World Happenings Briefly Told
Provisional president Getulio Vargas is elected Brazil's 1st constitutional leader of the second republic. Britain and the U S suspend bilateral talks ahead of the 1935 naval conference for summer. Disarmament talks aim to reconvene next September. A Dursley England firm gives 2000 workers a week of paid holiday due to improved business. Royal Academy awards go to Canadians Eugene Nemis and Alice Lumsden. Turkey expresses regret over hospital incident aboard HM S Devonshire. A new stratosphere torpedo, directed by wireless, reportedly invented by Unedo Chara. Miss F M Douglas of Winnipeg returns to Canada on the liner Alaunia. Nineteen horses shipped from Canada to Scotland, the first to Britain since the war. Nine horses from Western Canada.
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Great Britain
United States
Dursley
England
Royal Academy of Music
Alfred J. Whaley
Eugene Nemis
Winnipeg
Acton-Bond
Alice Lumsden
Victoria
Turkey
J. Robinson
T. A. K. Maunsell
Hm.s. Devonshire
Unedo Chara
F. M. Douglas
Britannia
Canada
George Knox
Westerhill
Bishopbriggs
Glasgow
Scotland
Department of Agriculture
British Isles
Dominion
Engineers See Trend Toward Better Things at Vancouver Sessions
Harrison P. Eddy of Boston told the dual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Engineering Institute of Canada in Vancouver that the engineering field is moving toward better outcomes. He praised the Institute’s work and urged closer cooperation between the two organizations as civil engineers from across North America gathered for the four day meeting.
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Harrison P. Eddy
Boston
American Society of Civil Engineers
Engineering Institute of Canada
Vancouver
Canada
Mr. Eddy
Lives Sacrificed For Speed
A London Observer editorial laments the high court critique of road carnage declaring 154 lives lost and 4 971 injured in the latest week. It warns that two months total death toll exceeds a thousand with maiming numbers rising, urging a stronger Transport Ministry response.
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High Court
God of Speed
London Observer
Fragmented lyric style exchange on marriage odds
A clipped dialogue fragment centers on a red headed girl and a quiet fellow. The girl questions why she would marry a quiet man, but the man remains noncommittal, suggesting the answer lies in earlier singing they shared.
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Giralays
King approves 20 year service medal for Mounties
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will award a Long Service medal to officers noncommissioned officers and constables after twenty years of service. The circular silver medal features King George on the obverse and the RCMP crest and motto on the reverse with the legend For long service and good conduct.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
King George
RCM P
Photosynthesis The Plant Factory Powers Life
Gordon H. Guest explains how plants manufacture cellulose, starch, sugars, fats, proteins and vitamins in their green leaves. Sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and minerals drive the process aided by chlorophyll, enabling food storage and supplying wood, coal and oil essential to civilization. Scientists seek to replicate this factory in the lab.
Agricultural Notes From Dominion Pages on Crops and Livestock
Reports cover France blocking foreign wheat imports for milling, cornflower cultivation in Canada, African sleeping sickness origins, barley as livestock feed, tomato ripening via ethyl alcohol injections, crested wheat grass yields, beef cuts from finished cattle, refrigeration in fruit transport, Viking raspberry prospects in Michigan, sugar beet use in fattening geese, Australian wool output, reinforced cheese cloth effect on flowers, insect damage reduction, and June pedigree registrations of swine horses cattle sheep dogs and goats.
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Vineland
Ont
Michigan
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Institute For Feeding Technic
Breslau
Germany
Cornell University
Yorkshire
Berkshire
Tamworth
Chester White
Where People Are Natural
Canadian Press letter to J L A McLaughlin notes New York as a masked ghostly city while he recalls Tahiti where he gathered material for a South Seas book. He plans to return to his 40 ton ketch seeking people who are themselves.
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J. L. A. McLaughlin
New York
McLaughlin
Tahiti
South Seas
Youthful girdle and jabot dress pattern in seersucker
Description of a multicolored seersucker dress pattern with jabot and cap sleeves, plus options in tub silks and striped shirting cotton. Details on contrasting effects using white linen and yellow pique, size range 14 to 40 inch bust, fabric yardage, and a 20 cent price.
Chocolate Ice Box Cake Squares Recipe
Melt chocolate and dissolve sugar in water then add egg yolks heating after each addition. Stir in vanilla and fold into beaten egg whites. Chill, fold in whipped cream, line mold with lady fingers, fill with chocolate mix, top with remaining fingers, chill 12 to 24 hours. Optional walnuts. Serves eight.
