World Happenings Briefly Told From Far Afield
The Retail Merchants Association of London Ontario campaigns to make Boxing Day a legal holiday across Canada. Prussia sets a 4 billion dollar war budget for 1957, raising defence estimates by over 100 million. Twenty one cities in British Columbia elected mayors by acclamation. Nichi Nichi launches first metropolitan daily for children in Tokyo. The New York Paris air race is postponed to August. An exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum displays nine mounted spiders. Ontario workers compensation costs rise from 2600000 to 60000 this year due to silicosis. Ontario health minister Faulkner addressed a labor delegation. Association of Canadian Bookmen reports membership growth to 2300 from two.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
London
Ont
Canada
Prussia
Eivic
British Columbia
Nichi Nichi
Tokio
Charles A. Lindbergh
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board
J. A. Faulkner
Ontario
Pethan Edgar
Association of Canadian Bookmen
Sunken Treasure Seeker Hits Gulf of New York City Hussar Wreck
Simon Lake, renowned submarine inventor, claims to have found the wreck of the 28 gun frigate Hussar in the East River near New York. After three years and suction-pump dredging, he has recovered only a few modern coins and junk items, estimating the wreck lies buried in mud and tar.
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Simon Lake
New York
East River
Lake
Hussar
New York City
Coronation Bible Omits Portraits Of King And Queen
The King requested no portraits of living persons in coronation issues of the Bible. This marks a departure from prior reigns when sovereign portraits appeared. Bible printing remains under royal monopoly and the universities Oxford and Cambridge. Many seek easy money instead of labor.
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Elizabeth
Himself
Queen Elizabeth
England
Oxford
Cambridge
National Defence Plan Aims To Start Two New Battleships
President Roosevelt asks for a near 1 billion dollar peacetime defence fund for fiscal 1998 to begin construction on two battleships and expand air power and personnel. The budget includes 980.8 million for naval and military establishments, with increases for Navy aircraft, ordnance, and pay to support larger forces.
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National Defence Fund
Roosevelt
United States Army
Navy
Bia
Congress
National Defence
Navy Department
Bureau of Aeronautics
Calypso NC Adverts For Two Used Jail Cells Sparks Curiosity
Calypso North Carolina posted a notice in outside papers seeking two used jail cells, drawing curious attention as residents question the need. A local correspondent notes the town previously relied on a neighboring village for incarcerations, but WPA aid spurred a new brick municipal building whose jail facility lacked cells.
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Carolina
Calypso
North Carolina
Painting by Murillo to be returned from New York to Vancouver
A Bartolome Este ban Murillo oil painting once offered to Vancouver Museum for 2000 dollars and now valued at 100000 dollars will be brought back from New York. It will not be loaned again but placed in a bank for safekeeping. Vancouver owner Hugh Maxwell criticized the museum board for not purchasing it after curator T P O Menzies urged acceptance. The article also notes a Fritz Kreisler violin quip from Hollywood days.
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Vancouver
New York
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Vancouver City Museum
Hugh Maxwell
T. P.O. Menzies
Menzies
Nerve fibers counted in human spine reveal tiny diameters
A report notes about 17,000 nerve fibers were counted in the spinal marrow with diameters measured as small as 0.001 millimeter.
Miration Wholly Flaunting Frock Pattern Ad
Ad copy extols Anne Adams Pattern 4205 a slender-line frock with deep V neck and up-rising skirt panel. Describes fabric options crepe silk georgette and sleeve lengths, sizes 36 to 48, fabric yardage, and sewing instructions. Order form asks for size name address and pattern number sent to Winnipeg pattern dept.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave. E
Sunday School Lesson Reflections on John 5 6
The text presents the Bethesda pool story where Jesus heals an 88 year invalid on the Sabbath and cautions him to sin no more. It also notes the feeding of the five thousand on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee as a life sustaining miracle cited in all four Gospels and tied to Jesus as source and sustainer of life.
