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A North Jamaica report notes a heavy storm wrecked 25,000 trees and seven earthquakes struck Jaroslavia with some fatalities and damage. Whitby marked a memorial porch for Col George Hain, and Canada's flag flew over Washington on Victoria Day for the first official display. Oxford historian Prof Har Edward Egerton died at 172, and Prof Beerson taught colonial history there for 15 years. Lindbergh kinship to Mackenzie King alleged in Toronto Star. Milo Webster, 33, died plunging 4,000 feet at Muskegon witnessed by his mother. Aurora borealis effects on radio under study by Canada’s National Research Council.
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Ilanch
Jamaica
Jaroslavia
Wte
Fanchian Women's Press Club
Col
George Hain
Cub
Whitby
Canada
Washington
Victoria
Vincent Massey
Har Edward Egerton
Oxford
Professor Beerson
Toronto Star
Charles Lindbergh
William Lyon Mackenzie
Paris
Mackenzie King
Charles H. Lind
Simcoe
Milo Webster
Muskegon
Mich
Webster
Seadrome plan eyed for Atlantic aeroplane anchorage
Edward R. Armstrong of Wilmington Delaware announces a test seadrome in the Atlantic to host trans Atlantic flights. A 150 by 150 foot sea platform anchored 600 miles north of New York would test within 69 days. If successful eight full seadromes 1200 feet long would follow at about 1.5 million dollars each.
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Atlantic Ocean
Philadelphia
Edward R. Armstrong
Wilmington
Del
Armstrong
Charles A. Lindbergh
The
Public Ledger
New York
New Building Materials From Refuse Used in Australia
A new material called Caiten ceiotex is made from swerrane refuse and used in parts of Australia for building houses. In Canberra some Federal Parliament House sections use telotex. model houses have been built in Canberra and other towns to demonstrate its value. Engineers uncover a 3,000,000 year old saurian skeleton during a Turkestan Siberia road project. Canada holds the largest inland sea after the Mediterranean within its orders, the Canadian Mediterranean as large as the Baltic. Lightning is spiral and wanders before striking, not flat and ragged as once thought.
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Australia
Canberra
Turkestan
Siberia
Canada
Hudson Bay
Research Lab to Be Established at Lacombe This Year
A research laboratory is to be established this year at Lacombe to survey plant problems within the province. The note mentions a park naturalist for the West core and a reflection on how people treat strangers versus friends.
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Lacombe
Garetes
Extend Period of Aviation Agreement Between US and Canada
The aviation pact allowing US and Canadian pilots to fly into the other country under defined conditions has been extended to October 21. It was renewed by notes between the State Department and Canada. Since 1922 the accord requires advance notice to Ottawa and details on pilot, aircraft, route, duration, and purpose for the visit by either side.
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United States
State Department
Lezsie
Canada
Secretary of Capacian Air Board
Ottawa
Romance of Boer War Dispatch Rider Turns Wife of British Colonel
Mrs Jughan, kin to President Kruger, rode as a Boer dispatch rider in the war. She urged aid to a Boer post under Capt Vaughan, who shot her horse and captured her, only to marry later. Col Owen Vaughan, known as Owen Rhoscoms, died eight years ago at Dinas Powis near Cardiff Wales.
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Mra Catherl Vaughan
A Owen Vaughan
Dinas Powis
Caraim
Wales
Jughan
Kruger
Col. Vaughan
Vaughan
Owen Rhoscoms
Smart Schooltime Frock Pattern For Young Girls
Practical and stylish one piece frock with a box plaited skirt joined to the bodice and two sleeve options. Round collar, front buckle belt, sizes 6 to 12 years. View A and B require specific plain material amounts. Book price 10 cents. pattern price listed.
Historic Early Flight Milestones from 1919 to 1924
A compact survey of early aviation feats including the NC4 seaplane flight from Newfoundland to Lisbon with Azores stopovers, Alcock and Brown’s nonstop transatlantic route, British airship trials, a round-the-world attempt from Scotland to Iceland and Greenland, and Zeppelin ZR3’s journey from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst.
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United States Navy
Newfoundland
Lisbon
Portugal
Azores
Alcock
Arthur W. Brown
St John's
Clifden
Ireland
Scotland
New York
Fulham
England
United States
Iceland
Greenland
Los Angeles
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Lakehurst
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipes Newspaper
Pattern order guidance appears to reference a newspaper origin at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipex pattern number details are incomplete. The fragment suggests a catalog style instruction for pattern requests and mailing details without full names dates or firm publication context.
