Changing Civilization The State And The School
A provincial editorial warns that world economic distress and crop failures hit Canada, especially the West, forcing government cuts including education. It urges preserving school funding, paying teachers fairly, and avoiding a Dark Age by investing in high quality education for Young Canada.
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Canada
Dominion
Victoria
B.C
Times
British Columbia
Vancouver
Britain
Dean D. Buchanan
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
England Fights Sunday Air Circus Protests
In England, opposition to the holding of aerial exhibitions on Sundays continues amid public debate. Across the world, car sales rise in Japan and American cosmetics gain demand in North Manchuria as Egypt exports cotton surge beyond 1912 levels.
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England
North Manchuria
Egypt
The Tale Of Towels And The Thieving Guest
A New York Evening Post report notes English railway losses from thefts of towels cups spoons and glassware totaling thousands of pounds yearly mainly in the summer. Hotels face similar loss at Christmas from linen and tableware thefts. a guest once fled after a spoon was returned to her, avoiding further hotel stays.
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New York Evening Post
Doing Good Business With Other Countries
British shipowner R S Dalgleish from Newcastle on Tyne, touring the world, says Japan leads in international trade and leaves Britain and the United States behind. He warns Britain to cut tariffs subsidies and quotas to compete, noting his five month world journey and stops in Australia and Vancouver before England.
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Japan
R S. Dalgleish
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Victoria
Australia
Vancouver
England
Great Britain
United States
Mr. Dalgleish
Manitoba Patrolmen Tout Tiny Car Speed Record
Two six foot Manitoba police patrolmen arrived in Calgary driving a miniature English car used for highway duties. They say the small auto and large cops form an ideal combination. The officers, with powers under Manitoba law, claim the vehicle can reach 70 miles per hour on gravel roads.
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Manitoba
Calgary
England
Manitoba Motor League Safety Patrol
Fingerprints urged for family albums by police chief
Buffalo Police Commissioner Austin Roche urged adding fingerprints to family albums at the Chicago convention. He said prints are valuable for missing persons and kidnapping cases and would surpass photographs in many instances. Roche proposed taking fingerprints when a child to preserve identity throughout life.
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Austin Roche
Buffalo
N.Y
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Chicago
Roche
Graf Zeppelin to Make Fourth U S Visit in October
Postmaster General Farley announced the Graf Zeppelin will visit the United States for the fourth time in October. He outlined plans for a flight to the Chicago Exposition via South America and a special stamp to be affixed to letters carried by the dirigible. Germany sees nearly 2,500,000 weekly readers for its 65 radio publications.
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United States
Farley
Chicago Exposition
South America
Paris Prefect Bans Loud Car Horns in City
Jean Chiappe, Paris Prefect of Police, backs a one note horn and bans loud horns for Parsian automobiles. O C Cabot argues motorists should slow and look both ways, as excessive horn use irritates citizens and often misleads drivers about danger.
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Jean Chiappe
Paris Police
O. C. Cabot
la Societe Pour la Supression du Bruit
M. Cabot
Won Honors At Oxford Miss Hazel Winter
Miss Hazel Winter, an Oxford undergraduate born blind, gained first class honors in modern history. At 17 she won an open scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall. Textbooks are transcribed into Braille by volunteers from the National Institute for the Blind. She plans historical work and a lectureship in history. Her only recreation was swimming.
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Hazel Winter
Oxford
Chorleywood College
National Institute For the Blind
Lady Margaret Hall
Miss Winter
C. B. Winter
D.S
Nova Scotias New Premier Not First Catholic Leader
The Torontos Mail and Empire notes that Nova Scotia’s Angus Macdonald will not be the first Roman Catholic premier of the province, citing J. S. D. Thompson as an earlier premier and attorney general in 1882. It mentions Ontario’s John Sandfield Macdonald as another possible Catholic premier and closes with a remark on honesty alongside a note that Argentine cable companies are raising rates.
