World Happenings Briefly Told
More than 2,000 bicycles were manufactured in Canada during 1900. An experimental farm near Fort William is planned by Ontario Agriculture. Britain's Royal Botanical Gardens to become public property. General Cyraigue Cyprien Gillian, Belgian WWI leader, dies at 74. Five and a half dozen cats swapped for a shave in Ohio. barber owed 3 cents. Seven new aeroplanes for the Soviet Air Force funded by public subscription. Austrian autumn maneuvers cancelled for economy. F C Hall studies navigation to fly Pacific westward next year. pilot not chosen yet. Fifty-five million acres sown to spring wheat in Russia through June 1. Siberia reports backward operations. Jim Britt, boxing former champion, killed in Quebec highway crash near Ottawa. Saskatoon census hints city population near 42,000, up 67% since 1921 and 38% since 1926 prairie census.
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Britain
Royal Botanical Gardens
Cyraigue Cyprien Gillian
Yser
Tiffin
Ohio
F. C. Hall
Globe
Pacific
Hall
Russia
Ministry of Agriculture
Siberia
James Birse
Valois
Montreal
Jimmy Britt
Canada
Quebec
Saskatoon
Cancer Research Commission Reports Progress in Treatment
The commission found best cancer outcomes where surgical, X-ray, and radium therapies were combined. Dr. W. T. Connell, returning from Europe after study with the Ontario cancer commission, notes a comprehensive survey in the United States and Europe shows encouraging results.
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W. T. Connell
Europe
Ontario Cancer Commission
Ontario
United States
Connell
Canadian Jewish groups plan national party launch in Toronto
Jewish organizations in Canada intend to form a national party blending social and political groups. A mass meeting in Toronto this fall will introduce the effort with delegates expected from Montreal Ottawa Winnipeg and other cities.
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Canada
Toronto
Montreal
Ottawa
Winnipeg
Manitoba Unemployment Totals From Provincial Survey
The Manitoba government finalizes a survey showing 40 817 unemployed in the province with dependents bringing the total without means of support to about 105 000. Winnipeg and suburbs alone report 20 767 unemployed, up 2 767 since June, with roughly 50 000 in Greater Winnipeg including dependents. Figures cover St Boniface Portage la Prairie Brandon and area, plus towns and rural municipalities. farmers in crop failures are excluded. Manitoba Free Press.
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Manitoba
Dominion
W. R. Clubb
Gideon Robertson
Labour
Winnipeg
Arthur MacNamara
Ottawa
St. Boniface
Brandon
Portage
Prairie
Manitoba Free Press
Slimline dress pattern Description and fabrics
It describes a slimming dress style with a shawl collar, suitable fabrics such as batiste linen organza and navy chiffon with white dots and green accents. It notes sizes 16 through 44 bust, pattern No. 425, yardage requirements and price 25 cents, with wrap coin instructions.
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Jersey
Cabbage Salad Recipe For This Week
Shred 1% small cabbage and chop 1 pimento and 1 cup homemade style pickles. Mix with 1% to % cup mayonnaise or cooked salad dressing. Combine cabbage, pimento and pickles gently. Add mayonnaise to moisten. Serve cold.
Cocoanut Tumble Sherbet for Four Servings
Slice bananas and mix with orange and lemon juices. Stir in two cans of coconut and four tablespoons sugar. Combine, pile into sherbet glasses, and chill. Yields four portions.
Peaches Marguerite Dessert Cups
Combine dates pecans and coconut with cream then mix in lemon juice. Shape into small balls and nestle in peach halves. Serve with peach juice enhanced by extra lemon juice. Makes six servings.
Strange Cave Dwellers of Matmata Tunisia
South of Gabes in the Matmata desert, Tunisian families live underground to escape heat. Dwellings lie in sand wells with courtyards, cool rooms, and tunnel access. Livestock stables sit below the surface as entire families inhabit the caverns.
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Tunisia
Gabes
Matmata
Young Poet and Critic Exchange Talks on Poems
A playful dialogue has a young poet praising critics who compare poems to Shakespeare and Shelley. The critic compliments the work, noting two poems as worthy, one about cinema and one about wireless.
Dominion approves grape sugar for native Canadian wines
The Dominion Government consents to using grape sugar instead of cane sugar in the spirit content of native Canadian wines. The move meets grape growers demands for fortified wine and establishes wine standards to be recommended by Ontario's wine standards committee and enforced under federal control.
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Dominion
Canada
Ontario
Farm near Fort William planned by provincial department
A farm project near Fort William is announced by the provincial department of agriculture. A policeman confronts a tramp and commands him to hand over a sack and follow to town while the tramp offers to carry it if allowed and warns there will be no tip.
