World Happenings Briefly Told
Census figures show Java with 821 people per square mile. The Prince of Wales opened the British Empire Trade Exhibition in March. attendance reached 1,443,914 by its close. Kingsford-Smith won the Royal Aero Club Britannia trophy for 1930. The Prince of Wales plans visits to major industrial cities after returning home. Mrs Bankes gave Queen Mary a 100 year old handkerchief. Lord Bessborough to receive Doctor of Laws at Toronto convocation. Richard Halliburton and May E Stephen flew 2,000 miles across the Sahara in their world circumnavigation attempt. Viscount and Lady Astor were given a silver model of Drake’s Golden Hind on Drake’s 25th wedding anniversary date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert Johann
Schleswig- Holstein
George V
Great Britain
Berlin
Prince of Wales
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Royal Aero Club
South Africa
Canada
Lord Bessborough
Richard Halliburton
United States
May E. Stephen
Sahara
Globe
Plymouth
England
Viscount
Lady Astor
Sir Francis Drake
Zeppelin May Visit Arctic Flight Feasibility
Berlin talks between Dr Hugo Eckener and interested parties push a potential Zeppelin North Pole flight nearer. Eckener cites financing as the main hurdle but expresses optimism. Seagulls of Scotland adapt feeding during winter with Aberdeen gulls awaiting fish train scraps and Edinburgh collectors at George Watson's College noon lunchtables.
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Berlin
Hugo Eckener
Graf
Scotland
Aberdeen
Edinburgh
George Watson's College
Canada Faces Mental Health Crisis and Need for Hospitals
John Burke Ingram notes 29,529 patients in Canada's mental hospitals and rising numbers as provinces run at capacity. He urges psychopathic hospitals and outpatient clinics, contrasts insanity with mental deficiency, and highlights the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene push for early education and better facilities nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burke Ingram
Canada
Kingston
Kitchener
Canadian National Committee For Mental Hygiene
Canadian National Committee For
Labrador Electric Waste Highlighted by Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Sir Wilfred Grenfell spoke in Montreal about four million horsepower of electricity going to waste at Grand Falls Labrador. He urged governments to view Labrador as rich in minerals and natural resources and to invest in development.
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Grand Falls
Labrador
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Newfoundland
Montreal
Sir Wilfred
Telegrams by air move Berlin to Vienna service
Passengers on the German Lufft hansa air service can hand in telegrams for transmission from the aircraft to ground stations. The service began February 2, with telegrams sent to the Ministers of Communications and Posts. The remark about men wasting their own time is noted.
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Berlin
Vienna
Village of Blind People in Mexico Described at Conference
Dr Bustamente reported at the Pan American Conference of Directors of Health on Tiltepec Oaxaca where 900 residents are totally or partly blind from onchocerciasis an insect causes the disease. He cited 20 000 similar Mexican cases and hopeful eradication prospects after control efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niguel Bustamente
Conference of Directors of Health
Washington
Tiltepec
Oaxaca
Mexico
Bustamente
Parachute Display Dazzles As RCAF Members Jump
Twelve Royal Canadian Air Force officers and NCOs leapt from 2000 feet in a spectacular parachute display. Each flier completed the hazardous ascent with near perfect landings, ten of whom were making their first parachute jump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
The Magic Soap of the Fairy Queen
A Fairy Queen asks five elves to gather perfumes from France Algeria Bulgaria Africa India and Italy’s Messina to craft a Magic Soap for a Baby Princess. A perilous Bergamot theft is thwarted by Flower Fairies. A Mortal soap maker blends the gifts with oils from Cochin China and the East Indies, creating a soap that blesses all children.
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France
Algeria
Bulgaria
Africa
India
Italy
Messina
Cochin China
East Indies
Abyssinia
Civit
Kruschen Salts Claim Beautifying Health Benefits
An advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a daily morning tonic. It promises clearer skin with fewer pimples and blackheads, brighter eyes, and overall vitality. The dose is a quarter teaspoon in hot water before breakfast.
Bacon Plant Planned in Saskatchewan by PEI Syndicate
A Prince Edward Island syndicate buys a three quarter section farm near Long Lake Strasbourg Sask to raise and slaughter hogs and cure bacon for England. Buildings for 5000 hogs rise as machinery is secured and York shire stock shipped. Foundation staff includes a Danish expert in hog production and marketing. 2500 Wiltshire bacon sides expected to ship this fall.
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Saskatchewan
Prince Edward Island
Long Lake
Strasbourg
Sask
England
Denmark
Sugar from Weeds Reveals New High Value Sugars
Government chemists announce discovery of sugars in weeds such as dandelions and goldenrod valued at $50,000 per pound. Dr R F Jackson and assistant Miss Emma McDonald from the Bureau of Standards found these sugars while studying levulose yield from inulin in plant roots including dandelions chicory and Jerusalem artichokes. Inulin is largely levulose at 92 percent with 3 percent glucose and 5 percent new sugar triplets.
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Burrau of Standards
R. F. Jackson
Bureau
Emma McDonald
Jackson
Campaign to Register Kulaks in Soviet Union
Soviets plan a drive to register every Kulak in the USSR to bar them from government jobs and drive them into manual labor or exile. Some 3,000,000 Kulaks are said to exist, with many already stripped of citizenship and property and exiled to Arctic camps or used in road and lumber projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Republic
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Russia
Arctic
Destructive Epidemic of Fear Grips Brisk Economy
The Brandon Sun warns that fear after the stock market crash has paralyzed spending, worsened overproduction, and left about one tenth of the workforce unemployed. With nine tenths employed, many are frightened and cut consumption, risking further demoralization if unaddressed.
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Brandon Sun
Amber Forests of Northern Europe Recounted
Pine forests once spanning northern Europe yielded amber, a rich resin fossilized into gems. The historic resource shaped trade routes and cultural artifacts across ancient societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Vaccine for common colds eyed at Columbia medical center
Researchers at Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University report a potential vaccine for the common cold. Using an artificial purified cold, doctors Dochez Mills Shirley and Kneeland show 50 percent infection in chimps and humans from a virus-like agent, suggesting a vaccine could prevent colds if the virus is grown in a test tube.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University Medical Centre
A. B. Docher
K. C. Mills
G. S. Shirley
Yale Kneeland, Jr
Courier
International Catholic Federation of Nurses
The
Chemical Foundation, Inc
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Sciatica
Java
Zeppelin
Eckener
Tes Sands
Eagle Brand
Ewan
Borden Co
George St. Teroete
Air Telegram Service
Ottawa
Bacon
J. Laurence
Columbia University
Baby's Own
Baby
Albert Soaps Ltd
Tribbs i
Chantler & Chantler Limited
Wellington St. W
Brooder
Toronto, Ont
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