World Happenings Briefly Told
Horatio Walker, Canadian painter from List Ontario, died at his home in Orleans Quebec at age 80. A mass migration of Mennonites from Mexico appears abandoned per Ottawa immigration officials. HMCS Nootka launched at Esquimalt yards in Victoria. fourth Canadian naval vessel this year. About 50 million feet of Maine timber lost to hurricane Maught. forest losses tallied by Forest Commissioner Waldo. Bank of Canada report notes rising savings, deposits, and accounts in August 31 release. United Church of Canada urges more youth programs. Winnipeg juvenile court judge F A E Hamilton highlights need. Lloydminster deep-test gas and oil well drilling to begin soon by Lloydminster Royalties. Gold medal awarded to John Bright missing from Rochdale Art Gallery. case broken lock replaced by gilt replica.
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Horatio Walker
List Ont
Orleans
Quebec
Mexico
Immigration Department
Ottawa
Hmcs Nootka
Victoria
Esquimalt
Yarrows
Limited
Maine
Waldovey
Bank of Canada
Finance Department
General Council of the United Church of Canada
F A. E. Hamilton
Winnipeg Juvenile Court
Lloydminster
John Bright
Birmingham Liberal Association
Rochdale Art Gallery
Time capsule to be buried at New York World’s Fair site
A 860 pound time capsule will be buried 50 feet beneath the New York World’s Fair grounds. Canadian geophysicist Sherwin Kelly will guide future historians to the cache using present electrical prospecting. The capsule will hold records of science, engineering, industry, society and a book describing how to locate it.
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New York World's Fair
Sherwin Kelly
University of Toronto
Kelly
Public Opinion Shapes Government Power and Change
The text argues that no government can alter itself without public opinion, noting leaders’ dependence on public sentiment through frequent elections and the authoritative status granted by office. It emphasizes that officials master opinion formation over time and rely on it to govern.
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New York
New Steam Device Heats Water Fast
A gadget described as a glass globe with an electric coil turns water to steam in one second. Water reaches boiling in 12 seconds and then vents steam after three more seconds. The report references Italy having a king who is not working at the moment.
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Science Service
Italy
The
Tragic Greenland Colony Story Through Norse Sails
J. W Curran in Sault Star surveys Greenland colonization by Icelanders and Norse from 1261 to 15th century. The piece reflects neglect by Norway, estimated death toll of 3 000 to 5 000, and questions ties to later Inuit and James Bay peoples.
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Greenland
Norway
Acroas
Atlantic
James Bay
J. W Curran
Sault Star
Good Little Chinese Children In New York City Chinatown
The Joint Legislative Committee on Children's Court Jurisdiction and Juvenile Delinquency reports among about 3,000 Chinatown children in New York City there has been only one juvenile delinquency case in eight years. Parents attribute this record to the fear of losing face and to reverence for parents.
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New York
Joint Legislative Committee On
Chinatown
Canada Leads in Canned Tomato Juice Shipments to Britain
Arrivals of canned tomato juice at British ports in the four weeks to July 90, 1938 reached 7 087 cases, up from 5 42 the prior four weeks. Canada supplied 4 048 cases, and Britain imported 2 408 cases in the period. In the first seven months of 1998 Britain totalled 29 658 cases with Canada contributing 16 11, the United States 10 042, and 1 925 from other countries.
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Imperial Economic Committee
Canada
United Kingdom
United
United States
Debonair Junior Dress Pattern 4930 Designed by Anne Adams
A new pattern 4930 creates a chic junior dress with shirred waist and sleeves. Elastic waist gathers a button front yoke, suitable for short or long sleeves, in sizes 6 to 16 with fabric guidance and a mailing address for orders from Adams Patterns Dept Winnipeg.
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Chalsis
Zoe
Adams
Adams Patterns
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Sudet Mountains and Sudetis name origins noted
The Toronto Star cites Lippincott's Gazetteer to explain the Sudet mountains are called Sudeten in German and the term transferred to local inhabitants. The range, known to ancient writers as Sudeti Montes, is discussed in language of origins and geography.
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Sudeten
Toronto Star
Lippincott’s Gazetteer
Sudet Mountains
Sudetic Range
Sudetas
Sudeti Montes
Potatoes Grown In Youghal Garden Of Old Landmark
A note recalls a very first potato grown in a Youghal garden near Cork, still in existence today. It contrasts the long history of agriculture with a modern fact that rice now surpasses all foods in global consumption.
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Sir Walter Raegn
Youghal
Cork
Sunday School Lesson on Worship in Spirit and Truth
A devotional note cites Exodus and John urging true worshipers to honor God alone. It discusses God as a jealous, living God and condemns idolatry including inherited alcoholism and related vices as forms of failing to worship the true God. It frames worship as a heart shrine and emphasizes loving obedience to commandments.
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God
Syria
Assyria
Alvin
Jesus
Father
Wise decision enrolls stowaway Bobby Stap in marine school
New York 12 year old stowaway and summer trans Atlantic traveler has joined the New York Merchant Marine School aiming to be a cabin boy in eight months. He told the Children's Court he owes the sea and wants to be on it. In a Liggett store a girl sees a sign promising 50 000 chocolate servings and asks the meaning. the clerk says the sign was sent to its sister without explanation.
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Bobby Stap
New York
New York Merchant Marine School
Seven Seas
Ocean Hobo
Liggett
Adelina Pattl Lifetime Earnings Highlighted
Adelina Pattl, famed as a top operatic star, reportedly earned about five million dollars over her career. The article notes her status as a prima donna and mentions a separate caution about battery charging and freezing risk.
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Adelina Pattl
Notable F1 Name Out Listed in Who's Who in America
Ventriloquist Bergen, famed for Charlie McCarthy, is named among 31545 outstanding temporary individuals in the 50th anniversary Who's Who in America edition. The volume lists 2545 new entrants across fields as Rouget de Lisle’s Marseillaise is noted as a battle hymn context.
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Charlie McCarthy
Bergen
America
Newcom
Blarney Stone Replica Crates Sent From Cork to Los Angeles
Two wooden crates containing a ton of limestone from a Blaney quarry were shipped from Cork to Los Angeles for a loaned replica of the Blarney Stone. John Bodger of Hollywood ordered the stones to be carved into tiny copies of the famous stone, with lease back concerns cited as the reason for not supplying the original. The piece notes Blarney's tourist pull and outlines origins of the term blarney tied to McCarthy's evasive diplomacy and Elizabethan mockery.
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Appeatiea
Si George Goldust
Blarney Castle
United States
Blaney
Cork
Los Angeles
John Bodger
Hollywood
Blarney St
Blarney
McCarthy Laidir
Strong McCarthy
the Muskerry
Cormac Dermot McCarthy
Longe Carew
Carew
Elizabeth
Important exchange jokes on the letter e
An exchange quip claims the letter E is the most unfortunate yet essential letter. It notes E is forever in debt but never in war, beginning existence and ending trouble, and marks it as central to honesty and the start of ease and love.
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Noone
Earth Blamed for Irregularities in Its Motion
Yale astronomy professor Dr Ernest W. Brown argues in the Smithsonian report that the earth itself caused irregularities in its rotation. A 150 year review of sun moon and earth observations shows sudden changes in rotation rate, overturning earlier belief that the moon varied.
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Ernest W. Brown
Yale University
Smithsonian Institution
Brown
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