World War Threat Deepens Over Ethiopia Italy Clash
An article warns that tensions between Italy and Ethiopia threaten global stability. It cites League of Nations Article 16 measures and the risk of a broader war drawing in major powers, with the world urged to unite for decisive action to avert catastrophe and preserve civilization.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Haile Sellas
Mussolini
Cer
Canadian Bar Associatio
Canadian Bar Association
Winane
Canada
Council
League of Nations
Mary Mess
de Persiata
League
Bavsich
Mt Tee
Dec Council
Village fights rat plague as men form anti-rat army
In Chilthorne England villagers accuse a rat infestation of siege like rage and have begun an anti-rat militia after fifty rats a night are killed with the problem persisting. The campaign follows a siege on a single farm and the rodents are described as a plague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilthorne
England
Siamese twin dahlia displayed in Victoria blooms
A strange dahlia example grown by Mrs. W. G. Gordon of Sooke BC was shown in Victoria. The pompom variety features two flowers joined at the calyx forming a nearly solid pink ball. Plant experts call it a queer aberration of nature and potential for a new autumn variety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
W. G. Gordon
Sooke
Boston Office Halted by Police and Ambulance Incident
A Boston office building was halted when a police car and ambulance arrived after a young artist perched on a roof began painting a skyline view near the waterfront. The scene prompted a call from Vernere to police to halt the artist’s unit.
Great Astronomer Ansa Cannon Receives Ellen Richards Prize
Harvard astronomer Dr Ansa Cannon, famed for classifying over 400000 stars by spectra, received the Ellen Richards prize for outstanding work by women in research at a convention in Toronto. The prize, once discontinued, is now named in her honor for women in astronomy.
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Ansa Cannon
Anne 3. Cannon
Harvard
Toronto
American Astronomical Society
Cannon
Madame Curie
France
Ellen Richards
Dr. Cannon
Prze
Intricate problem joins steel plates on liner Queen Mary
The Cunard White Star super liner Queen Mary faces a complex plate joining task as shipyard reports say no two steel plates are identical. Plates are large, many over 36 feet long and 6 feet wide, and each rivet hole must align with 10,000,000 pairs requiring exact fits and overlaps with six neighbors.
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Cunard
Clydebank
New York Times
Great Russian scientist honored by governments
News of the World reports Prof. Ivan Pavtov hailed as a leading Russian scientist for nervous system research linking brain and digestion. He won a Nobel Prize in 1904. Last year the Soviet Government funded a laboratory upgrade at £10,000 and now pays him £2,000 yearly. Wells notes he is said to dare oppose Stalin.
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Tsanst
Wolsnevist
Ivan Pavtov
H. G. Wells
Stalin
Bird Builds Nest Along Derbyshire Moorhen Nesting Edge
A moorhen at Egginton Rectory Derbyshire nest sits beside a small stream among reeds and irises. Each morning she decorates the nest edge with sprays of buttercups gathered from the nearby meadow, creating a bright natural display.
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Egginton Rectory
Derbyshire
Arden
Portland inventor makes magnet backed staff plate for music lessons
A Portland resident created a metal plate painted with a musical staff that uses magnet backed paper to teach children music. The device aims to simplify reading notes and practicing scales by attaching movable magnets to indicate positions.
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Portland
Ore
Demolition of Ben Churnich Cliff Brings Granite Boom
In Scotland a 500 foot high granite cliff on Ben Churnich near Bonar? was demolished by dynamite after a signal from Loch Etive. The blast yielded about 1,000,000 tons of granite, costing $20,000, promising six years of work for 400 quarrymen.
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Scotland
Ben Churnich
Bonawe
Loch Etive
Dropped From The Sky Massed Landing Of Troops
Soviet military strategists staged a sky borne mass landing of fully equipped troops in a drill. Parachute jumpers bearing rifles and sub machine guns landed behind enemy lines formed ranks swiftly and seized an airfield. They later advanced overland but were repelled by a mobilized defense with tanks and armored trains.
Little daughter follows suit in a season of patterns
Ellen Worth describes a kid sized sewing pattern line with a lightweight wool jacket and a wool jersey dress paired with velveteen. The pattern No 675 targets sizes 8 10 12 and 14 years with yardage details and mail order address for Winnipeg Pattern Department.
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Mummy
Ellen
Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Land Vanishes From San Francisco Heir in Tax Sale
A San Francisco landholder, paying taxes for over fifty years, found a parcel once left by his father in Esquimalt, Victoria, has disappeared. He checked land registries in Esquimalt and nearby, but no trace remains. The owner suspects the property is now underwater after a tax sale, with the municipality allegedly covering his tax sale recovery.
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H. Seller
San Francisco
Seller
Victoria
B.C
Esquimalt
Land Registry Office
Fiquimalt
Coast
Victoria Real Estate
Esquim
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