Once Famous Liner Is Being Wrecked
The Empress of Japan, once a premier North Pacific liner, is being dismantled at Burrard Inlet after years at anchor. Buyers have sold fittings and parts for profit as wreckers strip the hull. The Empress had two sister ships the Empress of India and the Empress of China.
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Ner Xn Press
Japan
North Pacific
Burrard Inlet
Canadian Pacific Railway
Empress of India
Gaekwar of
Baroda
World Happenings Briefly Told From Across The Globe
Languages of all races will be preserved on phono records for posterity in a new Paris museum collection. Canada and Czechoslovakia near a commercial treaty conclusion this winter. Sir Thomas Lipton completes his sixtieth U S voyage arriving in New York with a challenge to American yachters for 1929. Mackenzie King's book out next month in Toronto London and New York. Red Cross to study civilian protection from chemical warfare in Brussels January 16 1928. Jewish telegrams outnumber others in nonbusiness messages, Western Union reports. Prince of Wales and Premier Baldwin to attend Canada Club dinner November 21 in London. Canada’s next royal visitor likely Duke of York in 1929 opening Toronto's Royal York hotel. Four Western candidates pass October medical council exams enabling practice in Canada. thirty total pass. Germany represented at London Salon of Photography for first time since 1914. Argentina enjoys prosperity from rising world demand for its products.
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Canada
Czechoslovakia
Sir Thomas Lipton
United States
New York
Prince of Wales
Stanley Baldwin
Canada Club
London
Toronto Telegram
Duke of York
Toronto
Early Home Of Mankind Skull Brings Africa Evidence
Dr. George L. Collie of Beloit College brings a 25 666 year old male skull from Algerian excavations to the United States for examination by American scientists. He states the skull supports Africa as the cradle of mankind, not Asia, with this and other African finds.
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United States
George L. Collie
Beloit College
Collie
Logan Museum of
Beloit
M. A. Dobruge
Africa
Asia
Manitoba Aviation League Forms to Promote Flight
The Aviation League of Manitoba forms to foster aeronautics in Winnipeg and province wide. Officers include Dr C Coleman as president and J A Richardson as honorary president with a broad board of governors. The league aims to advance aviation, promote laws and air routes, and support cadet programs for youth. Major-General J A Mac Brien spoke to the Canadian Club at the Royal Alexandra Hotel on October 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Aviation League of
Manitoba
League
J. A. Richardson
Dr. C. Coleman
H. P. Crabb
Edward Anderson
J. A. MacBrien
C.B
C.M.G
Ds.o
Canadian Club
Royal Alexandra Hotel
Wheat Rust Report Marks Step in Western Farming Fight
J H Craigie of the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory at Manitoba Agricultural College completed a two year study on Western Canada's wheat rust. The National Research Council in Ottawa will review the report before public release, with definite conclusions expected soon.
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Canada
J. H. Craigie
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Manitoba Agricultural College
W National Research Council
Ottawa
Council
Craigie
Hill 60 sale stirs echoes of Ypres Salient memories
The report notes Hill 60 will be put up for sale and recalls how the name conjures haunting World War I scenes. It recalls those who endured sniping tunneling and battles around the hill, and the memories left by the siege and shellfire. The piece also mentions Spain's trade with France continuing to grow.
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Hill 60
Ypres
Dysentery Patient Seeks Help After Severe Illness
Mrs. Wallace Pepper of Simcoe Ontario recounts a summer of severe dysentery with loss of appetite and intense abdominal pain. She describes faintness and alarming blood passage before seeking medical care for relief.
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Wallace Pepper
Simcoe, Ont
Radio Becomes Link For Requests Across States
The piece notes how listeners now use radio stations like WHT in Chicago and WMAQ to request wedding music, travel help, time changes, and services. It highlights calls from Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri seeking crochet sales, mortgage information, vacuum cleaner guidance, and a caramel iced cake recipe.
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WHT
Chicago
Dot
St. Louis
Iowa
WMAQ
Detroit
Morning Mail
Nebraska
Safe Yet Gold Transport by Air Boosts Confidence
Doubters worry about air travel safety for valuables yet gold shipments via air are growing. A recent London to Amsterdam consignment worth 5 million dollars was carried by an air express line as part of its regular business. The gold was insured, and the moderate insurance rate signals a favorable business case for aviation's role in secure cargo transport.
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London
Amsterdam
Baird Demonstrates Fog Photographs and TV Vision
J Baird, the Scottish inventor of television, shows clear photographs through opaque fog using a camera with a vision ray. He exhibited to the British Association in London, noting plates sensitive to invisible Infra-rays allow recording through thick cloud. He predicts future war photography from aircraft above clouds hidden from ground fire.
