Changing Civilization The State And The School
The article argues that global economic stress and crop failures hit Canada, especially the west, forcing public service cuts including education. It warns against slashing schools, urges preserving high school access, and stresses paying for capable teachers to avoid a coming “Dark Age.” It cites Dean D. Buchanan’s remark “Young Canada we stand on guard for thee.”
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Britain
Canada
Dean D. Buchanan
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
Free-Handed Patrons and Thefts From English Trains
The New York Evening Post reports on widespread pilfering by railway patrons in England, noting 25 000 towels stolen from one system last month and losses of cups spoons window straps and glasses totaling thousands of pounds annually. Summer holidays see most thefts at trains hotels and restaurants suffer Christmas losses.
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New York Evening Post
Marin Marie Sets New Transatlantic One-Man Record
French seascape painter Durand Coup at, known as Marin Marie, arrived in New York aboard the sloop Winnibell II after a roughly 2,850 mile voyage from May 10. He navigated solo from Brest via Madeira and Martinique, beating Captain Slocum's Spray record with a 29 day crossing and extensive time at the tiller scarcely touched. The one man craft, launched at Boulogne, features cabin steering and fully enclosed cockpit for sleeping during rough seas. Marie aimed to gather material for a seascape during the voyage.
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Marin-Marie
Durand Coupat
New York
Brest
Madeira
Dominica
Port de France
Martinique
Marie
Slocum
Cape Sabie
Lisbon
Boulogne
Matinique
British Bank Strength Mirrors Canadian Growth And Royal Visit
An annual report from a leading British bank shows deposits up by 119,000,000 over last year and total resources near two billion dollars, with dividends of 10 and 14 percent. Lord and Lady MacMillan discuss future visits to Canada and the Rockies, while Manitoba patrolmen in tiny cars aid highway enforcement in Calgary, demonstrating cross-border financial vigor and policing novelty.
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Britain
Economic Conference
MacMillan
England
Lady MacMillan
Royal Earned
Winnipeg Tribune Commission On Banking
Canada
Rockies
Prairies
Lord
Saint John
Canadian Bar Association
Regina
Lord Macmillan
Maritimes
Victoria
Lady Macmlan
Butchart Gardens
Manitoba
Surrey
Calgary
Austin
Manitoba Motor League Safety Patrol
Doing Good Business With Other Countries Japan Rapidly Forging Ahead
British shipowner RS Dalgleish of Newcastle on Tyne praised Japan for rapid international business progress during his world tour ending in Victoria and Vancouver. He said Japan has surpassed Britain and the United States, urging the removal of tariffs subsidies and quotas to cut costs and boost global trade.
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Japan
RS. Dalgleish
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Victoria
Australia
Vancouver
England
Great Britain
United States
Dalgleish
British steam engine 2717 captured by Germans and retired
A veteran British locomotive No 2717, famed as possibly the only British engine captured by Germany, has died after a long service life. It served at Cambrai in 1917 as a machine gun post, was recaptured in 1918, returned home, and was decorated for wartime service before being withdrawn and scrapped.
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Cambrai
No Man's Land
Crystal Palace Tower to Test Television Signals
Experiments to permit experimental television transmissions from Crystal Palace south tower have been completed. Transmissions will use ultra short waves below eight metres. The 550 foot tower above the Thames is chosen for its height. H Thomas, assistant organist and amateur wireless operator, tested from the north tower with a five metre wave and reports of reception from up to 200 miles away.
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Thames
Crystal Palace
H. Thomas
Fingerprints Versus Photographs Highlighted By Buffalo Police Chief
Police Commissioner Austin Roche at a Chicago convention urged keeping fingerprints in family albums as a tool for missing persons or kidnapping cases. He proposed taking fingerprints of a child to preserve identity over time. A radium clock is cited as a method to date the earth, while soil erosion and salt loss are described as an hourglass.
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Austin Roche
Buffalo
N.Y
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Chicago
Roche
Royal College honors queen with music degree at Buckingham Palace
The Royal College of Music conferred a degree of Music honor on the queen at Buckingham Palace. The presentation was made by Sir Hugh Allen, director. Lord Palmer, vice-president. and Charles Morley, honorary secretary. The queen received a jewel and chain from the Prince of Wales, who is college president.
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Royal College of Music
Prince of Wales
Buckingham Palace
Hugh Allen
Lord Palmer
Charles Morley
Honest in the Long Run and Tradeoffs
A compact reflection contrasting enduring honesty with the practical need to weigh truthfulness in daily choices. The piece argues honesty builds trust and long term value, while acknowledging situations where blunt truth may have immediate costs.
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Dominion
Fower
Seavenis
Terrie Lombo Railways
Batu Esha
Agsatle
Crystal Palace Tower
Sturen
Eaux
Ramsay ‘Gttawa
Oni
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