World Happenings Briefly Told
Canada led all nations in exports and imports with the United States as of June. Erich Remarque may win the Nobel Prize in literature. British Columbia liquor profits totaled 682919.48 for six months to March 31. Sarnia cut John Gooding Thresher staff by a third amid crop shortages. Chief Justice Ruley Morrison received a doctor of laws at Dalhousie University. Britain and France discussed closer air cooperation at a meeting between Lord Thomson and Laurent Eynac. Miss K Bloomfield became Australia’s first woman air pilot in Victoria. Graf Zeppelin’s flight spurred a 20 million dollar plan for German Russian Japanese air service with terminals in each country. Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor resigned as Bank of Montreal general manager to become vice president. H B MacKenzie named successor.
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Canada
United States
Erich Remarque
Stockholm
British Columbia
Sarnia
John Gooding Thresher Company
Ruley Morrison
Dalhousie University
Great Britain
France
Lord Thomson
Laurent Eynac
Air
Miss K. Bloomfield
Bank of Montreal
Bank
H. B. MacKenzie
Sir Frederick
Great Scout Jamboree Ends at Arrowe Park
Tens of thousands of Boy Scouts depart Arrowe Park England after the world jamboree closes. About 50 000 boys travel home from nearly fifty countries while 214 422 total visitors are recorded. The next jamboree is set for 1933 with the venue to be chosen at a Salzburg conference.
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Arrowe Park
England
Salsburg
Austria
Development Of Peace River Progress From Isolation to Modernity
The Peace River District began with three cars of wheat hauled eighty five miles from Vanrena to Reno with no highways or telephones and only two small rural schools. Now 1,650,000 acres are under cultivation and the area may yield 15,000,000 bushels with a population of about 50,000. Modern amenities include schools churches stores elevators electric light plants highways telephones and electric farming. Farmers can hatch chicks and raise them with electric light and cook with electric ranges.
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Peace River District
Vanrena
Reno
Circus Manager Warns of Lion Cage Door Left Open
A Prague press report quotes a circus manager condemning the act as negligent after the door of a lion's cage was left open. A tamer replies skeptically about theft risk. The exchange reflects tension over animal safety standards.
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Prager Presse
Prague
Fluttering plaited skirt Fashion for growing girls
Style No. 605 presents a flat hipline and simple bodice with a plaited collar. Long sleeves feature turn-back plaited cuffs and bows at neckline and hipline. Fabrics include printed dimity, gingham voile, shanting, and linen in varied colors. an early Fall navy wool crepe option adds a red pleated collar and cuffs. Pattern price 25 cents.
Church At Jasper Is Soldier's Monument
Unique among Canadian churches the St. Mary and St. George church at Jasper was consecrated by the Bishop of Edmonton. Built of stone and stucco with a tiled roof at a cost of 17000 dollars from a design by A H Calderon of Edmonton, it was a gift from an anonymous English lady in memory of her son who fell in war. The cornerstone was laid last year by the Governor General. a testament found on the young man's body lies beneath. The furnishings and bell were also gifts from the donor and Viscount Willingdon provided the bell.
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Canada
St. Mary and
St. George
Jasper
Edmonton
A. H. Calderon
England
Morse
No Man's Land
Viscount Willingdon
May Kill His Art Hair Portraitist Fears Short Supply
Russian artist G. Boruchoff, famed for pictures woven in human hair, warns that the bobbed hair trend endangers his work. He needs long strands, uses silk or linen canvases, and a knitting needle for brushing. His weaving echoes Gobelin tapestry methods and he began art at age ten during apprenticeship and captivity in Germany.
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G. Boruchoff
Boruchoff
Germany
Pattern Order Details From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg Pattern No. refers to ordering details from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. The item lists how to obtain specific patterns and likely includes ordering instructions and contact information.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Outstanding dairy exhibit draws crowds at Calgary show
Hon. J. D. McGregor lauds CP.R. Supply Farm Strathmore display as best educational livestock exhibit seen. Five cows produced 127,583 lbs milk in 365 days, led by Strathmore Sylvia-89340 with 29,371 lbs. Cows earned $3,214.10 in milk sales, with 479 cans showing 2,937 gallons.
