World Happenings Briefly Told From Canada and Abroad
A Canadian aviation league weighs inviting Sir Samuel Hoare of Britain to lecture. Canada’s exports last year totalled $10,501,615 in asbestos products, up from the prior year. Dr D L Bailey resigns to join Toronto University’s botany department. Canada exported $53,145 worth of bacon and hams in December 1977, down about $40,000 from the prior month. The UK remained Canada’s top customer at $790,817. Admiral Sir John de Robeck, 1915 Dardanelles commander, died in London. Sixteen Esquimalt sailors arrive in Liverpool for six months’ training in gunnery and torpedo work to qualify for senior Canadian navy ratings. President Coolidge urged by women’s groups to push talks on US entry into the world court. Lady Roblin, wife of former Manitoba premier, dies in Winnipeg after years of poor health. she was a Prince Edward County native.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D.L. Bailye
Dominion
Department of Botany
Toronto University
Canada
United Kingdom
John Michael de Robeck
Esquimalt
Vancouver Island
Liverpool
Port Sunlight
Coolidge
United States
Lady Roblin
Sir Rodmond Roblin
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Prince Edward County
Ontario
Silk grafts offer substitute for human tendons in Munich study
A Munich medical weekly reports Prof Fritzange of the University of Munich has developed silk grafts to support and replace tendons. In a Lange method trial at a Munich orthopedic clinic, 55 silk grafts achieved 7 percent success. The grafts show natural tendon growth around the silk, protecting it from wear, and silk is also used to attach torn muscle bands.
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Munich
Fritzange
University of Munich
Lange
Telephone etiquette and a comic miscue in dialogue
The excerpt discusses proper phone use to avoid failures in understanding. It advises keeping lips close to the mouthpiece, using a full natural tone, and pronouncing words clearly. A brief humorous exchange contrasts a driver and a cop over a green light, ending with a quip about reflections.
Selkirk Named in Canadian Place-Names Across Dominion
The Earl of Selkirk's name dominates Dominion place-names from east to west. He is linked to Selkirk settlements in Ontario and Manitoba, Selkirk Bay and cape in the Arctic, Baldoon in Kent County, and Fort Selkirk in the Yukon. His legacy appears in Mount Selkirk, Selkirk Island, and various districts and geographic features across Canada.
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Dominion
Thomas Douglas
Dh Baror Daer
Shortclough
Earl of
Victoria Charber
Vancouver
Selkirk
Melville Peninsula
Kent County
Ontario
Baldoon
Wigtownshire
Scotland
Earl
Manitoba
Selkirk Island
Lake Winnipeg
Point Douglas
Winnipeg
Red River Valley
Lord Selkrk
Haldimand
Sudbury
British Columbia
A. Seth
Yukon
Pelly
Fort Selkirk
Bay Company
Mount
Utle
Alberta
St Mary's House
Peace River
Kurkcudbright
Tied The smart junior dress pattern look for home sewists
The Pattern No. 1701 offers a youth frock inspired design with square neckline bands and inverted darts at the side seams. Sized for 6 to 14 years, it suggests fabrics like French blue wool jersey and velveteen with a black piping neckline. Priced at 25 cents for the pattern Becket copy.
Record pace for 15000 miles by Gines and motor car
Vincent Bruce and wife drove a British motor car across France and around a speedway to set a world record for 15000 miles at an average over 65 mph. They paused 21 hours due to a mishap but still beat the existing record by 48 hours, despite wintry weather and a skid at 80 mph. Piston travel reached 27000 miles, engine 35315250 revolutions, magneto 53000000 sparks.
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Ben Vincent Bruce
France
Recipes For This Week Chicken Tetrazinnt
Recipe notes for a weekly dish blend includes chicken, ham, shredded spaghetti, pimento and cream. Instructions describe cooking in a covered dish, combining ingredients then boiling briefly, then a two egg yolk cream mixture folded in. A separate fruit ice dessert mix uses eggs sugar orange juice and lemon juice stirred and beaten, then layered over ice and served.
