Canada A Land Of Contrasts As Described By Lady Tweedsmuir
Lady Tweedsmuir writing in the London Sunday Times portrays Canada as vast and varied with stark contrasts. She notes distances measured in hundreds and thousands of miles, towns concentrated in eleven million population, and a mix of modern cities and frontier landscapes from Mackenzie River to Niagara on the Lake.
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Lady Tweedsmuir
London Sunday Times
England
Canada
Lady Tweedermuir
Canada i
Mexico
Maritime Provinces
Atlantic
France
Germany
Russia
United States of America
Winnipeg
Mackenzie River
Women's Institute
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Ottawa
Gatineau Valley
North Pole
Hollywood
Paris
New York
Quebec
Louis XIV
Ontario
Niagara
Veteran showman may vacate Lyceum apartment above theater
Daniel Frohman longtime occupant of a unique Lyceum residence above the New York theater faces eviction after Bowery Savings Bank forecloses on the first mortgage. The heat is off and service cut, making the former salon unsuitable for living. The private elevator and the art collection describe a storied, exclusive space once central to theater notables.
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Daniel Frohman
Lyceum
New York
Bowery Savings Bank
Actors Fund
Frohman
Pine timber to pulp: South eyes huge paper growth
D. G Moon, consulting engineer, notes the United States has invested about 200 million dollars in pine based paper, with 27 million spent on mills last year. He forecasts 21 million more in 1939 and total 100 million since 1935. Experimental work with hardwoods supplements pine as demand rises by about a thousand tons daily. The South contains 125 million acres of forest, potentially yielding 25 million tons of pulp annually, far exceeding current needs.
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United States South
D. G Moon
Moon
United States
Turner
England
Admiral Booth
Thames
Admiral
Royal Academy
Europe
Grand Canal
Venice
Endorsement Ends Cashing at Los Angeles Post Office
A woman presented a postal money order for cashing at a Los Angeles post office. After endorsement at a desk, the back read I heartily endorse this raising questions about the document. The piece also notes the ukulele’s invention by Manuel Nunez and its introduction to Hawaii in 1877. China tops world population with 450 million, then India and Russia.
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Los Angeles
Chine
India
Russia
Lunch Partners And Bill Savvy A Irishman Joke
A joke about spending and saving compares lunch outings with men to a wife saving the bill. It notes a spouse’s different reaction when the bill is paid versus saved. A spiny anteater is cited as a warm blooded animal with an 18 degree Fahrenheit body temperature variation. Orchid growing rises in popularity with growers and hobbyists. A starfish lacks a brain yet can learn.
Japanese Canned Salmon Sparks Ottawa Australia Trade Alarm
Do minion government correspondence with trade commissioners in Australia reveals alarm over Japanese canned salmon found with Can pressed on top in Australia and England. Officials fear Japanese misleads buyers into Canadian packed salmon. Canadian pack threatened in Australian market despite tariff, with BC salmon industry kept informed.
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Australia
England
House of Commons
Dominion
Secret formula for panic proof vitamin locked at Health Ministry
The London Daily Sketch reports a secret chemical formula for a new glandular vitamin held in a safe at the Ministry of Health. The government hopes it could make Britain's population panic proof in wartime.
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London Daily Sketch
Britain
Ministry of Health
Florida Holds Vast Swamp and Wetland Web
Florida contains an extensive network of swamps and wetlands totaling about 19,800,000 acres, shaping environmental policy and conservation priorities across the state.
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State of
Florida
Plant leaves show nutrient clues in soil test
A botanist says plants reveal soil nutrition. Tobacco used as a test plant shows nitrogen deficiency makes leaves pale and yellowing, phosphorus absence yields dark green narrow leaves, and iron starvation leaves stay pale except veins. Dr. J. E. McMurtrey notes these leaf cues guide crop soil analysis.
