World Happenings Briefly Told
A rundown of international notes reports Arc-En-Ciel arrival in Natal after crossing the South Atlantic from Dakar. Dr Carl Olaf Jensen a leading cancer researcher dies in Copenhagen. Canada reports a Labor Day attendance record of 265,160 at the National Exhibition. Ontario Bulletin ceases publication as Ontario offices close. British Columbia examines minimum wage rules for male clerks. US farm administration reports up to August 31 purchases of 4,250,000 cattle with 38,811,870 paid to about 250,000 farmers. Booth Fisheries manager reports large northern catch after five weeks northwestern tour. Japan Prohibition League delegation urges Premier Okada to quit alcohol. he offers no comment. Manitoba finds Field bindweed near Winkler, first time in province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Olaf Jensen
Copenhagen
Ontario Bulletin
Ontario
London
England
US Farm Administration
Drouth
Little Journeys In Science Corn Uses Explored
Gordon H. Guest surveys corn from grain to its many products. He explains that one bushel yields about a pound of refined oil for cooking and the less refined oil goes to soap, glycerine, and nitroglycerine. Starch becomes corn starch and corn syrup, and a corn gum substitutes rubber in erasers, sponges, shoes, while husks and oil residues feed cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
Silencing The Bore
A wry exchange about a world small enough for chance encounters. The bore boasts across cities Paris Venice Rome Alexandria and a channel crossing, boasting of cosmopolitan meetups. The corner man retorts with a sharp question about unpaid debts.
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Paris
Venice
Rome
Alexandria
Propeller Erosion Warning From Severe Rain Flight
An aviation note warns that heavy rain during flight can wear away several inches of a wooden propeller on planes equipped with such blades, potentially affecting performance and safety.
Shipping Time Frames For Flour From Vancouver to Calcutta
A shipment of Canadian flour requires two and four half months to reach Calcutta from Vancouver.
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Calcutta
Vancouver
What Does Your Handwriting Tell
Lawrence Hibbert Grapho Analyst explains handwriting analysis as a science, not magic. He argues that accurate readings reveal character traits, reveal faults, and guide self understanding, offering sample analyses and instructions to mail a handwriting specimen for study.
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E. C
T. A
A. W
Lawrence Hibbert
C-O
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Racial Prejudice Urged Against by Dominion Citizens
A Montreal civic luncheon for the Jacques Cartier quarter centenary’s British French and American delegates urged Canadians to reject racial prejudice. Rt Hon H A L Fisher affirmed that unity gives strength, addressing diverse origins from French and English to Jewish Swedish Irish and Scottish.
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H. A. L. Fisher
Great Britain
New College
Oxford
Montreal
France
United States
Jacques Cartier
An Amazing Machine Invented in Boston
A young American scientist in Boston unveils a machine that thinks and remembers and can express likes and dislikes through behavior. It responds to stimuli and even shows resentment when its hair is pulled. A new pew microscope includes a four eyepiece attachment for monocular observation.
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Boston
Pew
Farm management inspection tour expands across Manitoba and Saskatchewan
A Colonization Finance Corporation team conducts a touring inspection of farm management zones from the International boundary north to township 38 in Manitoba and into eastern Saskatchewan. The visit aims to assess work, gather farmer and community feedback, and plan future expansion to new zones including Swan River and Portage plains with officials from Regina and Canora, Yorkton, Indian Head zones.
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Colonization Finance Corporation
Manitoba
International Boundary
Saskettchewan
Regina
Swan River
Somerville
Alberta
W. C. McKillican
Manitoba Agricultural College
Drouth
Saskatchewan
Red River Valley
Portage Plains
Minnedosa
Neepewa
Swan River Valley
W. R. McConnell
Canora
Yorkton
Indian Head
Colonization Finance Corporation Officials Tour West
Louis L. Lang of Galt Ontario led a West inspection with senior CF Corp officers to review farm management in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The tour covered 1,763 farms totaling 602 382 acres with headquarters in Winnipeg and five Manitoba and Saskatchewan zones. About 700 farms are operated by former owners, tenants run 30 percent, and the effort aims to help farmers keep and improve their farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis L. Lang
Galt
Ontario
Colonization Finance Corporation
Winnipeg
J. F. Weston
Imperial Life Assurance Company
A. N. Mitchell
Canada Life Assurance Company
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Carman
Portage la Prairie
Brandon
Killarney
Deloraine
Virden
Birtle
Dauphin
Oxbow
Moosomin
Weyburn
Indian Head
Yorkton
Canora
Basis For Security Speech At London Meeting
Arthur Henderson, president of the disarmament conference, urged Co-operative Societies of England in London that complete prevention of war, not a futile attempt to humanize it, would grant the world the security it seeks.
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Arthur Henderson
Co-operative Societies of England
London
German Air Tests Planned Over South Atlantic
German air pilots will conduct gliding tests over the South Atlantic. The program aims to gather data on flight performance and handling in open-ocean conditions during a planned overseas mission.
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South Atlantic
Sunday School Lesson Theme and Bible References
Golden text from Psalm 24 asks who can ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in his holy place. The lesson covers Isaiah chapters 1 as the primary text with devotional reading from John 4:20 to 24.
The Great Arraignment of Judah and True Worship
Excerpts discuss Isaiah rebuking Judah for perverseness, calling them like Sodom and Gomorrah. It contrasts outward zeal with true worship, noting burnt offerings without justice anger God. It urges repentance, cleansing, ceasing evil, and learning to do well.
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Ewald
Judah
Sodom
Gomorrah
Jehovah
Isaiah
Delitzsch
David
England Extends Quiet Hours to All Cities at Night
The ministry of transport extends an anti-honking rule to every city town and built up area. England becomes a nationwide silence zone from 11 30 p m to 7 a m to reduce noise and limit horn use with 43 snofor horns cited in the report.
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London
Ministry of Transport
England
Vast US map by Wellesley topographers a nine year project
A team of topographers at Wellesley Massachusetts has spent nine years building a colossal map of the United States. The finished piece will measure 63 feet by 46 feet and depict every mountain and valley to scale. It will be divided into 900 blocks once complete.
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Wellesley
Mass
United States
Jefferson Drafted the Declaration at age 33
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence at age 33. The note also mentions Rome planning an auditorium with a 5 000 seating capacity.
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Thomas Jefferson
Rome
Also Mentioned on This Page
Natal
Brazil
Dakar
French West Africa
British Columbia Board of Industrial Relations
Adam Bell
Northwest
Stan Johnson
Booth Fisheries Canadian Co. Ltd
Prairie Provinces
Japan Prohibition League
Keisaki Okada
George Batho
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Winkler
Gordon H. Guest
M.A
Ww. N. U
Richie
Britisher
Mac Au
Tyret
Galt, Ont
Frank W. Reinoehl
T. O. F. Herzer
LY Burn
Eagonnsury Ts
Qxbow
Socee
Lake
Wiirden
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