Canada faces national relief burden amid unemployment crisis
An editorial urges Canadians to share the tax load and support municipal relief efforts. It warns that provinces especially Ontario and Saskatchewan suffer from drought and crop failures, increasing strain on municipal budgets, while stressing citizens must work and contribute to welfare programs rather than attack government support.
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Silence Exhibition To Show Quiet “House Of Noise” In London
A June exhibition at the Science Museum South Kensington will display a silent house with silent lift locks and sound proof features. Organized by the Anti Noise League, with Lord Horder as president, the show aims to illustrate a noiseless future with silent vehicles and appliances.
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Immovable Limbs Recovered After Kruschen Salts
A woman bedridden since 1920 due to rheumatism reports drastic improvement after using Kruschen Salts. She states she can now eat unaided and dress herself, crediting the program with renewed mobility and life. The advertisement promotes the salts as effective solvents of uric acid and kidney stimulants helping expel loosened crystals.
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Long Distance Record Telephoned From Empress of Britain
Sir Julian Cahn, famed British cricket captain, set a world long distance record for telephone calls from the liner Empress of Britain. A 17,887 mile transmission linked the ship near Singapore to San Francisco and New York, then beam to England, despite atmospheric interference.
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Germany Led Air Strength Claim Spurs British Debate
The London Daily Mail claims Adolf Hitler told Sir John Simon that Germany’s air force is numerically stronger than Britain’s. Simon returned from Berlin with documents alleged to reveal Germany’s air armament strength, alarming the British cabinet. Ministers held informal meetings ahead of a potential showdown debate as Captain Eden returns from European capitals.
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Records of Jenny Lind Voice Found in Sweden
A Swedish newspaper appeals to readers to search attics trunks and boxes for Jenny Lind phonograph records believed to be hidden in memory of the famed singer. The records were made in Paris in 1887 on cylinder cylinders and later sent to Stockholm or Copenhagen after her death.
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Banks remove royal arms from Scottish notes
Error in Scottish notes design led to withdrawal from circulation after banks used royal arms without authority. Francis J. Grant investigated and found officials unaware of the regulation, prompting removal of royal emblems from Bank of Scotland, National Bank of Scotland, and British Linen Bank notes.
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Holland's Noord Zee Canal Locks Bigger Than Panama
A Dutch report notes the Noord Zee Canal locks surpass the Panama Canal in size, highlighting Dutch engineering prowess and the expanding scope of European waterway infrastructure.
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Irish Goat Forgets Aboard 1934 US Purchase
A garbled 1934 record notes the United States bought an animal from the Free State with a line about Cork to New York a goat and a Dutch land below sea level appears.
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Turtle Gift Ties Tonga to King George and Queen Salote
Queen Salote of Tonga arrives in London with her son en route to an English school. The piece recalls Captain Cook’s landing in the Friendly Islands in 1774 and his 160 year old turtle given as a peace gift to King Jubou of Tonga, later inherited by Salote.
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Boy Victim Victor Holmes Recovers From Eleven Accidents
Nine year old Victor Holmes of Tyndlebury Scotland has survived eleven accidents in nine years. The latest incident involved boiling water splashing on his leg as he recovers after previous drownings, road collisions, a dog bite, a carbide burn, a dislocated elbow and a cart wheel spokes entanglement.
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Maiden Voyage Ahead for Normandie Liner
The Normandie the new French ship will leave Saint Nazaire shipyards on April 20 bound for Le Havre then set sail to New York for its maiden voyage. The vessel aims to be the world’s largest liner surpassing the Queen Mary. Also a note on contentment: true happiness comes from not begrudging others what they have.
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