World Happenings Briefly Told
A collage of short world notes reports Bulman 68 founder of Bulman Brothers lithographers dies in Winnipeg General Hospital. South Africa’s General Christian Smute ends political involvement. Atlantic flight tests resume in July per Lieut-Colonel Muirhead. France orders 100 aircraft from U S makers after industry delays. Royal Empire Society honors Prof A J Newton for Cambridge History of the British Empire. Sir Gerald Campbell named UK high commissioner in Canada replacing Sir Francis Froud. Earl Frederick Perceval leaves Alberta for England to enroll son in English public schools. Ancient Red Sea port city uncovered by American archaeologists. Guide to Waldeck expedition says Redfern crash burial found in Venezuela.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Bulman
Bulman Brothers, Limited
Winnipeg General Hospital
General Christian Smute
South Africa
North ‘Atlantic
A. J. Muirhead
O—umone
Air Ministry
United States
A. J. Newton
Rhodes
London University
Royal Empire Society
Gerald Campbell
New York
United Kingdom
Canada
Gerald
Francis Froud
Frederick Perceval
Earl of
Egmont
Alberta
England
Engah
King Solomon's
Red Sea
Theodore Waldeck
Giuiana
Paul’ Redfern
Venezuela
Young Jersey City Student Claims Safer Artificial Radium
Wallace L. Minto, a 16 year old from Jersey City, demonstrated an artificial radium he says is safer and cheaper than genuine radium at the Eastern Electronic Research Association meeting in New York. Dr E A Smith, who linked with Mme Curie in radium isolation, praised Minto and noted the product’s potential, priced at about 250 dollars per gram in small quantities, far below the genuine radium price of around 25 thousand dollars per gram.
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E. A. Smith
Mme. Curie
Wallace L. Minto
Jersey City
Dr. Smith
North Bergen
Newark
N.J
Eastern Electronic Research Association
New York
Minto
Too Much Open Work Buffalo Shoe Shiner Deplores Style
Bert Brown a Buffalo shoeshiner at city hall laments the decline of women wearing shoes and says there is little work left for him. He recalls past business when women wore shoes and jokes he might offer toe polish to attract female customers.
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Buffalo
Bert Brown
Buffalo City Hall
Brown
Bakimos Like Butter So Saucy They Eat It By The Pound
A playful regional note describes Bakimos savoring butter with enthusiasm, joking about how they would eat it by the pound if given the chance, highlighting a humorous food-loving trait in the community.
Treasure dives planned for sunken liner Merida wreck
Captain Joan Craig announces a forthcoming descent to the Ocean Boar off the Virginia Capes to recover treasure reportedly including 362 tons of silver bars and Mexican crown jewels. The Merida sank 55 miles off the Virginia coast with refugees from the Mexican revolution aboard, making the wreck hazardous and the search risky even with new mixed gas diving gear.
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Joan Craig
Virginia Capes
Merida
Virginia
Craig
Max Nohle
Coast Guard
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Francisco Madero
Diaz
Farragut
Garden Advice for Tender Vegetables and Pest Control
Gardeners are advised to plant beans tomatoes squash and cucumbers with staggered sowings and proper soil. Stake tomatoes, enrich soil with fertilizer and mulch where possible, and water celery rich soil. Use two to three fertilizer applications and manage pests with lime sulfur arsenate and whale oil soap.
Summer design pattern for a flattering youth style
Advertises Anne Adams pattern 4810 in cotton with jaunty pockets loose sleeves and a kick pleat. Features a pointed collar and optional left off pockets, available in sizes 34 to 48 with yardage details for size 36. Includes illustrated sewing steps and requests 20 cents postage to Winnipeg Pattern Dept, Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Geology of South Reindeer Lake Area Saskatchewan
Preliminary report details general and economic geology of the 5,000 square mile South Reindeer Lake region in northern Saskatchewan. It notes precambrian rock groups, staking by Nipissing Mines Ventures and Dominion Explorers, and proximity to Waddy and Nistoassini Lakes. The report discusses access, topography, travel routes, and contains two large maps. it questions commercial value of deposits yet to be proven. Also mentions a Toronto burglar raiding a house and eating home preserves.
