World Happenings Briefly Told
Imperial Airways cites equipment shortages delaying trans Atlantic service this summer. Roosevelt omits Austria from US tariff preferences. Ontario starlings spread west. survival in winter uncertain. Arab shoots RAF Squadron Leader Hodson in Palestine. Canadian ex servicemen honor 1915 Artois battles dead. Canada buys US war materials in March. $1,194,168 mainly aircraft. BC to build $100000 auto testing centre in Vancouver. Red Tartar reports seven former Soviet agriculture officials executed. Herbert Hollick Kenyon ends search for missing Soviet flyers with no further North American efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Hodson
Royal Air Force
Ramleh
Palestine
Cairo
Artois
Battle of
Canada
United States
State Department
British Columbia
Vancouver
Kazan
Red Tartar
Commissariat of Agriculture
Tartar Republic
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
Winnipeg Flyer
Hubert Wilkins
North American
German Diplomatic Shuffle Names New Britain Ambassador
German Chancellor Hitler names Herbert von Dirksen new ambassador to Great Britain replacing Ribbentrop. Hans von Mackensen moves to Italy, Ulrich von Hassell recalled. Ernest Woermann returns to Berlin as under-secretary. Major-General E Ott becomes ambassador to Japan. Theodor Kordt replaces Woermann in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Herbert von Dirksen
Japan
Great Britain
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hans von Mackengen
Foreign Office
Italy
Ulrich von Hassell
Ernest Woermann
London
Berlin
Tokyo
E. Ott
Count von Weiszaecker
Foreign Ministry
von Mackensen
Theodor Kordt
Legation
Dr. Woermann
Coyote Traits and Welsh Hamlet Definition Echoed
An old Welsh law states a hamlet becomes formal only when it has a cook, churn, bull, cat, herdsman, kiln and plow. The text notes the coyote as a cunning wolf tribe member that avoids traps and poison and thrives in lands opened by white settlers.
Gardening and sewing notes from a vintage guide
A detailed guide covers window box gardening with rich soil and daily watering, plus front plantings of Nasturtiums and Petunias. It also discusses vegetable cultivation, moisture management, and fertilizer. The text shifts to a sewing pattern notice for a girl’s dress pattern 4752 with fabric hints and sizing information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary-Anne
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Flin Flon’s Value to Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Pratt Kuhn notes the Flin Flon mine required thirty million dollars to start and now employs 1,720 people, with 640+ from Manitoba and Saskatchewan and 243 from the British Empire. The booming town supports schools and groups, and mining fuels regional agriculture and trade, including a 1927 Winnipeg plant expansion by Canada Cement to serve Flin Flon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Canada
Elks, Kiwanis
Rotary
Reg'lar Fellers
Masons
Canada Cement Company
Winnipeg
Flin Flon
Rouyn
Que
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Making Clock Modern A Turret Clock Refit
A turret clock at the Port of London Authority Cutter Street warehouses, built by John Thwaites of Clerkenwell in 1801, is fitted with a small electric motor to replace its old weights and pulley system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port of London Authority
Cutter-street
John Thwaites
Clerkenwell
Canadian Goods Enter Northern Rhodesia in 1936 Trade
Canadian merchandise imported into Northern Rhodesia in 1936 valued at over 300000 dollars included condensed milk agricultural machinery and preserved vegetables among other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern
Rhodesia
Longevity Gap in New York Doctors Narrowed by Pension Rules
A Brantford Expositor report notes doctors in New York City show shorter lifespans than other professions, affecting pension schemes. It highlights longevity differences among ministers judges and educators versus physicians under an eleven year old contributory levy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Brantford Expositor
Customer buys car after wife’s decisive influence
In a pointed exchange a car buyer reveals his wife was the dominant factor in choosing the vehicle. The remark underscores personal considerations in consumer decisions during a routine sales interaction.
Cancer articles offered by Health League of Canada
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCullough's cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario. The notice invites subscribers to request the full collection.
Transfiguration Mount as Witness to Jesus Beloved Son
The Sunday school lesson on Mark 9 2-10 recalls Jesus taking Peter James and John to a high mountain six days after Peter’s confession. Jesus is transfigured, his face shines, garments whiten, and a cloud proclaims this is my beloved Son, hear ye him, with ties to Luke 9 29 and Matthew 17 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
Censarea Philippi
Jesus
Christ
James
John
A. B. Bruce
Luke
John G. Paton
Moses
Mount Sinai
South Africa Names First Overseas Trade Commissioner to Canada
Pretoria announced a new post for an accredited South African representative in Canada. D. de Waal Meyer, already the trade commissioner in Montreal, becomes the first overseas dominion to appoint a representative to a sister dominion. The role mirrors a high commissioner's duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Overseas Dominions
Bor
Canada
Union of South Africa
D. de Waal Meyer
Montreal
Pretoria
Department of External Affairs
Ottawa
Queen Mary Visits Museum Look at regalia from 1911
Queen Mary visits the Welsh national museum to view the purple velvet and ermine robe with gold chaplet sword verge and ring used for Edward VII’s 1911 investiture at Carnarvon. She pauses in silence then moves on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Storm
Duke of Windsor
Prince of Wales
Welsh National Museum
Edward
Carnarvon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bays “Amabastine AL
Aeris the National Wall Coating
Imperial Airways
Roosevelt
Austria
Ontario
von Ribbentrop
Bering Sea
By Anne Adans
By Pratt Kuhn
Doctors
Trans Canada Air Lines
DR. J. W. S. McCullough
Queen Mary
Wales
Pii
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