World Happenings Briefly Told
A rapid digest of global items includes Hopewell to become a children welfare centre in Canada. Manitoba arts and sciences building eyed for economy-based abandonment. missionaries evacuated from northeast Sichuan due to incursions. a Montana cowgirl rode 1700 miles to the world’s fair and will swap her horse for an airplane home. Senator Norris urges Russia recognition amid trade claims. Britain to take 50 000 hogs weekly from Canada for five years. Mackenzie King to visit Alberta in August. Eamon de Valera pledges independent Irish economic plans. RCMP Constable Norris Yates completes the Chesterfield Inlet to Churchill mail run in seven days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suechwa
China
Jean Barnes
Butte, Mont
Russia
Norris
R. Neb
America
Great Britain
Canada
D. G. McKenzie
Brandon
Manitoba Board of Trade
Mackenzie King
Chesterfield Inlet
Churchill
Euthanasia Debate At American Institute Of Homeopaths
Delegates hear two Chicago doctors clash over physician assisted death with Dr Guild arguing for legal euthanasia and a special humanitarian court to hear pleas while Dr Tenney warned that legalization could lead to abuse citing a six week care case of a child monstrosity saved at birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Institute of Homeopaths
WA. Guild
Largest military tattoo draws 56 000 child spectators at Aldershot
The Aldershot tattoo featured 41 bands 37 bandmasters and 14 drum majors in Rushmoor Valley as 5 000 soldier actors staged a grand army pageant for an audience of 56 000 children from London and home counties. An officer praised the living carpet of massed bands and noted the event involved 549 musicians. During a New Zealand seamen strike inter island mail moved by air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldershot
Rushmoor Valley
London
Home Counties
New Zealand
Cunard Line Celebrates Sid Anniversary With Aquitania Voyage
The Cunard Line marks its sid anniversary by sending the Aquitania to Halifax Nova Scotia for a weekend cruise. The article notes Cunard as the oldest regular Atlantic line, tracing origins from 1840 with Britannia and Savannah, and highlights early steamship milestones and key ships like Sirius, Great Western, and Servia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tis Inceppen
Cunard Line
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Cunard
America
Nova
Bowton
trans-Atlantic Steamship Company
Atlantic
Britannia
Savannah
New York City
Georgia City
Liverpool
Royal William
Sirius
London
England
New York
Tor
Great Western
Atlantic Passage
Samuel Cunard
Newfoundland
Boston
Bermuda
Sir Samuel
Robert Napier
Clyde
Glasgow
Napier
Mr. Cunard
Great Britain
George, Burns
Scotland
David Maciver
Hibernia
Cambria
Campania
Lucania
Queenstown
Marconi
Berengaria
Aquitania
Mauretania
Cunard i
Assassination attempt on Greek ex premier photographed
Venizelos wife of the ex Premier of Greece smiles bravely from a hospital bed in Athens after four bullet wounds aimed at her husband. The ex Premier escaped unharmed. The text recalls Cunard and ship history tracing mail ships from wooden to steel and noting Samuel Cunard’s 1850 knighthood for Crimean War service.
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Venizelos
Greece
Athens
Great Britain
America
Samuel Cunard
London
England
Division Of Canaan Voices Faith And Promise
Devotional lesson surveys the division of Canaan among the twelve tribes led by Joseph's sons and Levi. Caleb's call to immediate conquest, Jeho vah faith, and memory shaping wisdom earmark the path forward. Paul’s faith narrative echoes the price of perseverance toward a promised crown.
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Canaan
Joseph
Ephraim
Manassen
Jacob
Levi
Judah
Simeon
Benjamin
CR. Brown
Caleb
Joshua
Othmiel
Kenaz
Kadesh-Barnea
Jehovah
Paul
Thief With Expensive Taste Loots Dunhill Shop
A nimble intruder entered Alfred Dunhill London Inc at 914 Forth Avenue New York through two transoms and stole jewelry cigar lighters clocks and pipes worth about 25000. He bypassed silver and selected Grade A pipes and gold cigarette cases from high priced racks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Dunhill
London, Inc
Forth Avenue
New York
Ottawa Imp World Conference Boosts Canadian Exports
Hon. H. H. Stevens reports 1932 trade agreements raised Canada exports to the United Kingdom by over 10 million dollars while global trade fell. Thirty miners seek coal under the Firth of Forth and Westcliff plans a 2.1 million amusement pier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
H. H. Stevens
Dominion
The
Firth of Forth
Scotland
Old man’s surprise found $50000 in bills in Ireland
An emaciated stranger in Dundalk causes a stir as civil guards fetch him for care. He refuses to reveal his name yet calmly explains he was his own banker during US bank troubles and carried $50 000 in cash. He notes 46 years in America before returning to Ireland. The tale ends with a note on Chicago Exposition plans.
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Dundalk
Ireland
United States
Mechanism Of the Ear Arouses Curious Debate On Sound
A historical discussion notes limited understanding of how ear vibrations translate to brain signals. It contrasts drum vibrations with the brain’s perception, mentioning the ear’s tympanum and neural pathways while admitting gaps in knowledge about sensory translation.
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Italy
Saskatchewan coal subsidy approved by federal order in council
A federal order in council enacts a freight subsidy of one seventh of a cent per mile for Saskatchewan lignite coal shipped to Manitoba and Ontario. The allowance, capped at 40 cents per ton, applies to mines established before 1931 and paid to railways with settlements made to mine operators.
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Sutaidy
Manitoba
Sioux Lookout
Council
Saskatchewan Department of Railways, Labor Anddustries
Saskatchewan
Ontario
German Socialists lose legal status under Nazi rule
Nazi cabinet under Hitler extends control as Social Democratic party is banned. Speech by Nazi leaders projects total power. Commerce crackdown blocks department and chain stores from running barber shops, bakeries, tailoring, and repairs. Secret police suspend National Deutsche Zeitung for a week. editor is related to Hugenberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Social Democratic Party
Hitler
Hitters
Otta Way
National
Deustache Zeitung
Hugenberg
Prosperity rumor hints at silver dollar floors in cafe
A New York Broadway cafe announces floors paved with silver dollars set in cement. The claim suggests a prosperity motif to attract customers, with the coins embedded to resist theft while projecting wealth.
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Broadway
New York
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Wich
Westmount
Quebec
Arts and Sciene
University of Manitoba
Pioneer Steamship Company
Conard
Westcliff
Wan
Chicago Exposition
Alfonso
Prince of the Asturias
Spain
Senorita Edelmira Sampedro
Sales
Maria
Lausanne
Switzerand
Sankatchewan
Social Democrats
Jan
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