Motion Across The Universe And A London Band In New York
A New York Times piece discusses the vastness of cosmic motion from Earth’s rotation to galactic travel, noting how daily life remains out of sync with moving scales. It also profiles the Coldstream Guards Band stationed at the British Pavilion in New York, detailing its history since 1742 and current arrangements and duties abroad.
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New York
Coldstream Guards
Buckingham
St. James's Palace
Grenadier
Coldstream Band
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Elizabeth
J Causley Windram
Ruddy
Royal Marines
Royal Academy of Music
London
King’s Road
Chelsea
Heracles Airliner Ends Paris Route Era
Imperial Airways notes Heracles, the grand old lady of the air, withdrawn from the Paris route after long service since September 1931. In 1935 the airliner flew 2,500 hours and 245,000 miles with only four days grounded, before taking charter passengers to Le Touquet this summer.
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Heracles
Imperial Airways Air
Paris
le Touquet
Imperial Airways Bulletin
Expedition to the Amazon Vanished 12 Years Ago
George Osborne, skipper of the Grimsby trawler Girl Pat, plans an £8,000 expedition aboard the 500-ton Hermosa to search the Amazon for Paul Redfern, the American aviator who disappeared on a South American flight 12 years earlier. Crew includes John Jervis, Lionel Seccombe, Kathleen Sheppard, Naomi Heron Maxwell.
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George Osborne
Pat
West Indies
John Jervis
Jane England
Lionel Seccombe
BBC
Kathleen Sheppard
Naomi Heron-Maxwell
Paul Redfern
South America
The Queen in Montreal A Tale of Public Heart
A vivid montage from Dominion Square and Otawa scenes shows the Queen singing Alouette to a vast audience, the crowd cheering as she and the King navigate around a war memorial to greet veterans. The moment captures intimate gestures with a farm girl camera moment.
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Dominion Square
Otawa
Montreal Star
Canada a Nation With a Future Seeks Mutual Defense Pact
The Milwaukee Journal notes President Roosevelt’s pledge to defend Canada if attacked and cites Ian MacKenzie’s plan to build 500 fighting aircraft and coastal defenses. The piece argues shared security strengthens both nations and cooperation remains essential beyond partisan boundaries.
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Quebec
Northwest Mounted
Canada
Roosevelt
United States
Ian MacKenzie
Atlantic
Pacific
Milwaukee Journal
An Invaluable Gift Premier Chamberlain’s Work Strain Explained
The Toronto Globe and Mail admires Premier Chamberlain for separating duties. It notes he can focus on fishing when off duty, leaving office worries behind until the next day. This habit marks him as an exceptional executive able to detach work from leisure.
Money grows like potatoes and you must dig for it
The saying notes money does not come easily and requires effort to obtain. It cites nickel steel's early use in a locomotive boiler shell in 1904 as an example of industrial progress.
Ten Thousand Fire Crackers At Mount Hope Cemetery
A busload of Chinese mourners visited Brantford Ont Mount Hope cemetery to decorate twelve Chinese graves with a celebratory feast for the departed. Fire crackers crackled along red sticks as the group gathered in apparent glad spirit with no mourning evident.
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Mount Hope
Brantford
Ex Soldiers Mourn Sister Molly Gertrude Lady Decies Dies
Gertrude Lady Decies known as Sister Molly dies at 70 in a London nursing home. She served as a wartime surgical nurse in Russia during the revolution and led a 1918 effort to send women nurses to Ethiopian frontlines. She ran businesses from a hotel to a rabbit farm and tea room.
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Molly
Gertrude Lady Decies
London
London Daily Sketch
Lord Decies
Russia
Abyssinia
Decies
Ascot
Scotswood
Sylvia
Red Cross
Belgravia
Germany Supplying China War Materials Through Britain
Foreign Undersecretary Richard Butler told the House of Commons that German war materiel has exceeded imports from any other country since hostilities began, noting not all Chinese munitions pass via British territory. The piece also mentions a Saxophone player's funeral subscription joke and a claim about England fires causing more air pollution than industrial smoke.
