World Happenings Briefly Told
Death rate from tuberculosis in Ontario cut in half, announced by Health Minister Dr J A Faulkner at a Peterborough service club. A new front of police autos shares a claw device by a famous English auto racer Griver to aid in capturing criminals. A machine tests 3000 eggs per hour at London Grocers Exhibition grading by weight. Thomas Bryson, 93, oldest foreign missionary in China, died at Tientsin after sailing from Edinburgh in 1866. Dr Jos Heaslip named medical officer at Guelph reformatory. Northern Alberta railways officials report 3.5 million bushels of grain marketed this year, valued at about 2.5 million dollars. A man who previously mailed $5 to the U S treasury inspired others, swelling the ledger to 624,113.70 dollars. Central Alberta Dairy Pool and Sunny Alberta Creameries request freight-rate cuts on butter carloads from Alix and Red Deer to Vancouver. request dismissed by Board of Railway Commissioners.
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Royal Agricultural Hall
London
Thomas Bryson
China
Tientain
Edinburgh
Yorkton
Jos. Heaslip
Manville
Alta
Guelph, Ont
Northern Alberta Railways
United States Treasury
1 Treasury
Central Alberta Dairy Pool, Limited
Sunny Alberta Creameries, Limited
Alix
Red Deer
Vancouver
Board of Railway Commissioners
New Garden Methods Promise Tanks Grow Vegetables
Scientist Arthur C Pillsbury envisions a future where families raise vegetables in soil-less chemical tanks at a fraction of current costs. Experiments show tenfold production gains with shallow tanks partly filled with water, enabling crops like potatoes to yield drastically higher per acre than standard forage.
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Arthur C. Pillsury
Pillsbury
Inventions Of The Future Visionary Patents From 1936 Era
United States government experts on agricultural patents imagine corn cobs with zippers and self squeezing grapefruit while bananas thrive in Maine. They note patents on plants became legal about a year ago and have surged, with over 1,000 applications and about 200 issued for vegetables fruits flowers and trees.
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United States
Maine
Predicts world war within two years by Emil Ludwig
German Jewish biographer Emil Ludwig, arriving from South America with his wife, warned that war will come not between Communism and Fascism but from two conflicting philosophies and aggressive versus defensive nations, likening it to Europe’s religious wars.
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Emil Ludwig
South America
Ludwig
Berlin
Rome
Europe
Prison reform proposal for Canadian penal system
The Halifax Prisoners' Welfare Association brief to the royal commission urges centralization under one authority. It calls for reducing minimum sentences to one year for penitentiaries, applying League of Nations standards to all levels, capping convict populations at 500 per prison, graduated prison status, advisory visiting committees, and technical training for staff.
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Halifax
Prisoners’ Welfare Association
Royal Commission
League of Nations
Ontario Nurses In Training Diagnosed With Tuberculosis
Ontario reports thirty active tuberculosis cases among nurses in training found in medical examinations conducted last year. Education Minister J. L. Sampson told the Ontario Hospital Association in Toronto that over the past two years twenty three training school teachers were also diagnosed with active tuberculosis.
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Ontario
J. L. Sampson
Ontario Hospital Association
Toronto
RAF pilot lands safely after Solent crash
An Royal Air Force pilot crashed into the Solent and tore off the aircraft undercarriage but managed a controlled ditch and a perfect landing at the Gosport aerodrome in England.
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Solent
Royal Air Force
Gosport
England
Resourceful Australian farms repurpose old car tires
In central Australia old automobile tires fuel a wide range of uses. Inner tube strips form bow-yangs and dust-protecting legwear. tire sections become brake leathers, boot soles, braces, belts, and hatbands. Inner tubes supply collapsible buckets and rifle cases, while tires serve as waterproof mail carriers in remote farm life.
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Australia
Scientist Warns Earth Could Rust to Death
Dr Henry Norris Russell of the Smithsonian Institute outlines a theory that oxygen in the air could be depleted by the rusting of iron in rocks. He warns that over a vast time, this inexorable rock decay might exhaust atmospheric oxygen and end life on Earth, with the end happening in a billion years or more.
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Smithsonian Institute
Henry Norris Russell
Russell
The Christian Warrior Armor and Prayer
A devotional reading on Ephesians 6 10 21 frames Christians as soldiers in spiritual warfare. The believer must don the full armor of God led by faith, salvation, and the word of God while reinforcing with vigilant prayer, underlining constant spiritual defense and offensive gospel use.
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Ephesians
Paul Amerta
Paul
Theriumphant
Ty’ the Apostle
Christ
Erdman
Milk of Magnesia and prayer urged in ad style
The item markets Phillips Milk of Magnesia in tablet form and urges buyers to verify branding Genuine Phillips. It shifts to a religious note quoting S D Gordon about prayer shaping life, claiming all efforts flow from a life lived in touch with God.
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Nother
S. D. Gordon
We owe the world more than we receive
A reflective line urging self responsibility and civic duty. It emphasizes shifting focus from entitlement to obligation toward the community and environment, advocating practical acts of service and compassion to improve broader conditions.
Prosperity Draws Large Premium Flows to Lloyd's in a Year
Premiums totaling around 150 million pour into Lloyds of London in a year. Some people can't stand prosperity and some can't even get a chance to pay.
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Lloyd's of
Andon
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Regina
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Jabys
Uru
Balay
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Ecole
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