World Happenings In Brief From The Britfly
Sir John Phillips dies in London at 73, Queen Mary’s physician. Alice Mary Longfellow dies at home in Cambridge at 78. Coneggie Foundation pledges popularity funds between 25000 and 20000 yearly for ten years to boost Australian research. Bovine tuberculosis infections drop five percent nationwide. BC advisory board discusses promoting sheep clubs at Victoria conference. Hon. Frank Oliver named advisory officer to grade crossings board. Canadian broadcasting conditions to be surveyed. Briand and Stresmann reportedly near disarmament commission talks. Alberta coal low-rate extension to Ontario approved for six months in 1929. Rate effective Jan 15 to Jul 15.
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Sir John Phillips
Queen Mary
London
Alice Mary Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cambridge
Mass
Conegie Foundation
Australia
Dominion
British Columbia
Victoria
Farmers’ Institutes
Frank Oliver
Board of Railway Commissioners
John Aird
Radio Commission
Briand
France
Gustave Stresmann
Alberta
Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners
Ottawa
Ontario
Real Friendship Lasts And The Social Circle
A southern man brings letters to a New York family and faces the reply Our Social circle is already complete. The passage argues real friendship endures, while snobbery closes doors to potential friends. True friendship vitalizes the soul and lasts, unlike hollow social circles.
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New York
Canadian Orchestra Scores Triumph in Montreal Recording
The Eveready Concert Orchestra recorded two popular selections Nanette and Frivolity for Victor Talking Machine Company in Montreal last October during the Radio Show. The recordings, made for permanent records, continue the group’s radio success with CKNC audiences as they release this month.
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Eveready Concert Orchestra
CKNC
Montreal
Victor Talking Machine Company
German Reichstag panel backs abolition of capital punishment
The Criminal Law Committee of the German Reichstag votes by a heavy majority to abolish capital punishment in a provisional recommendation. The decision is not final and serves as a recommendation to the full Reichstag.
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Criminal Law Committee
Reichstag
Robot News Seller Invented by Russian Youth
A young Russian inventor, M. Vinogradov, has created a mechanical newspaper seller that calls out the main news items and provides change. The device represents an early bot-like instrument blending journalism with automation.
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M. Vinogradov
Good Year For Game In Alberta Says Hunters
The past season in Alberta saw unusual shooting with ducks and geese more plentiful than in years. Hungarian partridge increased markedly with bags of six to eight common. Prairie chicken remained scarce and officials extend the closed season.
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Alberta
Winnipeg Newspaper Union Practical Sports Dress Pattern
A practical sports dress pattern with a printed jersey top and two piece skirt features. Described fabrics include flannel with ombre stripes, red kasha, navy wool crepe, cocoa homespun, bottle green velveteen, and coppery tweed. Design Style No 329 offered in sizes 8 10 12 14 years with a 25 cent price.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern information from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 375 McDermot Ave lists Pattern No. but text is incomplete. The OCR fragment implies a query or order guide for pattern numbers issued by the Winnipeg pattern service located in Manitoba.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Bank of Montreal Annual Meeting Highlights Capital Rise
Bank of Montreal marks its annual meeting with Sir Charles Gordon presiding, noting an authorized capital increase from 31,175,000 to 50,000,000 though current issue figures were not given. Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor reviews Canada’s broad prosperity, expansion in industry and wages, and rising agricultural productivity.
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Reret
Vincent Meredith
Charles Gordon
Canada
New York
Bank of Montreal
London
Frederick Williams-Taylor
Prairie
Exports of Canadian Wheat Doubling Over 1927 figures
Exports of Canadian wheat in the present crop year more than double 1927. For the three months to October 31, 95,667,166 bushels were shipped, up from 45,697,618. Of the total 58,469,676 went to the Dominion, 3,111,924 to the United States, and 34,085,566 to other countries.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Scientist predicts skin pigment change from ultraviolet rays
Dr. Morris Fishbein editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association believes that one inheritance the white race will pass to future children is a brown skin color. He predicts that ultra violet rays will cause a pigment change in time.
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Morris Fishbein
Fishbein
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Weathering the cold and quirky schoolboy dictionary
A quirky collection of schoolboy observations on weather, travel, and language. The fragment notes a blizzard as the inside of a duck, contrasts temperate zones with the United States, and humorously misdefines travel and transparency while mentioning the sun never setting on the British Empire and an elm’s normalife.
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United States
Gatekeeper warns motorist as train approaches
A railroad gatekeeper shouts to a stalled motorist to stay back until the train passes. He warns he has no time to sweep anyone up if the vehicle is struck. The incident captures the tense safety moment at the crossing.
Heaviest wood known is iron wood timber
The text notes iron wood as the heaviest wood known, weighing 81 pounds per square foot and it sinks in water.
Competition Is Keen Growing Number Of Synthetic Staples Being Put On Market
The article argues that the era of stable staple goods is ending as synthetic substitutes emerge. It cites cotton, silk, wool, coal derived gasoline, lumber, leather, and radio ties, noting corporations profit from artificial fibers and processes. It warns no industry can claim invulnerability to competition.
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England
Peace River Population Surges as Settlers Move North
In ten months ending October 1, the Peace River Country drew over 16,000 new residents, nearing the summer 1927 northern population. Cultivated land rose from 535,000 acres in 1927 to about 900,000 acres ready for crop in 1929.