Sunday School Lesson on Kings 22 and Psalm 119
A devotional notice outlines a Sunday lesson titled What the Lord saith unto me that will I speak From Kings 22 focusing on I Kings 22 with a devotional reading from Psalm 119 9 16 Readers are invited to study the geographies of faith ethics and obedience in a brief religious study card
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Kings
Fruitade Or Pineapple Lemon Orange Drink Recipe
A simple mixed juice drink uses crushed pineapple or juice with orange juice lemon juice and water. Add sugar then strain and serve very cold for a refreshing beverage.
Ahab and Jehoshaphat Ally Against Syria in Ramoth Gilead
The alliance between Israel and Judah unfolds as Ahab seeks to reclaim Ramoth Gilead from Syria. Jehoshaphat's pledge to aid is tested by Micaiah the prophet who foretelling doom, contrasts with four hundred vaunted prophecies, and ends with Ahab slain by a stray arrow during the battle.
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Ahab
Jehoshaphat
Syria
Ben-hadad
Israel
Judah
Athaliah
Jehoram
Ramoth
Gilead
Jordan
Jabbok
Ramoth-gilead
Jehovah
Micaiah
Imlah
Samaria
Zedekiah
God
Jehosphat
Finest organ rebuilt for Albert Hall London hailed as world’s best
The Albert Hall organ, rebuilt over eleven years, weighs about 175 tons and fills 65 000 cubic feet. It has 176 draw stops 10 491 speaking pipes four keyboards and two electric blowers supplying wind up to 10 inch and 20 inch pressures. Eighty miles of cable power the system and annual tuning costs reach 20 pounds.
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Albert Hall
London
Famous Geologist Stephen Richarz Dies in Heat Prostration
Internationally known American geologist Rev. Stephen Richard Richarz dies suddenly from heat prostration while investigating anthropological finds in Shantung. He led the physics department at Catholic University at Peiping and was a fellow of the American Geologic Society and a member of the Society of the Divine Word. Five Tibetan entourage members of the Panchen Lama also died in the heat wave while traveling to Peiping on a special train.
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Stephen Richard
Shantung
American Geological Society
Richarz
Catholic University
Peiping
China
Society of the Divine Word
Pat’s window mishap ends with prompt repayment plan
An Irishman named Pat accidentally breaks a pane and flees. The house owner pursues and catches him. Pat admits the fault and explains he runs home to fetch the money to pay for the damage.
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Pat
Pests Stopped at Canada Border Prevent Entry of Moths
The En tomological Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture reports two pests halted this spring in shipments from Holland. The gold tailed moth and the black vine weevil were intercepted before entering Canada, preventing potential agricultural damage.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Holland
First Canadian Record of Rhododendron White Fly Found
The rhododendron white fly has been detected in a handful of nurseries near Vancouver and Victoria B C marking Canada's first record of the pest. Eradication measures have been initiated to control its spread.
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Vancouver
Victoria
B.C
Canada
Circular path pattern when lost in woods explains drift
A person walking while lost tends to move in successive rightward circles. The first loop is large, the second slightly smaller, and each following circle tightens further, creating a spiraling inward path that converges toward a central area.
Memorial Church in Baghdad Proposed as Mesopotamian Memorial
An appeal for 20000 pounds seeks to build a Mesopotamian Memorial Church in Baghdad. Signed by the Arch bishop of Canterbury and British ambassador Sir Francis Humphrys, the plan honors 41115 British lives in Mesopotamia and would include a memorial shrine with the names of those who died. The site, once a Turkish guardhouse used as a church since 1921, faces demolition for town planning and a new steel bridge over the Tigris. The 400 strong British community supports a permanent church and has secured a site.
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Baghdad
Canterbury
Francis Humphrys
Tigris
Mesopotamia
Iraq
New Parrafin Bath Treatment for Arthritic Joints
Dr Bernard Langdon Wyatt of Tuscon Arizona reports to the American Congress of Physical Therapy that paraffin bathing heats joints more effectively than other methods. The insulating layer between skin and paraffin allows higher temperatures, increasing blood flow and easing pain and stiffness to improve movement.
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Bernard Langdon Wyatt
Tuscon
Arizona
American Congress of Physical Therapy
Wyatt
Airline cabins offer convertible berths like railroad sleeping sections
The article notes that some passenger planes include convertible berths resembling railroad sleeping compartments to provide sleeping facilities for travelers.
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Getulio Vargas
Brazil
Judge
Britain
Gordon H. Guest
Western Farmer
France
Academy of Sciences
Leningrad
Australia
Eea
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Finck
Ruth Rogers
McDermot Ave
Betty Barclay
Ogden
Ogden's
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