World Happenings Briefly Told
Peter Veregin resigns as president of the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood. Witten Lackaye a longtime US actor dies in New York at 68 from a heart ailment. Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson recommended as Governor General of Newfoundland. Soviet decree orders stamping out private food speculation. Dr John G Dunlop Canadian missionary dies in Karizawa Japan. Royal cattle sold to Soviet Russia two shorthorn bulls bought from the Royal Show. Madeline Slade jailed for defying Bombay government ban. London jewelers use smoke screens to deter thieves amid rising Smash and Grab raids. IR A warns Dublin cinemas against royal film portrayals or British propaganda.
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Witten Lackaye
United State
New York
Sir David Murray Anderson
Newfoundland
Karizawa
Japan
John G. Dunlop
Russia
King George
Madeline Slade
Mahatma Ghandi
Bombay
London
Irish Republican Army
Dublin
Seven provinces sign relief settlement plan for unemployed families
Seven Canadian provinces join a relief settlement program supported by one third each from the Dominion, provinces, and municipalities for families to establish on the land. The plan covers up to 600 dollars per family over two years and aims to move recipients toward self support through farm life.
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Dominion
Demand for Canadian flaxseed rises in Ireland
The Canadian Department of Agriculture reports strong demand for pedigreed Canadian flaxseed in Ireland for sowing. Irish linen industry seeks Canadian fibre flaxseed due to seed quality germination and purity guaranteed by government inspection.
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Department of Agriculture
Ireland
Long Service Prize For Bologna Servant Francesca Felicetti
An elderly Bologna woman Francesca Felicetti received a long service prize for seventy seven years of service to a single family she entered at age twelve. In addition twenty nine other servants were awarded for over forty years of service with one family.
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Bologna
Italy
Francesca Felicetti
Cotton pageant draws twelve thousand performers in Manchester
A large crowd of twelve thousand performers participated in a cotton pageant held recently in Manchester England. The scene featured dialogue including a line about hope and a theatrical display by Rockholm and Alla.
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Manchester
England
Miracles Of the Blind Helen Keller and Captain Fraser Portrait
A Saint Dunstan's Hospital photograph shows Dr Helen Keller, blind and deaf, and Captain Ian Fraser, CBE MP, with Keller feeling Fraser's lips as he talks. The piece highlights Keller's lifelong achievement despite disabilities and notes the work of Saint Dunstan's in London helping blinded soldiers.
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Helen Kelie
Suboress
Ian Fraser
Saint Dunstan’s
London
England
Kelier
St. Dunstan's
Captain Fraser
Dr. Keller
Helen Keller
Alabama
Riverbend School to Reopen for Autumn Term
Riverbend School for Girls Winnipeg announces reopening for Grades 1 to 12 on Sept 13 under Principal Miss Joan Foster MA. The school, since 1929 under United Church aegis, offers Riverbend Diploma and aims for university matriculation with a staff of qualified teachers and expanded facilities.
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Riverbend School For
Winnipeg
Joan Foster
Riverbend
Sir James Atkins
United Church of Canada
Department of Education
Assiniboine River
Foster
McGill
Oxford
Laura Cull
Marian Macdougall
Mary Chestnut
Beatrice Wilson
Barbara May Erith
Gwen M. Bowman
Macdougall
Dalhousie University
Ontario College of Chemistry
Chestnut
Manitoba
Miss Watson
University College
Toronto
Emmanuel College
United Church Training School
Miss Erith
London University
London
Miss Bowman
Margaret Eaton School
James A. Richardson
L.L.D
Isaac Pitblado
K.C
G. N. Aikins
J. A. Cormie
D.D
D. C. Coleman
John Mackay
W. M. Neal
J. W. Aikens
Lawrence F. Park
David Watt
R. F. McWilliams
Canada
C. E. Armstrong
Moose Jaw
Robert Forke
Pipestone
C. F. Adams
Calgary
A. F. Laird
Yorkton
B. C. Wallace
Edmonton
J. E. Brownlee
W. C. Murray
Saskatoon
T. A. Neelin
Brandon
Alice Fife
Kenora
Douglass J. Thom
Regina
A. W. Scott
Adorable navy blue crepe silk pattern for two piece dress
This pattern offers numerous fabric options from lacy cotton to silk pique and rayon. It features a two piece skirt and waist with a separate blouse and optional short sleeves. Style No. 424 fits busts 36 to 38 inches and sizes 14 to 38. Price 25 cents.
Move of Gold Begins for City Street Paving
The United States Government starts moving gold to pave a city main street. Sixty eight truck loads valued at 200 million dollars are hauled from the old assay office on Wall Street to the new on South Street and Old Slip. The effort will continue until the two billion dollar stock is moved. Armored trucks carry the gold with machine guns inside and five guards per truck to deter bandits.