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Peace River Country
British youth to be brought to Alberta for service
Two hundred British boys will be brought to Alberta next year under the system started by Hon. George Headley, Minister of Agriculture. Two groups of British girls for domestic service in Alberta are also being brought out during the winter.
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Alberta
George Headley
Dreaming of a loan in Madrid humor
A humorous exchange from Buen Humor in Madrid imagines a friend borrowing 500 pounds and offering to repay 400 with the remaining 100 kept as a joke. The quip plays on friendship and informal debt.
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Abraham
Madrid
Birds Build Strange Houses Roomed Tenement
A hammerheaded stork from Africa builds a three roomed tenement perches between tree branches for its family. The nest includes a lowest compartment passage to a higher flat with bleached bones and pebbles, plus a mud lined nursery and an edible swiftlet nest in Borneo. Edible nests valued at about 1.5 million dollars are imported to China yearly.
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Africa
Borneo
China
Cranberry Portage Embraces Modern Sauna Sign
In Cranberry Portage Manitoba a new town feature, the sauna sign in Finnish, draws residents for a general clean up. The bathhouse offers steam baths, manicures, shaves, haircuts, massages, laundry, pressed trousers and shine services.boys flock there on Saturday nights and gather around a stone arched fireplace.
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Cranberry Portage
Manitoba
Sour Milk Cake Recipe from Weekly Menu
A compact recipe for Sour Milk Cake combining sugar egg butter and lard with baking molasses sour milk cinnamon nutmeg cloves and raisins. Dry mix includes flour baking soda and seedless raisins then fold into wet ingredients and bake in a medium oven for about twenty five minutes.
Raisin Polenta Cup Cornmeal Dish Instructions
A doughy cornmeal base opens to a meat and raisin filling. The recipe guides cooking with salt pepper and fat, simmering beef, then layering meat mix between cornmeal portions and baking at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. The dish is described as an inexpensive meat extender.
Calf Feeding Competition Sets June Event in Saskatoon
A train of 21 cars carrying 1 065 calves arrives from Alberta to Saskatoon for the calf feeding competition. Calves are weighed individually and ear tagged, then distributed in lots of up to five to applicants. The event is scheduled for June.
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Saskatoon
Alberta
Sheep Raising Growth in Penticton Region
Sheep raising is expanding in the Penticton region of the southern interior of British Columbia with several thousand sheep recently imported from the Prairie Provinces.
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Penticton
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Rough voyage quip on shipboard during voyage
A stranger on the ocean liner calls the ride terribly rough. The farmer retorts that it would be less rough if the captain kept in the furrows, implying steadier steering or course adjustments.
Bravery awards named by Royal Humane Society in Canada
The Royal Humane Society in Canada announced bravery honors. Joseph Murphy of St Boniface will receive the bronze medal for rescuing Madame Henri Ducharme and her baby from the Seine. Velma Smith earns parchment for saving Oliver Holloway at Crescent Beach. Maglenna Hartford rescues seven from an icy Mud River plunge and gets parchment. Canon Walter Burd and wife receive a certificate for saving two children at Sandy Lake. Additional parchment certificates go to Marjorie Kirk for saving J L Kerr and three young men for saving Pear Down at different incidents.
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Royal Humane Society
Canada
Joseph Murphy
St. Boniface
Seine River
Henri Ducharme
Madame Ducharme
Mr. Murphy
Velma Smith
Oliver Holloway
Crescent Beach
Vancouver
B. C
Westbourne
Man
Maglenna Hartford
Society
Sandy Lake
Sask
Walter Burd
William Holliday
Bernice Chambers
Marjorie Kirk
J. L. Kerr
Burrard Inlet
Sunshine
B.C
A. G. Morrison
Thomas Bett
John A. McDouganl
Pear
Hannon
Alta
Canadian trade delegates plan Peace River visit
Representatives of 170 boards of trade and chambers across Canada will visit the Peace River region in September. Delegates attending the Canadian Chambers of Commerce convention will meet next September in Calgary and Edmonton before a later excursion into the Peace River country.
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Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce
Canada
Peace River
Vancouver
Canadians Eating More Butter Demand Shifts Trade
Canada increases butter consumption and imports while exports shrink. Domestic production plus stock usage draws on cold storage, with November 1 butter in storage about 11 million pounds below the 1927 level.
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Canada
Dominion
Do you know what hell is sermon sign in Parkdale church
In Parkdale Toronto a church displayed a sign for Sunday evening with the sermon title Do you know what hell is and a smaller line inviting listeners to hear their new organist, stirring curiosity and amusement among locals.
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Parkdale
Toronto
Matrimony Defined in Humorous Roundabout
A witty line defines matrimony as an act of adoration followed by ringing a bell and giving a name to a maid before being taken in.
Road to success paved by friendships in scraps
A quip suggests that the road to success is built on the friendships formed through scrapped efforts. The UK consumed over 240 million dollars worth of imported butter in the last year. A humorous exchange questions foot washing, with a village tale about a man who washed his feet and changed afterward.
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Quebec
Ontario
Canada
Prairie Provinces
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Vienna
Iowa
Bank of Montreal Annual Meeting
United Kingdom
Frederick William Taylor
Betty Barclay
Royal Humane
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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Stockholm
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