World Happenings Briefly Told
A digest of global notes reports Irish rail receipts for two months 1300 higher than last year. The Irish Free State aims to establish a large cotton industry to spur other industrial ventures in 183. A veteran of 1885 rebellion and Royal Northwest Mounted Police officer Charles ROW Stuart died in Ottawa at age 69. Over 69,000 silk workers in Shanghai are unemployed as 65 factories close due to weak foreign markets. Aviatrix Mollison, fined for reckless driving, declines to discuss the incident in Fort Lauderdale. Sheriff Clark reports speeders hitting 70 mph. Amy Jo Diamond of Trail BC receives the McCharles award for metallurgy and chemistry research at the University of Toronto valued at 1.09 and gold medal. The Prince of Wales is expected to compete in Army golf at St Andrews end of April and may represent his Guards regiment. The Fight International and Intercolonial Exposition, North Africa’s key event, opens in Tripoli for a month starting March 11 with many local and foreign exhibits. Canadian penitentiary conditions have improved slowly, per the federal social service committee.
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Insh Free State
Old Royal Northwest
Mount Police
Charles Row Stuart
Ottawa
Shangha
Bate
RW. Diamond
Trail
McCharles
University of Toronto
Princ of Wales
St. Andrews
Royal
North Africa
Tripoli
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Can
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Ada
Drums of Gordon Highlanders Return from Berlin Visit
Lan Hamilton travelled to Berlin to receive the drums of the Gordon Highlanders and to seek a gesture for an elderly veteran. The 2nd Battalion landed at Ostend in autumn 1914 and marched to Ypres, losing Ostend. The Germans later took the drums to a war museum. Sir Ian pressed officials in Berlin for action, and was invited to view the drums. Russia reportedly ships wares to Sow planes. Port Arthur cites two conservative years without a street fatality.
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Lan Hamilton
Berlin
Pau von Hindenburg
Gordon Highlanders
Jon Highlanders
Ostend
Ypres
Ian
Salt the Mighty Mineral in History and Industry
A compact overview traces salt from primitive value to wide use in food, chemistry, and industry. It notes salt taxes in India, salt routes like Via Salaria, and salt rations for Roman soldiers. Canada’s Windsor salt mine and deposits in Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, Louisiana are highlighted, along with European and Chinese salt works and uses from bleaching to preserving foods.
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Italy
India
Africa
Canada
Windsor
Ontario
Michigan
Kansas
Ohio
Louisiana
Simpson
Sask
Europe
Prumsig
China
Fahour Parte
Ansles
Golden Rule in Sunday School Lesson
A Sunday school lesson expounds Matthew 7:12 the Golden Rule, stressing do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It cites Luther Tolstoy Newton and Newton again, notes universal, not merely personal, application for nations and individuals, and ends with classroom humor on debtors and creditors.
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Jesus
Martin Luther
Tolstoy
Joseph
Fort Newton
Thur
iCharles E. Jeffers
Marvels of the Human Eye in Cataract Facts
F M Crowe Calgary optometrist explains cataracts as loss of lens transparency, progression patterns, and lack of cure by medicine. Surgery by a skilled operator remains the only remedy when the lens is ripe, with glasses afterward restoring vision.
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F. M. Crowe
Optometrist-Optician
Calgary
Bright
Balloon Pawnshop Misunderstanding By Paris Bank
A Paris state pawnshop that lends on nearly everything faced a curious case when a man tried to pawn a balloon and caused a leak in the fabric. Records show the shop already loaned on a balloon years earlier, with items in its storerooms including bicycles, gold teeth, toys, sewing machines, and furniture.
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Paris
Wallot
Sincepans
Seed record notes McKinney’s citron harvest and weight
John E McKinney of Mena Arkansas raised a citron vine yielding 48 citrons. The crop produced over a quarter of a ton totaling 362 pounds. Locally the fruit is called pe metons in that region.
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John E McKinney
Mena
Arkansas
European scientists estimate 15000 bees per hive
European researchers determine the average hive houses about fifteen thousand bees. The study highlights colony size as a factor in honey production and ecosystem impact.
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Ove Mollison
Aviatrix
Fort Lauderdale
W. R. Clark
Amy Jo
Ketan
Old British Regiment
Russia
Port Arthur
Abe
Lydia E. Pinkh
Feerybody
Vogue
Turret
Turret Fine Cut
Sar
Gord
Matthew
Aman Joney
Aman
Essary
Taut
Buckley
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