World Happenings Briefly Told
Peter Verigin the younger arrives from Russia to lead the Doukhobors in Canada. Poland trade talks expected to start in thirty days. Admiral Kato, former chief of Japan’s naval board, is dead. Dr Edward Sapir named full professor at University of Chicago. Five Saskatchewan commissioners for oaths announced. Memorial to VC Lieut Richard Douglas Sendford unveiled at Zeebrugge. Byrd plans South Pole expedition next August with Floyd Bennett as second in command. Lloyds Register notes 1926 shipping losses exceed 1.24 million gross tons. Calgary reports Russia to buy 4,000 Western Canada horses. Western homestead entries total 2,261 for five months, Saskatchewan leading with 1,038.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Sadaiichi Kato
Tsingtao
China
Naval Board of Education
Edward Sapir
University of Chicago
Saskatchewan
Peter Gross
St. Boswells
William H. [Iruce
Kisbey
John F. Maloughney
Holdfaet
Hugh Ellis
Saskatoon
Walter W. Robertson
Richard Douglas Sendford
Zeebrugge
Mole
Belgium
Richard E. Byrd
New York
South Pole
Floyd Bennett
North Pole
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Calgary
Alta
Canada
British Columbia
Alberta
Manitoba
Partly Filled Silo Dangers Highlighted By Dairy Chemist
A E Perkins of the Ohio Experiment Station warns that early silage fermentation releases carbon dioxide that can suffocate workers if a silo fills or is interrupted overnight. Gas settles and forms a death trap. doors must be lowered to vent, then air restored by running the cutter and fan. First aid is fresh air and artificial respiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Perkins
Ohio Experiment Station
Mr. Perkins
Beauty of the natural world praised by Viscount Grey
Viscount Grey extols love of nature in Fallodon papers urging readers to cultivate an appreciation for the seasons and natural beauty. He cites sunsets, light on water, snow, and winter trees as remedies for boredom and worry, echoing Turner’s remark on perception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viscount Grey
Turner
Old Popular Pastime May Be Revived
The article notes a revival of horseshoes as a popular pastime. It reports Mrs Lengham, former world champion, setting a women’s world record by pitching six consecutive double ringers and averaging 83.3 points in one game at Bloomington Illinois. The piece promotes horseshoes as accessible and skillful entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ilinois
Lengham
Reaper Thresher Machines Reach Brandon Area Farmers
Bran don district sees a surge in reaper thresher units as one company carries 54 machines from last year and adds 275 this year most shipped to farmers. Most units head to Saskatchewan with some heading to Alberta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Noctovision Demonstrations At London Science Meeting
British Association members watched John L. Baird demonstrate noctovision, a infrared based TV system. The subject sits in darkness while an invisible glow forms a distorted but recognizable image on a distant screen, created by slicing light into fragments and reassembling them as electric impulses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Association For the Advancement of Science
John L. Baird
Baird
Canadians Banks Interest Draws U S Investors
Americans buy bank stocks with no sign of fear. Ottawa officials see no immediate danger. Canadian bank stocks offer good returns. the Bank Act requires a majority of British subjects on boards. If needed, Parliament could toughen director conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ottawa
Canada
Canda
Life term convict seeks bigger cell to house growing library
A San Quentin inmate serving life for murder asked for a larger cell citing his thriving hobby library. He began collecting modern authors seven years ago to beat prison monotony, and now his volumes fill the cell, though the warden refuses larger space. Fox hunters in the South and English sportsmen share a practice of hunting without firearms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin Prison
California
South
First Aid Champion of Canada Demonstrates at Toronto Exhibition
Miss Carragher of Canadian National Railways Edmonton won the Page Gold Medal for the Women’s Championship across the Dominion. Montreal women’s teams take Canada’s team title, making Miss Carragher a likely individual champion in first aid nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Toronto
Miss Carragher
Canadian National Railways
Edmonton
Montreal
Dominion
Vast Canada and the rise of its nation
The passage reflects on Canada’s vastness once seen as a drawback but now an asset. It notes bridging gaps between population centers and exploiting northern wilderness, western mountains, and natural resources. It imagines Canada becoming the center of the British Commonwealth with room for millions more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
British Commonwealth of Nations
Donates Flying Ambulance to Lapland Inhabitants
