World Happenings Briefly Told
Wilhelmina Drucker Hol land’s suffragist is dead at seventy eight. Quebec to United States Christmas tree shipments total 68000 dollars. Rhodes Scholar for New Brunswick is Kenneth B. Palmer of Sackville and Mount Allison University. Eamon de Valera's hotel room searched in Ireland. Newfoundland to United States paper shipments reach 1,200,000 tons in two months. Standard Oil seeks crown lease near Cheriben Java for tanks. Montreal to lash punishment for violent holdups per Chief Judge Became. Berlin residents danced to Pittsburg jazz in a revival of wireless. Daventry transatlantic rebroadcast tested on 1600 metres. British Columbia forest-fire expenditure hits 816712 dollars, highest to date. Irish Air Force plans a flight to the United States next April starting Cranmore Bay Galway for New York. Montreal speeders pay 12814 dollars and change. Provincial tax from “blind pig” operators amounts to 30948 dollars in the period.
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The
London Daily Mail
Eamoon de Valera
Sligo
Ireland
Newfoundland
United States
Montreal
Court of Sessions
Berlin
Germany
Pittsburg
Daventry
England
British Columbia
P. Z. Caverhill
Star
Dublin
Irish Free State Air Force
Cranmore Bay
Galway
New York
Locarno Pact Honorees Warren Nobel Peace Prize
Regina Leader notes that Sir Austen Chamberlain and Premier Briand of France will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their pivotal roles in the Locarno security pact. The article calls Locarno the outstanding peace achievement of the year and credits the two leaders with driving negotiations and fostering a cooperative spirit among delegates.
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Austen Chamberlain
Briand
France
Chamberlain
Locarno
England
Europe
Regina
Earl Haig Praises Canada at London Canada Club Dinner
General Earl Haig, guest of the Canada Club at the Savoy, lauded Canada for loyalty to Crown and Empire. He called Canada the keystone of imperial unity and urged emigration to strengthen the empire, arguing for a self supporting dominion system and to abolish dole.
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Earl Haig
Canada Club
Savoy Hotel
London
Canada
Ants as Wound Clips Reported by Sir John Sutton
Sir John Bland Sut ton, a noted British surgeon, cites historical use of ants in surgery. He notes mandibles used as wound clips in India, Brazil, and Asia Minor, with ants pressed to edges and held by forceps, the ant’s formic acid contributing antiseptic value.
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Adam and
Eve
John Bland Sutton
John
India
Brazil
Asia Minor
Jon
World Jewish Population and Palestine Growth Report
Global Jewish numbers are given as 14,163,543 with about 1 percent of the world population. Europe hosts 9,232,76 Jews, the United States 3.5 million, and Palestine rises from 55,600 in 1918 to 125,000 now. Arabs in Palestine total around 645,000 while Jews expand across commerce, industry, agriculture and finance.
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Geneva
Europe
United States
Palestine
Canada’s contribution to world wealth noted in article
The piece highlights Canada’s role in global wealth with measurable shares: asbestos eight percent, nickel three percent, pulpwood thirty two percent, lumber twenty percent, cured fish eighteen percent, oats fifteen percent, potatoes twelve percent, wheat eleven percent, and barley eleven percent according to the Vancouver Province.
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Canada
Vancouver
Remove Ugly Signs In Tennessee On December 14
A new law takes effect in Tennessee December 14 requiring all signs and billboards along state highways be removed. The highway department will act to remove noncompliant displays as residents see how the state looks from the road.
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Tennessee
Highway Department
Nipa Sap Alcohol Seen as Tropical Motor Fuel Source
Alcohol production from the sap of the Nipa palm in North Borneo offers potential to supply the tropics with a viable motor fuel, highlighting prospects for regional biofuel development and energy independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Borneo
Tropics
Summerlike Alaska Weather Linked to Shishaldin Eruption
Mild conditions sweep Alaska as Mount Shishaldin on Unimak Island is cited as the cause of a warm spell. Rivers stay open and mountains stay smoke free, leaving regions green and providers stranded waiting for river freezes. Provisions run short amid an unusually long season with little frost or snow. November first ten days show average minimum of 26 degrees.
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Shishaldin
Unimak Island
Aleutian Archipelago
Anchorage
Alaska
Australia uses radio to aid isolated country schools
Australia adopts radio broadcasts to connect remote schools with current ideas. A wide range of subjects is covered and the programs are reportedly benefiting students. In Spain, it notes a custom where a pine-branch touch at infancy is believed to bring good luck.
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Australia
Spain
Crossword Puzzle Clues From An Aged Page
A dense list of crossword hints covering horizontal and vertical entries. Clues reference numbers and definitions for words like separation adornments face parts and verbs, with many irregular spellings and stray symbols. The pane mixes personage terms and general descriptors across a wide answer set.
Useful Presents from Canada to the Old Country
Canadians have long sent boxes of apples to friends in the old country by remitting the value to a central depot for direct home delivery. The natural resources service suggests expanding such gifts to include Canadian flour cheese or creamery butter and notes parcel post limits of eleven pounds to the United Kingdom, presenting an opportunity to showcase Canadian agriculture and boost exports.
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Canada
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
United Kingdom
Answer to Last Week's Puzzle Piri MIATIER ARE RE SE RDIZSEPTE IA
Puzzle solution snippet appears jumbled with repeated segments and mixed letters. The readable portion hints at a puzzle answer discussion from last week with unclear authorial attribution and no distinct event or date.
