World Happenings Briefly Told
The U S tariff commission was ordered to study competition between domestic and foreign pulpwood with Canada as the top supplier to U S markets. Britain arms move to Bren gun replaces Lewis gun. Montrealers demo a batteryless phone from voice sounds. Four killed and four wounded by a road crew striking an unexploded WW shell between Venice and Tarvisio Italy. Duke of Sutherland estate lands near Brooks Alberta bought by Eastern Irrigation District. 5 000 acres irrigable. Mount Steele 16 439 feet first ascent by Walter Wood for American Geographical Society in Yukon. Inauguration of monthly air mail Fort Chipewyan Alta to Goldfields Sask. Lake Athabasca post near Goldfields 120 miles east of Fort Chipewyan.
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United States Tariff Commission
Canada
United States
Czechoslovakia
Armand Parent
Pierre Dufrese
Carmen Norasco
Venice
Tarvisio
Italy
Alberta
Duke of Sutherland
Brooks
Eastern Irrigation District
American Geographical Society
Mount Steele
Walter Wood
Society
Yukon Territory
Fort Chipewyan
Alta
Goldfields, Sask
Post Office
Goldfields
Lake Athabaska
Aluminum: A New Industrial Metal and Its Uses
Aluminum is a light, strong metal derived from electricity-based methods pioneered by Charles Hall. The material resists corrosion, conducts heat and electricity well, and forms alloys easily, enabling vast applications from kitchenware to aircraft.
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Gordon H. Guest
Tron
Charles Hall
Hall
Sioux Chief Proudly Displays King George Medal in Winnipeg
A Pipe River Sioux chief, Sitting Fagle, poses in Winnipeg with a rare medal awarded 150 years ago by King George III for services to British forces in the American Revolution. He says his people would not accept the country back and recalls they once lived here before pale faces took it. The medal, one of seven struck for the Seven Nations, bears the king’s likeness and a lion and wolf on the reverse. The Sioux at Pipestone are migrants from the United States and do not receive treaty payments.
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George HI
Sitting Fagle
Winnipeg
Pipestone
Canada
United States
Tovall
Holtein
Charles Saunders
Ottawa
America
Ian
North America
Ida M. Thomas
Panama Canal Opens to Traffic Twenty One Years Ago
The Panama Canal marked its 21st anniversary August 16, reflecting on the 82,673 ship passages and $394,566,620 in tolls since opening August 15, 1914. Today capacity is about 348 ships daily, though the latest fiscal year averaged only about fifteen transits, with a peak near eighteen in 1928.
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Panama Canal
New York
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Banyan's aerial roots let tree span wide area
The East Indian banyan tree is distinguished by roots descending from branches forming auxiliary trunks enabling extension over a broad area. A 1923 Tokyo earthquake caused greater monetary losses than the entire Japanese-Russian war with over 400000 buildings demolished.
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Tokyo
Assisting Nature and the Idea of Balancing Nature
A writer argues that humans must continue to assist nature, citing cattle breeds, horses, poultry, crops, and flowers as products of human selection and management. He claims dominion given by God includes developing and controlling natural materials, and urges partnership with God to improve farms, gardens, and landscapes.
Gloves to match fall frocks attract Winnipeg fashion notes
The piece describes crocheted gloves with flared cuffs designed to pair with fall sleeves and coats. It references pattern 0431 offering small to large sizes and all stitch details, with material needs. To obtain, send 20 cents in stamps or coin to the Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 115 McDermot Ave.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Magnetic Sweeper Removes Grime From Texas Highways
Texas highway department operates a magnetic sweeper along an 18 mile stretch between Pharr and Mercedes, collecting 291.5 pounds of nails and metal. In Brooks County on highway 66 the machine gathered 111 pounds of metal items, demonstrating usefulness in clearing roads.
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South Texas
Pharr
Mercedes
Highway 66
Brooks County
Texas Highway Department
Sunday School Lesson and Golden Text Theme
Sunday School lesson notes reference a golden text from Proverbs 31 about her works praised at the gates. The lesson cites Acts 16 11 15 181 3 4 28 Romans 161 6 and devotional Reading Proverbs 21 10 31 for study.
Paul and Priscilla in Corinth and Ephesus Mission
The narrative traces Paul’s voyage from Troas to Philippi, meeting Lydia by a riverside prayer, and his workshop with Aquila and Priscilla in Corinth. It covers Priscilla and Aquila’s move to Ephesus, Apollos’s initial teaching, and how the couple instructed him to teach more accurately about Jesus.
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Yana Mercmany
Philippi
Macedonia
Paul
Troas
Samo- Unrace
Neapolis
Lydia
Thyatira
Priscilla
Corint
Athens
Corinth
Aquila
Italy
Rome
Claudius
Apollos
Ephesus
Jerusalem
Alexandria
T. Cor. Asad
Titus
Jesus
John
John the Baptist
England Builds New Houses Since Armistice
Sir Kingsley Wood opens St Andrews Gardens in Liverpool noting 300 flats built on former abattoir site with balconies and larger windows. He tallies 2,670,500 new English homes since armistice, costing about 9 billion dollars from state local authorities and private capital, defending housing standards and rejecting cheapness concerns.
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Sir Kingsley Wood
St. Andrews Gardens
Liverpool
England
Sir Kingsley
Ministry of Health
Laundry myths and Aztec medicine in early Mexican study
A clerk touts durable shirts while a customer recalls shirts returning with their seams split. The text notes Aztec medicine held in high esteem compared to European knowledge, influencing the Franciscans who taught native remedies in the first Mexican college for Indians.
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Mexico
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