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J. E. McMurtrey
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Punishment for Traitors in Straits Settlement Warned
Nigel G. Morris reports that traitors in Singapore face harsh penalties including the risk of losing their ears as Chinese in the Straits Settlement are accused of aiding China in its war with Japan. The Singapore assistant commissioner of police, aboard the Empress of Japan en route to England on furlough, notes ear clipping remains practiced locally. A coin is cast by pouring molten metal between two moulds while a struck coin is stamped from a metal blank.
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Straits Settlement
China
Japan
Nigel G. Morris
Singapore
Victoria
England
Magna Charta replica showcased at New York World’s Fair
The St Thomas Times Journal reports a Magna Charta copy exhibited at the New York World’s Fair now in a copper frame under bulletproof glass. The Lincoln Diocese owned charter, one of four surviving copies, is praised as foundational to English Common Law and the U.S. Constitution.
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New York’s
Atlantic
England
New York
Diocese of
Lincoln
British Empire
United States
John
Runnymede
Windsor Castle
Stephen Langton
Canterbury
Himelf
British Museum
St. Thomas
Marvelous Mechanical Man Elektro Counts, Talks At 1939 Fair Debut
Elektro, a seven foot tall mechanical man weighing 260 pounds, debuted at a 4 luncheon with Pittsburgh business and newspaper men. Created by Westinghouse engineers led by J M Barnett, Elektro walks, talks, counts to ten, distinguishes red and green, and uses 77 words. He performs 36 tricks, weighs 260 pounds, and is built from 800 hand made parts with a steel frame and aluminum body. He is designed for world industry use beyond the New York World's Fair.
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Pittsburgh
Elektro
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
J. M. Barnett
Elektra
More Food Required for Hair Growth Says Scientist
Prof Earl QO Butcher of Hamilton College in Clinton New York reports rat experiments show energy and body repair must be provided before hair receives nutrients. White rats regrow hair every 35 days. underfeeding slows or stops hair growth, extending to 50 or 60 days or more.
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Earl QO. Butcher
Hamilton College
Clinton
Soviet Motorship Chelyus Kinetz Wrecked Near Tallinn
The Soviet motorship Chelyus Kinetz of 6,598 tons was wrecked in Esthenian waters near Tallinn after running aground in a storm and breaking in two. The steamship Ashkha rescued the 36 crew.
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Tallinn
Diamonds form as single crystals not in mass formations
The statement claims diamonds always occur as single crystals and never as large masses. It contrasts crystalline growth with aggregation, implying that diamond crystals grow individually rather than as bulk masses in natural or synthetic settings.
Meteorological Flight keeps daily flights for RAF forecasts
For 15 years Meteorological Flight and Royal Air Force pilots have flown to about 25 000 feet from Mildenhall Airdrome to aid Air Ministry meteorological work and forecasts. Since 1936 they have completed about 1500 flights under near Everest height, despite widespread visibility concerns.
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Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Everest
Mildenhall
Britain
British Aircraft Society
The Modern Hotel and Early American Lodgings
The article traces the rise of modern hotels from 1894 with New York City’s City Hotel and notes earlier inns like Parker House in Boston had no in-room plumbing, unheated guest rooms, and minimal furnishings. It highlights strict guest rules such as no boots in bed.
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New York City
American Hotel Association
Parker House
Boston
Hitler Decree Makes Hitler Youth Compulsory for Youth
Chancellor Hitler orders all German children aged ten to eighteen to join the Hitler Youth. The program provides Nazi instruction and pre military training for boys. Boys will serve eight years in the Hitler Youth, then six months in labor service and two years in the army.
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Hitler
Hitler Youth
Reward or ruin for government service in Russia and Germany
A remark notes that in Russia and Germany a four man never knows if his government work will yield a monument or a scaffold, highlighting uncertain fates under regimes.
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Russia
Germany
Oats Imports to UK Largely From Canada in 1938
In 1938 the vast majority of oats imported into the United Kingdom originated in Canada. Total imports reached 1 476 777 hundredweight, highlighting Canada's central role in supplying British markets that year.
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United Kingdom
Canada
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Lived Above
Manuel Munez
Hawaiian Islands
O-Ed
Pretty Marie Hensen
Memphis
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Florence
Joseph Mallord
William Turner
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
America
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