United States Applies for Full Membership in ILO
The American Congress moves to apply for full membership in the International Labor Organization at Geneva. The decision, while preserving safeguards against entanglements, signals a shift in Washington toward League activity and could alter the global perception of the League and its future role.
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American Congress
International Labor Organization
Geneva
ILO
United States
League of Nations
Japan
Washington
League
U.S
Act of Congress
World Court
Germany
Organization
Labor Organization
Congress
Central Office
Italy
Roosevelt
China Forces Crickets Into Illegal Fights Crackdown
China intensifies legal action to curb cricket fighting likened to opium smoking. Despite bans, the activity thrives with payments up to ten dollars per fighting cricket. Breeders train crickets in bamboo rings with a glass slide allowing fighters to glare before clashes. Large bets accompany matches.
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China
Lindbergh's First Ride Pilot H R Overly Dies
H R Overly who gave Col Charles Lindbergh his first airplane ride is dead. In his memoir We Lindbergh recalls inspiration from watching Overly's plane over Madison. Milk is stated to have the highest food value and is the nearly perfect food.
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H. R
Russ) Overly
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Overly
Madison
Roosevelt weighs 100 mile shelter belt across nation
Plans under study by President Roosevelt envision a shelter belt of trees 100 miles wide spanning from Canada to the Texas panhandle. The American Tree Association says the project would take 10 to 12 years to complete and would lessen drought and wind erosion by placing 100 north to south strips along a 1300 mile corridor through North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma. Automatic telephones are also expanding in Northern Ireland with many rural exchanges opening.
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Roosevelt
United States
Canada
Texas Panhandle
American Tree Association
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Fraser River gold dredge to attack wealth believed vast
A new large scale gold dredge aimed at the Fraser River will begin operations this summer. Engineered by Hume Robertson, the system uses hydraulic pumps and electric drive to process up to 12 500 cubic yards daily, with plans for future dredges if successful.
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Hume Robertson
Placer
Malaya Peninsula
Marine Engineers and Shipbuilders Limited
Bow
Scottish Names Mark South African Education Debate
Dr S H Bloemfontein Orange Free State Director of Education notes Quebec bilingual issue mirrors South Africa. Dr Pellissier studied Quebec to learn bilingual handling, while South Africa faces Dutch majority and English minority pupils. He cites settlers with Scottish names as descendants who kept fathers' names but mothers' language.
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Quebec
South Africa
Campbell, Fraser
MacDonald
S. H. Bloemfontein
Orange Free State
Union of South Africa
Pellissier
Dr. Pellissier
Liver Pills Ad Boost for Vital Digestion
Ad copy touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy for sluggish digestion and general malaise. It claims the liver should pour bile into the bowels daily and promotes the product as pure vegetable, safe, and quick with a 25 cent price.
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Carter
Year Of Anniversaries Recall Montreal Jacques Cartier Observances
Victor Morin, chair of the Montreal Jacques Cartier observances committee, told the Quebec Women’s Institutes convention that 1934 marks key anniversaries. He cited 1534 discovery of Canada by Jacques Cartier, 1634 extension with Three Rivers, 1734 first road Quebec to Montreal, and 1834 Toront o charter grant.
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Victor Morin
Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Quebec Women's Institutes
Canada
Three Rivers
Quebec
Toronto
Dentists Recommend Werner’s Powder For Comfort Fit Teeth
A historical advertisement touts Werner’s Powder as the best solution to secure false teeth, prevent slipping, and provide all day comfort. It claims a cushiony gum protection, natural feel, and sanitary breath with no coloring, available at druggists.
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Werner
Sleepers Through the Ages A Chronicle of Extraordinary Long Sleeps
A Huddersfield man endures eight years without sleep while others wake after weeks or years. The account recalls W Foxley the Mint pot maker who slept fourteen days and nights in 1546, Arnheim who slept two years and four months after a tram fall, Marguerite Bovenval the Sleeping Woman of Thenolles who slept nineteen years and six months, and Rip Van Winkle who slumbered twenty six years. The narratives illustrate remarkable, long slumbers and their outcomes.
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Huddersfield
W. Foxley
Mint
Arnheim
Marguerite Bovenval
Thenolles
Rip van Winkle
Harms
French Company Plans Bear Lake Survey This Summer
Dr. Edmund Bruet arrived from Paris to Edmonton to survey Bear Lake mining prospects for Omnigum. His report will guide potential French investment in gold silver pitchblende and other northern minerals while study includes Indian tribes plant life and insect specimens for Paris.
