World Happenings Briefly Told
Great Britain plans to augment its fire brigades for possible incendiary air attacks. A parliamentary committee will study making paid vacations mandatory for all British salaried workers. Captain James Murrison aims to fly coronation films from London to New York in May in a specially built plane. Mussolini orders a test mobilization of over 1,000,000 troops in coming months. Windsor Ont forwards 256 toward King George V memorial in the English borough. Over 17,000 citizens donate to peace and revival of world trade cited by Sir George Paish at the Montreal Canadian club. Stephen Salter of Ryde buys a new pair of poets at age 102. Russell Hardie recalls Oxford university racing eights builder days near London Ont. A coin minted 100 years ago found on Brookdale farm. US general labor shortage seen as highly probable if activity grows like 1933-36.
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James Murrison
George VI
London
New York
Benito Mussolini
Windsor
Ont
England
George V
George Paish
Montreal Canadian Club
Stephen Salter
Ryde
Isle of Wight
Oxford
Brookdale
National Industrial Conference Board
Trans Atlantic Coronation film flight planned with pilots
Willing to make the Coronation film delivery faster, Amy Mollison and Beryl Markham discuss a trans Atlantic air flight to New York. Sir Gordon Craig says the plan is by the company holding exclusive rights to film the coronation ceremonies on May 12. Copies will also be sent to North America via the dirigible Hindenburg from Frankfurt. Mrs Mollison and Mrs Markham have crossed the North Atlantic by air and may undertake the flight. Canada will get copies from New York by fast service.
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Amy Mollison
Beryl Markham
New York
Gordon Craig
British Movietone News
North America
Frankfurt
Germany
Mollison
Markham
North Atlantic
Canada
Fast Service
Mysterious Bottle Turns Out To Be Cough Syrup
In San Antonio Texas officers found a bottle with a yellowish fluid like nitroglycerin Captain Cliff Ram achisse an explosives expert carried it 20 miles away and shattered it The liquid proved to be cough syrup A second note mentions a sighting by an aviator two miles up of objects 150 miles away.
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San Antonio
Texas
Cliff Ramachisse
Formic Acid Distilled from Red Eats Historical Note
A historical note records formic acid produced by distilling red eats at one time. The snippet highlights a curious method linking these foods to chemical production in past practices.
Unordered Merchandise Racket Warns Toronto Public
The Toronto Better Business Bureau warns against unsolicited goods sent by mail. No obligation to buy or return items. hold for a reasonable time and demand storage charges if a representative collects them. Public cooperation urged to curb the nuisance. Hamilton Spectator.
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Toronto Better Business Bureau
Hamilton Spectator
New Scientific Discoveries From Britain’s Research Report
The annual British department of scientific and industrial research describes advances in bread staling elimination improved mass production footwear and durable dental fillings. It notes pigs growth and diet affect pork quality and that a quarter mile rapid walk alters tissue alkalinity aiding dry salt curing. Gas storage with oxygen and carbon dioxide preserves William pear for weeks. Flour Millers’ Research Association attributes bread staling to poor keeping qualities and reports bread from the best flour keeps 10 to 12 days.
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Britain
Flour Millers’ Research Association
Smokeless new town planned near Liverpool with 5000 homes
Proposed development near Liverpool would include 5000 houses costing over 5 million dollars. Plans set aside sites for three churches a cinema seven schools two shopping centres and a playground with electric heating to avoid smoke near the adjacent airdrome.
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Liverpool
England
Lindberghs Complete Second Year as Refugees in England
The Lindberghs have finished a second year in England away from the American press and paparazzi, enjoying private life. Meanwhile Northern Ireland agrees to fund 1,000,000 dollars to build and outfit a new aircraft factory in Belfast.
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Northern Ireland
Belfast
Coin Casting Versus Striking Traditions in Minting
The article explains that a cast coin is formed by pouring molten metal between two molds while a struck coin is produced by stamping a blank of gold silver nickel or copper bronze.
Canada achieves regular radium production from Great Bear Lake
The discovery of pitchblende deposits near Great Bear Lake led to Canada’s radium industry. By 1936 a regular production base existed with mine at Great Bear Lake and refinery at Port Hope, enabling transport via Mackenzie River and air service. By October 1936 monthly output reached two grams and on November 16 the first ounce was produced.
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Great Bear Lake
Northwest Territories
Mines Branch
Port Hope
Mackenzie River
Waterways
Alberta
Canada
Futility Of Gas Masks Sparks Cambridge Skeptics
Cambridge scientists tested Home Office gas safety ideas and found limited protection from masks and chambers. They reported a three hour survival in a gas chamber, 12 hours in an airtight room, and questioned the cost and efficacy of gas masks and incendiary-proof buildings.
