World Happenings Briefly Told
Eleven Anglican cathedrals in South Africa will each receive a Canterbury cathedral stone as a token of friendship. The US tariff commission is to investigate pulpwood competition. Canada remains the largest US supplier. The Bren gun replaces the Lewis machine gun in British service. A batteryless telephone using voice energy was demonstrated by three Montrealers. Four workers were killed and four wounded by an unexploded WWI shell on a road in Italy. The Duke of Sutherland estate lands in Alberta were sold to the Eastern Irrigation District. Walter Wood led the successful ascent of Mount Steele, 16,439 feet, a first for the Yukon expedition. Japan eyes emigration talks with Britain and others to move surplus population. 70 to 80 Canadians will join the Royal Canadian Air Force this month from a waiting list of 6,000. A monthly air mail service was announced between Fort Chipewyan and Goldfields Sask.
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United States Tariff Commission
Canada
United States
Czecho- Slovakia
Armand Parent
Pierre Dufresne
Carmen Norasco
Venice
Tarviio
Italy
Alberta
Duke of Sutherland
Brooks
Eastern Irrigation District
American Geographical Society
Mount Steele
Walter Wood
Society
Yukon Territory
Daily Herald
Great Britain
Holland
Far East
Royal Canadian Air Force
Defence Department
Canada Canning Industry Deepens in Ontario BC and Quebec
The report shows Ontario British Columbia and Quebec lead in fruit and vegetable canning with a 1933 pack of 1 201 275 cases of fruit and 4 531 542 cases of vegetables valued at 2 864 951 and 9 257 296 dollars respectively Tomatoes top vegetable cans 1 659 856 cases followed by baked beans peas and corn Pears lead fruits with 394 374 cases Apples 230 704 peaches 161 615 plums 135 716 Also notable soups 1 438 523 cases and tomato juice 462 478.
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Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Laundry Laughs At Shirts In Clerk Customer Banter
A shop conversation shows a clerk praising durable shirts while a customer jokes about shirts returning from the wash with side splits. The exchange highlights humor over laundry mishaps.
Aztec Medicine Taught by Franciscans in Mexico College
The text notes that Aztec medicine was seen as comparably advanced to European knowledge and led Franciscan friars to have native remedies taught at the first college established for Mexican natives.
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Mexico
To be 70 years young is more cheerful than age forty
The statement reflects a positive view of aging, suggesting happiness and hope persist with age. It contrasts 70 with 40, implying vitality and optimism can rise with years rather than decline.
Chief Sitting Eagle Displays George III Medal in Winnipeg
A Pipe Stone Sioux chief in Winnipeg shows a rare 150 year old medal gifted by King George III for services to British forces in the American Revolution. He rejects calls to reclaim the country, noting Canadians won it and the Sioux never rely on treaty money. The medal was among seven struck for the Seven Nations, featuring a kingly facsimile and a lion and wolf motif.
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George III
Sitting Eagle
Winnipeg
Birthday Of Panama Canal Celebrates 21 Years
The Panama Canal marked its 21st anniversary on August 15, 1935. Since opening to traffic August 15, 1914, tolls totaling 394,566,620 have funded 82,673 ship passages between Atlantic and Pacific. Capacity is about 348 ships daily, but the 1935 fiscal year averaged only about 15 transits per day, peaking near 18 in 1928.
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Panama Canal
New York
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Pacific
Militia Units Align with New Zealand Forces in Canada
The 14th Canadian Light Horse, a non permanent active militia unit based in Climax Saskatchewan under Lt Col W Van Allen, joins the Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles of New Zealand forces after approval announced by the Department of National Defence in Ottawa.
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14Th
Canadian Light Horse
Canada
Climax
Sask
Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles
New Zealand
Ottawa
Department of National Defence
Climax, Sask
W. van Allen
Dime chain letters flood Denver post offices
In Denver the Send a Dime chain letters promise to pay the United States treasury. About 100,000 letters are impounded with contents to be turned over to the treasury after a year. Postmaster J. C. Stevie estimates Denver holdings at 3000 to 4000 dollars.
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United States Treasury
Denver
Treasury
J. C. Stevie
Bishop’s rebuke and the Tokyo quake losses
An anecdote about a bishop silencing a boasting member who thanked God for ignorance. The Tokyo earthquake of 1923 caused greater money losses than the Japanese-Russian war, demolishing over 400000 buildings.
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Tokyo
Million US Cancer Deaths Reported Over Ten Years
A statistician reports more than one million cancer deaths in the United States across the last decade ending 2114. The finding highlights the persistent mortality burden and urges renewed focus on prevention and treatment efforts.
