World Happenings Briefly Told From Abroad and Canada
World happenings cover nine topics including Cardi Wales expedition to explore eastern shores and Cape Hope, Lieut Col Meredith becoming League of Nations secretary in Canada, Bergson resigning from IC cooperation post, Soviet travel desk plan to audit diplomats, Dominion livestock at Royal Winter Fair in Toronto with BC fruit exhibit, BC Legislature in October, Senator Webster arranging Welsh coal shipments, US miners strike impact on Canadian trade, and prison diet inquiries in Ontario.
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Henri Louis Bergson
France
League of
Dominion
Toronto
British Columbia
Webster
Oukland
Canada
United States
A. T L. McPherson
Ontario
Invention Cuts Gasoline Losses in Tanks
Standard Oil of Indiana develops breathing bags to reclaim evaporated gasoline. The system captures daytime vapor from tanks and returns it at night, reducing losses from heat driven evaporation. Researchers Robert Wilco, H W Atwell, EP Brown, and B W Chevicek led the effort for Standard Oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Mines
Te Standard Oil Company
Indiana
American Chemical Society
Standard Oil
Robert E. Wilco
H.W. Atwell
EP. Brown
B W. Chevicek
Standard O1l Company
King Presents Colors To Welsh Guards
Royal ceremony at Windsor Castle marks the presentation of new colors to the Welsh Guards. The King recalls the regiment’s formation ten years ago and notes its Great War deeds are inscribed on the colors, highlighting their wartime history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welsh Guards
Windsor Castle
Buckingham Palace
Free State seeks independent medical register
The Free State plans an independent medical register severing ties with the British General Medical Council. Doctors qualifying in the Free State could not practice in Britain or Northern Ireland, while physicians from those areas would be barred from Southern Ireland. The measure, to take effect next February, awaits Irish Parliament approval. President Cosgrave says temporary disadvantages are possible but notes the move clashes with constitutional status.
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Free State
British General Medical Council
Ireland
Reat Mtain
Northrn Ireland
Senate
Dally Eireann
Cosgrave
Reaches Top Record Auto Licenses Issued in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan issued 68 000 private auto licenses by Aug 12 this year, per provincial license inspector F W Kerr, up about 4 600 from the 1924 peak. Truck licenses reach about 1 000 to date, with liveries and dealer licenses around 1 500 each. Transfer rules pose trouble as owners must secure proper license transfers when changing cars. Some drivers lack valid licenses due to transfer issues and misperceptions about price licenses issued after July 1, with half-price licenses available to post October 1 buyers who affidavit non-use prior to that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
F W. Kerr
Tnis
Mr. Kerr
Kerr
Moscow Foreign Envoys Seek Social Life Amid Theatrical Dullness
Moscow officials arrange monthly free entertainments to ease tedium among diplomats and correspondents. In June a grand gathering at the State Opera House featured ball dances, operatic pieces, and vocal solos by Bolshevik artists. Foreign leaders arrive with many limousines. the French ambassador and wife maintain quiet, unobtrusive social routines.
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Moscow
Orly
Russia
Herbette
Brief Scottish Assembly Humor and School Exam Quip
A Scottish Assembly member prides himself on brevity in stories, a wire from his son notes S C 8 £5 RSVP, and the son later answers his final exam Human 345 verse 5 with Sorrow vanquished, labor ended. The exchange ends with a remark on a parachute and a note that there are over 16 million Baptists worldwide.
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Hag
Scottish Generals Assembly
S. C
Jordan
Men's and youths' shirts and nightshirts catalog listing
A vintage catalog item outlines men's and youths shirts with attached or separate collars in various chest sizes 34 to 46, plus 32 and 40 inch material needs and prices in cents. It also lists union suits and nightshirts with size mappings, yardage requirements, and a fashion store note about patterns and a coupon offer with each copy.
How To Order Patterns Pattern No Province ain of stamps
Instructions appear to explain ordering patterns and stamps with a wrap color option. The fragment mentions sending 20 cents and references a pattern number and province. The text is incomplete but suggests a mail order request for stamps with a color wrap and a small postage fee.
Comparatively Young Doctor Gye Earns World Attention
Only forty on his birth day, Dr Gye has quickly made key medical advances. He studied nervous diseases and dust toxicity before focusing on the cancer germ. His career spans work at the National Institute of Medical Research and service with the British Medical Corps in France and Italy. He is the son of an English railway laborer and funded his education at the University of Edinburgh by working as a railway porter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Edinburgh
British Medical Corps
France
Ialy
Lare of the Undiscov Lancommsnoru Honored in Norway
The Baltimore Sun notes the uncredited explorer hailed in Norway as a brave man and patron whose gifts enabled Amundsen’s journeys, highlighting wealthy Americans funding William Beebe’s expedition and the lure of distant regions as hunting grounds for the curious and funded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancommsnoru Ae
Norway
Amundsen
Prince of Monaco
William Beebe
Western
Central Asia
Africa
South America
Baltimore Sun
Hard sare merchant hires red-haired youth for work
A hardware merchant advertises a job opening. A red-haired, red-faced youth applies and is asked if he likes work. He is told he can have the job, identified as the first boy who has been there today.
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Snr
Bos
Entitled To Crow's Nest Tariff Applies To North
William Innes, Calgary transportation expert and chair of the provincial trade committee, says Peace River is entitled to Crow's Nest freight rates for grain and flour without government action. He asserts the ED and I C line should also receive Crow rates, not just western prairie routes, and calls any other arrangement unfair.
