Westminster ceremony recalls old chivalry and Bath order
At Westminster Abbey Henry the Seventh chapel hosted a rare installation of 21 Knights of the Grand Cross led by the Duke of Connaught Great Master of the Order of the Bath. The rite included a procession from the Chapter House and oath by new knights, with the ceremony recalling Saxon roots and Tudor-era customs.
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Henry
Westminster Abbey
Duke of Connaught
Order of the Bath
Grand Cross
Prince of Wales
Tudor Mary
Tower of London
Charles IL
Knights of the Grand Cross
Henry the Seventh
King of Arms of the Bath
Walter Tapper
Order
King of Arms
England
Westminster
God
Christ
The First Hitch-Hikers Tack From a World Tour
Rev. Elsworth Toll and his brother Rev. Leroy Toll recount hitch-hiking across Europe with strong luck and quick rides. They note wartime thumbing through France popularized the practice and that Europe is its original home grounds.
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Elsworth Toll
Leroy Toll
Ontario
Europe
France
Boulogne
Calais
Channel Ports
Australia Drivers Glare As Man Defies Left Side Road Rule
Australian license plates calm Fort Erie motorists as a man in the wrong driving lane persists on the left. The terse incident ends with recognition of foreign plates. Prof Adolph Knopf cites oceans at a minimum age of over 160 million years.
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Fort Erie
Ont
Australia
Adolph Knopf
Young King Peter of Yugoslavia Plans a Trade
Eleven year old King Peter in Belgrade says his small allowance is not enough and plans to learn carpentry. He asks for a palace workshop and tells the master carpenter he must turn out good things to sell. The queen will auction his work for money.
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Peter
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
No Jewels On Mummy X-Ray Finds No Jewelry
T Shepard of Hull museums ordered X ray images of a 2500‑year‑old mummy wrapped in linen. The photographs, likely Britain’s first of their kind, revealed no jewelry on the body.
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T. Shepard
Hull
England
Britain
Basswood comes from the American linden tree
The note states basswood derives from the American linden tree. It mentions the year 2107 in a fragmentary way without broader context.
Trans-Canada Highway contracts awarded in Ontario
Seven highway construction contracts worth 2 572 573 dollars were let by Ontario minister Hon. Peter Heenan with Dominion officials paying half. The 165 mile route from White River to Vermilion Bay will hire 7 000 workers with camps built to high sanitary standards. An expedition led by Dr Alfred Wegener found ice 143 miles thick in Greenland. Canada shows strong mineral output with many gold mills and top global production in platinum, silver, nickel, lead and zinc. In Italy public kissing is legal only at railroad stations.
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Peter Heenan
Ontario
Northern Development
Dominion
White River
Schreiber
Dymont
Vermilion Bay
Department of Labor
Alfred Wegener
Greenland
J. A. McRae
Toronto
Canada
Little Long Lac
Central Patricia
Photographing Sunlit Scenes With Cautions And Techniques
John Van Guilder outlines how to handle sun glare and back lighting in snapshots. He emphasizes balancing light and shadow for depth, avoiding direct sun on faces, using shade or turning subjects, and experimenting with early morning or late afternoon angles for artful results.
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John van Guilder
Canadian Wheat Board formation faces delays this year
Formation of the Canadian Wheat Board will take weeks. John I. McFarland, former government market stabilizer and head of the Canadian Co operative Wheat Producers Limited, is expected to chair the board. The act provides a three member board and a seven member advisory panel with producers mostly represented. The board may buy from producers at a fixed minimum price and issue share certificates to share profits. Extraordinary powers may allow exclusive control of grain elevators and marketing if needed.
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Canadian Wheat Board
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers, Limited
John I. McFarland
McFarland
Canada
Peculiar Pets Sell at London Shop Says Palmer
A London shop in Camden Town offers bizarre pets from tiny furry critters with lion tails to bullfinches and crimson macaws. Owner George Palmer recalls odd customer stories, including ravens used in a film and twelve bullfrogs that froze on set, while noting fashion influences in pet choices.
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Noah
Camden Town
London
Globe
George Palmer
F.Z.S
Tower of London
Palmer
Sugar and spice in a girl analyzed at Albany College
An Albany Medical College analysis finds a girl has about a quarter of a pound of sugar in her makeup. The old rhyme says she is “sugar and spice and everything nice” implying about 120 pounds of spice, mainly ginger, in the average girl.
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Albany Medical College
Sanford researchers probe dinitrophenol linked blindness
Research workers at Sanford University Medical School in San Francisco investigate whether the newly developed anti fat drug dinitrophenol caused temporary blindness in twelve Bay Area women recently stricken.
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Sanford University Medical School
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay District
Killarney to get race track in Irish Free State
Killarney plans a new race track transforming the popular beauty spot into a sporting site. Officials announced approval and outlines for construction. The project signals a boost to local tourism and sporting events.
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Killarney
Irish Free State
The Rope Story From Hemp to Manila Fiber
A compact history of rope making traces hemp to Shen Ning in 2700 BC and follows its spread from India to Northern Africa Europe and the Americas. It notes abaca or Manila hemp rising to dominate rope production, with Italy now supplying the top priced hemp.
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Philippines
Manila
Shen Ning
China
India
Africa
Europe
Italy
America
South America
Spain
Turks to pay road tax or work on 100000 roads
Turks aged 16 to 60 face a yearly five dollar road tax or compulsory labor on roads. Authorities expect about 50 miles of new roads to be built by tax defaulters before year end in Istanbul.
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Istanbul
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