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Winnipes Newspaper
Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipex
Sunday School Lesson June 6 Outlines Cornelius Peter Visit
Golden text from Romans 10 12 proclaims that there is no difference between Jew and Greek for the same Lord. The lesson covers Acts chapters 10 and 11 detailing Cornelius the Roman centurion at Caesarea who prays and gives alms, sees a vision, and sends for Peter despite Jewish customs. A servant and soldier accompany him as he awaits divine direction and potential reception of the gospel.
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Leeson
Corpettus
Caesarea
Cornelius
Joppa
Peter
Simon the Tanner
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Not a Vanishing Race From Ottawa
A historical note asserts Indians are increasing in population in western Canada with about 35 000 total. The piece praises the native race as descendants of ancient nomads likely entering the Americas from the Orient and suggests they deserve civilized benevolence.
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Ottawa
Canada
North America
Western Hemisphere
Orient
Bering Straits
Remarkable Heart Beat Amplification Demo at AMA Conven tion
A historic demonstration at a Washington auditorium featured a heart beat amplified ten trillion times. The machine, an electric stetherrore, was presented before the American Medical Association amid astonished spectators. Organizers touted potential heart disease treatments, while outside, passersby noted the startling, distant cannonlike pulse.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Old Chinese Custom Moves 400 Remains for Ancestral Worship
Toronto Chinese community raises funds to move about 400 Chinese remains buried in Ontario for reburial in China. Publisher Mark estimates at least 200 from Toronto, with total cost near 312,000. They believe in ancestral worship and that the spirit endures beyond death, needing the bones for proper worship by heirs in China.
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Toronto
Ontario
China
Mark
Prefers Coffee to Bone Sunday in Boston Tenner
A Boston tenner named Prefers Coffee to Bone Sunday, owned by Allen Burdick of the Police Department in New Canaan Connecticut, is described as a genuine "coffee bound." He requires his coffee in a cup with little sugar before accepting any boon.
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Allen Burdick
New Canean
Conn
McKim’s Directory of Canadian Publications 1927 issued
The Twentieth Edition of McKim’s Directory of Canadian Publications has just been issued and is valued by national advertisers in Canada and the United States. The directory, first issued in 1892, aims to be more complete and dependable with year round use for Canadian geographical and statistical details. Edmonton Stockyards Limited secures option on 22 acres near Saskatoon on CPR lines, targeting operations by end of August. Whining women and children are bad enough, but deliver us from whinning men.
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McKim’s
Canada
United States
Saskatoon
Edmonton Stockyards, Limited
Canadian Pacific Railway
Strange Sight in Berlin Steeple in Basement of Ancient House
In Berlin a 1724 collapse left St Peters Church steeple buried in a basement, a new steeple built and the old tower left as is. Saskatchewan egg pool announces storage plan with delayed final payment and six to eight week cutoffs.
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Eeple
Berln
St. Peter's Church
Saskatchewan Egg Pool
Ir 4
McGill to offer new Canadian history course for citizens
McGill University will launch a third year course in the history of Canada, following a prior sequence on Western Hemisphere history. The initiative aims to equip students with broad general knowledge of the Dominion, its Confederation era motives, and the East West context, fostering informed citizenship and national understanding.
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Dominion
McGil University
Department of History
Essaly
Canada
Hemisplat
Catenda
McGill
Empire Unity Premier Baldwin Says Empire is a Great Force
Premier Stanley Baldwin urged unity across parties in a Victoria Day speech calling the empire a righteous force and predicting a future where Britain and dominions form a seamless realm from Glasgow to London and Bristol to Newcastle. He appealed to all to work toward a united, untarnished legacy for successors.
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Baldwin
New Zealand
Australia
South Asia
Canada
Glascow
London
Bristol
Newcastle
Stanley Baldwin
Signs of True Prosperity and Fay Marbe Smile Insurance
An editorial argues prosperity comes from wealth creation not hoarding, citing farms and mines. It notes Fay Marbe, an American actress, insured her smile for 250000 with a British company, coverage to 10 years for loss due to accident or illness. premium undisclosed.
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Tve
Theorest
Fay Marbe
Not a Judge and Night Potpourri in a Lurid Exchange
A quirky dialogue opens with a judge-like figure accusing a policeman of drinking whiskey. The constable confirms whiskey, provoking a sharp rebuke. The passage then drifts into a jumble of phrases about prudery, thinking, and a restless night, ending with a fragmentary line about a bald character.
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Exis
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T. E. Chester
Saskatchewan
Regina
Chester
Empress Hotel
Royal Alexandra Hotel
Winnipeg
Atlantic
Fred S. Smith
Hotel
Freddie
Canadian Pacific
Berlin
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