World Happenings Briefly Told From Imperial Conference to Canada
On June 24, the King and Queen hosted delegates at Buckingham Palace during the Imperial Press Conference. British Columbia seeks benefit from a new Australian tariff favoring lumber. Composer Bennett Scott, famed for Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty, died in London. A Detroit couple perished in a Toledo plane crash that burst into flames. Hoover approves transferring submarine P-12 to the US shipping board for Sir Hubert Wilkins polar explorations. Hong Kong accountant F K Beattie disappeared aboard the Empress of Russia en route to Scotland. Vincent Massey, retiring Canadian minister to the US, spoke at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. L R McGregor, new Australasia trade commissioner to Canada, recently moved to Victoria with family, aiming to promote Australian wines in Canada.
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Buckingham Palace
British Columbia
Commonwealth House
Bennett Scott
Loraine Mansions
London
England
Joe V. Lleneuvre
Detroit
Municipal
Toledo
Ohio
F. K. Beattie
Bank of
Hong Kong
Abanghai
Shanghai
Vancouver
Scotland
Vincent Massey
United States
University of Michigan
Ann Harbor
Lan
L. R. McGregor
Austral
Canad
Victoria
Sydney
Canada
Switzerland’s Prosperous Yet Mountainous Population Rise
The article notes Switzerland covering 10 960 square miles with about 400 000 people and 30 towns over 10 000. Despite growth many mountainous regions are deserted while 0.0 0.000 persons engage in productive industry. It claims if all the world worked as effectively as Switzerland, it would be happier.
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Switzerland
Rench
Canada’s Military Staff and Ottawa Poultry Dispatch
Canada maintains a permanent force of 3 943 at all ranks with 401 officers and 1 087 NCOs. Ottawa HQ hosts 9 naval, 49 military, 31 air officers, plus 104 other ranks and 443 civilians. Annual HQ administration costs total 1 425 311 dollars. A consignment of 85 live poultry birds, inspected by Professor Wood of Winnipeg, is sent to Ottawa to join a 1 000-bird World Poultry Congress shipment.
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Canada
Ottawa
Professor Wood
Winnipeg
Haseen
Lastry
Dominion
Neglected Cars Linked to Five Thousand Traffic Deaths
A National Conference report finds U S car owners who ignore maintenance caused about five thousand traffic fatalities in the past year. It urges strict periodic inspections and a certificate of inspection for older cars when licenses are issued.
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United States
National Conference of
Washington
Stars That Do Not Rotate Presented By Gunn At Science Meet
Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory proposes a theory that some pulsating stars do not spin. He cites magnetic field studies around pulsating suns and the Cepheid variables as vital distance indicators for astronomy. Meanwhile a Vancouver Island committee promotes a World Grain Show district exhibit effort in Courtney.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Ross Gunn
Naval Research Laboratory
Gunn
Tice
Ov Ie
British Columbia
Courtney
Vancouver Island
Ten Years Growth of Tourist Trade in Canada
The value of Canada’s tourist trade rose dramatically from 1920 to 1929, with foreigners spending about 1.682 billion dollars in that decade. This total nearly equals Canada’s wartime and demobilization outlays of about 1.685 billion, highlighting the sector’s vast growth and potential.
Great Adventure of Abraham Faith Journey
Sunday School lesson on Abraham's call to leave Haran for Canaan. Highlights faith over sight, divine promise to make a great nation, and the cost of obedience. Commentary emphasizes not knowing the path yet trusting God, with notes from Dods, James Denny, and Jowett on faith as voyage.
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Abraham
Abram
Canaan
God
Marcus Dods
James Denny
Lot
Haran
Dr. Jowett
Elief
Vaan
David J. Burret
Saskatchewan Bacon Litter Contest Planned
The Saskatchewan Livestock Branch and Dominion Live Stock Branch sponsor a summer bacon litter contest to boost swine industry. Saskatchewan is divided into five regions with prize money shared. Entries must farrow April 1 to July 1 and be sired by a registered bacon boar with nine pigs reaching marketing age. Police in New Bern NC respond to a stubborn son told to take medicine after a hurried summons.
