World Happenings Briefly Told
June fatalities in Manitoba tram incidents drop from nine to five compared with last year. Jamaica Legislature members rejected government plan to link audit departments. Fire Chief Munroe cites a pyromaniac behind 69 fires in Victoria over four months. Damages reach 23000 dollars. Fort Hope renounces claim to Prettiest town in Canada, preferring to be the town where radium is refined. Helen Keller named Blood Sister of the Stoney Indian tribe at Banff ceremony. Ottawa says Yukon airmail doubled soon, weekly to semi weekly. La Martiniere prison ship sold to navy for use as floating dock. Commonwealth government to establish Australian legation in Washington if US sends a minister. Sir Lancelot Oliver to Belgium and Luxembourg ambassador, succeeding Sir Robert Clive. Simpson desert crossed by a fan expedition headed by Dr H Madigan and six white aides over 400 miles in a month.
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Manitoba
Jamaica
Great Britain
Alex Munroe
Victoria
Fort Hope
Canada
Helen Keller
New York
Alberta
Banff
Ottawa
Yukon
la Martiniere
Guiana
Navy Ministry
Commonwealth
Washington
United States
Lancelot Oliphant
Belgium
Luxembourg
Robert Clive
Robert
Simpson Desert
Austral
H. Madigan
Adeaide
Canadian Banker Turned Painter Joins London Art Scene
Llewellyn Petley Jones left a Edmonton banking job to study art and earned praise in a London exhibition opened by Rt Hon. R. B. Bennett. Critics dubbed him the Canadian Cezanne as eighty works shown in June drew attention from Royal academies and societies. Some paintings travel to Ottawa’s National Gallery while Bermuda meteor folklore adds a quirky note.
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Llewellyn Petley Jones
Edmonton
London
Mr. Jones
The
Daily Telegraph
Paul Cezanne
Cezanne
Jones
Rt Hon
R. B. Ben ‘Pett
Paris
A. H. Jones
17Th Avenue
Bank of Nova Scotia
England
Royal Academy of London
Seba Beach
British Isles
France
Royal Society of British Artists
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Societeionale de Beaux Arts
Limehouse
Wenonah
Richmond
Seine
National Gallery
Ottawa
North Manitoba highway opens to The Pas and beyond
The first highway north of 53 opens from Brandon to Dauphin and The Pas, extending No 10 through Riding Mountain to Swan River. The historic route follows a century of travel from Hudsons Bay Co. trading post days, with plans to reach Flin Flon and a potential through route from the US border via Brandon.
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Manitoba
Brandon
Riding Mountain National Park
Dauphin
Swan River
Pas
Hudson's Bay Co
Flin Flon
United States
North Country
Winnipeg
Western Canada
Modern small turkeys showcased at world poultry congress
At the Seventh World's Poultry Congress in Cleveland Ohio a US Government exhibit featured two small type white turkeys a young tom and a young hen. The display highlighted a modernized turkey that fits in standard ovens and ice boxes. Market demand favors smaller birds often commanding a premium of one to five cents per pound over larger turkeys.
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Cleveland
Ohio
How To Be A Good Swimmer Booklets Offer Guidance
Summer swimming tips show how to ease into diving and basic strokes. An illustrated Home Service feature from Winnipeg offers a 32 page booklet with diagrams for crawl, back stroke, side stroke, trudgen, and diving, plus safety tips and start instructions.
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Jare
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave
A Pert Young Princess Frock Pattern 4175 Ad
Anne Adams offers pattern 4175 for junior and misses sizes with a bias front and back panels for fullness. The dress features a yoke, long center panel, and optional wide slashed sleeves, with lavish ruffle trim for dressier versions. Reg price and fabric yardage listed. order form directs readers to Winnipeg pattern department.
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Anne Adams
Anne ‘Adams
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave
British Shipyards Busy as Orders Flow Abroad
The Brockville Recorder and Times says British yards are handling 40 vessels for foreign buyers including destroyers submarines minelayers cargo ships and tankers. Clyde and Scottish yards build for Continental owners Norway France Greece and others while England prospers with nine foreign orders in the northeast and several more for Brazil Turkey Greece France and Persia. The industry, despite difficulties, is reviving on the strength of quality output.
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John Bull
Brockville Recorder
Clyde
Turkey
Greece
Iraq
Scotland
France
England
Wessels
Norway
Brazil
Sweden
Persia
Elijah and the Mount Carmel Challenge in 1 Kings 18
Sunday school text recounts Elijah’s confrontation with Ahab and Baal priests on Mount Carmel after a drought. Elijah challenges the four hundred fifty prophets, calls on Jehovah, and God answers with fire, proving the Lord’s supremacy over Baal. The lesson cites 1 Kings 18 and related verses.
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Ahab
Samaria
Obadiah
Elijah
Israel
Jezebel
Mount Carmel
Baal
Asherah
Indians Receive 16 Tons Of Supplies By Air And Canoe
Indian affairs officials report spring and early summer shipments exceed 16 tons of medical and surgical goods. From Yukon to Labrador about 18000 Indians are served by the Dominion government with hospitals at Trealacrosse Moose Factory and Fort Albany, while most other areas rely on missionaries RCMP traders and government nurses.
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Canada
Northland
Indian Affairs
Department of Mines and Resources
Yukon
Labrador
Tre A la Crosse
Mackenzie River
Moose Factory
Fort Albany
James Bay
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Selected recipes for savory meat loaves and garnishes
Soak gelatine in cold water five minutes. Boil stock with onion, pour over gelatine, then stir in crumbled crackers Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice. Cool add meat and chill in mould. Slice and serve with elaborate lettuce cup garnishes and minted wafers. Makes six portions. Preparation about nineteen minutes.
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Christie's
Unclear Island Dressed Salad With Creamy Finish
A fragmented recipe lists 1 cup simy atayounesse and 2 tablespoons Chili Sauce plus catsup and chopped pim ento with hard cooked eggs and chopped Kherkins or olives. Mix all but cream, chill then fold in whipped cream before serving. A note mentions an electric kettle auto shutoff when water is low.
Teach Children Save Lives in Artificial Respiration Method
A Health League of Canada piece by Wills Maclachlan explains the Schafer method of artificial respiration as simple and life saving. It urges senior pupils and public utilities employees to learn and practice it monthly, detailing steps from removing hazards to transporting the patient lying down for bed or hospital care. The article stresses warmth, quiet, and prompt, continuous respiration until breathing returns.
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Health
The
Health League of Canada
Wills Maclachlan
Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission
Schafer
Co operates Premier Bracken Urges Farmers to Work Together
Premier Bracken of Manitoba addressed about 400 farmers at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Charlottetown urging cooperation with researchers to solve farm problems. He said agriculturists across the Dominion could live without disturbing neighbors and warned Western dairying could pit them against the East. Senator Cairine Wilson spoke on Women’s Institutes work in Canada. John Moynan urged greater use of illustration stations.
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Premier Bracken
Manitoba
Dominion Experimental Farm
Charlottetown
Bracken
Dominion
Western Canada
Cairine Wilson
Ottawa
Women’s Institutes
Canada
John Moynan
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Road
Ton Man
Bermuda
Home Service
Eluah
Usand Island
Dresse
McCullough
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