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Home Office
Mystery illness silences boy at Worthing school
A ten year old in Worthing England walks daily to school yet on arrival cannot speak read or write. Doctors are puzzled by a nervous condition thought to stem from an early life shock. Worthing Town Council grants 150 pounds to fund cure research.
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Worthing
England
World War Pensions Expected to Last Century
Analysts estimate that World War pensions will continue for at least 100 years, covering ongoing veteran benefits and related financial obligations amid evolving policy.
Too Much Visiting In Hospitals Provokes Restlessness
The Canadian Observer notes concerns about excessive visiting in hospitals. Authorities worry crowded wards and patient stress hinder recovery, urging hospitals to enforce quiet, restful conditions for ill patients.
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Samia Canadian Observer
Personal Crisis Reports in Tokyo Rise Despite Gender Gap
Tokyo officials released statistics showing 2,681 personal crisis reports last year with men outnumbering women nearly two to one. Overall 266 more cases than 1935, driven by illness 915, poverty 338, love affairs 344, guilty conscience 269, brooding 241, and domestic troubles 217.
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Tokio
Kiddies Cute Pantie-Frock Pattern 4170 By Anne Adams
Pattern 4170 offers a simple to make kiddies pantie-frock for ages 2 to 8 with a novel yoke and flared panel. Choose puffed or flared sleeves in gingham, percale, lawn, or calico and sizes 2, 4, 6, and 8 require 2 yards of 36 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg cottons.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg Cottons
Christ the Consoler in John fourteen lesson
Sunday School lesson reflects on John fourteen with Christ the Consoler theme. Jesus calms troubled hearts by faith in the Father and in him, urging belief in God and in Jesus, who affirm unity with the Father through words and works. The piece ties faith hope and love to future glory and divine guidance.
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Christ the
Jesus
God
Christ
Heaven
Love
John Wesley
Father
Jesus Christ
Girl Seaman Charlotte Wilson Becomes Marine Engineer
Charlotte Wilson, 17, of St Andrews Scotland, qualifies as marine engineer and sails as engineer on her father’s fishing vessel The Katharine. She works with her father and grandfather, performing tasks to start stop and manoeuvre the ship and help haul nets. She wears blue jersey and overalls and prefers life at sea to housework.
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Charlotte Wilson
St. Andrews
Scotland
Katharine
Flood brings replacement piano to Finley Johnson
The Ohio River flood swept away Finley Johnson's piano at his Birds Point New Madrid floodway home. He opened the doors to let the piano out and watched it drift away, then found a new piano had floated in through the open doors during the flood.
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Ohio River
Finley Johnson
Finley
Birds Point
New Madrid
Want Town Renamed Delameter In Washington State
Citizens of Scantygrease Washington petition county commissioners to rename the town to Delameter saying the current name is outdated and misdescriptive. The piece recalls the town's origin tied to scarce turnips once used in frying pans.
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Scantygrease
Washington
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Eases Acid Indigestion Fast
A short health note advertises Phillips Milk of Magnesia as rapid relief for acid stomach upset. It claims two teaspoons after meals or two tablets relieve gas headaches nausea and general discomfort from overindulgence and smoking. A 25 cent box is advertised at drug stores.
Informal planting advised for pleasing home gardens
Experts say irregular clumps with a foreground lawn and edge flower beds create a spacious look in average gardens. Use shrubs in corners to soften lines and trails to link house and landscape. Vegetables still in straight rows but with multiple sowings weekly for fresh, continuous harvests.
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Canada
Hudson Bay Route Open Date Adjusted to Aug 9
The opening date for the Hudson Bay route to Church, Manitoba, shifts to August 9 from August 10 last year. Closing on October 10 requires a 3 percent insurance surcharge for travel from October 11 to 15. The house was told rates on cargoes reflect competition, with 1935 rates about five percent above the St. Lawrence route, and the government will press for lower Hudson Bay rates.
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Hudson Bay
Churchill
Man
Strance
Hudson
Dominion
Imperial Shipping Committee
St. Lawrence
Epita
Bullet Proof Glass Fitted on South Manchuria Express Coaches
The South Manchuria Railway plans to install bullet proof glass costing 2000 dollars per coach in all first class cars on the Mukden to An tung express line. The measure follows numerous shooting incidents targeting passengers on this route.
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South Manchuria
Mukden
Antung
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House of Commons
America
Tario
Cambridge
Vicki VapoRus
Seatch
Ohio
Flood
Want
Mine Phillips
Phillips
Magnesia
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