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United States
Assisting Nature and Man's Role in Balance
The writer argues that humans should aid nature rather than fear interference. He cites livestock breeding, horse and mule development, poultry varieties, wheat improvement by Saunders, and ornamental flowers like iris and roses as evidence that mankind partners with creation. He warns against passive neglect such as letting hawks or pests go unchecked.
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Canada
Charles Saunders
Sunday School Lesson Bible Verse Focus
Golden text from Proverbs 31 31. Lesson covers Acts 16 11 15 18 1 3 24 28 Romans 16 1 6 and devotional reading Proverbs 31 10 31. The material centers on women in scripture and their deeds, guiding devotional study.
Lydia and Priscilla: Early Christian Missionaries in Acts
Lydia, a Thyatira merchant who worshipped God, meets Paul at Philippi by the river where he prays with women. Priscilla and Aquila, tentmakers from Italy, join Paul in Corinth and later Ephesia, guiding Apollos to deeper understanding of Jesus.
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Lydia
Philippi
Macedonia
Paul
Troas
Samothrace
Neapolis
Thyatira
Priscilla
Corinth
Athens
Aquila
Italy
Rome
Claudius
Apollos
Ephesus
Jerusalem
Alexandria
Jesus
John
John the Baptist
God
Boy Is Good Canner Dominates Preserves at Toronto Show
Allan Heagy of Stratford won first prize with red currant jelly in the handicraft exhibits at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. He also took second in pickles and earned top prizes for raspberries strawberries peaches vegetables and mustard pickles, proving feminine hands count little in preserving.
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Allan Heagy
Stratford
Toronto
Magnetic sweeper clears nails from South Texas highways
Magnetic highway cleaners operated by the Texas highway department removed 291.5 pounds of nails scrap iron tin cans wire bolts and other metal from an 18 mile stretch between Pharr and Mercedes. In Brooks county on highway 66 the machine gathered 111 pounds of metal.
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South Texas
Pharr
Mercedes
Highway 66
Brooks County
Texas Highway Department
Canadian flour identity and Haiti trade patterns
The passage notes flour imported to Haiti is largely Canadian in origin but shipped via U S ports and billed as a U S product. It also describes the East Indian banyan tree with roots descending from branches creating additional trunks to extend its reach.
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Haiti
United States
U.S
Aluminum’s Rise as a Modern Industrial Metal
Aluminum emerges as a light strong corrosion resistant metal. Charles Hall pioneered its economical extraction in 1886, and today aluminum powers engines, cars, aircraft, gas tanks, streetcars, and large office buildings. It adds protection as a paint, foil for radios, and enables thermite welding for in-field repairs.
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Charles Hall
Hall
England Builds New Houses at Liverpool Project
Sir Kingsley Wood opens St Andrews Gardens in Liverpool noting 300+ flats on a former abattoir site. He cites 2,670,500 new English houses since the armistice with a total capital cost of 9 billion dollars. He defends housing standards and rejects cheapness as a factor in quality.
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Sir Kingsley Wood
St. Andrews Gardens
Liverpool
England
Sir Kingsley
Kingsley
Ministry of Health
Superstitious Ziegfeld Balks at Rude Foot Touch
At Saratoga's Arrowhead Inn Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer, kept a wary superstition when King Edward briefly touched his chair’s rung. The monarch watched as Ziegfeld dropped $400000, without asking the king to remove his foot, a move deemed a bad luck sign by gamblers.
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Saratoga
Arrowhead Inn
Florenz Ziegfeld
Monte Carlo
King Edward
Ziegfeld
Flo
Real Diplomat Mother Leaves No Cake Untasted
A mother corners a party moment with tact and humor as she expects a second piece of cake. Her son, Sonny, explains he asked Mrs Green for a recipe to recreate the treat. Mrs Green offers another slice without hesitation.
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Sonny
Jack
North Dakota scientists back safety of poisoned bran bait for birds
After testing poultry and game birds fed with the poisoned bran bait used for grasshopper control, North Dakota researchers report the bait leaves the birds unharmed.
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North Dakota
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South Africa
Canterbury
Fort Chipewyan
Alta
Goldfields
Post Office Department
Lake Athabaska
Pipestone
Western Canada
U. S
Ames
West
Nature
America
North America
Ida M. Thomas
Wourelesh, Lhe
Crochet
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Alice Brooks
Lydia and
Texas
Aluminum
Gordon H. Guest
M.A
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