Vast Ocean Gold Still Hidden in Sea Water
NYU professors estimate world gold since Columbus totals 1.1 billion troy ounces worth about 23 billion dollars, housed in 63 526 cubic feet. They calculate ocean water may hold 50 trillion troy ounces worth about 1 quadrillion dollars, enough to fill a 729 foot cube, but extraction remains unknown.
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New York University
New York World-Telegram
Columbus
America
United States
India
Orient
Seven Seas
Tata
Columbia
Hungarian Partridge Feeds Heavily on Weed Seeds
The Hungarian partridge eats weed seeds to a great extent, highlighting its seed-based diet and foraging behavior.
Britain’s Largest 36-Inch Telescope Planned for Greenwich
A 36 inch telescope, the largest in England, will be installed at Greenwich Observatory. The building is nearly ready and the instrument is assembled at the Newcastle firm’s works in a temporary state. It will not be usable for months and, while large, Mount Wilson’s telescope in the United States remains bigger. Climate issues limit larger projects in the British Isles.
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England
Greenwich Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory
United States
British Isles
Editor with feet leads Czechoslovak cripples paper
Franticek Filip now edits Editor Is Handless Our Struggle, an organ of the crip ples of Czechoslovakia. Filip, a Prague Bakule School graduate, writes copy with his feet and can drive an automobile and operate a typewriter.
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Our
Czechoslovakia
Franticek Filip
Filip
Prague Bakule School
Versatile dress pattern for child sizes 4 to 10
This pattern guide presents a flexible design for delicate frocks and sturdy cotton versions. It features a red and white dimity model with picot edged frills, optional sailor-blue linen with white organdie, and edge binding options. Size 8 needs 2 yards 35 inch fabric plus contrasting yardage. price 20 cents.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Pattern No
Pattern orders from Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Contact details issue pattern number and direct to mail or pickup.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Britain’s Arms Policy Fails to Inspire Global Change
The article argues Britain’s embargo on arms to Japan and China failed as nations did not follow suit. It traces protectionism and disarmament reversals, noting Britain’s reduced defence despite empire needs and food routes. Premier Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John confront a looming World Disarmament Conference failure in Toronto.
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Great Britain
Japan
China
Far East
England
British Isles
Westminster
Pacific
Ramsay MacDonald
Sir John
Geneva
Toronto Mail and Empire
Special Stamp Issue Sought For World Grain Show
A proposal to issue a special stamp series commemorating the world grain exhibition and conference in Regina will be sent to the postmaster general. Previous bids to Hon. Arthur Sauve were rejected due to high costs. Sponsors plan another appeal while Ottawa dispatches say the postmaster general must decide.
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Regina
Arthur Sauve
Sauve
Ottawa
Fairy Tree of Melbourne and Sir Arthur Currie’s Call
The article describes Ola Cohn’s carved Fairy Tree in Fitzroy Gardens Melbourne with animal figures on a 700 year old gum tree. It also reports General Sir Arthur Currie’s Bowmansville address urging Canadians to recapture the pioneer communal spirit to counter national despair and factionalism.
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Arthur Currie
Fitzroy Gardens
Melbourne
Shady Gardens
Ola Cohn
Miss Cohn
Royal College of Art
London
England
Australia
Miss Conn
Canada
Bowmanyilie
Ontario
Sir Arthur Cirie
France
Ypres
Sir Arthur
New Receiver Sparks SOS Alarm on Ship Bridge
New York engineers unveil a distress receiver that records SOS tones and rings a gong in the operator quarters while flashing a light on the ship bridge. The gong sounds until the signal ends or the operator answers. In Manila Public Defender office proposed.
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New York
Fast Readers Outperform Slower Peers in Reading Test
A University of California study led by Dr. John A Hackett finds faster readers recall more after reading. In tests with 20 questions from two minutes of text, the top group averaged 12.7 correct, middle 11.8, and slowest 10.4. Subjects ranged from 210 to 510 words per minute with an average of 265.
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University of California
John A. Hackett
Asistant
Sisy
Hackett
Thiol
Hackett War
Graduae
Wheat exports from Vancouver near record pace
Vancouver export totals show 69,759,202 bushels shipped this crop year with expectations the 1928-29 record of 95,407,519 bushels will be surpassed.
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Vancouver
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