World Happenings Briefly Told
Fatal accidents in Ontario reached 201 for the first six months of 1935, the highest since 1981. Hugh Walpole arrived in New York en route to Hollywood to adapt Oliver Twist. Shantung reports 5,000,000 homeless due to Yellow River floods. Royal Air Force pilots Nimmo and Marbut die in a crash after Nimmo refuses a field landing to avoid children. RAF orders a fast light bomber for 275 mph. U.S. Marshal Murphy demonstrates prison bars releasing water or gas via hollow pipes. Italian lemon shortages hit Liverpool fruit market as soldiers are needed in Ethiopia. France’s first stratosphere plane wrecks in a test flight, pilot Cogno killed.
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Ontario
Hugh Walpole
New York
France
Hollywood
Shantung
Royal Air Force
R. L. Nimmo
8. J. Marbut
Nimmo
London Daily Telegraph
U.S
John J. Murphy
Ethiopia
Liverpool
Liverpool Fruit Exchange
M. Cogno
Bonnierer
Indian advances before Columbus revealed by explorer Mason
American explorer Gregory Mason argues that Central American civilizations faced anesthetics, mathematics, and astronomy long before Europeans. He cites Toltec pyramids larger than Egypt, Peruvian tapestries finer than Europe, and Maya zero invented 600 years earlier, with advanced calendars surpassing Columbus era tools.
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Central America
Gregory Mason
Mr. Mason
Egypt
Europe
Yucetan
Cortz
Columbus
Montreal Boys Fly Home Built Plane From Garage
Three young Montrealers Rodolphe Page pilot Emile Pelletier and Bill Ritchie completed a four hour flight in a home built aeroplane later government inspected and licensed Their craft used wing tanks holding 30 gallons of gasoline and aimed to prove low cost aircraft manufacture.
Aviator Encounters Hoppers High Over Montana
Air mail pilot R. C. Bain, arriving in Winnipeg from the south, reports a flock of grasshoppers at 9,500 feet over Montana. A novelist claims to have coined a new word while shaving, joking that his razor blades share the habit.
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Air Mail
R. C. Bain
Winnipeg
South
Mont
Explorer Dr Camsell to lead 10000 mile Arctic survey
Deputy Minister of Mines sets out from Ottawa for a 10000 mile expedition to map unknown valleys along the Yukon Northwest Territories boundary. The team, flying with pilot C H Dickins and including A D McLean and W H Sutherland, will search for tropical valleys said to exist in a 25000 square mile blind area.
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Ottawa
Canada
Yukon- Northwest Territory
Klondike
Cameell
N. J. Henry
Philadelphia
Camsell
C. H. “Punch” Dickins
A. D. McLean
Airways
Department of National Defence
W. H. Sutherland
Addis Ababa Named City of Trees and Gardens
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, newly elected director of the New York botanical garden, says Addis Ababa is a city of trees and gardens and a fine spot for flower growing despite common mispronunciations. The U.S. Geographic Board notes the pronunciation as Adddis Abwawa with the first syllable stressed.
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Addis ‘Ababa
Ethiopia
Marshall A. Howe
New York Botanical Garden
United States Geographic Board
Adddis Abwawa
Seed potatoes for Cuba market reliance and import need
Canada supplies 90 percent of Cuba's seed potato market. Cuban potatoes replanted in Cuban soil do not reproduce saleable product, so all seed is imported. Two tropa of potatoes are harvested in that country every year.
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Canada
Cuba
Venom Serum Work By Staten Island Zoo Team
A team led by Carl Stryker at the Staten Island Zoo undertook venom extraction from an eleven foot cobra. Four men used detailed safety measures including twelve peilarlook restraints to obtain about 140 cubic centimetres for Dr Samuel Peck at Mount Sinai Hospital. The venom will be refined into a serum after three weeks, with tests needed to determine therapeutic value for treating severe pain and illnesses.
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Reo
Saugh
Bave Teen
Samuel At. Peck
State of Mount Sinai
Hampi
Fifty Avenue
Hinet
New York
Peck
Deeck
Sunday School Lesson on Martha and Mary in Bethany
Readings frame Jesus as guest in Martha and Marys home. Martha frets over hospitality while Jesus commends Mary for choosing the good part. He speaks of resurrection and declares I am the resurrection and the life addressing Martha's faith and understanding.
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Martha
Jesus
Mary
Bethany
Lazarus
Christ
God
Resented Inspector’s Remark Critic of Child’s Essay Sparks Uproar
In London the House of Commons erupted as cries of shame followed reports that a Manchester school inspector rebuked 12 year old Maud Mason for praising England as the finest country in the world. The inspector allegedly admonished Maud’s teacher for teaching “old-fashioned Imperialism” in front of the class.
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London
House of Commons
Manchester
England
Maud Mason
George
Maud
Whales Sleep Under Ice After Arctic Breath Hold
In the Arctic region researchers report whales briefly rising for air, then sleeping under ice for hours. They reportedly resume breathing after about twelve minutes, enabling extended rest beneath the frozen sea.
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Arctic
Embroidery Pattern Offer for Bowled Flowers Design 5153
Prepared for you today the bloom of poppies and larkspur in an embroidery bowl pattern 5153. Crosses are eight to the inch and no chart is needed, enabling quick progress on a pillow top picture or tray inset. Includes transfer pattern requirements color key and color suggestions with tables and markings, mailed for 20 cents from the Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 115 McDermot Ave Winnipeg.
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McDarmot Ave
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Wall Street Guards Guarding Vaults In Modern War Setup
New York City has built a standing force of 5000 super-efficient guards to protect Wall Street vaults. They are armed with ix-shooters machine guns shotguns rifles tear-gas bombs and other weapons, with underground bivouacs that include restaurants and sleeping quarters. About 14 000 people hold pistol permits in Wall Street yet vault protection also relies on flood systems and poison gas defenses. A steam card system may deter intruders and a culinary staff of 700 accompanies meals for the Queen Mary crossings with up to 40000 meals served per crossing.
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New York City
Wall Street
Little Journeys In Science: Salt and Neutralization
Gordon H. Guest explains neutralization where acids react with bases to form salts and water. He discusses common salt, rock salt, sea salts, and the vast Stassfurt deposits yielding potassium salts, plus Chile saltpetre and sodium nitrate as major natural resources with industrial uses.
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Gordon H. Guest
M.A
Stassfurt
Germany
Chile
South America
Heaviest pair of elephant tusks acquired by London museum
The National History Museum trustees announce the London acquisition of the world’s heaviest elephant tusks from an East Africa elephant killed in the Kilimanjaro district. One tusk dates to 1901 with the other a later purchase. Weights before drying were about 236 and 226 pounds, reduced by about 10 pounds after drying. The tusks exceed ten feet in length and surpass the next heaviest tusk at 198 pounds.
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London
National History Museum
Kilimanjaro
East Africa
Strange Religious Sect in Sweden Awaits Flying Ark
Police scrutinize a Sweden based sect whose members await an ark of gold and silver to transport them to the promised land. Leader A Korpela has set arrival dates for the flying ark multiple times. Eight sect members have been committed to asylums and meetings are suspended during investigations.
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Abers
Sweden
Promised Land
A. Korpela
Maritime egg exports rise to Bermuda and West Indies
The export trade of Canadian eggs from Maritime ports to Bermuda and the West Indies has increased in recent weeks and is having a favorable influence on trade flows.
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Bermuda
West Indies
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Addis Ababa
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