English Climate Is Safe, Concluding an Elite British Character
A Mary Borden essay praises England’s climate as safe and life enhancing. It argues British life develops slowly, yielding robust horses and wholesome people while contrasting American energy with English temperance. The piece credits a balanced individualism against mass society and hints at avoiding communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Magazine
Mary Borden
England
America
United States
Beaverhill Lake Alberta Draws Vast Shorebird Migration
Beaverhill lake located at the eastern base of Cooking Lake highlands Alberta attracts tens of thousands of shorebirds during migration. Birds such as black bellied and golden plover ruddy turnstone American knot and others nest in Arctic regions and winter as far as Argentina. The area offers exceptional opportunities for study and photography of Limicolae with protection under the Migratory Birds Act.
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Beaverhill Lake
Cooking Lake Highlands
Alberta
Arctic
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Argentine
Patagonia
Prairie
Buffalo Bone Trade At Saskatoon In The 1890s
Professor J W G MacEwan describes Saskatoon as the 1880s center of a booming buffalo bone industry that peaked in 1891 and 1892. Bones gathered along the railway and beyond were shipped east, with about 250 buffalo making one carload and roughly 3000 cars total from Saskatoon.
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Saskatoon
J. W. G. MacEwan
University of Saskatchewan
Lions’ Club
Buffalo
Hilarity Linked to Hay Fever Says London Clinic
St. Mary’s Hospital asthma clinics in London conclude laughter may trigger hay-fever attacks. Last year the clinic recorded 15,236 attendances with visitors from America South Africa Australia and the Continent.
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St. Mary's Hospital
London
America
South Africa
Australia
Stormy Weather Starts With Wedding March Mix Up
A light moment follows as a pianist plays the first bars of the Wedding March. The wife asks about the tune, and the husband explains it humorously as the beginning of Stormy Weather.
Saving Grace Of Humor Mrs Mabel Brady at Haaren High School
Mrs Mabel Brady enters her seventh year as director of ceramics and clay modelling at Haaren High School New York. She argues art classes help solve social problems by expressing feelings and fostering humor as the saving grace of a drab life. She teaches pupils to laugh at life and shape humor into clay.
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Mabel Brady
Haaren High School
New York
Pin Pricked Portraits Tied to Anne Boleyn At Tower of London
Miss Julia Barkaway of Toronto owns a pin pricked portrait of Anne Boleyn’s attendant, made in the Tower of London era, praised by Prof. C. T. Currelly of the Royal Ontario Museum as a bona fide fifteenth to sixteenth century work. The item, handed down through Miss Barkaway’s family from Thomas Luck of Hadlow, England, includes a companion image of a Tower of London male attendant.
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Tower of London
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Julia Barkaway
Toronto
Anne Boleyns
Miss Barkaway
England
Thomas Luck
Hadlow
Kent
C. T. Currelly
Royal Ontario Museum
Humble Beginnings to Vast Vestey Empire in British Trade
Lord Vestey, at eighty, built a vast fortune from a modest start as an office boy and weekly wagers. His firms dominate British frozen beef imports and own steamers, refrigeration plants, and retail interests in butter, eggs, poultry, and ice cream. The Vesteys funded Liverpool Cathedral, giving 220000 pounds for the central tower and a 6800 pound 14 ton bell for the tower.
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Lord Vestey
Liverpool
Pandit Malaviya Hopes Rejuvenation Treat Turns Back Time
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, once Indian National Congress president, seeks a 20 year youthful boost from a rejuvenation treatment. After half the period he is said to have fewer wrinkles, can read without glasses, and is growing new teeth. The treatment director, keeping him in a dark chamber, predicts his hair will soon turn black but offers few details.
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Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
All-India Congress
Pandit
Animals Think Well Of Humans Say Optimistic Note
A lighthearted reflection notes that dogs and some other animals think highly of many people, countering general pessimism about humanity. The piece highlights hopeful sentiment through animal perception and companionship.
Tokyo vows open door to China amid self reliance push
Tokyo pledges to maintain an open door policy toward China while signaling domestic self sufficiency. The article notes emphasis on Japanese-made door elements as a symbol of industrial focus. Gasoline prices in parts of South America and Africa rise to about 70 cents per gallon.
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Tokyo
China
Japan
Paderewski Portrait Sparked by London Bus Meeting
When the Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski rode a London bus a stranger eyed him intently. The aristocrat later invited Paderewski to pose and Burne-Jones painted the now famous portrait, inspired by Paderewski's intense spiritual life.
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Ignace Jan Paderewski
London
Paderewski
Edward Burne- Jones
Changing Our Laws and Self-Government for Canada
The Brockville Recorder and Times argues Canadians should have the right to amend their own constitution and end appeals to the Privy Council. It states that self government includes interpreting laws by Canadian judges and aligning constitutional change with other Dominions.
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Brockville
Wolf bounty claimed by Dan Rose with 70 inch pelt
Dan Rose of Saskatchewan, in Goderich Ontario for the county bounty of fifteen dollars after turning in a wolf pelt 70 inches long. It is the first wolf killed in Huron county in two years.
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Dan Rose
Saskatchewan
Goderich
Ont
Huron County
Seized the Opportunity in Tire Pioneer Firestone
The piece notes Harvey S. Firestone, a tire pioneer who expanded rubber use from buggies to bicycles and automobiles. It traces rubber production growth from 1900 to 25 years later and credits Firestone with seizing the opportunities of his era while forecasting future chances for young innovators.
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Harvey S. Firestone
Firestone
W. K. Kelsey
Detroit News
Ten Kings Linked to British Princess in Debrett Guide
Debrett's London issued guide traces ten of Europe's eleven kings to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I, who married Frederick V in 1612. Their 11 children include ancestors to Belgium Italy Bulgaria Denmark Sweden Norway Greece Romania Yugoslavia. Zog of Albania is the lone outside king.
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Europe
Debrett
London
Elizabeth
James I
Frederic
Elector Palatine
Bohemia
Belgium
Italy
Bulgaria
Charles Louis
Britain
Sophia
Hanover
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
George II
Greece
Romania
Yugoslavia
Victoria
Zog
Albania
Reading as a lifelong voyage praised by Lady Tweedsmuir
Her Excellency voices three reader types and champions biographies over novels. She says reading requires mental effort, notes help memory, and reading around a subject can substitute time constraints. Reading opens a garden of emotion and insight, bringing joy, hope, and friendship.
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Lady Tweedsmuir
Lord Tweedsmuir
Lady
Indians Operate Coal Mine on Blackfoot Reserve in Alberta
The Reserve Mine near Gleichen Alberta began 1931 under Department of Mines and Resources aims to empower Indians toward independence. About 50 Indian miners work for 1.50 per ton with a white supervisor. payroll averages 500 dollars weekly. the cooperative, self supporting operation includes houses, dairy, restaurant, dress shop, blacksmith, and two churches.
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Department of Mines and Resources
Canada
Blackfoot Reserve
Gleichen
Alberta
Blackfoot Band Council
Gle Cen
War trophies to be sold for scrap metal at Eton College
In Moscow a passerby could be fined on the spot for dropping paper such as a train ticket. Separately Eton College announces selling war trophies for scrap metal.
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Moscow
Eton College
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San Francisco
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West
Harlem
Park Avenue
South Staffordshire Regiment
Aldershot
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Sir Edward Burne- Jones
Regina
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Manitoba
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