Queen Mary Not Built as Speed King Says Times
The Times denies that Cunard-White Star’s Queen Mary is designed to reclaim Atlantic speed or to be the era’s luxury marvel. It portrays the ship as a balanced, safe, large liner built for a weekly service, with emphasis on stability, strength, and research aided by advanced navigation and safety systems.
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Cunard-White Star
Atlantic
Cunard Steamship Company
Mauretania
Italy
North Atlantic
Great Britain
Clydebank
London Times
Times
the Times
Seven Seas
Pearson's Weekly
Southampton
New York
New Uniform Calendar Plan Proposes 13 Month Opposition
A reform calendar drafts days to fall on fixed month dates with a 13 month year. It envisions January 1 as international holiday and includes a leap day every four years. Easter dates shift under the plan and several Saturdays would be holidays.
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Jacob With@eim
Regina
Father Wilhelm
Flying boats built for Imperial Airways in Rochester
In Rochester England more than 1,000 skilled workers are assembling 29 giant flying boats for Imperial Airways to operate worldwide including the Atlantic. Each craft has two decks for passengers and crew, with four 740 horsepower engines, a top speed near 200 mph and a cruising speed of 155 mph. The ships carry 24 daytime passengers and 16 sleeping bunks, with crew cabins and a smoking room beneath the pilots’ cabin.
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Rochester
England
Imperial Airways
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Claim
An old advertisement urges readers to wake the liver with Carter's Little Liver Pills to force two pounds of bile into the bowels daily. It promises improved digestion, alleviates gas and constipation, and touts the pills as harmless and mercury free while insisting on brand name use.
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Carter
Patient revived after heart massage and adrenaline
The British Medical Journal reports Ernest Hinsley of Waterloo Asthon aged about 45 who appeared dead on the operating table. Dr J V Fiddian revived him with cardiac massage and intra cardiac adrenaline, restoring heartbeat and later respiration though memory of the event remained absent.
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British Medical Journal
Ernest Hinsley
Waterloo
Asthon
J. V. Fiddian
Hinsley
Global Jewish Population Reported at 16.24 Million
A Jewish Scientific Institute survey places world Jews at 16,240,000 with 5,000,000 in the Americas. The population rose by 1,300,000 in ten years. Over 10,000,000, or two thirds, live in three countries: United States 4,450,000 Poland 3,150,000 Soviet Russia 3,080,000.
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Americas
The
Jewish Scientific Institute
United States
Poland
Soviet Russia
Argentina Forest Reserve Estimate Reveals Vast Timber
A historical estimate places Argentina with about 200000 square miles of valuable forests. The figure underscores the scale of timber resources and potential economic impact for the country.
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Argentina
Cherry Jelly Roll Tea Biscuit Bake
Drain cherries and reserve juice then boil juice with water sugar and corn syrup. Prepare an oblong tea biscuit dough, spread cherries, sprinkle cinnamon, dot with butter and roll into a jelly roll. Bake the roll covered with hot syrup in a 425 degree oven for 25 minutes.
Flyers Using Oxygen at Extreme Altitude
Flyers often require oxygen gear once climbing to about 158000 feet. Seedless watermelons have been produced in horticultural trials.
New Three Dimensional Animated Car Toons From Fleischer
Max Fleischer announces a 3D animated car toon system usable with regular projectors and no audience gadgets. He says the concept is past experiments and full length films in 3D will debut in six months using camera foreshortening and a special non focusing lens.
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Max Fleischer
Fleischer
Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery advertised in Buffalo
A brief promotional note recalls Dr R V Pierce practicing medicine in Pennsylvania and Buffalo where he popularized Golden Medical Discovery. The tonic claims to cleanse the system aid digestion improve complexion and act as a tonic. Available in new tablet size at 50c and liquid for 1.00 and 1.45 from your druggist.
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R. V. Pierce
Pennsylvania
Buffalo
N. Y
Golden Medical
Dr Clyde Fisher Links Floods to Sun Spots in Providence
In Providence Rhode Island Dr Clyde Fisher director of the Hayden Planetarium and Royal Astronomical Society fellow says eastern floods are definitely correlated with sun spots and predicts damp rainy weather for four to five years as spots intensify.
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North America
Clyde Fisher
Hayden Planetarium
Royal Astronomical Society
Providence
Rhode Island
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