World Happenings Briefly Told
Royal Canadian Artillery officer Col HE Boak will command Military District No 12 in Regina with brigadier rank. Canadian Pacific Railway earnings for the week ending Sept 14 were 2 000. a drop from last year. Jeffrey Arnott to assistant purchasing agent at Vancouver. W B Roberts announces. England’s cost of living rose one percent in August. index 143 in September. Civil servants seek free political participation through unpaid leave. Mayor Camillien Houde warns of French Canadian survival risk in Montreal. The London weekly Canada and editor Walter Lefroy merge. Lefroy ends 37-year association with Canadian news work in London.
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Canadian Gazette
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Gold From Sea Water Probed By Scientists
Gordon H Guest notes that sea water may contain about 700 ounces of gold for every two billion people, valuing potential yield at $26,300 per person at $39 per ounce. Despite Haber’s dismissal, advances in extracting bromine from ocean water fuel hope of commercial gold recovery, with bromine needing vast volumes to yield small amounts, yet gold’s high value keeps researchers optimistic.
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ALA
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Fritz Haber
United States
Psychic Personality Analysis Ad Offered By Winnipeg Paper
A fragment from a Winnipeg newspaper ad offers personal psychic analyses by Lawrence Hibbert, urging readers to send birth dates and coins for individual reports. The text includes remarks on temperament, concentration, travel, and social tendencies, with instructions for mail replies and a price. It ends with a stray line about selling fishing goods and mahogany fading in sunlight.
Belisha beacons to guard London pedestrians
War safety feature named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, seven foot posts with yellow glass globes will mark crossing points in London to protect pedestrians and reflect headlights at night, as part of efforts to curb motor accidents. A separate note says women want men to be sturdy and spruce.
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