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J. Baird
British Association
London
Baird
Red Oil Stop Turns Sudden Tail Light Bluff
It was dusk when a driver requested a quart of red oil at a filling station to cover for a tail light outage. The attendant hesitated as she repeated the demand, then affirmed the supply, noting the apparent reason for the request.
Twin English Brothers Begin 6000 Mile Walk to Karachi
Donald and Douglas Berton, twin brothers born in England but recent Canadian and New Zealand residents, start a 6000 mile journey from London to Karachi. They plan to traverse France Italy Jugoslav Bulgaria Turkey Arabia and Persia with no money, living rough and seeking travel romance.
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London
England
Karachi
India
Donald
Douglas Berton
France
Italy
Jugo- Slavia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Arabia
Persia
Greenland Once Tropical Says Danish Explorer Lange Koen
Danish explorer Lange Koen returned to Copenhagen from Greenland exploration with evidence that Greenland was once tropical. Koch and two assistants traced the North Scors coast, bringing back eight tons of fossils plants and animals. Findings suggest ancient tropical life with palms and abundant hot springs.
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Lange Koen
Copenhagen
Greenland
Koch
North Scors Bysound
Denmarkhaven
Mussolini laments lack of play in rise to power
Mussolini expressed a pathetically sad view of his life as dictator noting that he loved to play but never had time. He linked his unhappy early life to the single minded drive that built his rule over Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
the Duce
Italy
Eye Speed Limits Found In Vision Tests
Eye cannot be speeded up. average eye needs about one seventh of a second stationary to distinguish objects. Tests reveal the eye uses a skip stop system and illumination cannot alter its rate. Many homes stores and factories lack bright lighting to maximize eye speed under ideal conditions.
Germans' 1929 Coal Burners to Boost Trans Atlantic Trade
German shipbuilders plan two 45 000 ton coal burning hulls in 1929 to reopen trans Atlantic trade. The move strengthens England's position as a coal based trading nation and signals renewed English influence in ship bunkers.
Pedestrian in Southampton Uses Noisy Stick Horn to Cross
A Southamton pedestrian asserts safety crossing by using a miniature motor horn on a walking stick. He triggers warning blasts for passing cars as he nears the street, remarking that the music is his fate and that he has paid for this dance. The quoted lines are attributed to Journal Amusant, Paris.
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Southampton
England
German Aristocrats Seek Lands in Canadian West Settlement
A party of landed German aristocrats considers homesteading in the St. Walburg district of Saskatchewan. Dr Smidel von Seeberg organized the group and has taken up land there. Count Otto von Dem Hagen and Herr Carl Schultz plan to report on conditions in Germany and return with families. Other prominent members include Count von Bulow and Gunther von Arnim.
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St. Walburg District
Saskatchewan
Germany
Smidel von Seeberg
Berlin
St. Walburg
Count Otto von Dem Hagen
Dresden
Herr Carl Schultz
University of
Count von Dem Hagen
German East Africa
Count von Bulow
Prince von Bulow
Gunther von Arnim
General von Arnim
Blue Blood
Nobleford farmer breaks world wheat yield record this year
S Noble of Nobleford Alberta, once American, tops his 1915 record with 74 090 bushels from 1 300 acres averaging nearly 57 bushels per acre. He grew winter wheat developed at Macdonald College Quebec on the field.
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S. Noble
Nobleford
Alberta
Noble
Marquis
Ottawa
Canada
Macdonald Agricultural College
St. Anne de Bellevue
Quebec
Mr. Noble
Foreign vagrant identified by broadcast aid in New York
A foreign vagrant held by New York police was interrogated about his credentials. Unable to understand languages, interpreters failed and language professors were stumped. Broadcasting helped, as a listener identified him as a Laplander, after which police released him. In five months this year 49 Canadian bank branches opened and closed.
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New York
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Dept
Windsor
Ontario
Empress of Japan
Museum of Languages
Paris
Mackenzie King
Geneva International Red Cross Committee
Brussels
Belgium
Western Union Telegraph Co
Medical Council of Canada
Weasterriers
A. L. Buell
Vancouver
F. M. Jones
Victoria
W. H. Munn
Summerland
B.C
C. A. Ryan
Argentina
Minard
King OF
Pain
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Manitoba Aviation League
Hill
Spain
McDerwot Ave
Royal Hunters
Prince Michael Sturdza
Washington, D.C
Princess Sturdza
Rocky River
Canadian Rockies
Jasper National Park
New Zealand
Journal Amusant
Will
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