World Happenings Briefly Told
The Retail Merchants Association of London Ontario backs a drive to make Boxing Day a legal holiday nationwide. Canada faces a 1937 war budget of 4 009 000 000 with defence estimates over last year. Twenty one BC cities elected mayors by acclamation. A Tokyo children’s daily first appears from Nichi Nichi. The New York Paris air race moved from May to August. Spiders’ webs displayed at London Natural History Museum. Ontario Silicosis costs rise. WCB projects 60 million for this year. Ontario Health Minister Faulkner addressed a labor delegation. Pelham Edgar notes bookman membership up to 2300 from two.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
London
Ont
Canada
Fussia
British Columbia
Nichi Nichi
Tokio
New York-Paris
Charles A. Lindbergh
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board
J. A. Faulkner
Ontario
Pelham Edgar
Association of Canadian Bookmen
Sunken Hussar treasure hunt yields few coins and junk
Simon Lake, 70, the submarine inventor, has salvaged $3.87 in modern American coins from the wreck of the Hussar lying 12 fathoms deep in the East River. He believes the ship is buried under mud and tar and hopes to strike the hulk soon. The Hussar was a 28-gun frigate wrecked while fleeing after British troops left New York.
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Simon Lake
New Yorks East River
Lake
Hussars
Hussar
New York City
Valuable Murillo Painting Returns to Vancouver from New York
An oil painting by Bartolome Este ban Murillo, once offered to Vancouver city museum for 2000 dollars and now valued around 100000 dollars, will be brought back to Vancouver from New York and stored in a bank vault. The Vancouver owner, Hugh Maxwell, says it will not be loaned again. curator T P O Menzies urged purchase but the board declined.
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Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Vancouver City Museum
Vancouver
New York
Hugh Maxwell
T. P. O. Menzies
Nobeady
Menzies
So many are willing to try any thing to make a living
A concise critique notes widespread willingness to seek unconventional paths for income rather than steady employment, reflecting social attitudes toward work, opportunity, and economic strain.
Roosevelt Seeks Near Billion Budget for Defense 1938
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a record peacetime defense fund of nearly 1 billion dollars for 1938. He proposed $980,763,000 for naval and military establishments, an increase from 1937 estimates, plus funding to start two new battleships and expand air power and personnel. The plan raises naval pay to $214,687,000 and army pay to $162,349,100, and includes $49,500,000 for the Bureau of Aeronautics and 400 new aircraft.
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National Defence Fund
Roosevelt
United States Army
Navy
Congress
National Defence
Navy Department
Bureau of Aeronautics
Navy Marine
Army
Silk for Coronation Robes from English Silk Farm
The Lullingstone silk farm near Eynsford reels 500000 miles of silk thread for coronation robes. It is England's first large silk yield since Charles II era, produced by 50000 mulberry trees under Lady Hart Dyke. Queen Mary has inspected the farm and signed off on preparations for the coronation robes.
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George
Lullingstone Castle
Eynsford
England
Charles II
Lullingstone
Lady Hart Dyke
Mary
Bank of England Opens Active Operations in 1695
The Bank of England began active operation on January 1 1695 as the institution established to manage the national debt and regulate monetary policy. The move marks a major development in English financial history and central banking.
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Bank of England
Slimming Frock Ad Sparks Adoration Across Readers
Charming slender line frock Pattern 4295 promises a slim youthful look with a deep V neckline and vest front. Choose three sleeve lengths in monotone crepe silk georgette. sizes 36 to 48 require fabric amounts. illustrated instructions included. send 20c to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Kreisler Quips About Violin at Hollywood Dinner Invitation
Fritz Kreisler, visiting Hollywood, declined a producer Dinner invitation by joking that his violin never dines. The anecdote highlights Kreisler's wit and status as a renowned violinist during the era.
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Fritz Kreisler
Hollywood
Kreisler
Horses Sleep Standing Like Elephants Common Trait
Like elephants and many animals, horses can sleep while standing. The behavior helps conserve energy and stay alert for predators or threats, a common adaptation across large herbivores.
Air rifles danger note from Toronto Telegram
A Toronto Telegram editorial warns air rifles threaten public safety. It cites two youths summoned in police court after careless use and notes a nearby window perforation from the same cause. The piece urges prohibition of air rifle sales to minors.
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Toronto Telegram
Calypso Adverts for Used Jail Cells Draw Curious Crowds
Calypso North Carolina gained attention by advertising for two used jail cells though none had responded. The town previously forgone a jail, sending offenders to a neighboring village. A booster program funded by WPA built a brick municipal building without jail cells, prompting the unusual ad campaign to fill the gap.
