World Happenings Briefly Told
In Ottawa the House of Commons gave third reading to a Separate grading of Garnet wheat bill. Calgary veteran Charles Knight 75, dies at home. Mrs. Margaret Ziegler marks her 1st birthday at Bateman. Royaltie 20 well in Turner Valley yields light crude. Norway seeks 52 million kronen for defence. Australia aims to honor pre election pledges no conscription. Lazaro Cardenas says expropriation of foreign oil firms is exceptional. Clouston and Ricketts set England to New Zealand flight record in four days eight hours seven minutes. Farm plan reports 42 633 placements in four western provinces. Norman Rogers notes in Commons the farm plan progress.
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House of Commons
Royal North West Mounted Police
Riel
Charles Knight
Calgary
Margaret Ziegler
Bateman, Sask
Royaltie
Turner Valley
Joseph Lyons
Lazaro Cardenas
A. E. Clouston
Victor Ricketts
London
Norman Rogers
T. C. Douglas
C.C.F
Weyburn
Dangerous Situation Warns Dodd on Axis War
Dr William E Dodd former US ambassador to Germany says a United States France and Russia war on Germany Italy and Japan is the only way to retain their status quo He predicts a unitedAxis next war would form the strongest military power since Napoleon and notes Britain’s doom after Parliament’s Ethiopian decision.
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Germany
Italy
Japan
William E. Dodd
Princetonian
Princeton University
Great Britain
Ontario artist gifts five miniatures to Dionne quints
Chatham landscape painter M F Rousal returned from the Dionne nursery on March 9 and sent five miniature oil paintings from his North Bay exhibition to each of the Dionne quints. Each work depicts Atlantic and Gaspe scenes in elegant frames.
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M. F. Rousal
Chatham
Ontario
Dionne Nursery
North Bay
Atlantic
Gaspe
Ottawa awards Lysander plane contract to National Steel Car Co
The national defence department in Ottawa confirms a cost plus 10 percent contract for 12 Westland Lysander single-engine double-seater planes to be built by National Steel Car Co at its Hamilton plant. The deal is valued at 390000 dollars and the aircraft are described as general purpose, fast and capable of carrying two or more machine guns and bombs.
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National Defence Department
Ottawa
National Steel Car Co
Hamilton
Oldest Canadian Shamrock Plant Passed Through Askwith Family
Ottawa city works commissioner Frank Askwith is linked to a pot o shamrock reported by the Regina Leader Post as the oldest plant in Canada. The plant has been in the Askwith family for over 60 years across three generations.
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Regina Leader-Post
Ottawa
Frank Askwith
Canada
Askwith
Canada’s 1937 canned vegetables near nine and half million
Canada’s canned vegetables for 1937 total almost 9.5 million cases, up from 7,948,240 in 1936, amid broader agricultural yields.
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Canada
Canada Aims At Record Tourist Traffic Despite Recession
The Canadian Travel Bureau says tourist traffic may match 1936 levels with US visitors spending 295 million dollars in Canada last year and inquiries rising from the US to 17 000 between November 3 and March 20. Hon. C. D. Howe notes Canada also targets UK visitors as British advertising begins. Canadians spent 123 million abroad last year, mostly in the United States, averaging over 19 dollars per person.
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United States
Canada
Canadian Travel Bureau
The
Transport Department
Dominion
Bureau
Europe
Atlantic
United Kingdom
Psychoanalysis aids asthma cures say Chicago doctor
Dr Franz Alexander of the Institute for Psycho Analysis in Chicago says nervous condition plays a major role in many asthma cases. He reports cures through psychoanalysis and notes about half show complete recovery. His research traces asthma to 19th century notions of a nervous affliction.
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Franz Alexander
Institute For Psycho-Analysis of
Chicago
Alexander
Charming Anne Adams Pattern For A Youthful Look
Look young and slim in Pattern 4742 a dainty frock with short sleeves or capelet option. Linda details include floral voile or chiffon fabrics and a feminine bow. Pattern comes in seven sizes with step by step instructions and costs 20 cents postpaid to Winnipeg Pattern Dept.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Aver E
Winnipeg
Flin Flon Mine Surges With Massive Ore Output and New Town
The Flin Flon operation now yields about 4 500 ore tons daily containing copper zinc cadmium gold and silver. The project costs exceed 30 million with power plants dams railways and a town for 7 000 inhabitants. Sewers pipes and heated water mains were built on rock to prevent freezing. The town features the Lake Bottom Golf Club on a dried lake bed and a new daily auto bus service linking Phantom Lake Mile 84 Channing and Flin Flon.