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Rotary Club
Calgary
J. D. McGregor
Manitoba
Canada
Cp.r. Supply Farm
Strathmore
McGregor
Brandon
Edmonton
Saskatoon
Regina
Valley Farm Francy Legis
Strathmore Texaline
Strathmore Lassie
Province of
Alberta
Union Milk Co
Strathmore Sylvia
Holstein-Freisian Association of Canada
Lady Pentland
Miss Sinclair
Lord Pentland
George H. Jones
Strathmore Farm
Chiffon Pie Recipe From This Week
Recipe outlines a chiffon pie with 2 cups sugar 1 cup flour and salt, boiling water, lemon and orange juice, eggs, rind, and a meringue topping. Mix dry ingredients, add hot water, cook, blend yolks with fruit, thicken, cool, whip meringue, fold, fill shell, brown top.
Eskimo snow houses myth debunked by Stefansson lecture
Arctic explorer Mr. Stefansson tells a Cambridge audience that Eskimos endure sun and wild flowers, not eternal winter. He notes snow houses are rare and unknown to most Arctic inhabitants, seen mainly in classrooms.
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Arctic Circle
Stefansson
Cambridge
Arctic
Test For Your Eyes Dis tance Judgment Quiz
The text discusses estimated sight ranges for identifying a person and their clothing at various distances. It notes normal eyesight should reveal eyes at fifty yards, buttons at one hundred, face at three hundred, and clothing color at four hundred, with distance seeming shorter in cloudy conditions.
Inside View via Tiny Camera for Stomach Images
A compact camera designed to be swallowed can capture sixteen photographs of the stomach interior from multiple angles. The technique allows an inside view of the gastrointestinal tract and may enable enlarged images after processing.
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Interior Department
Green Tomato Preserve Instructions
This recipe lists proportions for making green tomato preserve with sugar lemons and preserved ginger. It describes washing trimming, blanching, slicing tomatoes layering with lemon and sugar, resting overnight, boiling syrup ten minutes then cooking until clear and sealing in jars.
Canada must boost high quality farm output says minister
Hon. Motherwell, Canada’s Federal Minister of Agriculture, informally opened Vancouver’s 20th annual exhibition stating larger production of high quality agricultural goods is necessary for Canada to remain an agricultural exporter. The text also remarks on a tactful woman and a brief, unrelated physical description.
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Canada
Hon
Motherwell
Vancouver
Airmail to Madagascar Will Use Sahara Route by Night
A weekly airmail service between France and Madagascar will cross the Sahara Desert by night once the desert route is lighted. The new service aims to shorten transcontinental mail delivery and connect Paris with Antananarivo via air, beginning as soon as lighting is completed.
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France
Madagascar
Sahara Desert
First private telephone bridges 13000 miles London to Sydney
A Hamp shire widow spoke with a Sydney hospital matron via a private telephone. Cadet Jack Sigrist, aboard the Valencia in Australian waters, called his mother in delirium. The link, still experimental, connected London and Australia for a ten minute call arranged by the post office department to learn of his improving condition.
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Hampshire
Sydney
Australia
London
Jack Sigrist
Valencia
Australian
Post Office Department
C. G. Sigrist
Museum origins tied to Navajo shirt purchase
The Museum of the American Indian in New York arose from George G. Heye’s purchase of a Navajo shirt. Barns are commonly painted red due to inexpensive durable oxide of iron pigment available in red.
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The
Museum of the American Indian
New York
George G. Heye
Sky Larking and the coming air age a St Thomas take
The St Thomas Times-Journal surveys Bruce Gould the New York Evening Post aviation editor who argues in his book Sky Larking that in fifty years air travel will be ubiquitous with giant flying boats and rooftop landings. The paper cautions that while faith in progress fuels forecasts some safety and practicality doubts remain.
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Bruce Gould
New York Evening Post
Atlantic
New York
London
Paris
Edison
Mr. Gould
Insance
St Thomas
Trapper Ivan Christie Frozen to Death in Arctic Blizzard
Lost in a June 2 Arctic blizzard, Bathurst Inlet trapper Ivan McKay Christie died of cold. His loyal husky was found alive by the search party and H Q at Herschel Island. Christie is buried at Bathurst Inlet.
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Arctic
Ivan McKay Christie
Bathurst Inlet
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Herschel Island
Christie
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Betty Barclay
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Toronto
John A. Chantler & Co., Ltd
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