Loyalty to Hudson Bay Route Promised as Insurance Rates Fall
The Imperial Shipping Committee releases a 1937 report affirming reduced marine insurance rates for cargo via Churchill and noting a longer shipping season. It cites improved safety thanks to gyro compasses and patrol escorts, while warning against underwriter risk from a single loss and urging Prairie provinces to back Churchill shipments to grow traffic and lower future rates.
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Hudson Bay
Canadian West
Prairie Provinces
Imperial Shipping Commttee
Europe
Middle West
Churchill
St. Lawrence
London Board of Trade
Canada
West
Perfect Gasoline Tank for Aircraft Fire Safety
The Air Ministry completed a crash fireproof gasoline tank after 13 years of trials. Tests included incendiary bullets and deliberate drops at 50 miles an hour with no fires or spills. London luxury trades now employ about 58,000 people in millinery jewelry and clothing sectors.
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Air Ministry
Greater London
Harvard study notes sun under par and moon brighter
Harvard researchers led by Dr. William A Calder report the sun is seven tenths as bright as expected and the moon slightly brighter than previously believed. The finding stems from a new radiation measure of sun and moon and suggests the sun may be under par.
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Harvard University
William A. Calder
Harvard
Proper Lighting Gets Defective Eyes Warned by Optometry Expert
Chas. O. Bick of the College of Optometry of Canada writes in Health that indoor lighting in offices and homes harms vision and glasses cannot remedy abuse. He urges employers to improve visual conditions to boost efficiency and reduce energy waste. A Hungarian island story from Dunavecse shows a church purchase expanding into 19 acres, with former owners seeking payment for newly formed land. London Observer.
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Chas. O. Bick
College of Optometry of Canada
Health
The
Health League of Canada
Mr. Bick
Dunapentele
Dunavecse
Danube
London Observer
Two Chicago Doctors Claim Crime Recurrence Link
Doctors S. W. Brownstein and M. A. Levy report nine years of research suggesting that spinal fluid cell curve types can indicate a criminal's likelihood of reoffending. They examined extracts from nine habitual criminals and found a correlation with abnormal cell counts.
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Chicago
S. W. Brownstein
Board of Health
M. A. Levy
Cook County
Alice Stevens Recipes Balanced menus for home cooks
Readers learn to balance a home menu with six essential foodstuffs. The article lists liver casserole with potatoes and creamed carrots plus an apple crumb pudding, detailing layering, seasoning, and bake times. Readers may write Alice Stevens' Home Service in Penticton B C for free cooking advice.
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Alice Stevens
Home _ Service
Penticton
B.C
Ulster Home Office Bans Cyclists Two Abreast in Ireland
An Ulster Home Office order in Ireland prohibits riding more than two cyclists abreast under penalty of fines.
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Ulster Home Office
Ireland
Will Have Quiet Winter For Royal Daughters
The Queen plans a restrained autumn for her young daughters with limited public appearances. Balmoral will stay private in August, and Christmas may include a pantomime and fairy play. Dance and swimming lessons are planned, and both Princesses will study languages with the Duchess of Kent.
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Balmoral
London Daily Telegraph
Palace
Bath Club
Duchess of Kent
Prevention Of Cancer No 3 Medical Education
Dr John M Robb and the first Royal Commission on Cancer are praised for sparking Canada’s cancer clinics. The piece urges post graduate education, improved access to clinical instruction, and public education funded by the King’s Fund. It calls on wealthy Canadians to support cancer research and public awareness in a nation battling a deadly disease.
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John M. Robb
Ontario
Canada
King’s Fund
Canadian Medical Association
Cancer Committee
The
Health League
Readers urged to request full cancer article set
Editorial note invites readers to obtain the complete series about Dr McCullough's cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont.
Great Bear Lake Mine Pitchblende Find Report
Mine manager E J Walli relays President A LaBine of Eldorado Gold Mines statements describing a major pitchblende discovery underground near No 2 vein at the 590 horizon. Drifting 70 feet, the face remains in ore as exploration suggests downward projection toward No 1 vein, following earlier surface outcrops and rich samples found on the property.
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A. LaBine
Eldorado Gold Mines Limited
Great Bear Lake
E. J. Walli
Sub
Arctic
No. 2
Trout Sunday Sermon Sparks Parish Laughs
A Vermont village pastor who mocked fishing on Sunday receives a surprise apology from a parishioner the next day as he presents a string of trout caught on Sunday. The minister remarks the trout are not to blame, offering a wry moral. A science note explains how to estimate hot weather by cricket chirps or thermometer readings. Asia’s Confucian Taoist sect claims 350,600,000 believers, the world’s largest religious following.
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Vermont
Asia
Rise of the televisor name and its free use
The term televisor coined by J L Baird in 1925 for television apparatus will be freely usable henceforth as a trade mark is abandoned by Baird Television Ltd. The note traces earlier coinages telegraph by Chappe in 1792 and telephone by Sudre in 1828, with later uses and Bell’s adoption in 1876.
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J. L. Baird
United States
Baird Television, Ltd
Chappe
France
Sudre
Philipp Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
End of Drouth Ends Canadian Prairie Crop Ruin Forecast
Edmonton agronomist Dr. Frederick James Alway predicts a wet, productive crop year ahead as drought cycles fade. He notes the current drought ravages are ending and Saskatchewan has shown favorable signs, with high expectations for next year’s harvest. A humorous exchange about a dentist and a patient adds a local flavor to the wit.
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Canadian
Prairies
Frederick James Alway
Edmonton
Canada
United States
Saskatchewan
Dr. Alway
Division of Soils
University of Minnesota
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