World Happenings Briefly Told Highlights 1923 to 1929
Britain's 1923 infant death rate hits a record low with 65 deaths per 1000 live births. Saskatoon population nears 50,000 at 47,653 per Henderson's 1929 directory. Graf Zeppelin Arctic expedition backed. Hugo Eckener leads 45 aboard. Charles Clifton Perry promoted to assistant Indian commissioner for British Columbia. Danish cancer stamps issued in red green and blue bearing Mercury wand. Berengaria adds shipboard telephone booths for sea communications. Manitoba gov offers 1000 reward for Doukhobor school burnings. disclosure by M A MacPher son.
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Great Britain
Saskatoon
Henderson
Aero Arctic Association
Hugo Eckener
Charles Clifton Perry
Vancouver
British Columbia
Victoria
Civil Service Commission
London
Denmark
Danish Cancer Fund
Newspaper Guide Advertisements and Shopper Guidance
The passage compares advertisements to a time-table for travellers, noting shoppers study guides at home or work to plan purchases. It emphasizes business places attract tourists and that non-advertisers lose visibility to outsiders.
Edmonton Building Permits Top $4 Million by August
Building permits in Edmonton reached 4,188,290 by August, over one million more than the eight months of last year, signaling stronger construction activity this year.
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Edmonton
Extending Radio In Arctic Russia
Extending radio in Arctic Russia is rapidly radiofying its Arctic possessions. Franz Joseph station is functioning and another is being built on Wrangel Island. A Tsarskoye Selo Bible with diamond and emerald cover was offered for sale in England. Come and sit on my lap, Fritz. But grandma, you are sitting on yourself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Arctic
Franz Joseph
Wrangel Island
Tsarskoye Selo
England
Fritz
Hummel
Hamburg
Germany plans world air lines with Lufthansa venture
Otto Merkel, former Lufthansa chief, leads a new international airline project to create a global network of air routes within two years. In collaboration with Hamburg Amerika Linie preliminary work is done, aiming to connect Europe and the United States with modern planes, motors, pilots, and reliable instruments.
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Lufthansa
Germany
Otto Merkel
Europe
United States
Hamburg-American Steamship Line
Herr Merkel
America
Berlin Inventor Unveils Hit and Run Auto Protector
Rudolf Hofmann, a Berlin inventor, unveils an automatic traffic protector that mounts under a car. On impact it raises a white plate with a red light above the license plate and records the vehicle's speed.
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Berlin
Rudolf Hofmann
Paris Sheer Printed Cotton Safer Summer Dress
Paris prescribes sheer printed cottons as the season choice for summer wear. Style No 562 features printed cotton voile with a capucine tone and a modern yoke bodice. The skirt swathes at the hip with draped detailing and the dress suits town or resort wear in sizes 16 to 46 bust inches. Pattern price is 25 cents in stamps coin preferred.
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Paris
Shantung
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Pattern No
Instructions from the Winnipeg Pattern Union at 175 McDermot Ave. Include full address and Pattern No when requesting patterns. The notice provides ordering steps and contact details for pattern subscriptions.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
World Famous Artists on Canadian Radio
Florence Austral and Harold Bauer will be heard this season on the Imperial Oil Hour of Fine Music broadcast from Toronto each Sunday evening from 8 to 9 Central Standard Time. Austral opens the series on October 6 and Bauer appears October 20.
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Florence Austral
Harold Bauer
Imperial Oil
Toronto
Miss Austral
Mr. Bauer
Imperial Oil Hour of Fine Music premieres on Canadian radio
World famous artists announce a twenty six week concert series starting October 6 broadcast Sundays 10 to 11 pm EST from Toronto with stops in Montreal Ottawa London Winnipeg Saskatoon Regina Red Deer and Vancouver. Notable performers include Florence Austral Sophie Braslau Harold Bauer Richard Crooks Lea Luboshutz Hans Kindler and more. The project aims to bring classical music to facilities across Canada via radio.