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Gates
Yverdon
Strong Western Canadian Wheat Crop Impresses Inspectors
J D Fraser Winnipeg chief grain inspector reports 1931 western Canada wheat reaching Winnipeg inspection shows high quality ears from prairie provinces. Despite adverse seeding to harvest conditions the crop indicates many excellent samples for entry in the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference to be held in Regina next year.
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J. D. Fraser
Winnipeg
Canada
Fraser
Prairie Provinces
Western Canada
Regina
Death of Toronto Publisher Charles Riordon at 84 in Montreal
Charles Riordon, longtime head of the Riordon pulp and paper mills and president of the Toronto Daily Mail and the Mail and Empire for 50 years, died at his Montreal home aged 84. He began in 1863 at Merritton with his brother John, helped shape Canada's pulp and paper industry, and later guided the Mail and Empire after acquiring the Empire in 1891.
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Charles Riordon
Riordon Pulp and Paper
Toronto Daily Mail
The
Mail and Empire
Montreal
John Riordon
Merritton
Ont
Riordon
Canada
Canadian International Power and Paper Company
Riordan
John MacDonald
Empire
Toronto Mail
Banked Savings In Canada Despatch From St Thomas Ontario
A U S couple visiting St Thomas Ontario deposited their entire savings in a local bank after admitting they lost part of their funds in a Pontiac Michigan bank failure. The piece contrasts Canadian banking stability with higher U S failures, noting Canadian chartered banks and government savings offices are reliable for savings.
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St. Thomas
Ontario
United States
Pontiac
Mich
Canada
Winnipeg's oldest resident Mary Roberts dies at 94
Mrs. Mary Roberts, Winnipeg's oldest resident at 94, died after living in the city 87 years. She recalled Old Fort Garry when few white people were there and spoke of Indians and Hudson's Bay folks. She is survived by 13 children, one of whom fought in the Riel Rebellion.
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Winnipeg
Mary Roberts
Old Fort Garry
Riel
Deposed Chinese Emperor Takes Up Opera Singing
The Son of Heaven studies with a Peiping voice teacher and uses Chinese instruments and stage trappings. He rehearses oriental scales once mastered by Mei Lanfang, aiming for wide recognition. An office manager and Jones clash over efficiency.
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China
Peiping
Mei Lanfang
Conceit as a Driver Hazard May Draw Penalties
Dr Paul Schroder Illinois criminologist argues conceit and arrogance drive unsafe driving. He cites felonious drivers and repeats theory that rights of others matter more than intelligence. A Connecticut DMV plan tests character and judgment. future licenses may require witnesses of modest conduct.
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Paul Schroder
Illinois
Mid-West Safety Congress
Illinois State Penitentiary
Commissioner of
London Population Tops New York in Census Report
The Baltimore Sun notes London’s population at 8,202,818 versus New York’s 6,981,917. It contrasts English pride in rural life with American ambition for urban scale, and adds a color blindness test finding 27 of 375 dry goods salesmen were color blind.
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London
New York
Baltimore Sun
Canned Professor Opens Summer School Lecture
Boston Transcript notes the "canned professor" delivering an educational talkie at Washington University in St. Louis. The simulated lecture used charts and a darkened hall to reach students, illustrating a future where a single professor could appear at numerous schools simultaneously.
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Washington University
St. Louis
Chain College
Boston Transcript
Grower Receives Bounty For Wheat On Crop Share
A Saskatchewan letter from Minister Weir confirms tenant farmers who grow wheat on land leased under crop share will receive the full federal five cent per bushel bounty. Dr. William Allen reports the farm management department at the university. The minister’s reply clarifies that the actual grower, not the landowner, will obtain the bounty.
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Saskatoon
William Allen
Farm Management Department
The
University
Robert Weir
Postage hike to Canada and Newfoundland announced
Washington announced by Second Assistant Postmaster-General W. Irving Glover that postage on letters to Canada and Newfoundland rises from two to three cents per ounce and postcards from one to two cents, effective September 1. Air mail to Canada increases from five to six cents for the first ounce and ten cents for each additional ounce.
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Canada
Newfoundland
Washington
W. Irving Glover
Farmers Seek 45000-Acre Irrigation Extension in Alberta
United Farmers of Alberta proposes extending irrigation over 45 000 acres in the Purple Springs Grassy Lake Burdett and Bowsland districts in the south. The group calls a conference with farmers CPR officials and Dominion and provincial government representatives to launch the scheme.
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United Farmers of Alberta
Purple Springs
Grassy Lake
Burdett
Bowsland
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion
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Fort William
Ontario Department of Agriculture
War Commissariat
Cancer Research
Commission
Mount Rainier National Park
Pittsburgh
Love
Gaies
By Annette
Betty Barclay
Peaches
Marguerite
Tunis
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Ewe Eee
Provincial Department of Agriculture
Death of Toronto
Chas. Riordon
Toronto Mail & Empire
Banked Savings In
Jones Jones
New
Foundland
Madrid
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