World Happenings Briefly Told From Across The Ocean
A roundup of international items recalls events in England Romania Canada and the United States. Trials slander and prize posts are noted along with a death toll from tainted liquor in Buffalo and Ontario. The Canada National Railways report a sharp rise in six month net earnings and a protest over dining car staff dismissals closes the notice.
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Canadian National Railways
Toronto
United Negro Improvement Association
Canadian League For the Advancement of Colored People
Harvest Workforce Expands Across Prairies for Summer Crop
An estimated 60,000 harvesters will be needed this summer across Western Canada. Saskatchewan requires about 35,000 workers, Manitoba 8 000 to 9 000, and Alberta around 12 000. Recruits will come from Eastern Canada, British Columbia and the United States with special rail rates and return tickets after a month of farm work in the West.
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Prairies
Canada
British Columbia
United States
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Prairie
Western
Peter Pan Original Acts as Best Man in Kent Wedding
Peter Llewelyn Davies, the original Peter Pan, served as best man for his brother Nicholas Llewelyn Davies at a Kent wedding with Sir James Barvie in attendance. Nicholas is ward to Sir James, and Mary James is the bride, daughter of Lady Northbourne. The Medicine Hat plant of Canadian Western Steel was bought by United States Horseshoe Manufacturing, which may move equipment from Redcliffe Rolling Mills to Medicine Hat to expand the plant.
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Peter Pan
Peter Llewelyn Davis
James Barvie
Peter
Kent
England
James
Nicholas Llewelyn Davies
Mary James
Northbourne
Sir James
Medicine Hat
Canadian Western Steel Corporation
United States Horseshoe Manufacturing Company
Erie
Pennsylvania
Redcliffe Rolling Mills
Hospital bed census reports maternity beds and births in Canada
The census shows 28 076 hospital beds in Canada with 5 079 for maternity care and 28 624 hospital births in 1975. A saying notes a man who acts fierce in public is often tame at home.
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Canada
Dominion
Gandhi Would Reform India If He Were Emperor
Gandhi outlines imagined reforms for India including banning liquor and closing distilleries. He calls for Hindu Muslim unity, disbanding most of the army, protecting Europeans and worship, and a tariff on foreign cloth while urging peaceful relations with frontier tribes.
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Ife
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Hearts Of Oak and British Stability in World Affairs
The piece quotes J. L. Garvin praising Britain as a political people, a steady keystone for Europe and Asia. It stresses decisive resolve through postwar anxieties and ongoing Armistice tensions, implying Britain's endurance maintains global order amid trials.
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Europe
Asia
J. L. Garvin
London Observer
Manitoba Dairy Industry Growth Through the 1910s to 1925 Exports
Manitoba dairy commissioner L A Gibson notes butter imports rose from 50 to 60 carloads in 1912 to 35 in 1913 and 20 in 1914. By 1915 production met local demand and 50 carloads were shipped out. Exports climbed yearly to 325 carloads in 1925 valued at 2.5 million.
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Manitoba
L. A. Gibson
Ontario
Quebec
Plain two piece fashion frock with simple lines
Fashion notes that sports frocks dominate wardrobes with practical two piece model. Blouse slips over head with collar options and tailored cuffs. Skirt and blouse sizes listed with material requirements. Pattern No 1038 and 1194 priced 20 cents each. fashion book 16 cents.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Union
A compact notice lists pattern orders from the Winnipeg Pattern Union at 176 McDermot Ave. It references pattern numbers, size and name details to guide customers in placing requests.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Manitoba Survey Initiates Land Information For Settlers
The Manitoba Government begins an agricultural survey of unoccupied lands to aid incoming settlers with available land data. Western Canada shows 2,474 homesteads taken this year, 657 families and 3,133 people joined the western provinces under the settlement plan. The Canada Colonization Association placed 643 families on 156,555 acres in the last year. Post-war immigration records were shattered as 1,681 immigrants passed through Winnipeg in 48 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Canada
Canada Colonization Association
Winnipeg
Four Firms Plan Auto Industry in New South Wales
Four large engineering and electrical equipment manufacturers in New South Wales plan to form a company capitalized at £1,000,000 to produce Australian made six cylinder motor cars. They seek government subsidy and mass production methods to aid the industry. The minister of trade and customs said reasonable recommendations would be sympathetically considered by the cabinet. Australia is the largest importer of U S automobiles.
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New South Wales
French Mechanic Invents Flying Bicycle in Dijon
A young French mechanic at a Dijon factory has built a bicycle that can transform into a small plane and reach 150 feet. After years of work and successful tests, he plans to present the invention to the public, believing large scale production will make flying affordable for all.
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Dijon
Paris
Rare Paintings Stolen by Paris Antiquity Faker
A skilled French antique dealer copied Old Masters and swapped originals with fakes in remote country castles. The stolen works were moved into the Paris antiquity market before being identified and the dealer jailed.
