Relations Conference Seeks Expanded Commonwealth Trade
At Lapstone Australia delegates from Canada India Australia New Zealand South Africa Eire Newfoundland and the UK agreed inter commonwealth trade alone may not meet external needs. They favored broader cooperation extending Ottawa principles but warned against universal political economic binding despite diverse future aims.
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British Commonwealth of Nations
Lapstone
Australia
George E. Britnell
University of Saskatchewan Political Science
Britnell
Euch
British Commonwealth
Commonwealth
Great Britain
Canada
India
New Zealand
South Africa
Eire
Newfoundland
United Kingdom
Pioneer of the Atlantic Brig Jean memorial in Montreal church
The 73 ton brig Jean that started Canada’s trans Atlantic service in 1819 under Captain Alexander Allan is celebrated in a memorial at the Church of St Andrew and St Paul Montreal. Metal replicas of the brig Jean accompany the memorial honoring Hugh Alexander Allan and his wife, linking the Allan family to Scottish Canadian heritage.
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Seven Seas
Montreal
Reich
Lower St. Lawrence
Canada
Herr Hitler
Jean
Greenock
Alexander Allan
Allan Line
Canadian Pacific
St. Andrew and St. Paul
Hugh Alexander Allan
Allan
London
Eyes Shown to Generate Electrical Current Says Doctor
Dr Walter R Miles of Yale University reports at the National Academy of Sciences in Chapel Hill that human eyes produce tiny electric currents. Each eye averages a thousandth of a volt, comparable to heart beat energy. several eyes average higher values with one reaching two hundredths of a volt.
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National Academy of Sciences
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Walter R. Miles
Yale University
Miles
Geographical Center of North America Located Near Devil's Lake
The geographical centre of North America lies a few miles west of Devil's Lake in Pierce County North Dakota. The find marks a notable geographic milestone for the region drawing attention to its near central position within the continent.
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North America
Devil's Lake
Pierce County
North Dakota
India Eyes Economic Prosperity in Startup Year
India aims for growth this year as economists forecast improving business climate and investment. The report notes potential shifts in sectors like energy and manufacturing, with emphasis on long term development and policy support.
Gas-proof kennels and pet air raid fund in London
The Christian Science Monitor notes London’s preparation for war includes gas-proof kennels for cats and dogs and an air raid protection fund for pets. It frames humanity to animals as evidence of humane motives that may shape future human behavior.
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England
London
Christian Science Monitor
Billycock Hat Origin and Odds About Theatres
British lore links the billycock hat to Cornish miner William Coke who crafted a protective style for work and later casual wear. The term evolved to billycocks and remains common in Britain. The Times-Journal notes 19 500 000 weekly theatre attendees in Britain with three non-attenders per two attendees. Jade is linked to good luck in China and the sword-billed hummingbird has a beak longer than its body.
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William Bowler
William Coke
Germany
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Comic relief amid world tension at Wallaceburg screening
A Wallaceburg audience sought escape in the film Bluebeard's Eighth Wife while a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer discussed Eskimos and Indians, North West Territory policing, and Lindberghs. He described Eskimos as peaceful, with high morals and no words for swearing or lying. He noted the silver fox as a scavenger and warned of nature’s dangers like lily of the valley poison and snapping turtles.
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Bluebeard
Gary Cooper
Claudette Colbert
Europe
Claudette
Miss Colbert
Czechoslovakia
Arctic
R.C.M.P
A. W. King
Port Lambton
Kinsman Club
Wallaceburg
Ont
North West Territory
Charles Lindbergh
One-Sided Game Sparks Ball Bid
After half-time the losing team’s captain asked the referee for another ball. He grumbled that “those chaps want that one all to themselves,” adding a humorous note to the lopsided match.
Pliny on Tooth Ache and Coluus Pineapple first sight
Pliny the elder advised eating a whole mouse twice daily for toothache relief. Columbus first sighted pineapples upon landing in Guadeloupe in the West Indies in 1493.
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Pliny
Columbus
Guadeloupe
West Indies
One Pattern Four Lacy Doilies Pattern 6170
Pattern 6170 provides instructions and charts for four shaped doilies adaptable for luncheon or buffet sets. Pay 20 cents in coin to the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E., Winnipeg to obtain it. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Wheat shipments to England test rust resistance for milling
1 590 bushels of three rust resistant wheat varieties Thatcher 975-1 and 1097 grown at Indian Head experimental farm were loaded for shipment to England for milling and baking tests. The goal is a high yielding disease resistant wheat meeting UK standards as part of Canadian efforts alongside empire federation ideas to defend democracy.
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England
Indian Head Experimental Farm
Winnipeg
Leeds
Indian Head
Old Country
W. H. Gibson
Gibson
Morden
Portage la Prairie
Board of Grain Commissioners
Canadian Egg Regulations Set Packing Standards
The amendment to the Egg Regulations of Canada forbids exporting eggs unless packed in Canadian standard cases with approved materials. Each case must hold 30 dozen eggs and be built from clean dry odourless wood. Ends and centre partition at least seven sixteenths inch thick. sides top bottom at least one quarter inch thick. export cases must be wired at both ends.
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Canada
Dominion Minister of Agriculture
Insect Invasion Vigilance Halts Japanese Beetle Entry
Dominion plant protection division reports no crop damage from Japanese beetles in Canada as immigration inspectors at seaports and border points intercept scores of beetles, live and dead, during the year.
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Dominion
Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Department
Dentists Back Toothpick Revival Verses Etiquette Critics
Dr Isador Hirsch field of Columbia University told a dental convention the toothpick should be restored to favor as it helps prevent pyorrhea and other mouth diseases, despite etiquette arbiters disagreeing with its return to prominence.
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Emily Post
Isador Hirschfield
Columbia University
War Early Commentaries on China from Dr McClure and Croft
Dr Robert B. McClure, field director of the International Red Cross for Central China, now visiting Canada, notes that seventy percent of war patients in China are women and children. A Croft's Review remark claims victory in war hinges on destroying civilians in the rear.
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Robert B. McClure
International Red Cross
China
Canada
Croft
New Jersey Bach Society Head Protests Radio Decency
Alfred Dennis, president of the New Jersey Bach Society, calls for suspending radio licenses of stations that he says promote the swinging or syncopation of classical music on air, arguing it violates the canon of decency.
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Alfred Dennis
New Jersey
Bach Society
Bach
Dennis
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