Submarine Canyons Found Deep and Young in Oceans
Oceanographic vessel Atlantis returned with evidence of new world-building forces shaping submarine valleys. Echo sounding showed deep, uniform V shaped canyons up to 10 000 feet deep on multiple coasts, suggesting rapid, global activity in recent geological times rather than slow river erosion.
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Allastis
Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole
Main
Grand Canyon
Henry C. Stetson
Harvard
Woods Hole Scientific Journal
North America
Mexico
Japan
South America
Africa
Portugal
France
British Isles
India
Korea
Zanzibar
Hawaiian Islands
Georges Banks
Stetson
Atlantis
Canadian National Parks See Visitors Rise Across Regions
A Mines and Resources report shows national parks gaining popularity through Sept 30. Alberta parks report large gains with Elk Island at 59 553 visitors up 39 percent Banff 132 708 up 12 percent Jasper 4 592 up 35 percent Waterton Lakes 59 020 up slightly. Buffalo down 7 478. Riding Mountain Manitoba 109 702 up 16 percent Prince Albert Saskatchewan 27 378 up 13 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Mines and Resources
Alberta
Elk Island National Park
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Waterton Lakes National Park
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
Buffalo National Park
Canadas Prairie
Riding Mountain National Park
Manitoba
Prince Albert National Park
Saskatchewan
Women and the Home as a Curse and a Free Port
Mrs. Pearl Buck argues that the home is a woman’s curse and contrasts it with breadwinning. The text also defines a free port as an area outside customs barriers for storage and transshipment, and notes how sub zero air freezes moisture into a faint singing. Korean children learn alphabet by drawing symbols in the sand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Buck
American Woman's Club
New York
Oll
London sandwich-board queen grows business beyond belief
Miss Jenny Marchant built a sandwich-board operation in London from six boards and three clients to two hundred clients, matching boards and uniforms and more than a hundred male staff. She pays fair wages, provides meals and boots, and sees many men move on to better jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Marchant
London
Missus
London Sunday Dispatch
Germany launches giant whaling ship with 400 crew
Twenty types of plated dinosaurs are known to have inhabited the earth in prehistoric times. Germany has launched the biggest whaling vessel in the world, and it will carry a crew of 400.
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Germany
Speed record dreams: Eyston eyes 350 mph pursuit
The Age Of Speed notes Captain George Eyston has reached 309 miles per hour on Utah salt flats and aims for 350 mph. The piece reflects on faster modern living versus slower past travel, and questions whether speed brings happiness.
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George Eyston
Salt
Utah
Capt. Eyston
England
Kingston
Shaw Declines Rector Bid as Students Pick Temples
George Bernard Shaw faced a challenge from St Andrews University students who chose him as candidate for rector. He replied he was not worthy for the post, then learned the selection would be between him and Shirley Temple, prompting further reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bernard Shaw
St. Andrew's University
Scotland
Shaw
Mr. Shaw
Shirley Temple
King George V Memorial Statue Planned in London
A 10 foot high memorial statue to King George V will be erected opposite the Victoria Tower at the Houses of Parliament. The site costs 120000 pounds and the design is by Sir William R. Dick. Costs are funded from the 600000 pound memorial fund.
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George V
London
Victoria Tower
Houses of Parliament
Sir William R. Dick
R.A
Rag Dolls Pattern 5971 For Fair or Gift
Embroidered feature dolls about 13 inches high with simple clothes. Pattern 5971 includes doll and clothes patterns and instructions. Send 29 cents in stamps or coins to Household Arts Winnipeg Union 115 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Ahair
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Mansion House Tales and a Geese Marking Story
The article notes a Snow Goose with a steel wire neck marker shot at Beaver Lake Alberta and discusses bird banding by Canada and the United States. It also recounts historic data on London's Mansion House and Lord Mayor duties, housing, and notable officeholders including Sir Richard Whittington and Sir John Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Lake
Alberta
National Parks Bureau
United States
Canada
Migratory Bird Division
Dominion
North American
Biological Survey
Washington, D.C
Ottawa
Richard Whittington
London
Henry V
Hart Street
Henry
Lady Knill
Dick Whittington
Beatrice Bassett Leads Prize Horses at National Show
Beatrice Bassett, the only woman groom at the National Horse Show in New York, handles four prize horses for Lady Wright of England with expert bedding feeding brushing and exercise. She notes it is common for women to work with horses in England and says grooming sharpens riders. The 20s-year-old in jodhpurs boots and beret proves herself among male handlers in Madison Square Garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Bassett
New York
Lady Wright
England
Madison Square Garden
First white child born on ice bound Victoria island Arctic
The first white boy born on Victoria Island in the Arctic is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Milne from Cambridge Bay 300 miles northwest of Coppermine NWT The birth news reached the island by private wireless to June Pasley six in Edmonton with her mother The Milnes arrive as Cambridge Bay's population rises to eight
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Victoria Island
Arctic Ocean
Frank Milne
Cambridge Bay
Coppermine
N.W.T
June Pasley
Edmonton
Ernest Pasley
Milnes
Retired Chief Engineer Whitemell Ends 41 Year Sea Career
After 41 years at sea and 480 Atlantic crossings covering over 1.5 million miles Thomas P White Whitemell chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific liner Montclare retires on arrival back in Southampton from a Mediterranean cruise. Stevenson’s Treasure Island was read in chapters to his stepson during a rainy vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas P. Whitemell
Montclare
Southampton
Stevenson
United States Government Printing Office Hosts Largest Plant
The Government Printing Office in Washington operates the largest book and job printing plant in the world, reflecting the scale of federal publishing capabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
United States
Government Printing Office
Washington
Baby shows in Bundi India long kept from world
An odd report describes baby shows in Bundi India where children once kept apart are now showcased. It notes the sun a second light at midnight during the summer solstice is seen in the northern United States.
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Bundi
India
United States
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Earth
Vancouver
London New Statesman and Nation
Far East
Tench
Indo
China
Quter Mongolia
Norkwoe
Manchukuo
Shang
Formosa
Manchuria
Jehol
Kingdom of
Woman
Sandwich Board
King George V. Memorial
Alice Brooks
Lord Mayor of
City of London
Gordon
Mansion House
Manson
Central Criminal Court
Tower
Far North
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