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United States
Wall Street
New York
South Street
Penny Turned On Buffalo Soldier and Sailors Monument
Francis Neppile turned the penny atop Buffalo New York the Soldiers and Sailors Monument during preparation for the city centennial. The ritual dictates each subsequent steeplejack who climbs the monument must turn the penny or face 12 years of bad luck.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Francis Neppile
Neppile
World wheat production forecast from Alberta Wheat Pool
The Alberta Wheat Pool estimates global wheat production at three million bushels below 1931 and 36 million below 1930. Canada aims for 475,000,000 bushels, the United States 722,687,000, totaling 1,206,757,000 for North America.
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Alberta Wheat
Canada
United States
Orange Baking Powder Biscuits
Oranges flavored biscuits batched with shortening, flour, baking powder and salt. Mix dry ingredients then work in shortening, add orange rind and milk or water. Roll and cut, fill with leaf sugar moistened in orange juice, assemble, glaze with orange juice sugar, bake at 450F for about 15 minutes.
Man who surrendered Jerusalem to British dies in Hebron hospital
Ahmed Sharad 65, once an inspector in the Turkish gendarmerie in Jerusalem, died in Hebron Government Hospital. He helped to negotiate the city’s surrender in 1917 by walking to the outskirts with a white flag on a bamboo pole and delivering it to British troops alongside Jerusalem’s late mayor.
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Jerusalem
Hebron
Ahmed Sharad
Why Steal It A Car In Months Bill Gets Three Years
A street exchange recalls a man named Bill who vanished for months and is caught for stealing a car. The remark questions why he would steal a car after failing to pay for one, calling him a gentleman.
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Bill
New Home Comforts Promise Air-Cooled Houses
The article forecasts a future where homes gain air cooling and air washing systems alongside bathrooms and furnaces. While costly and experimental now, these devices are expected to mature and lower in price, enabling quiet, clean dwelling spaces with sealed windows to block heat and street noise. It also notes Coomb as an old British four bushel measure.
Baked Rice Crisp Fruit Bake
A layered bake using rice flakes butter apples and bananas with sugar cinnamon and lemon juice. The dish is assembled in crumbs with fruit layers and baked at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes yielding six servings.
Times Have Changed Joke From An Old Farmer
An old farmer recalls paying for a reaper and binder. The cashier asks how it went. He says last year he watched thirty men reap his field from the fence with a cigar. this year he reaped it himself, while thirty men sat on the fence watching him.
Horse Flees Cow on Countryside Drive in Toronto
A Toronto man reports a horse accustomed to city stables became wildly frightened when encountering a cow on country roads. The animal bolted, requiring considerable effort to calm it.
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Toronto
Mission Ships Never Return from Melanesian Mission
The Southern Cross VI, built in Cowes for $125,000, sails from the Thames on a voyage to the Melanesian Islands to serve as a floating church. For 73 years ships have visited the island diocese, with 40 islands and about 50 missionaries in the vast South Pacific region before this ship, like its predecessors, is scrapped.
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Thames
Southern Cross
Cowes
Melanesian Islands
South Pacific Ocean
Australia
Melanesia
Southern Cross VI
Lightning Can Strike Upward Says New Scientific Proof
Newark Evening News notes scientists with 185 photographs show lightning can bounce upward. They warn most people survive thunderstorms by avoiding any strike from above, but details on distinguishing negative from positive lightning are not provided.
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Newark Evening News
French Wheat Quota Affects Bread Import Policy
The Montreal Star notes France plans to cut foreign wheat in bread from 15 to 3 percent after reports of a strong wheat harvest in France and Algeria. Russia is expected to supply blending wheat under a new trade pact, while other nations show uncertain crops. Domestic needs appear secure, influencing Paris to avoid new Canada wheat deals.
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Paris
France
Algeria
Moscow
Russia
Canada
Montreal Star
Saskatoon Opens Egg Powder Plant Aims to Challenge China
A Saskatoon Saskatchewan plant begins operation consuming 180000 eggs daily to enter the egg powder market long dominated by China. The new facility seeks to capture a share of the world supply as Saskatchewan producers enter the sector.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
China
Railway Mileage in the Netherlands East Indies in Java
A report notes that seven tenths of the railway mileage in the Netherlands East Indies are located in Java. The finding highlights Java as the dominant rail hub within the colonial network and suggests focus areas for future expansion and maintenance.
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Netherland East
Indes Ig
Java
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peter Veregin
Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood
Rockholm
Riverbend School
Porties
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Taffiox
Div McDermot
French Guiana
Monument At
Betty Barclay
South Africa
Bulgaria
R. S. Booth
Cunard
Ascania
Akron
Ohio
Cunard Line
South Seas
Allit
Alla
Stockholm
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