A Swedish railroad builder donated a flying ambulance to Lapland residents for his birthday. An aerial ambulance has served the region for three years, conducting rescues from the frozen wastes to the Boden military hospital at Sweden’s Arctic frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapland
Sweden
Boden
Arctic Zone
Princess Mary attends Manchester infirmary stone laying
At a Manchester ceremony Princess Mary laid a foundation stone at Manchester Infirmary. As she stepped down a band played "Let's all go to Mary's house" and onlookers joined in with the chorus. A second exchange saw two women recount new maid woes with wit and a missing silverware joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Manchester
Manchester Infirmary
First Cunard Steamship Britannia Pageant Float
An allegorical float of the Britannia representing Cunard in a world poultry congress pageant at Ottawa. The parade honored delegates from around the world and featured royalty on hand for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunard
Britannia
Liverpool
Halifax
Atlantic
Cunard Line
Baldwin
Ottawa
CPR Air Branch? Canada Considers Air Rail Link
Canadian Pacific Railway is urged to add an air branch to its service. Major-General J H MacBrien leads the push and could head the aerial department if it materializes. CPR weighs government subsidies and early heavy expenditures while speculation grows over a continental air transport role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Europe
Dominion
Canadian Pacific Railway
J. H. MacBrien
MacBrien
Canadian Air League
Camp Borden
C.P.R
Preserving Queen Alexandra’s Private Marlborough Room
A Marlborough House room ordered untouched by the Prince of Wales remains exactly as the late queen mother used it. Crimson silk walls enclose a central writing table with a silver crown blotter, brass letter case, and many framed royal photographs. A favored piano holds two autographed photos of Lady Halle, reflecting the queen mother’s musical days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlborough House
Prince of Wales
Queen Alexandra
King George
David
Lady Halle
Device For Typing Music by Lajos Viragh
A wood and rubber typing machine perfected by Lajos Viragh enables composers to type musical ideas as easily as writing a letter. After three years of work the model promises to greatly ease manuscript music creation and reading for composers and publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lajos Viragh
National Dairy Council Meets at King Edward Hotel
The annual meeting of the National Dairy Council of Canada will be held on November 21 and 22 at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto. It is expected to discuss matters of considerable interest to the Canadian dairy industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Dairy Council of Canada
King Edward Hotel
Toronto
Dairy Industry of Canada
Land Sale Talks Opened in Saskatchewan Mennonite Colony
The Canada Colonization Association opened negotiations to sell 6,000 acres in the Madison district, 160 miles southwest of Saskatoon, to twenty Mennonite families residing in the Dominion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Canada Colonization Association
Dominion
Giant German air liner designs by Dr Rumpler
German aeronautical engineer Dr Ed Rumpler, famed for the Taube, envisions a giant air liner with wings wide enough for 135 passengers including baths and lounges. He aims to cross the Atlantic in 20 hours, planning progression from a 40–50 passenger craft to the final mega-ship, grounded in known aerodynamic principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Rumpler
Rumpler
Bellanca
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Airplane rescue plan for interior Australia doctors
The Australian Inland Mission and the British Medical Association’s Australian branch announce a bold scheme to mobilize six doctors with airplanes to rapidly reach sick or injured people in sparsely settled interior regions. The project, backed by federal and state governments, aims to end long delays for distant stockmen and reduce dangers of childbirth in remote areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Medical Association
The
Australian Inland Mission
Extermination Estimates From Saskatchewan Sportsmen Bags
The 4 000 hunters who returned to the Saskatchewan gamekeepers department gathered a total bag of 100 000 ducks 26 600 prairie chickens 6 000 ruffed grouse and 9 200 geese last year. Assuming 12 000 nonreturning hunters had the same averages the overall harvest would be higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan Gamekeepers Department
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Peter Verigin
Russia
Poland
United States
Library of Con
Grees
Reaper-Thresher Machines
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Taie
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Teresa Carragher
Nawe
FIRST
Cunard Steamship
Tate
Work of Composers
National Dairy Council
South Wales
Pages Ghies
Yverdon
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