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Calypso
North Carolina
Serial Without End Continues In Japanese Newspaper
A long running serial in a Japanese paper enters its 7 300th installment with no end in sight. Despite the author’s death years ago, the paper maintains the tale by consulting the author’s son each week. The piece notes the Stockton and Burlington Line as the first public railway, opening September 27 1825.
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Stockton and
Burlington
England
Sunday School Lesson on John 5 1 6 71 Verses
The lesson centers on John 5 1 6 71 framing Jesus as witness to his divine mission. Devotional reading from Colossians 1 8 18 complements the theme, underscoring reverence for the Father and Christ’s authority.
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Goden
Cure at Bethesda and Feeding the Five Thousand
A devotional summary of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at Bethesda on the Sabbath and the miracle of feeding five thousand near the Sea of Galilee. It notes Jesus as the source and sustainer of life and mentions the man’s response and the lack of details about the healer in the temple encounter.
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Bethesda
Jerusalem
House of Mercy
Jesus
Temple
Sea of Galilee
John
Foreign exchange savings cut costs for Canadian post office
The Canadian post office department halved foreign exchange settling costs after closer co operation with the Bank of Canada. Annual foreign exchange transactions exceeded 37 million dollars, but the savings reduce money order costs to the United States Britain and other destinations. Orders are sold nearer market rate reducing earlier five cent charges on sterling to about two cents now to one cent or less.
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Canada
Post Office Department
Bank of Canada
Department
United States
Britain
New Industry Touts Ladybug Rearing For Pest Control
The Entomological Society of America in Atlantic City hears about a lab cultivated ladybug farming plan. Dr Gordon W Haugh of Ohio State University explains careful winter feeding of aphids to produce armies ready for spring release to eat crop pests.
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Entomological Society of America
Atlantic City
Gordon W. Haugh
Ohio State University
Leipzig Zoo Records Lions Born at World First
The Leipzig Zoo announced a historic milestone reporting a thousand lions born within its grounds. The zoo, renowned for breeding wild animals for zoos worldwide, claims the record is unparalleled in zoological history.
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Leipzig Zoo
Zoological Gardens
Canada Asks Coffee Imports From Several Nations
Canada imports most of its coffee from Brazil British East Africa Colombia and Jamaica. Green coffee comprises most of the imports. Grinding blending and roasting are handled by a Canadian industry.
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Canada
Brazil
British East Africa
Colombia
Jamaica
Nerves Counted in Spinal Marrow Reach High Figure
A historical report notes nerve threads numbering about 17 000 in the spinal marrow with diameters around 0.001 millimeter, details echoing early anatomical measurements and microscopy findings.
Relics Preserved at Canada’s National Aeronautical Museum
Canada’s aeronautical museum in Ottawa gathers early aviation relics. Major General A G L MacNaughton leads acquisitions, including the Silver Dart engine built by Alexander Graham Bell and flown by J A C McCurdy in 1909. Baldwin and Bell contributed models and artifacts from Canada’s bird’s-eye beginnings.
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Canada
Aeronautical Museum
National Research Council
Ottawa
A. G. L. MacNaughton
British Empire
Alexander Graham Bell
Baddeck
N.S
J. A. C. McCurdy
McCurdy
F. W. “Casey” Baldwin
Nova Scotia
Bras D'or
Petawawa Camp
Baldwin
New National Museum
Graham Bell
Memorial statue of King George to be designed by Reid Dick and Scott
The London Daily Sketch reports Sir William Reid Dick is likely sculptor and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott architect for a King George memorial statue facing Parliament. Reid Dick, 57, previously carved a King George portrait bust, while Scott, 22, gained fame for Liverpool Cathedral.
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William Reid Dick
Giles Gilbert Scott
King George
William
George
Menin Gate
Ypres
Sir William
Liverpool
Scott
London Daily Sketch
Unusual Record Echoes Three Sovereigns Service
Lord Crewe in the House of Lords described himself as someone who served three former sovereigns in a position of confidence. The remark recalls a run of memory to Queen Victoria's last Liberal ministry ending in 1895, about forty years past. Lord Crewe, aged 79, had been Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under that administration and had served as Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen fifty years ago.
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Lord Crewe
House of Lords
Queen Victoria
Ireland
London Spectator
Coronation Bible Omits Portraits of King and Queen
The King's request leads to no portrait of the king or Queen Elizabeth in coronation issues of the Bible. It is noted that living person portraits have appeared in prior reigns. Bible printing remains a monopoly of the King's printer along with Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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Elizabeth
Himself
Queen Elizabeth
England
Oxford
Cambridge
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