Fire Dangers Rise in Prairie Winter Heating Hazards
The article warns of deadly fire risks across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba during 1935 36 with 49 deaths in 1934 from misused fuels and faulty heating. It cites one quarter of 1934 deaths from gasoline distillate or coal oil misuse and places blame on carelessness and unknown origins. Property losses yearly reach about 2 250 000 from around 3 000 buildings, mainly between November and March, with two thirds of fires’ origins undetermined.
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King Winter
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Prairie Provinces
Ear defenders for workers and oddities of science
Workers in noisy British factories are being supplied with ear defenders for well being and efficiency. The Cullinan diamond split into nine large stones and many small ones. Linnaeus built a floral clock from flowers that open at set hours. Lightning twists not zigzags, and right handed hearts are rare per medical records. A quip about a wife from a very large family.
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Linnaeus
Vacuum concrete foreshadows strong new dam and bridge builds
Yale University demonstrations reveal Karl Paul Bilmer’s vacuum concrete method that extracts excess water immediately after casting, compresses the mix, and accelerates hardening to about twenty minutes. Duff A Abrams endorses the approach as solving cracking and delay issues in large-scale constructions.
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Yale University Laboratories
Karl Paul Biller
New York City
Duff A. Abrams
Billner
Bilmer
110 Year Old Woman Hosts Tea Party At Croydon Hospital
Mrs. Caroline Merriott, believed Britain’s oldest woman at 110, celebrated in Mayday Hospital Croydon with a tea party. She recalls historic events from Waterloo to Victoria's coronation, has been married twice, and worked in a laundry until age 85.
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Britain
Caroline Merriott
Mayday Hospital
Croydon
Tooting Corner
Merriott
Trans Atlantic Air Service Plans At Imperial Airways
Sir Eric Geddes announced at the Imperial Airways annual meeting that two radically different airplane types are being built for trans Atlantic service and one craft could be ready for experimental flights next year. He urged Britain and the United States to cooperate on a regular Europe to North America air service.
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Imperial Airways Limited
London
Eric Geddes
United States
Great Britain
Europe
North America
Modern blocks for Shanghai work underway for slum housing
Work has begun on the first of four model units intended to house about 100000 Shanghai slum dwellers. Each unit will contain roughly 300 houses in six-house rows with its own playground nursery public school tea house cooperative store and public bath. Siam loosens divorce laws making it easier to obtain a divorce.
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Shanghai
Strange Ring Unearthed in Vancouver Garden
A heavy silver ring, quarter inch wide, unearthed six feet deep in a Vancouver garden by A Speir during log relocation. The front design is obscured by a lead insert fused with heat. Shell and colored glass cling to the log, prompting theories of Native or early miner Chinese occupation predating white settlement.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
A. Speir
Marvels Of Surgery Transforming Disabled Children
Surgeons Leroy C. Abbott and Frederick C. Best reported to the American College of Surgeons on detouring muscles and nerves to straighten limbs. A 13 year old girl with leg deformity from a birth brain injury had nerves cut and muscles lengthened by tendon surgery to relieve the contracted position and restore use.
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American College of Surgeons
Leroy C. Abbott
M.D
Frederick C. Best
University of California Medical School
Vancouver Cadet Captain Makes Solo Flight Record
Walter R. N. Sturdy, a Vancouver born merchant service midshipman, earned a pilot's A license and nearly set a solo flight record. He trained aboard H.M.S. Conway and at Hooton aerodrome, Liverpool, after sailing on the Empress of Japan for the Orient. He joined the CPR as a cadet for three years and left Vancouver on the voyage. His solo time was five hours and twenty minutes, beating the British 12 hour requirement.
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Vancouver
Merchant Service
British Empire
Walter R. N. Sturdy
Orient
The
C.P.R
H.M.S. Conway
Liverpool
Hooton Aerodrome
Sturdy
British Air Ministry
Build Military Roads A vast Berlin super highway plan nears start
Foreign experts see a vast German network of super highways as militarily significant with a 19 mile Berlin area developmental segment beginning soon. Officials say the circle route will aid southern traffic and improve communication, while a foreign observer cites lessons from the Great War.
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Germany
Berlin
Self-Help Button-Down Front Dress For Schoolgirls
A ready made style for 4 to 10 year olds offers a button-down, easy wear dress with white pique collar and cuffs, made from wine-red ground cotton prints and detachable wool jersey options for laundering. Pattern No 756, 15 cents each, mail orders from Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Also features fall fashion magazine ad and a few light jokes and facts.
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Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Sight Restored Woman Sees After Toronto Earthquake
Sixty three year old Mrs Kate Mitchell regained her sight after an earthquake shook her King street home in Toronto turning on lights she said the tremor was a direct from heaven sign and for three years she had only seen shadows she could not leave home without help and thanked God for sight returning.
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Kate Mitchell
King Street
Toronto
World’s Rarest Stamp Fails to Sell at Auction
The British Guiana one cent stamp, said to be the world’s rarest, owned by Mrs Costa Scala of Utica New York, drew no bids at its opening price of 7500 pounds about 37500 dollars. The item is insured for 10000 pounds.
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British Guiana
Olympic Camera Delivers Rapid Film For 1936 Games
A new German camera perfected for the Berlin Olympics records race times to the hundredth of a second with two stereoscopic lenses for vivid, lifelike images. Exposures occur at 100 per second and film is viewable ten minutes after shooting. Officials expect faster, fairer judging than prior methods used in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Danish Engineer Claims Electric Death Ray Tests
Copenhagen reports M. Ravn, a Danish engineer, says he has private invitations to test an electric death ray in England. He asserts the device can cause aircraft to explode from 60 miles away. Ravn would accept under conditions about high electric potential and says he can build an effective ray within six months. He originally claimed the weapon was designed for use against aircraft in the early days of World War I.
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England
Copenhagen
M. Ravn
Why at 40 You Think You're GROWING OLD
An old age malaise is blamed on stomach acidity. Scientists say many headaches stomach upsets dizziness and nausea come from excess acid. Neutralize with Phillips milk of magnesia after meals and before bed. Try the familiar Phillips product or the new tablets made in Canada.
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Canada
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