Four Hundred Miles Yet To Complete Trans Canada Highway
The Trans Canada highway remains incomplete after five years of work and about 30 million dollars spent for over 400 miles. Provinces lead construction with 50 percent federal grants. estimates project completion around 1941, with the Lake Superior gap the longest and most uncertain.
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Sydney
N.S
Victoria
B.C
Canada
Nova Scotia
Lake Superior
Ontario
Columbia River
British Columbia
Rockies
Dominion
Ottawa
Alberta
B.C. National Parks
New
Prince Edward Island
Oer
New Brunswick
Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Ipswich Driver Must Pay Damages But Gets Pedestrian Relief
An Ipswich motorist is ordered to pay for crash damages after swerving to avoid a pedestrian but is later granted compensation from the pedestrian. The ruling affirms driver liability for car damage yet recognizes a motorist’s right to recovery when an emergency is caused by a careless pedestrian. The decision notes drivers bear primary responsibility on public roads, yet a careful driver who swerves to dodge a pedestrian emergency may incur further risk from others.
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England
Ipswich
Toronto Telegram
Proof Of Moving Power At New York Auto Show
In 1900 New York hosted its first auto show with a circular track built in Madison Square Garden where cars could whirl around at twelve miles an hour to prove to spectators that horseless carriages could move under their own power.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Australia Aims for 20000 Tons of Dried Currants This Year
Australia projects a yield of 20 thousand tons of dried currants for the year driven by favorable harvest conditions and steady demand. Officials note growers have invested in processing upgrades to meet export markets.
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Australia
Film Version Of The Bible Three-Hour Film Of The Bible Project
Vogue Films plans a color three hour feature cost of £400000 employing 10000 people to cover Old and New Testament stories in sections by multiple directors and famous actors. The venture faces censor restrictions on Christ imagery and must adhere to local exhibition rules, aiming for a 15000 foot release in commercial theaters. London Observer.
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Vogue Films
Red Sea
L.C.C
Cecil B. de Mille
Korda
Mary Borden
Victor Sjostrom
London Observer
Grandmothers’ Club of 39 in Chicago Takes Leading Roles
Time moves on as the Chicago Grandmothers’ Club grows to 39 members. One runs a candy factory with 300 employees, another heads the B and O women’s department, a third manages a $2,000,000 estate. The group blends work with recreation including horseback riding swimming bowling and hiking.
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Chicago
B. and O. Women’s Department
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Britain Establishes Protectorate Over Hadhramat
Great Britain proclaims an undeclared protectorate on Hadhramat, east of Aden, with independence formally recognized. The Royal Air Force will be called in when needed to enforce order under new agreements.
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Arabia
Aden
Great Britain
Hadhramat
Royal Air Force
Women as Travellers in Rail Journeys
A A Gardiner told the Westmount Womens Club in Montreal that women, mainly teachers and nurses, travel by rail in Canada and the United States. He cited romance, emancipation, and bargain fares as motivators, noted women's practical tipping, advertising influence, and preference for side trips. Women make most travel decisions and spending, with honeymoon inquiries and baggage handling praised, while men excel in dressing room space usage.
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Gardiner
Westmount Womens Club
Montreal
Canada
United States
Saic
Should Be Renovated Plans for New Brunswick Debt Law
Reform efforts target New Brunswick debt law long derided by lawyers and social workers as overly harsh. The act, claimed to be unique globally, faces delays amid coronation attendance debates. The New Brunswick Barristers' Association has led 20 years of agitation to curb the clause allowing both goods and body executions. In St John, debtors face about six imprisonments monthly.
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New Brunswick
Dicken
Micawber
David Copperfield
New Brunswick Barristers’ Association
Rust-Resistant Wheat Advances Barberry Rust Control
Canadian experts report rust-resistant wheats RL1097 and 975.1 reduce rust from barberry and buckthorn. Plans aim to breed hardier wheats including solid-stem varieties to resist sawfly and root-rot, with mercuric dust for seed protection. The committee notes progress and cautions ongoing work before full control.
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Comrop
National Research Council of Canada
Winnipeg
Associate Committee On Grain Research
Rust Laboratory
C. H. Goulden
Goulden
Dominion Rust Laboratory
North America
Maritime Provinces
United States
Canada
Saskatchewan
Ontario Agriculture College
Ottawa
Gartons
O.A.C
Cute Kittens Pattern 6105 For Linen Motifs
Pattern 6105 offers cross stitch motifs for linens including 1 motif 8 by 9 inches 1 motif 9 by 9 inches 2 reverse motifs 5 by 4 inches and 6 motifs 1 by 14 inches with illustrations of stitches and materials. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Answer to Annexation Question Highlights Personal Loss
A New Yorker anecdote recounts Dr. Dieckhoff’s query on Germanic unity and a Vienna Jewish family torn by occupation. A local office worker recalls a former Viennese home where troopers killed the mother and sister, leaving a son-in-law in camp, underscoring the world’s unhappy view of annexation.
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Austria
Dr. Dieckhoff
Vienna
The
New Yorker
Fitness campaign links diet and cookery in England
The British national fitness drive aims to improve not only exercise but nutrition. Authorities consider integrating cookery teaching with physical culture, planning more evening cookery centres and boosting patronage of existing ones to bridge the gap from school to married life.
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Ministry of Health
Board of Education
Board of Trade
Byron the Superstitious Beliefs of a Lone Figure
Byron held strong beliefs in lucky and unlucky days, avoiding Friday tasks and not letting others salt at table. He feared misfortune after spilling salt or oil or breaking a mirror, interpreting such events as signals of impending calamity.
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Byron
Mahogany Returns to Popular Use in Furnishings
Owing to new sources of supply mahogany is now as cheap as oak and is regaining favor as a furnishing medium.
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