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Nethesda
Jerusalem
Bethesda
Jesus
Jesus Bate
Temple
Sea of Galilee
John
Silk For Coronation Robes Largest English Supplyin 300 Years
Silk for coronation robes is being produced at Lullingstone Castle in England, reelings 500000 miles of silk thread from silkworm cocoons. It is the first large English silk output since Charles II, produced on Lady Hart Dyke’s Lullingstone silk farm with 50000 mulberry trees. Queen Mary has inspected the farm and shown interest in its use for the coronation robes.
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England
George
Lulingstone Castle
Eynsford
Charles II
Lullingstone
Lady Hart Dyke
Foreign Exchange Savings Cut Cost of Settling Accounts
Canada Post Office Department and Bank of Canada cooperation halves foreign exchange costs. Transactions, previously over 37 million dollars annually, were trimmed as closer market-rate money orders reduce charges to the United States Britain and other destinations. Savings lower margins on US orders to about one cent.
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Post Office Department
Canada
Bank of Canada
Department
United States
Britain
New Industry Aims Ladybug Farming For Pest Control
An announced concept at the Entomological Society of America in Atlantic City NJ proposes breeding ladybugs as a pest control method. Dr Gordon W Haugh of Ohio State University described lab raised ladybugs fed on aphids to ensure strong populations for release to farmers in spring.
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Entomological Society of America
Atlantic City
Gordon W. Haugh
Ohio State University
Serial Has No End In One Japanese Newspaper Romance
A Japanese newspaper runs a vast serial tale that surpasses 7300 installments and shows no end in sight. Though the author is long deceased, the paper keeps the saga alive by involving the author’s son who continues the weekly chapters, preserving the long running tradition.
Leipzig Zoo Records Births of a Thousand Lions
The Leipzig Zoo announced a world record as a thousand lions were born within its walls. The facility breeds 200 species of wild animals for zoos worldwide.
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Zoological Gardens
Letpzig
Bank of Englana Opens Operations in 1685
The Bank of Englana began active operation on January 1, 1685, marking the start of its banking services. This establishes its initial financial activities and public presence in the region.
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Bank of
Englana
Relics of earliest Canadian aviation preserved at new museum
The National Research Council in Ottawa houses an aeronautical museum preserving Canada's early aviation story. Highlights include the Silver Dart engine built by Alexander Graham Bell and flown in 1909 by J A C McCunty, with landmark 20 mile flight on March 10 and a follow up at Petawawa. Exhibits also feature Bell propeller models and a WW I armored crate flown by Col Barker V C, with patched bullet holes in the wings and fuselage.
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Canada
Aeronautical Museum
National Research Council
Ottawa
A. G. MacNaughton
Thetional Research Council
Alexander Graham Bell
Baddeck
N.S
J. A.C. McCunty
McCunty
F. W. “Casey” Ballwin
Nova Scotia
Bras Door Lakes
Petawawa Camp
Baldwin
New National Museum
Graham Bell
W. A. Barker
V.C
Royal Flying Corps
Sculptor and architect named for King George statue project
Sir William Re Dick is likely the sculptor and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott the architect of the memorial statue facing Parliament. Dick, noted for a portrait bust for King George, also created the Menin Gate stone lion. Scott, famed since youth, designed Liverpool's cathedral and once faced a sharp taunt from a passerby.
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William Re Dick
Giles Gilbert Scott
King George
William
George
Menin Gate
Ypres
Hon
Sir William
Liverpool
Scott
London Daily
Sketch
Record Is Unusual Lord Crewe Reflects On Service Range
In a House of Lords speech Lord Crewe recalled serving three former sovereigns in confidence, noting the last Liberal ministry of Queen Victoria ended in 1805. Crewe, 79, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under that reign and had years as Lori-in-Waiting to the Queen. Also, Turkish lower classes measure status by copper utensil holdings.
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Lord Crewe
House of Lords
Queen Victoria
Ireland
London Spectator
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Army
Fritz Mreister
Hollywood
Kreisler
By Anne Adan
Colossians
Woratory
Letpzig Zoo
Lion
Lor
Crewe
Turkey
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