and interpersonal tensions within the town.
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John Jones
Bismarck Noted For Silence Across Seven Languages
A remark attributed to Bismarck suggests his talent for remaining silent in seven different languages, illustrating his legendary restraint and diplomatic poise across multilingual contexts.
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Bismarck
Human guesses stray from pure chance in coin flip study
Dr Louis D Goodfellow of Northwestern University presented findings to the AAAS in Richmond showing that humans misapply probability when guessing coin flips. He notes initial calls favor heads at 76 to 79 percent, with a seven percent excess on the second call and a drop to 44 percent on the third, likely due to subconscious bias from phrase order.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Richmond
Louis D. Goodfellow
Northwestern University
Mud spill turns into valuable diatomaceous earth find
Paul Conger of the United States National Museum reports diatomaceous earth found in 65 Wisconsin lakes and bogs. After drying and burning off organics the mud yields a pure silica filter material with many industrial uses including filtration insulation and tile making. Similar deposits are likely across Southern Canada and nearby U.S. states.
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Paul Conger
United States National Museum
Conger
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Lakes
Canada
Minnesota
Michigan
New York
New England
World population rising by millions amid global estimates
Figures from the League of Nations show world population increasing by at least 18,000,000 annually. By end 1937 the global population exceeded 2,134,000,000, with China's population estimated around 450,000,000, larger than all of Europe combined.
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League of Nations
China
Europe
Eskimo Run Arctic Fsh Canning Plant at Molsteinborg
Eskimo workers operate a fish canning factory in Molsteinborg Greenland near the Arctic Circle. The plant uses river currents to generate electric power for its operations.
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Molsteinborg
Greenland
Arctic Circle
Record Honey Crop Surges Across Canada in 1938
Preliminary estimates show Canada's 1938 honey harvest at about 33.98 million pounds, 12.24 million more than 1937 and a new all time high. Ontario leads with 12.65 million, followed by Manitoba 9.60 million and Quebec 5.21 million.
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Dominion
Ontario
Manitoba
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Elks in Canada Parks Estimated at 3600 Within Fences
Park authorities estimate 3600 elk live inside fenced areas in Canada’s national parks. The count reflects containment programs and habitat protection measures across multiple parks and regions.
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Canada
Abolition of the Puttee Regrets on War Uniform History
The Edmonton Journal notes that both Britain and the United States ended the puttee from their military dress after 1914 to 1918. It calls the wrap a source of mild torture, nuisance to clean, and time wasting, blaming generals for its adoption and praising its disappearance.
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United States
Durbin seeks legal name change to Deanna Durbin
16 year old film actress Deanna Durbin petitions to legally change her name from Edna Mae to Deanna via her parents. The filing states she is known as Deanna and that one legal name would ease contracts and artistic engagements.
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Deanna Durbin
Deanna
Edna Mae
Nahanni Valley Tales Tarnished by Scientist Inquiries
Scientists probe wild Nahanni country 800 miles northwest of Edmonton as legends of gold strikes and eerie deaths give way to debunked myths. Explorers recount MacLeod brothers deaths and a famed lode never found as field reports describe hot springs and temperate vegetation.
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Northland
Edmonton
North West Territories
William
Frank MacLeod
Pool Field
Old
Royal North West Mounted Police
Field
MacLeod Brothers
Phil Powers
Angus Hall
Martin Jorgensen
Nahannl
Death Valley
Alberta Game
Music Driven Christmas Cheer On Danforth Avenue
The East Toronto merchants association installed loudspeakers along Danforth Avenue broadcasting all day Christmas music during the holiday season. Officials call it the best December in years, with traditional carols and foreign tunes pleasing shoppers and boosting business while some merchants tired of hearing the same songs. The plan mirrors a Milwaukee system and aims to avoid criticism by sticking to Christmas music.
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Danforth Businessman's Association
Association of
East
Toronto
Milwaukee
Wis
No. 10 Downing Street and Two Centuries of Cabinets
The cabinet has met at No. 10 Downing Street for over 200 years beginning with George II offering the house in 1731 to Sir Robert Walpole who moved in as First Lord of the Treasury in 1735. The Times in 1935 called it the history of England told in domestic terms as two centuries of men talking around a table.
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No. 10
Downing Street
George II
Robert Walpole
Treasury
St. James's Square
the Times
England
London Times
Tremendous Relief Burden Shown For Lethbridge
The Lethbridge Herald reports city hall figures show relief costs for Lethbridge, a 14 000 population city, reaching 678 228 41 dollars through 1938 with 50 084 56 dollars for administration. A bookkeeper notes his pay is 19 dollars less than Miller and the chief confirms Miller will lose 10 dollars a month from the next month.
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Lethbridge
Canada
Miller
Gandhi backs passive resistance to Jews in Germany
The article notes Gandhi advises Jewish people in Germany to pursue passive resistance while acknowledging he did not attempt such strategy within the country. It contrasts his guidance with the practical implementation observed there.
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Gandhi
Germany
Three Christmas Islands Highlight Remote Island Namesake Tales
The St Thomas Times Journal notes three places named Christmas Island. One near Cape Breton hosts fishermen and farmers with unclear naming origins. A Pacific atoll near the equator shelters about 100 people, who fish coral and turtle and endure isolation. The third lies in the Indian Ocean south of Java with about 2000 residents, linked to a vanished ancient empire from a great sea disturbance.
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St. Thomas
Captain Cook
Christmas Island
Islands
Indian Ocean
Java
Will Save Civilization If War Is Postponed In Europe
The article discusses appeasement as a means to delay war until Europe regains sanity and leaders change. It notes Captain Chamberlain’s policy could avert a death struggle if the German people oust leaders or advisers influence Hitler. Also mentions Rev D Willcocks earning an MA in philosophy at age 77 and comments on the swift pace of modern life rendering treaties obsolete.
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Smaragd
Baltimore Sun
Europe
Mr. Chamberlain
Hitler
Financial Post
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Alice
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Mistress
Chloe Johnson
Sister
Edmonton Journal
Koralle, Germany
Christmas Islands
South Africa
Rev. D. Willcocks
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