Canadian Club of New York reelects Appleby president
End of year review notes one of the most successful years in its history. Ernest W. Appleby is re elected for a second term as president. Other items include a malaria epidemic in Ceylon with 62 637 deaths since last November and 15 983 allowed to drink beer and wine with meals on holidays and Sundays. James W Blake writer of the Sidewalks of New York dies at 72 in St Vincent’s hospital. Destiny as a news gatherer for the Japanese empire. a sonoplane bound for Osaka. Interior Minister Murphy announces 225 000 will be spent on the Jasper Lake Louise highway in the 33 000 000 construction budget. CP Rails orders 7 000 tons of rails for Sydney plant amid SA orders.
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Canadian Club of
New York
Ernest W. Appleby
Ceylon
James W. Blake
St. Vincent's Hospital
Blake
Osaka
Japan
T. . Murphy
House of Commons
Jasper-Lake Louise
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
Sydney
Pioneers Of Cocoa Basin Three English Quaker Firms
The Port of London Monthly highlights the rise of three Quaker firms in the cocoa trade. The Fry family in the West country, Cadbury in the Midlands, and Rowntree in York pioneered manufacture and sale of cocoa and chocolate. Each business grew from modest origins to global renown as their firms expanded.
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London
Seve Sra
Frys
England
Cadburys
Midlands
Rowntrees
York
Society’ of Friends
Freshness Retained: Four-Hour Freeze Preserves Sweet Corn
Government experts report sweet corn frozen within four hours of harvest retains freshness for six months to a year. Rapid processing including gathering grading scalding cooling and freezing halts chemical changes. A Quebec Tourist Bureau note urges hotels to use flowers to boost rural appeal through attractive bedding and surroundings.
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Quebec Tourist Bureau
Public prayer maker earns longest credit, belief endures
A fragment suggests the man who offers the tangent prayer in public life tends to receive the most recognition. The remark implies public religious or ceremonial roles confer outsized prestige even amid broader secular applause.
Ants as workers reveal static social order says professor
Professor Dymond of Ontario Royal Museum argues ants show hereditary occupations with fixed roles. They lack social reform or new ideas, living in mounds or under stones, not due to thinking individuals but undeveloped individuality.
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Dymond
Ontario Royal Museum
London Daily Express
Shadows Fall In May At Vimy Night Of Rest And Memory
The narrator recalls a May night near Vimy after battle, a bivouac of soldiers listening to night sounds, reading letters from home, and sharing stories. A bugle call, flowers amid trench ruin, and a moment of collective pride mark the calm before returning to front lines. The memory of Jimmy, a Forty-niner comrade, and the German signs decorating a sleeping area underscore bonds formed in hardship.
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Lorror
Avion
Mount St.1
Jimmy
Villers Au Bois
Canada
Vieh
Pferde
Steve
Joe
Somme
Vinny
Hellow
Sas Fm
Sunday School Lesson One 9
A Sunday School lesson explains the Comforter or Holy Spirit as the presence of Christ after his departure. It notes that the Spirit strengthens and guides, convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and that believing in Christ is central to salvation.
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Jesus
Christ
Pilate
Thomas E. Bartlett
Peanut Heist Nets Small Loot After Mixup
A man found a bag containing the day’s receipts instead of peanuts and retrieved $750 in cash. He exchanged the money for 25 cents worth of nuts at a store, prompting questions about the mix up and how the mistaken cash ended up in the bag.
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Chris
de Costerio
Dress Pattern for Smart Crepe Ensemble
Pattern No 532 offers a sheer crepe dress with pale blue tones and white organdie collar for luncheon or city dinners. Raglan sleeves and simple fit suit sizes 14 to 40 bust. 3 1/2 yards of fabric plus 1 yard contrast required for size 16. Patterns 20 cents. mail orders to Winnipeg Pattern Department.
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Mavenworth
Pattern Department
Winapeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Recipes For This Week By Betty Barclay
Betty Barclay presents a week of fashion inspired treats with a fashionable shortcake recipe featuring a light strawberry glaze and whipped cream, plus tips for layering flavors and coordinating dessert presentation with seasonal fruits and tableside styling.
SERRY NING Cake Making Steps Stated
Instructional note details adding milk to soften dough and smooth batter. Bakers bake a deep layer cake at 415 degrees Fahrenheit for twenty to twenty five minutes. Then split the cake and spread sweetened crushed berries between layers for filling.
Geree Breakfast Fish Dish Method
Free the fish from skin and bone. Melt butter, add fish and stir gently. Add cooked rice and egg whites, season with salt and pepper, heat through. Serve on a flat dish with egg yolks pressed through a ricer on top.
Real Benefactors Fund Major Radium Purchase in Japan
The Mitsu family, among Japan's wealthiest, ordered five grammes of radium from the Belgian Congo for 1,000,000 yen. Four grammes will be allocated to the Cancer Institute, and one gramme to the Physical Research Institute.
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Mitsu
Japan
Belian Congo
Cancer Institute
Physical Research Institute
Floating soap by air ducts preserves curing time
Popular Mechanics explains a method to make soap float by introducing air ducts into the bar during manufacture. The ducts speed curing and keep the bar dry by expelling water, creating trapped air pockets that cause flotation. The prior method beat air into the soap before shaping, while TRIS made the soap porous with minute air cells.
Dry rot decay in timber after seasoning
Fragmentary text discusses dry rot as timber decay after seasoning and notes slow action. Also mentions a male stenographer, flattery, and a $25 job to wash dishes, with garbled phrases about a feminine heart. No clear event or person established.
Little Journeys In Science Halogens and Fluorine
A compact note outlines the halogens as a nonmetal group producing sea salt compounds and their high reactivity with metals. Fluorine is highlighted as the most active element, its presence in minerals and teeth, and its 1886 isolation by Moissan. The piece notes hydrofluoric acid as a key fluorine compound used to etch glass, requiring gutta or ceresine glassware.
Clock that keeps world time halted after eight and a half years
Experts report the Greenwich Mean Time clock stopped for the first time in eight and a half years. It has logged 268,000,000 ticks at one per second and may need overhaul. Four clocks serve astronomical observations, with three remaining as master clocks driven by electricity. Highly skilled workmen will service the worn mechanism.
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Greenwich Observatory
Observatory
Colorful Memorial Gardener Outplants Tulips in North Carolina
Gideon Price of Lattimore North Carolina, known as the tulip king, created a garden memorial for his son who died overseas in World War I. He planted 95,000 tulips this year after 5,000 last year, plus 15,000 gladioli to prevent idleness. The artistically arranged plots feature giant color combinations, with hundreds of amaryllis bulbs noted.
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Gideon Price
Suxty-Engue Sears Oh
Lattimore
N.C
Price
Halcyon Days Origin Tied to Kingfisher Myth
Origins of the term halcyon days trace to ancient sailors who believed the halcyon, a kingfisher, nested on waves around the winter solstice and calmed seas during that period, giving the phrase its meaning of peaceful times.
Paris plans new intellectual center called International City of Thought
Paris announces plans for a new intellectual center named the International City of Thought and the Arte. Officials describe a cultural hub intended to foster dialogue, research, and creative collaboration amid postwar renewal.
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Paris
International City of Thought
Arte
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