Royal gift and Empire Air Day thrill Ottawa
A gold town was presented to the King and Queen in Ottawa by the Canadian government. Empire Air Day featured 5,000 planes in the sky as observers watched the RAF display. An aeroplane crash near Mount California killed the pilot and injured two others. A Winnipeg man owns a 1799 Motley's Naval Journal about Napoleon’s campaign against the Turks. Volckischer Beobachter reported Germany’s plan to build a Siegfried line against Poland. The British and United States rejected Japan’s bid for wider Shanghai council roles. A Toronto rental house supplied 75 formal outfits for a kingly audience. Queen Mary visited Clubland in South London, unveiling plaques for a recreation and welfare center serving about 2,000 youth.
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Ottawa
Royal Air Force
Mount California
Motley
Naval and Military Journal
William G. Abbott
Winnipeg
Napoleon
Hitler
Volckischer Beobachter
Germany
Poland
East
Excitement Forty Years Ago in St Marys
The St Marys Journal Argus recalls 1898 road mishaps showing a buggy era safety nostalgia. Billy Diamond, a former St Marys man, sued Ingersoll Waterworks Co for injuries from a buggy accident. A Woodham resident’s horse bolted on Queen Street causing a broken shaft. A youth was thrown from a Water Street buggy and found roadside, then taken to the Ontario House for care.
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St. Marys
Woodham
Queen Street
Watertreet
Ontario House
Prehistoric origin of man may predate Folsom finds
University of New Mexico anthropologist Frank Hibben reports a finely finished art point found in a Sandia Mountains cave near Albuquerque. He says the discovery could push the date of man's entry into America back and suggests the Rio Grande Valley may have hosted an era with camels and elephants on the Western plains. Unofficial estimates place the artifact between 10,000 and 25,000 years old.
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Rio Grande Valley
New Mexico
Frank Hibben
University of New Mexico
Sandia Mountains
Albuquerque
Dr. Hibbe
Czech Legion Ready to Aid France in Homeland Fight
Thousands of Czechs in France have registered with a Czech Legion offering service to France and to help restore a homeland. An estimated 20,000 former sewer workers are in France and could form at least one infantry division of 12,000 well trained men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Indian Junior Red Cross Exhibit Heads to Paris
The first all Indian exhibit from Canada sent by the Red Cross travels to Paris for the League of Red Cross Societies. It features young Canadian Indian artists aged 8 to 16 from residential schools, including Inkameep and St. Pauls North Vancouver. Notable works include buckskin paintings, raffia crafts, carved fretwork, and Nativity scenes reimagined with Indian motifs. Francis Batiste from Inkameep won a bronze medal in London and studies Indian art in Santa Fe.
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League of Red Cross
Paris
France
Jean
Red Cross
Canada
Greatain
Inkameep Indian Day School
Oliver
Francis Batiste
Royal Drawing Society
London
Santa Fe
New Mexico
St. Paul's
North Vancouver
Alberni
Effective Phrases For All Occasions Booklet Ad
A Winnipeg newspaper notice promotes a 32 page booklet titled Effective Phrases For All Occasions. It promises ready made phrases to charm in social and business settings and offers ordering details with a 15 cent price and additional booklets at the same cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth
Beb
Ray
Service Dept
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Age
Anne Adams Pattern 4073 Promises Easy Sewing Fun
Sunny day sewing triumph features a flower print style with a soft flowing line and flexible neckline. Six main pattern parts form the bodice with back yokes, lace belt, buttons, and ribbon bows. designer Anne Adams assures even beginners can manage pattern 4073 in sizes 14 through 42 with specific fabric yardage and a 20 cent order from Winnipeg pattern dept.
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Anne Adams
Anne ‘Adams
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave. E
Insanity Not Shown Inheritable By Study
Dr Horatio Pollock and Dr Benjamin Malzberg of the New York State Department of Mental Health announced that new evidence challenges the belief that insanity runs in families. An intensive study of 300 students at state asylums and their relatives found no clear inheritance pattern unlike physical traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Psychiatric Association
Horatio Pollock
Benjamin Malzberg
New York State Department of Mental Health
Pauls Defense Before the Jerusalem Mob
Sunday School lesson outlines Pauls defense to the mob in Jerusalem recounting his conversion, his zeal against Christians, his baptism, and his claim that his mission to the Gentiles fulfills the Lord’s command. The lesson cites Acts 21 21 28 11 24 26 and Romans 8 39 with commentary on Gamaliel and Ananias.
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Paul
Jerusalem
Lysias
Tarwis
Gamaliel
Sanhedrin
Peter
John
Damascus
Ananias
Royal voyage prank on microphone sparks shipboard tea tease
During a Thames trip with Queen Mary and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, the young Margaret Rose stood on tiptoe at the captain's microphone on the St Katharine and asked, Are you enjoying it, Grandma? Isn't It lovely? We are soon going to have some tea now. The moment startled Father Thames and the crew amid the royal progress, but tea followed.
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Queen Mary
Elizabeth
Margaret Rose
River Thames
St. Katharine
C. H. J. Snider
Toronto Telegram
Father Thames
Grandma
Planning for Her Public Health Conference Urged
The Health League of Canada editor backs a Dominion wide health conference similar to Washington's July US conference. Preliminaries include studies by official and voluntary groups to assess needs per province and focus on venereal disease, tuberculosis, and full time health service. Cooperation between Dominion and provinces is essential to lower death rates and improve general health.
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House of Commons
C. G. Power
Pensions and National Health
Washington
United States
Canada
Dominion
Up-to-Minute Jiffy Crochet Bolero Pattern Warns Quick Make
Summer fashion note offers a jaunty bolero to crochet quickly using a large hook and two strands of string. Pattern 6117 includes instructions, stitch illustrations, and material needs, with 20 cents required to obtain the pattern from Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Readers Offered Complete Set Of Dr McCullough Cancer Articles
An editorial note invites readers seeking the full series of Dr McCullough cancer articles to obtain them by writing with their name to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario.
New Invention Lets Living Tissues Be Seen Under Microscope
Dr Marvin H Knisely of the University of Chicago unveiled a device that injects cold light deep into animal tissues to show how cells function. After seven years of work it enables study of drugs like insulin morphine aspirin on cells and may aid diagnosis though human use is not yet determined.
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American Medical Association
Marvin H. Knnsely
University of Chicago
Knisely
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Ntario Paper
America
Czech Legion
India
Chaaren
Home Service
By Anne Adame
S. McCullough
Health
Timely Terest
The
Health League of Canada
Ance
Alice Brook
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