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Calgary
Peace River
William Innes
Transporton
CPR
Crow's Nest
Edmonton
Dunveean
British Columbia
Mr. Innes
Provincial Board of Trade
Pominton
Free Insulin Policy Announced For Alberta
Alberta Health Department will provide insulin to patients unable to afford it. Minister Jon George Hoadley announced the program, prompted by editor concerns in Hanna Herald. Applications require medical diagnosis and financial review. supplies issued from Edmonton. Ontario already uses a similar approach.
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Alberta
Alberta Department’ of Health
Jon
George Hoadley
Walth
Hanna Herald
Health Department
Edmonton
Ontario
Canada Shows Growth in Radio Sets Production in 1924
Dominion bureau of statistics reports Canada produced radio sets and parts totaling 3,201,105 dollars in 1924 while radio licenses issued by the Department of Marine and Fisheries during the 22 months ending March 1925 reached 2,996 persons. Ontario led with 41.84 percent of licenses. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Alberta followed with varying totals.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Department of Marine and Fisheries
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Columba
Alberta
Venice Faces Threat as Auto Road Links Arrive
Venice risks isolation as a new automobile road to Padua nears completion. Plans envision joining this route with the Padua Milan road, potentially ending Venice's centuries of isolation by water and train only. The project would connect the city to the mainland for the first time by road.
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Venice
Padua
Padua Milan
Italy
Amundsen Plans New Polar Flight Expedition
The Aftenposten reports Captain Amundsen, fresh from his North Pole attempt, is preparing a new aeroplane expedition for next summer. The route runs from Spitzbergen over the Pole to Alaska, with financial backing secured and Lincoln Ellsworth joining the mission.
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Indsen
Aften Posten
Olso
Norway
Ates
Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Pole
Arctic
Alaska
Lincoln Ellsworth
Western Canada Irrigation Association Meet Opens
Delegates from British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan gather for the Mindendh annual convention in Kelowna as irrigation delegates and railway representatives plan to discuss productive farming shifts from barren land to fruit growing in the district.
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Keloyna
Western Canada
Coltumble
Alberta
Saskatchewan
EU Ab
Crossword Puzzle Scramble Reveals Historic Clues and Names
Fragments show a crossword puzzle amid scattered clues and stray words. The readable entries mention terms like Protestant Episcopal, Delirium tremens, and old woman, suggesting a miscellaneous page with puzzles, notes, and partial definitions.
Mourning Ribbon On Ship For Sir William Petersen
The Rio Dorado of the Petersen Line sails up the St Lawrence with a broad blue band around its hull as a six month mark of respect for the late Sir William Petersen who died suddenly while on a visit. Captain K Hockin praised the corrugated ship experiment before the ocean rate committee in Parliament, noting the vessel’s speed and fuel efficiency.
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Montreal
Cmeen
Rio Dorado
Petesen Line
St Lawrence
William Peter
Sun
Cme
K. Hockin
Ocean Rate Committee
House of Commons
Ancient Mongolian finds from Asiatic Expeditions reported
Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History cables The Avi a Magazine detailing third Asiatic Expedition results in Mongolia. Findings include 12,600 year old human culture evidence, 40 dinosaur skeletons and skulls, pre Mongol remains, ancient animal bones, and a large cache of stone tools from prehistoric Avian plateau dwellers.
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Mongolia
Amecan Museum of Natural History
Roy Chapman Andrews
Avia Magazine
Remarkable Brain Exhibits in London Visit
An American, Mr Harry Kale, touring London, demonstrates a remarkable feat by reading a paper upside down and backwards on a single board while delivering continuous narration. He claims to spell words in Habt style and to answer audience questions about populations and industries of major towns in Britain, Canada, and the U S. The event includes reading, writing figures totaling 7 125 546 997, and a health note urging daily fruit vegetables and four glasses of water.
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London
Harry Kale
Great Britain
Canada
United States
League of Nations to Abolish Slavery in Asia and Arabian Lands
A Geneva report from the League of Nations urges universal abolition of slavery in Asiatic Mohammedan states including the Arabian peninsula and the Kingdom of Herat. It calls for granting freedom without pay, preventing return to origin, and extending the right to pursue slave dealers, with public works labor restricted.
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Logue of Nationa
Arabian Peninsula
Kingdom of the Herat
Far East
Mecca
League of Nations
Geneva
Vie Commission
Havery
Fredom
League Commission
Transparent metal foil from Berlin physicist discovery
Berlin doctor Karl Mueller of the physical research bureau claims a method to thin metal foil to one millionth of a centimetre while preserving elasticity. The process, applicable to various metals including gold, could render metals transparent for use in telephone, radio, and musical instrument industries. Rolls would be as transparent as glass, allowing study of surface structure.
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Berlin
Karl Mueller
Physical Research Bureau
Riaims
Mueller
Saint Christina Body Reburied in Rome Cathedral Transfer
The body of Saint Christina the Virgin, buried seventeen centuries ago in the Catacombs of Rome, has been brought to New York and will be deposited in the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Cleveland. It was presented to Bishop Joseph Schrewbs by the Pope in recognition of offerings made for the erection of the House of Catacombs built by the Pontifical Commission on Sacred Archaeology.
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Christina the Virgin
Rowe
New York
Cleveland
Joseph Schrewbs
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cardi
Wales
Scandinavia
Cape Hope
CP Meredith
League of Nations Society of Canada
HG Richardson
Ghicestes
Australia
Auckland
Oil Company
Aklavik
Qursiionnaire
Fienne
Gye
Crwer Vypreneson
Seaich
Chiy
Vermont
Money Factory
Roy One
Turkish Academy
Verteat
America
Roa
Sir William Petersen
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