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F. J. Wolfe
Imperial Oil, Limited
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
London
Waterloo
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Regina
Red Deer
Vancouver
Florence Austral
Sophie Braslau
Harold Bauer
Richard Crooks
Europe
America
Lea Luboshutz
Hans Kindler
London String Quartet
Albert Spalding
Luella Malius
Josef Shevinne
Richard Bonelli
Chicago Opera
Kedroff
Imperial Palace
Petrograd
Reginald Stewart
London Symphony Orchestra
Wolfe
Canada
Imperial Oil Hour of Fine Music
CHYC
CNRO
CKNC
CFRB
CJGC
CKCR
CKY
CHWC
CFQC
CKLC
Recipes For This Week Peel fruit and cook into jam
Remove outer yellow rind and most of the white by peeling very thick. Halve the fruit and cut out the core. Slice across and place pulp in granite kettle with little water and cook at moderate heat. When boiling point, add sugar and cook slowly, then seal in small jars.
Making a mixed grape jelly from pulp and skins
The recipe instructs to stem grapes, wash and press pulp from skins, boil pulp until soft, strain through a sieve, cook skins with minimal water, combine both, boil five minutes, add one cup sugar per pint of fruit, cook until thick, then pack into hot jars and seal.
London Stockroom Whispers Echo on Throgmorton Street
A visitor in London observes two stock traders, one quietly winking at a crowd as the other smiles and boasts. The uncle explains the first has bought oil company shares dirt cheap, while the second has sold his stock for profit.
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London
Throgmorton Street
Lost girl seeks path with two kittens in Oldham
A girl carrying two kittens lost her way in Oldham and stopped a passing rustic asking for directions. He bluntly advised her to lift the kittens by the scruff of their necks.
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Oldham
Sweden Tops World in Radio Receiver Popularity
Sweden leads the world in radio receiving sets per capita with 412 115 sets for about 6 000 000 inhabitants. The ratio is 67 5 receivers per thousand people, according to the latest statistics.
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Sweden
Germany hosts numerous centenary celebrations this year
German cities mark many centennial events in year with parades, concerts and exhibits. Officials plan nationwide programs to honor historic milestones, inviting communities to participate in cultural activities across regions.
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Germany
Tall Men's Association Aims to Ease Six-Footers Plight
Benjamin Ostling of Marshfield Oregon president of the Tall Men's Association of America visits Cleveland to argue for bigger amenities. He cites standard hotel beds tubs and hospital beds as inadequate and says millions of six footers face discomfort in travel lodging and even jail cells.
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Benjamin Ostling
Marshfield
Ore
Tall Men's Association of America
Cleveland
Osling
Ostling
Tall Men’s Association
West Coast
Grain Transport Distances From Saskatoon to Liverpool
The shipment from Saskatoon to Liverpool via Montreal covers about 5 213 miles, while routing through Churchill reduces travel to roughly 3 791 miles. The savings come from inland train and lake hauls in Canada and involve changes and re loading.
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Saskatoon
Liverpool
Montreal
Churchill
Canada
Scotland girl packs family to join in Montreal
Miss Jean Turley, after two years in Canada, has brought her father mother and ten siblings to Montreal. She saved wages as a servant denying herself luxuries and contributed part of the passage money with the rest funded by the British Dominions Emigration Society. The family, aged 3 to 23, will work in Montreal, with jobs promised for all eligible members.
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Canada
Jean Turley
Coalburn
Lanarkshire
Scotland
Montreal
Miss Turley
British Dominions Emigration Society
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Yi Bois, Eczema Erc
Berengaria
Doukhobor
M. A. MacPherson
the Newspaper Guide
W. N. UL. 1805
Athaetic
Florence
Austral
Betty Barclay
Price
f.C.b
John A. Chantler & Co., Ltd
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
Crusader
Wrigley’s
Wrigley
Sybilla Spahr
Kitchener Tonsilitis CO
Kitchener, Ont
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