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Flin Flon
Alberta
Prince Albert
Sask
Hudson's Bay Junction
Man
Phantom Lake
Channing
Island Falls
Lake Bottom Golf Club
Plight Of Rural Teachers Highlights Low Pay
The Kitchener Record notes rural teachers face wages lower than factory workers, despite years of training and a $500 minimum wage. Critics argue the sizable education investment and annual breaks leave them underpaid, with many required to take summer courses to keep jobs.
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Kitchener
Britain Plans Fastest and Largest Airmail System
Britain aims to create the world’s fastest and most extensive airmail network to cover all letters from the British Isles to empire destinations. Initial cost expected at 8 to 10 million dollars, with 28 flying boats and 14 airliners, shifting letters to airmail and raising handling costs by about 7.5 million annually. Postal rates for letters to South Africa and Australia would remain three cents for the first ounce and two cents per additional ounce. Hogarth and Cruikshank cited for earlier continuity ideas in English cartoons.
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Britain
British Isles
South Africa
Australia
Not Much of a House Quoted in Courtroom Dialog
A brief dialogue fragment presents a tense exchange about family expulsion. The speaker downplays the significance of the home, hinting at strain within a domestic dispute and raising questions about parental authority and belonging.
Planting Spirea Spacing and Early Garden Steps
The guide recommends spacing shrubs about half their mature height, so a 6 to 7 foot Spirea Van Houter needs roughly three feet from neighbors. It covers foundation plantings, crop succession, and general timing for sowing leaf lettuce radish spinach peas carrots beets onions potatoes beans corn tomatoes cabbage cauliflower and other warm weather crops.
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Dominion
Sunday Trading Restrictions Pass in Britain
The Christian Science Monitor reports on Britain moving toward a Sunday rest and worship culture as the Shops Sunday Trading Restrictions Act takes effect. Before enforcement many shops opened on Sundays with London Cardiff Swansea and Glasgow locales cited. 3 million Britons worked Sundays in early 1938. The act imposes 5 pound first offense and 20 pound second offense with exemptions.
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England
Britain
J. R. Leslie
London
Cardiff
Swansea
Glasgow
John Haslam
M.P
Christian Science Monitor
Demonstration of Invisible Ray Alarm System
Popular Mechanics reports a tested network of invisible light beams that trap intruders and sound alarms without detection. A GE aided system uses a phototube and filtered headlamp beams reflected by mirrors to guard a 13 000 square foot area, defeating attempts to breach zones and triggering bells or telephone alarms.
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General Electric
Australian Pioneer Thomas Southwell 100th Arrival Anniversary
About 500 relatives gathered in Canberra to mark the centenary since Thomas Southwell’s arrival in Australia. It is thought to be the nation’s largest family reunion, as the couple reportedly have more than 1,300 descendants and 18 children. The event featured attendees who had not previously met.
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Thomas Southwell
Canberra
Australia
Counterfeit Cash Flow and Night Photo Advances
A description outlines how counterfeit money circulates through the chain from printer to dealer to distributor to passer, each taking marked fractions of a dollar. The piece adds a note that new cameras allow pictures in absolute darkness without a flashlight, highlighting advances in imaging technology.
Facitorial Note on Accessing Dr McCullough Cancer Articles
Readers are invited to request the complete series of cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario. The notice directs interested readers to obtain the full set through the organization.
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MccCullough
Health League of Canada
Bond St
Toronto
Ont
Jesus Teaches Gentile Mercy in Tyre and Sidon
Biblical reflection on Jesus entering Gentile territory to rest and teach his disciples, a Syrophoenician woman petitioning for her daughter, and Jesus granting healing. The lesson emphasizes faith over race and declares that Gentiles are also the children of God.
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Syrophonicia
Jesus
Capernaum
Tyre
Sidon
House of Israel
Jesus Christ
Onions and Garlic Touted Against Infections
Albany health commissioner Dr Daniel V O Leary cites onions and garlic as useful against infectious diseases due to their immune and germ killing properties. Researchers Dr Richard E Vollrath and Dr Carl C Lindgren from the University of Southern California isolated the tear inducing germ killing chemicals, said Dr O Leary.
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Daniel V. O'Leary
Albany
Richard E. Vollrath
Carl C. Lindgren
Bacteriological Department
University of Southern California
O'Leary
Two Workmen Give Directions to Canterbury
Two workers talk by the roadside as hikers ask for Canterbury. One man guides them, then both confess they never knew the way themselves. They wonder where the hikers all land after leaving.
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Canterbury
President Powers Extend Over Mail Contracts
The article notes the president’s authority to modify or cancel air and ocean mail contracts, outlining executive power in postal and transportation matters. It contrasts this with a claim about biblical text mentioning the conjunction and frequency.
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The
United States
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