World happenings briefly told in early 1919 style notes
A collage of brief reports from Turner Valley pressure drops to Dams for release of Mabatms Grand to foreign-grown potatoes in Britain. Richard Threlfall, chemist and engineer, dies in Edgbaston. The Prince of Wales foresees gradual return to better times. Eva Mitchell rescues a baby at Thorndon Park. Mrs Stansall flies with Sir Alan Cobham and requests loop the loop. China orders Marconi wireless gear for Shanghai beam transmission. A Chicago attorney, Bl. August, is fined for speeding. Britons may soon know English kings by a pocket knife panel. Britain Egypt telephone link opened by Baldwin and Sidky Pasha.
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Richard Threlfall
Edgbaston
England
Prince of Wales
Shanghai
Chicago
Great Britain
Egypt
Baldwin
House of Commons
Sidky Pasha
Erte
Memory feats and courtroom chatter in old time prose
A fragmented excerpt highlights memory experts who can recall long sequences like train car numbers and entire texts. It mentions Mme Bessy Neumann memorizing the Old Testament and studying Shakespeare, plus stray quotes from a courtroom scene about justice and wedding gifts.
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Mme
Bessy Neumann
Defensive Overbidding in Contract Bridge Tactics
The article analyzes defense through defense overbidding in rubber bridge. It explains how vulnerability affects overcalls, the need to estimate penalties and losing tricks, and suggests defense should hinge on precise card valuation and predicting opponent and partner holdings to save games, first games, or rubber game outcomes.
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Fiy
Memorial planned for Danes and Norse at Churchill
Memorial cairn planned at Churchill to honor Captain Jens Munck and 66 adventurers who founded Winterhaven on Hudson Bay in 1619. Rev. B. M. Hefrenning announced the plan in Winnipeg. Munck was sent by King Christian IV. Chaplain Rasmus Jensen Aarhus died in 1620 with 60 others, leaving Munck and two survivors.
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Churchill
Jens Munck
Winterhaven
Hudson Bay
Winnipeg
B. M. Hefrenning
Pine Creek
Minn
Munck
Christan
Denmark
Norway
Rasmus Jensen Aarhus
America
Suitaove Day Dress Pattern No 690 Sizes 36 48
Description of a day dress pattern with built up waistline and draped neck. Features include slenderizing skirt with bias hip teaming, color options in crepe silk print and striped voile, prints and tub lin fabrics. Size 36 to 48 priced 25 cents in stamps or coin.
Sunday School Lesson on the First Commandments
Sunday School lesson outlines the first four commandments from Exodus and Deuteronomy. It emphasizes worship of God, prohibition of graven images, the danger of idolatry, and respect for the Sabbath as a day of rest for body mind and spirit.
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God
Sinai
Ruskin
Jehovah
Parks Cadman
Jesus
Silent monks and a quirky bait shop tale
In the Marawald monastery in the Eifel Germany the strictest Catholic penitent order maintains total silence from abbot to lay brother. They live simply, eat plainly, wear garb changed only every eight days and sleep on plain boards in a single room. Nearby in Pontiac Michigan fishermen can buy worms at Ye Olde Worm Shoppe for six dozen at 25 cents.
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Marawald
Eifel
Germany
Michigan
Pontiac
Oakland County
Family Blood Ties and China Care Warnings
A dialogue notes family blood and transfusion costs while home economics advisers warn that washing fine china with very hot water raises the chance of chipping. The exchanges mix medical and domestic guidance in a brief, reflective column.
Canada Exports Less Wool Reflects Shifting Trade
Major Douglas Hallam of the Canadian Woolen and Knit Goods Manufacturers Association reports that Canada bought far more wool domestically than it exported last year. The National Research Foundation notes market routes include abattoirs, direct sales from farmers, and cooperative dealers. About five million pounds of wool clip were used in home industries.
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Canaan
Douglas Hallam
Canadian Woolenland Knit Goods Manufacturers Association
Toronto
Canada
Naonal Research Foundation
Burglar Alarm Demonstration Foils Jewel Thief In England
A new anti theft device shown to jewellers at Southend on Sea halted a brazen thief. A jeweller posed as a robber, a large pass note was forged, a siren blared, gas and smoke bombs deployed, and a steel panel slid across the window to trap the raider and safeguard the jewels.
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Southend-On-Sea
Brain Reading Pace Versus Eye Movement Insight
Brain controls reading speed more than eye action. Reading faster than usual relies on cognitive processing, not eye steadiness, as eyes move in jerks and pauses to extract meaning. A Melbourne to Dover road trip covered 12,000 miles in six months, while Earth’s annual orbit spans 584,600,000 miles and the globe travels about 1,601,600 miles daily.
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Turner Valley
Eid
Britain
Charles
Button
By Hamlin B. Hatch, Cavendia
Coarchit
Gern Monastery
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Gulliver
Siren
Melbourne
Australia
Dover
Stockholm
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