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South Reindeer Area
Saskatchewan
South Reindeer Lake
Geological Survey Division
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
F. J. Alcock
Manitoba
Waddy and
Nistoassini Lakes
Nipissing Mines, Limited
Ventures Limited
Dominion Explorers Limited
Secral
Churchill Mineral Limited
Mines and Geology Branch
The Marble Chisel Life Story of Mrs Holt in Manchester
A fragmentary obituary notes Mrs M Holt dies in Manchester England after 78 years of Sunday School. The piece uses metaphor of writing life with a chisel on marble, not sand, reflecting lasting impact and memory.
Sunday School Lesson May Golden Text Emphasizes Self Control
This devotional note highlights first Corinthians chapter 16 verse 19 20 and II Peter chapter 1 verses 5 through 1 as guiding texts for self control in all things in Sunday school. The fragment reflects a church class reading planning for devotional reflection.
Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar Worship Youths Plan Story
The narrative recalls Nebuchadnezzar's 606 BC siege of Jerusalem and the training of four noble Jewish youths, including Daniel, in Babylonian language and customs. Daniel's resolve to refuse royal food leads to a ten day test of pulse and water, proving their healthier, sharper condition and earning them positions as the king's personal attendants.
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Nebuchadneszar
Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Jerusalem
Nebuchadneezar
Ashpenaz
Lloyds Seeks New Owners For Gems In Europe Demand
Gems rise in Europe with prices advancing as France guards against franc declines. Paris reports strong buying by investors, London notes Americans abroad paying up to 50000 dollars for solitaires. Lloyds sees high diamond insurance demand but its new war risk rule may unsettle owners in Spain or Shanghai due to non reimbursement during warfare.
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Spain
Europe
Paris
London
Lloyd's
Shanghai
Scottish judge recalls Privy Council during Edinburgh freedom
Lord Macmillan paid tribute to England after receiving the freedom of Edinburgh city. He recalled sitting as a member of what he called the greatest court in the world the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The day’s bench had no English Bar members and was presided by Lord Dunedin with Lord Thankerton as Macmillan's colleague. Three Scottish advocates to the Empire in that tolerant country of England, he said.
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England
Edinburgh
Lord Macmillan
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Lord Dunedin
Lord Thankerton
Early cancer research on tar and hydrocarbons
In 1915 Yamagiwa and Itchikawa showed tar can induce skin cancer in mice. British investigators in 1990 linked pure hydrocarbons to experimental cancer, noting Bensine and paraffin examples. Much work at Cancer Hospital Fulham Road London by Kennaway Cook Hieger Hewett and others revealed agents from coal tar and lubricating oils cause cancer, with safe removal possible. The discoveries shifted views on chronic irritation and cancer development.
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Yamagiwa
Itchikawa
Cancer Hospital
Fulham Road
London
Kennaway
Cook
Hieger
Hewett
England
Europe
Toe Dacoveriea
Editorial Note On McCullough Cancer Articles Availability
Readers are instructed to obtain the complete Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario. The notice promotes a full set request through the listed postal address.
House of Commons Passes Hire Purchase Bill
Five million British families welcomed the House of Commons approval of the hire purchase bill allowing installment plans for furniture cars radios and similar goods. Ellen C Wilkingon, Laborite sponsor, celebrated while instalment salesmen warned of stricter recovery rules requiring court orders and explicit cash and installments pricing to curb overzealous repossessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Ellen C. Wilkingon
When We Pine For The Good Old Day
The Lethbridge Herald weighs in on resisting nostalgia and urges drastic steps to abandon modern comforts. The piece mocks longing for past times by imagining destroying cars radios telephones and lights and even bringing down an airplane.
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Lethbridge Herald
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Fouth
Trede
Toronto
Lloyd’s
LW. S. Mecull
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