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Angus . Macdonald
Nova Scotia
J. S. D. Thompson
Sir John
Ontario
John Sandfield Macdonald
Toronto Mail
Empire
Liver Pills Promised To Fix Sour World Feeling
A fragmented ad style note touts liver pills as a cure for sour, sluggish feelings. It claims daily bile release will cleanse the stomach and intestines, promoting quick, safe relief with C s Little Liver Pills and similar substitutes.
French seascape artist sets solo Atlantic sail record
Marin Marie known as Durand Coupal arrives in New York aboard the 36 foot sloop Winnibell II after a solo crossing from Brest via Madeira Dominica and Martinique. He covered 2850 miles since May 10 in 29 days surpassing Captain Spray’s prior mark by 250 miles while piloting most of the voyage from below with a closed cockpit ship controlled from the cabin.
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Atlantic
Marin-Marie
Durand Couppal
New York
Brest
Madeira
Dominica
Port de France
Martinique
Marie
Siocum
Spray
Cape Sable
Lisbon
Boulogne
Matinique
Lady Macmillan Seeks Longer Canadian Visit and Rockies Trail
Like Canadian West Lady Macmillan, whose distinguished husband heads the Royal Commission on Banking in Canada, hopes to return for a longer visit. She praises Canada’s Rockies and Prairies and recalls 1926 Saint John Bar Association and 1928 Regina Bar Convention visits. She notes Scottish heritage and admiration for Canadian Maritimes. She collected flower seeds from Butchart Gardens for Surrey estate.
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Lady MacMillan
Royal Commission On Banking
Canada
Rockies
Prairies
Lord
Saint John
Canadian Bar Association
Regina
Lord Macmillan
Britain
Maritimes
Victoria
Lady Macmilan
Butchart Gardens
Surrey
Veteran Engine No. 2717 Retired After War Service
Locomotive No. 2717, a veteran British engine and former German prisoner of war with over 1 220 000 miles, has been withdrawn and scrapped. Captured at Cambrai in 1917 it served five months in No Man's Land as a machine gun post before later return to British duties after the war.
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Cambrai
No Man's Land
Murray Bay hotel finds missing items returned in note
The Murray Bay Quebec hotel manager unwrapped a large brown paper package revealing two demi tasse cups and saucers, four spoons, a silver finger bowl, a butter knife and two tea towels. A letter said a former waitress who joined a group movement returned stolen goods.
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Murray Bay
Que
Oxford Group Movement
Financial Strength Of Britain Revealed In Bank Deposits
The Winnipeg Tribune reports a leading British bank, one of the Big Five, shows a $179,000,000 rise in deposits from last year. The bank maintains three dividend classes at 10 and 14 percent, with total resources near two billion dollars, signaling strong savings and a robust capacity to finance enterprises amid the Economic Conference.
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Britain
Economic Conference
England
Winnipeg Tribune
Germany Eyes Saar Basin Cession Before 1935
German industrialist Dr. Carl Leitz says Germany will ask France to cede the Saar Basin before 1935 in exchange for assurances protecting French interests there. He notes the Saar is German in population and outlook and is under League mandate with a 1935 plebiscite to decide its fate.
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Germany
France
Saar
Alsace-Lorraine
Carl Leitz
Montreal
Leitz
League of Nations
Crystal Palace Tower to Test Ultra Short Wave TV
Negotiations completed to permit experimental television transmissions from the south tower of Crystal Palace. Tests will use ultra short waves below eight metres from a 550 foot high tower above the Thames. Earlier experiments from the north tower by H. Thomas produced receptions up to 200 miles away.
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Crystal Palace
Thames
H. Thomas
North Tower
Queen Receives Honorary Doctor of Music Degree
The Queen was conferred the Doctor of Music honoris causa by the Royal College of Music at Buckingham Palace. The presentation included a jewel and chain gifted by the college, with Sir Hugh Allen, Lord Palmer, and Charles Morley officiating. A note mentions the man who spanked Adolf Hitler remains alive in Austria. An English railway ordered cloth for its employees totaling 256 miles.
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Royal College of Music
Prince of Wales
Buckingham Palace
Hugh Allen
Lord Palmer
Charles Morley
Adolph Hitler
Austria
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