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Germany
China
Richard Butler
House of Commons
John Wardlaw-Milne
Butler
Pattern 6397 cross stitch sampler offered by Winnipeg union
The notice promotes Pattern 6397 a cross stitch sampler 11 by 13 inches with transfer pattern materials stitch illustrations color chart and key. To obtain send 20 cents in stamps to Household Arts Department Ave E Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published cannot be accepted.
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Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
T. Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot
Bermuda onions grow beyond Bermuda says historic note
A fragment notes Bermuda onions are not exclusive to Bermuda and are also grown in Florida and Texas. It mentions Sir Edwin Lutyens then president of the Royal Academy passing a story to Archbishop Downey of Liverpool. Another fragment recalls a man struck by a taxi in an East-end hospital asking if he is brought to die with a nurse replying Yes terdie.
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Edwin Lutyens
The
Royal Academy
Archbishop Downey
Liverpool
Yesterdie
Bermuda
Florida
Texas
Great Britain Converts To Mass Production Of Fast Bombers
Britain initiates mass production of the Bristol Beaufort the fastest twin engined bomber. It joins Wellington and Spitfire among RAF aircraft with speeds over 300 miles per hour. Secret figures withheld, crew of four, turreted guns, and long range roles noted amid broader wartime aviation advances.
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Great Britain
Royal Air Force
Wellington
Northol Aurdrome
New Uses For Wheat Intensive research urged by wheat dealers
Cecil Lamont of the Northwest Grain Dealers' Association, back from a U S Chemurgic Council meeting in Columbus Ohio, urged Canada to pursue new industrial uses for wheat. He noted ongoing work on soya beans corn and skim milk derived synthetic wool in the United States and said wheat research is limited though Ford labs and the U S government are turning attention to the cereal. He cited nylon, a synthetic silk from coal air and water, as a product set for market in 1940 and that ten bushels of soya beans would be used to manufacture each car by a major producer for gear parts wheels and dashboards.
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Canada
Cecil Lamont
Northwest Grain Dealers’ Association
United States
Chemurgic Council
Columbus
Ohio
Ford Laboratories
Proud Of Her Job Alberta's Only Woman Mail Carrier
Alberta's only woman rural carrier Miss Mildred Ritson runs a 44 mile route southeast of Lacombe. She has never missed a trip in eight years and carries on after her father and two brothers, all earlier mail carriers, were gone. She enjoys the open road and the company of friends and patrons along the way.
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Alberta
Mildred Ritson
Lacombe
Olds Agricultural College
Miss Ritson
Early Thaw Cancels Royal Dog Derby at Port Radium
In Port Radium N W T on the Arctic edge the planned Royal visit dog derby over Great Bear Lake was canceled due to an unusually warm thaw and ice breakup. Last year the race ran in March with temperatures near 30 below zero. In Chicago 18000 children voted for spinach in school lunches. The youthful irreverence sinks these questionnaires.
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Port Radium
N.W.T
Arctic Circle
Canada
Great Bear Lake
Export Of Eggs Surges As Canada Ships To Britain
Canadian egg shipments to the British market reach 5 000 cases this season with 3 000 more leaving Montreal in the week ended May 13. Prices show Canadian eggs at one shilling per 10 dozen over Danish and Dutch, while shipments from both eastern and western farms maintain quality. Officials expect continued active export movement potentially surpassing last year’s 25 cars with producers receiving Montreal market parity.
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Montreal
Poultry Products Inspection and Grading Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Blenheim Palace: Historic seat amid recent daring robbery
Blenheim Palace, home of the Marlboroughs and linked to Winston Churchill ancestry, dates from 1705 after the Battle of Blenheim. The estate surrounds 11 miles of private parkland and is held from the Crown paid by a yearly miniature Union Jack.
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Blenheim Palace
Windsor Castle
News of the World
Colonial Table Etiquette and Athlete’s Foot Facts
A published list describes strict colonial table rules forbidding asking for things, speaking unless addressed, and biting into bread. The text also notes an estimate that half of people suffer from the athlete’s foot infection.
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Coldstream Guards Band
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Callander
Toronto
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Reich
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