World Happenings Briefly Told in Quick Recap
The report notes naval forces at Singapore with Eagle and 18 ships boosting defenses, a Timmins man with 156 stitches after a windshield crash, Dr Nicholas Murray Butler granting honorary degrees to Earl Baldwin and four other European figures, capital inflows into Canada seen as unusual, June relief aid dropping, Iraq to pay 20000 pounds to a widow of a Mogul incident, rural carriers to get metal markers with royal crown, Germany urging replacement of iron street signs with wooden ones to aid scrap metal drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Earl Baldwin
Bewdley
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Labor Department
Iraq
George Monck-Mason
Mogul
Norman McLarty
Ottawa
Germany
Eskimos Inspect Vice Regal Train At Churchill
Eskimo party toured the viceregal train as Lord and Lady Tweedamuir departed Churchill after a port visit. Canadian National car service workers packed ice into air conditioning bunkers while the ice was stored and stamped as mysteries by the visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Lord
Lady Tweedamuir
Canadian National Car Service
Not A General Failure in Wheat Crops in the West
The Lethbridge Herald notes there will be no 6,000,000 bushel wheat crop shortfall in the West. A 300,000,000 bushels figure is mentioned as sufficient to manage. Grain is present across regions, with seed feed and grain in sight. Despite pessimism over lower yields, overall conditions are better than in past years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge Herald
Impressive British Parliament Actions Since Munich
Ottawa Journal notes the nine month session after which Britain prorogued detailing 3500 million pounds for rearmament. It cites military pledges to Poland Romania Greece and Turkey, conscription of 200000 annually, doubling the territorial army to 340000, a target of 1000000 under arms this fall, 18 divisions as expeditionary nucleus, a new Ministry of Supply for 800 million annually, and asserts the action answers Munich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Poland
Romania
Greece
Turkey
Ministry of Supply
Munich
Chamberlain
Ottawa Journal
Women farmers make up one in twenty in Britain at Windsor show
England’s women farmers account for one in twenty of Great Britain’s farming body and most are successful according to figures presented at the Royal Agricultural Societies centenary show in Windsor. Among 15,000 profitable farms is Enid Southey, a former London actress who five years ago took over a 500 acre Lincolnshire weed grown farm, mechanized it and now breeds Belted Galloways and hunters while growing pedigree wheat and barley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Royal Agricultural Societies
Windsor
Enid Southey
London
Lincolnshire
Old West song night and home on the range singalong
A feature program invites cowboys to start a lively evening with Home on the Range and cowboy ballads. It also promotes booklets offered at 15e each including Hand-Made Gift Novelties 10, The Meaning of Dreams 129, and Build Your Own College Background 180.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ieee Eas Sae
Slimming shirtwaist pattern 4185 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams Pattern 4185 offers a shirtwaist with a gored front skirt and front yoke details. Available in sizes 34 to 48, requires 3 yards 39 inch fabric and 1/2 yard contrast. order by sending 20 cents to the Winnipeg pattern department with size name address and pattern number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne ‘Adams
Anne Adams
Ann Adams
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot
Selected Recipes for Lemon Custard and Ham Omelet
Fragments describe lemon custard with lemon rind and juice, sugar, corn starch, milk, corn syrup, eggs, and lemony bake. Also a ham mushroom omelet with crackers milk eggs onion tomatoes parsley and sauce, baked slowly and served with tomato onion sauce. Servings noted as six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson's
Canada
Crown Brand
Mazda
Christie's
Deserted land shipwrecked party rescued by liner
A shipwrecked group spent months on a barren shore before a large liner entered the bay. A small boat carried ashore its officer in charge who tossed a bundle of newspapers, saying the captain sent them, unsure if rescue was desired after reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arly
Uzziah’s Pride Falls in Temple Reckoning
A Sunday lesson reviews Uzziah king of Judah who prospered while faithful under Zechariah but erred by presumptuously burning incense in the temple. His anger at reproof leads to leprosy, isolation, and his son Jotham ruling as regent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uraam
Uzziah
Amaziah
Judah
Jerusalem
Jehovah
Zechariah
Azariah
Bennett
Uzgan
Jotham
Record Strength Canadian Legion Grows Powerful Across Canada
Brigadier W. W. Foster of Vancouver told delegates at the British Columbia Command’s 13th annual Kamloops convention that the Canadian Legion is larger and stronger than before. He cited unity and progress, noted a national veterans survey for wartime service, and stressed the need to act if liberty is threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Legion
W. W. Foster
Vancouver
Dominion
British Columbia Command
Kamloops
B.C
Foster
Canada
Ntional
Mackenzie King
Legion
Were Still Nice An Irishman On the Ship's Rail
A passenger remarks gulls above the harbor and calls them pigeons. An Irishman corrects him, saying gulls or boys they are a nice flock of pigeons.
Indian woman wins best dressed prize at Merritt stampede
A 102 year old Indian woman named Tabby Fish won first prize as best dressed in Merritt stampede parade in British Columbia. She chose cash over a 50 foot length of arden hose prize. Her farm relies on wells and irrigation ditches for water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merritt
Toronto researchers protected insulin patent to safeguard public
A Toronto official discusses why the University of Toronto secured a basic patent on insulin in 1922 to prevent patent pirates and ensure controlled use, and notes a later patent for a silicosis reducing machine to protect miners globally. The remarks came at an American Medical Association patents conference in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Dr. Best
Toronto
American’ Medical Association
Nicago
F. Lorne Hutchison
Connaught Laboratories
University of Toronto
Banting
Best
University
Ontario Mining Association
Boy in Kirkland Gathers World Wood Samples
Ten year old Roland Williams of Kirkland Ohio collects wood from around the world and mounts samples in a scrapbook. His album features 50 species of native wood and over 600 kinds of foreign woods including lancewood from Australia and boa wood from Hawaii among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkland
Ohio
Roland Williams
Australia
Dutch Guiana
Hawaii
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Carrier Eagle
Singapore
Wiliam McKay
Timmins
England
Home Service
Shirty
Anne Adame
Acuust
Ealeth
Cash
PUBL
Cawapal
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