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York
Additional Post Offices Opened In Manitoba
Winnipeg official J W Dickson toured Northern Manitoba to establish two new post offices at Narrow Lot and Woman's Lake. Mail for the district will be flown by plane replacing dog team routes used by miners for two years. Western Canada Airways plans to deliver mail starting January 25. The note mentions a railway distance between Lealagred and Vladivoriok and ends with an unrelated aphorism.
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Gok Fields
North
J. W. 7. Dickson
Winnipeg Postal Service
Manitoba
Narrow Lot
Woman's Lake
Western Canada Airways Company
DANGERS OF LEISURE LEADS TO OFF DUTY ACCIDENTS
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad reports a rise in off duty fatalities and injury claims tied to leisure time. Sixteen off duty deaths occurred last year, ten from automobile crashes, indicating drivers face risks from motor vehicles beyond work. The piece notes a pattern of reduced on duty accidents but higher off duty deaths as people seek recreation.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Seventy Year Old North Dakota Mail Carrier Keeps Going
Frank Giley, a longtime mail carrier in Urana works, North Dakota, claims to have walked 375 990 miles over 35 years. He delivers mail twice daily to about 1 000 addresses, climbs 36 stairs twice a day, and handles 690 pounds of mail weekly. In 35 years he estimates delivering 10 300 000 Christmas cards and plans to keep working as long as he can walk.
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Frank Giley
Urana Works
North Dakota
Fletcher's Castoria Promoted for Infant Comfort and Sleep
An advertisement extols Castoria as a safe vegetable remedy for babies, claiming it relieves stomach troubles, colic, constipation, diarrhea, and fever. It assurances physicians recommend Fletcher's Castoria and touts a care book as valuable guidance for feeding and child care.
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Fletcher
Sunday School Lesson February 5
Sunday School lesson discusses Jesus misunderstood and opposed. Golden Text from John 1 11 12 notes receiving Him grants right to become children of God. Lesson draws from Mark 3 and devotional reading Isaiah.
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Isaiah
Out of One's Mind The Beside The Self In Christian Thought
Excerpted reflections discuss Jesus in Capernaum amid skepticism from family and friends. The text compares disbelief of Jesus' power to public figures labeled mad by critics and echoes historic religious figures who chose spiritual aims over wealth.
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Caeeway
Jesus
Capernaum
Festus
Paul
Wesley
Whitfield
Vanity Fair
Henry Mern
God
Christ
J. D. Jones
Johns Hopkins Leads Campaign Against the Common Cold
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore launches a major research campaign financed by a 195000 gift from the Chemical Foundation. The effort unites the medical school to fix cold symptoms, study its causes, and pursue a cure amid wide economic losses from colds.
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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Maryland
The
Chemical Foundation
Francis P. Garvan
Johns Hopkins
Johne Hopkins Hospital
Canadian Aviation League organized to advance aviation nation wide
The Aviation League of Canada was formed with Major General J. MacBirnen leading fifty delegates from across Canada including McCitt and Toronto University. Representatives from industry and other sectors endorsed government action for a sizable civil aviation program and defense needs. The league aims to develop civil aviation, foster aircraft manufacturing, promote research, and maintain independence from party politics, with Ottawa as headquarters and branches nationwide.
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Aviation League of Canada
Canada
McCitt
Toronto University
Dominion
J. MacBirnen
Air League
British Empire
Ottawa
Good Year For Construction Ding Returns For Calgary and Edmonton
The 1927 building season brought strong totals for Calgary and Edmonton. Calgary's eleven months total reached 2,200,518 in building permits versus 1,000,048 in all of 1926 and 1,197,475 in 1925. Edmonton's eleven months hit 2,565,540, exceeding Edmonton's 1926 full year of 1,833,725 and 1925's 1,480,895.
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Ding
Calgary
Edmonton
Mackean
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Mhe Aviation League of Canada
Samuel Hoare
Britsh Air Ministry
Lonoos
U. Is
Hlord Selkirk
Winnipes Newspaper
Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipes
Gines
Wy Hotty Barclay
Lealagred
Vladivoriok
Jerry
Tle
Ted
Oma Reeee OO
John Hopkins University
Jeanne
Carter
Ted Phage
Canadian Aviation League
Munro ‘Echind
Firat Ave
Wi Éary
Asthma Tseoy
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