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Saskatchewan Livestock Branch
Dominion Live Stock
Saskatchewan
J. G. Robertson
Arctic tern nests far from wintering grounds
The arctic tern nests 11,000 meters from its wintering area, a fact highlighting extreme migratory separation. The atom's hydrogen is described as the simplest element known to man.
Canadian exports to Soviet Russia in 1929 rise
L D Wilgress, Canadian Trade Commissioner in Hamburg, notes in the Commercial Intelligence Journal that Soviet Russia may be the only Central European country besides Germany to import most Canadian goods directly. Other nations in the region such as Czecho Slovakia Austria and Poland buy Canadian products but these are often routed via Hamburg, affecting trade returns. Canada’s exports to Soviet Russia in 1929 total 1 187 068 dollars.
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Soviet Russia
Germany
Europe
L. D. Wilgress
Hamburg
C ‘Mercial Intelligence Journal
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
Poland
Canada
Student’s answer mocks arithmetic. examiner reads unrelated optics note
In a humorous exam response a student solves a field reaping problem with a distractor about a German scientist creating spectacle lenses to cure color blindness. The mix shows misapplied reasoning and an off topic scientific note embedded in the answer.
Betty Barclay Weekly Recipe for Marshmallow Cookies
Recipe lists shortening sugar lemon juice lemon rind eggs and flour with baking powder soda and salt. Cream shortening and sugar, beat in eggs, add lemon juice and rind, fold in dry ingredients, roll and cut, bake at a hot oven, then add marshmallows and finish baking to golden.
Carrots and Cheese Bake Step by Step
Mince twelve carrots and steam until tender. Layer in a baking dish with cheese and seasoning. Beat three eggs and stir into a pint of hot milk. Thicken the mixture, pour over carrots and cheese, add top cheese, then bake in a water bath until brown.
Pelts and sunspots link noted in early data report
The Hudson's Bay Company received pelts with yearly variation since 1540, showing periodic patterns. An Dominion Observatory investigator links rabbit pelts to sunspot cycles, noting higher counts before sunspot minima. Bremen hosted 228,000 tourists last year while Ireland plans medical inspection in schools.
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Hudson's Bay Company
Dominion Observatory
Ottawa
Desert to Garden Vision Araf Jordan Water Project Claim
An enthusiastic engineer named Rutenberg envisions lifting the Jordan River thirty feet to transform Palestine’s desert into a green garden. He describes massive concrete walls and a simple method, claiming fertilizer-rich sand and Dead Sea minerals support the plan. The scene depicts desert workers and a European observer amid the oasis of concrete hailed as a miracle.
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Jordan
Rutenberg
Leserts
Sarren
Transjonian
Hist
Dead Sea
Manitoba’s Pioneer Torch Inspires Modern Progress
Lethbridge Herald recalls Fort Garry and Winnipeg as a monument of early West history. The piece celebrates Manitoba’s heritage and the July 5 pride, urging continued achievement inspired by the first pioneers in forging a prosperous province.
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Prairie Provinces
Nance
West
Tion
Fort Garry
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Lethbridge Herald
Wood like dark forest furniture from cotton pulp
Clerkenwell inventor claims a synthetic wood from compressed cotton material, indistinguishable from mahogany and oak, cheaper and durable, moldable to any shape, promising lower house costs. Rayon production uses wood pulp caustic soda carbon bisulphide and sulfuric acid per pound. Also notes Peru’s Central Railroad crossing Andes at 865 feet, and Slovakia’s Parliament with four women in parliament and ten deputies.
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Clerkenwell
England
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
Poultry Congress
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Leip
Winsipes Newspape
Nebelle Worthington
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Iessen
New Bern
North Carolina
Russia
Grammer Echool
Moose
Mort Woos
Atetagama
Ontario
M. A. Bates
Mr. Bates
Canadian Pacific Railway
Metagame
Betty Barclay
Bremen
Ireland
Desert
The
Central Railroad of
Peru
Andes
Ceecho-Slovakia
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