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Piri
Cologne Welcomes End of British Occupation
Cologne alone expresses mixed relief at the departure of British forces after seven years. The city, thriving and peaceful compared with other regions, benefited from the occupation and now marks a passing phase in Germany’s postwar reconciliation.
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Germany
Cologne
London Daily Chronicle
Submarine ban favored by Japan’s leaders and people
The article notes support for abolishing submarines among Japan’s top officials and citizens. Authorities say Japan would abandon subs if others also abolish them, while they insist any rule should include Russia and China to prevent future threats. The piece also mentions Vellore, India, with a population of 225,400 and no electric lights.
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Japan
Russia
China
New Anti Stall Gear Demonstrated For RAF Planes
Demonstrations at Hendon Aerodrome show the Savage Bramson anti stall gear designed to prevent stalls causing most air accidents. RAF test pilots praised the device which jerks the control lever to restore flying speed, weighing six and a half pounds. The air ministry orders type tests and possible installation on continental-route airliners.
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Royal Air Force
Hendon
Savage-Bramson
R.A.F
Air Ministry
M. L. Bramson
Canadian Arts Urged by Quebec Secretary in Tor onto
Hon Athanase David the Quebec provincial secretary spoke to the Women’s Canadian Club in Toronto urging women to support Canadian writers poets historians and magazine authors and especially screen actors. He noted a $5000 fund voted by the Quebec Government to encourage Canadian authors.
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Athanase David
Quebec
Canadian Club
Toronto
Big Export Cattle Deal in Western Canada
The largest single export cattle deal of this century in Western Canada was completed when R. J. Epeera of Toulon sold seven hundred Hereford export steers to the Livestock Producers' Company of Canada for $72,534. The animals brought $103.60 per head.
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Canada
R. J. Epeera
Toulon
Livestock Producers’ Company of Canada
Reduced Ocean Rates To Canada For Empire Settlement
Canada announces lower ocean rates for empire settlement migrants from the United Kingdom to Canada. The three way cost share by Canadian government British government and steamship lines enables cheaper emigration. Benefits include abolition of passage loans and easier landings with reduced debt for agriculturists and house workers.
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United Kingdom
Canada
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Dominion
Department of Immigration
Empire Settlement
Lloyd George Given City Freedoms Across England
David Lloyd George, famed wartime premier, has received more city freedoms than any other British figure aside from the royal family. He could drink publicly or parade cattle through Sheffield with no risk of arrest, a privilege granted by Sheffield aldermen. He already holds thirty two freedoms, with more pending. Criccieth hosts Welsh freedoms while English and Scottish are kept at Churt and London.
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David Lloyd “George
Great Britain
Sheffield
Wise
York
Lloyd George
Criccieth
Churt
London
Echo of the War Krupp factory stripped of war armament gear
The Krupp factory in the Rhineland has lost all machinery that supplied Germany with weapons. The Allied Military Commission says it will resign from disarmament duties after being on the job since 1919. The plant was declared bare of armament machinery.
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Krupp
Germany
Rhineland
Allied Military Commission
Englishman’s Tribute and Scottish Meet Lodestar
A Scot at a Glasgow National League meet declares Scots are not stingy while an English man retorts that in Scotland people give air to a fainting man. The Milton Sun notes the quip. Also the year round average daily sunshine in England is four hours.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Milverton
England
One Piece Dress Inspired by Two Piece Frock Design
A fashion note describes a one piece dress duplicating a two piece frock with a V neckline and tailored cuffs. It details a plain back, box and side front plaits, a shaped seton panel, and a partly finished diagram labeled No 1214 in sizes 34 36 48 4 and bust 42 inches. Yardage: 3 by 40 inch or 3 by 54 inch plain material. The item is from a new Fashion Book offering advance home dressmaker styles priced at 1H cents per copy.
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Sjee
Pattern Order Column From Winnipeg Newspaper
A brief notice from a Winnipeg newspaper provides ordering details for patterns. It lists the address at 175 McDermot Ave and asks readers to send two coins or stamps for pattern requests.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
First successful European aircraft catapult test at Spezia
At Spezia Italy a fully successful test of a shipboard catapult for launching aeroplanes and hydroplanes was conducted. Invented by Major Cagnotto the device uses a rail car on a short track and compressed air to propel the aircraft from a warship deck or pontoon enabling launches without special plane-carrying ships.
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Europe
Spezia
Italy
Jubrennean
Ita Jan
Cagnotto
Great Northern Official Warns Against Racing Trains
A Great Northern Railroad office warns reckless individuals who plan to race trains at crossings. The official notes a train weighs about 1,650 times as heavy as the average automobile, underscoring the danger of such actions as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
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Great Northern Railroad
Detroit Free Press
Variants of Saint Nicholas Shape International Christmas Figures
A study traces how J. Nicholas appears as the root figure behind many Christmas personae. It notes Father Christmas in Britain Santa Claus in Germany and Kriss Kringla in Holland share origins with the patron saint, though regional names differ.
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J. Nicholas
Christmas
America
Father Christmas
Britain
Santa Claus
Germany
Kriss Kringla
Hiolland
Pig Market in Qing Dynasty Traditions
In parts of China live pigs are sold suspended in hammocks from poles carried by two men. The scene captures traditional handling as described in historical accounts.
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China
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Wilhelmina Drucker
Holland
Wuffragist
Kenneth B. Palmer
Sackville
Mount Allison University
J. M. Palmer
New Brunswick
Batavia
Standard Oil Company of New York
Cheriben
Java
Honor Chamberlain and
Empire
W. N. UC
Radio
Rea
VNA
Gamberlise
Viavone Sracks
Linice
Vellore
Clipse
Orne
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