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Paris
Building Boom Hits Winnipeg as Permits Surge
Activity in Winnipeg building was at its peak with $8,300,000 in permits in the first half of the year, up from $2,412,940 in the same period of 1925. The nationwide trend mirrors optimism across Canada amid strong grain harvest prospects and improving conditions for farmers and business leaders.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Dominion
Women Called to the Bar in London
Six more women have been called to the bar in London signaling a rise in female lawyers. Among the new entrants are the Hon Ruth Buckley daughter of Lord Wrenbury and Miss Beng Hong Lim of Penang Straits Settlements. Miss Beng is the second Oriental woman admitted to practice, and her brother Kayi Seng Lim is also admitted.
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London
Ruth Buckley
Lord Wrenbury
Telephones per Capita by Country in Recent Statistics
Canada ranks second with 11.6 telephones per hundred people, behind the United States at 14.2. Denmark 9.0, New Zealand 8.7, Sweden 6.9, Norway 6.1 follow. Great Britain reports 28 per hundred, France 1.7.
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Statistics
Canada
United States
Denmark
New Zealand
Sweden
Norway
Great Britain
France
Robert T. Lincoln Dies at 83 in Vermont Home
Robert T. Lincoln, the sole surviving son of President Abraham Lincoln, was found dead in his summer Vermont residence. Once Secretary of War, diplomat to Great Britain, and long time president of the Pullman Company, he had been frail late in life.
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Dick Quiliquimston
British Columbia
Esquimalt Reserve
Robert Alexander Baker
Baker Advertising Agency
Toronto
Robert T. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Vermont
Mr. Lincoln
Great Britain
Pullman Company
London Stores Display Dollar Signs for First Time
Dollar signs appear on merchandise in London shopping districts popular with American tourists. The symbols are clearly London made and display a perpendicular style, lacking the familiar Yankee twist.
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London
Frightful Lamb Hides Furs and Porters Time as Anglers
A fragment notes lambs killed at days old for Persian and Astrakhan fur, while Pullman porters are said to measure time like amateur anglers, from tip to tip.
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Pullman Porters
Crossword Puzzle Mini Dictionary
A crossword style list of clues with numbers and hints for words across and down. Entries cover a wide range from body parts and objects to actions and colors, inviting readers to fill the grid with related terms.
The Sea Growing Safer As Wireless Rules Rise
From 1922 to 1924 the average missing ships at Lloyds fell to ten, down from twenty as wireless requirements spread. Most missing ships lacked wireless. one 1550 ton vessel lost en route to Amsterdam might have been saved if equipped. The era hints the law will extend to smaller ships.
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Lloyds
Amsterdam
S.O.S
Coolidge May Not Run Again Says Cummins
Senator Albert B. Cummins predicts in an interview that President Coolidge will not seek re election in 1928. He says Coolidge may step down after an immense task and notes agriculture as the main policy area he would have preferred to see changed.
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Coolidge
Albert B. Cummins
Auxiliary lungs touted to boost high altitude flight
A French chemist M. Garsaux is said to have perfected artificial lungs that adjust to rheostasis to supply pilots with increasing oxygen as aircraft ascend. The Academy of Science calls the invention a major advance in aviation science, claiming tests show a pilot can endure reduced air pressure corresponding to a 50 000 foot climb, previously unattainable by man.
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M. Garsaux
Academy of Science
Potatoes From British Columbia For California Seed Use
California growers plan large imports of British Columbia seed potatoes this year to boost southern strain strength. Trials with Canadian seed last year yielded satisfactory results for California fields and seed programs.
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British Columbia
California
Building Bigger Airships Go Beyond Earlier Plans
British airships of the future are to be much larger than anticipated. The Cardington hangar, originally sized for 700 feet by 144 feet and two R33 class ships, now measures 12 feet long and 180 feet high to house a Rei class airship. A mooring mast and a pump can supply 2,000 gallons of fuel oil hourly to all ships.
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Cardington
Growth Of Saskatchewan Cropping and Wheat Output Through Years
Saskatchewan expanded from nearly 60 000 farms with over 2 million crop acres to major grain production. Grain yield rose from under 60 million bushels in 1905 to 435.53 million in 1925, with wheat output climbing from 34.74 million to 240.55 million bushels, 57 percent of Dominion wheat in 1925, up from 3.1 percent in 1895.
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Saskatchewan
Dominion
Alberta Savings Certificates See Strong Demand Through June
Conditions are evidently good in Alberta as money invested in Alberta Government Savings Certificates through June equals the total for all of 1925. Last year’s figure was 2,149,515 dollars. by June this year 2,100,706 dollars had been recorded. Since July began, certificate sales have pushed the year’s total beyond the previous year with five months remaining.
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Alberta
Holstein Cattle Sent to Japan From British Columbia
Twenty two pure bred Holstein cattle have been collected across British Columbia and shipped from Victoria to Japan. The animals are consigned to breeders associations and allocated to five regions in the destination country.
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British Columbia
Victoria
Japan
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Will Beable
Posseinies
William &.Ulbertson
Romania
Samuel Scott
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Vancouver
Civic Centre
Privy Council
Hig Majesty
Francis Anglin
George Perry Graham
Buffalo
New York
Lockport
Gandhi
Hearts of Oak
Manitoba Dairy Industry
Eded
Agricul
Australia
Telephones
Lincoln
Cunard
Ascania
Harold Taylor
C.N.R
Haven
God of Love
Tion
Malay Archipelago
Senator Cummins
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