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Great Bear Lake
Edmund Bruet
Edmonton
Paris
Bruet
Paul Jenvrin
Dr. Bruet
Omnigum
Department of Natural Resources
Queen to Broadcast as Cunarder 534 Launches
For the second time in broadcasting history the queen's voice will likely be heard on the wireless in September the occasion being the launch of Cunarder No. 534 at Clydebank Her Majesty previously spoke over the wireless during the early BBC days.
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Clydebank
British Broadcasting Corporation
Gold in Skyfall Reported in Berke ley Meteorite Find
Science notes the first recorded gold from space detected in a meteorite near Melrose New Mexico, reported by Dean Gillespie of Denver at a AAAS meeting in Berkeley California.
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Science
Berkeley
Calif
Dean Gillespie
Denver
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Melrose
N.M
May Join League of Nations to Ease Far East Struggles
The Edmonton Bulletin notes Russia may join the League of Nations to project peace in Europe while freeing Stalin to focus on Japan in the Far East. It argues joining would signal goodwill and restore international confidence after Japan left the League.
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Russia
League of Nations
Europe
Moscow
Stalin
Japan
League
Far East
Edmonton Bulletin
Turns Page In History Englishwoman Marrys Foreigner Keeps Britain
Ina Ginn of Stanmore Middlesex became Mme Lucien Albert of Paris and retained British nationality. She is the first Englishwoman to marry a Frenchman and remain British. She wrote to the Home Secretary about engagement and negotiations with authorities. She traveled to Paris to wed on Boxing Day and now holds a British passport in her married name.
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Ina Ginn
Stanmore
Middlesex
Mme
Lucien Albert
Paris
Home Secretary
Machine Reads Minds Telepathy Claim In Mechanical Device
A device by Dr. Alexander Cannon uses flexible tubes attached to a subject to record brain reactions on graph paper. It supposedly measures emotions fatigue concentration and honesty and even claims telepathy as a physical fact while noting music eases asthma by regular breathing.
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Alexander Cannon
Crack Shot Forslund Praised In Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report
Acting Sergeant D E Forslund of the K division Alberta is named the crack shot in the RCMP annual report. He excels with rifle and revolver and holds the Connaught Cup. While at Regina he fired a course achieving a possible 240 points.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
House of Commons
D. E. Forslund
Alberta
Forslund
Regina
Canada Prohibits Tobacco Seed Imports to Prevent Blue Mould
The importation of tobacco seed into Canada from Australia and the United States is banned to guard against blue mould disease not yet found in Canada. The disease has caused heavy losses to flue cured tobacco in those countries.
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Canada
Australia
United States
Canada egg storage stocks decline from year to year
Total storage stocks of eggs in Canada at June 1 were 9,949,535 dozen, down from 11,507,606 dozen on June 1 last year and below the five year June 1 average of 11,270,061.
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Canada
Occult committee debunks Indian rope trick as myth
The Magic Circle Occult committee states no one has seen the rope trick and the rope and tale will not stand. They offer 2500 to anyone who can perform it, citing failures by Lord Ampthill, Nizan of Hyderabad, Sir Michael O'Dwyer, and Harry Price's library findings.
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Occult Committee
The
Magic Circle
Lord Ampthill
India
George
Mary
Sidney Clarke
Nizan
Hyderabad
Sir Michael O'Dwyer
Michael
Harry Price
National Physical Laboratory
Sir Francis Griffin
Police
All India
British Aviatrix Sees New York Visit After Crash
Amy Mollison, famed British aviatrix, arrives aboard the Majestic for a brief New York visit. She notes she has flown little since the 1933 Connecticut crash with husband James Mollison and looks ahead with enthusiasm to the October England Australia air races in which they will take part.
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Amy Mollison
Majestic
New York
Connecticut
James Mollison
Mollison
Just Moving Again Twain quips on moving during early San Francisco days
A woman notices Mark Twain carrying a cigar box and frets he smokes too much. He jokes that his habit is not smoking but moving, reflecting his early struggles as a newspaper writer in San Francisco.
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Mark Twain
San Francisco
Mr. Clemens
Mark
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