World Happenings Briffly Told From Across The Empire
The Board of Trade of Churchill promotes a slogan urging support for Churchill as a port. Calgary plans to fund the medical society with 24000 annually, hoping provincial help matches it. A Franco British trade treaty draft aims to end the tariff war. Hugh H Rowatt is superseded as deputy minister of interior from April 1. Dr A V Doughty’s archivist term extended six months. Northern Australia plan includes works tariff reform and a large government loan. Canadian National Steamships reports a taxpayer return of 23578558 by end of 1933. Dr John Spencer, pioneer in milk pasteurization, dies in Bowmanville.
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Board of Trade of
Churchill
Russia
London
Hugh H. Rowatt
Cm.g
A. V. Doughty
Dominion
Australia
Canadian National Steamships
Canada
F. G. Wood
Steamship Line
Montreal
John Spencer
United States
Bowmanville
Relic From Richtofen Plane Presented to Imperial War Museum
A fragment of red fabric from the German airman Manfred von Richtofen’s aircraft has been given to London’s Imperial War Museum. Richtofen, famed for downing numerous British planes, was considered nearly invincible until his disappearance on April 21, 1918. He was shot down by a Canadian pilot and buried with full military honors.
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Richtofen
Imperial War Museum
London
Gardening for Canadian conditions and lawn care tips
The piece advises selecting high quality seed from Canadian sources, avoiding saved home garden seed to prevent color and type mixing. It discusses early spring lawn repair with rolling or pounding, nitrogen fertilizer, and heavy seeding, plus methods for shaded areas and rock garden design using alpine plants and stone layouts suitable to Canadian climates.
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Canada
Reading Crucifixion Painting Sells at Christie’s London
Remarkable painting In the Street of a Great City by Mark Symon depicting The Crucifixion in Reading England sold at Christie’s London for about 90 dollars. The 58 by 83½ inch canvas features many modern figures and diverse groups amid controversy over its interpretation and execution in Britain Canada and the United States.
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Mark Symon
Great Britain
Canada
United States
Christie’s
London
Reading
England
Belgians Scout Radium Fields North of Edmonton
Belgian interests long held a world radium monopoly with Katanga deposits and control of the pitchblende supply. Reports from Edmonton cite scouts in the Great Bear Lake radium field as part of ongoing Belgian involvement in securing radium resources prior to Gilbert LaBine's northern discovery.
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Great Bear Lake
Edmonton
Katanga
Belgian Congo
Gilbert LaBine
Little Journeys In Science: From Drugs to Disinfectants
Gordon H. Guest surveys the history of medicine from ancient Greek use of plant-derived drugs to modern synthetic pharmaceuticals. It notes Hippocrates, quinine isolation by Pelletier and Caventon, evolution to synthetic anesthetics like novocaine, and evolving disinfection with chlorine and hydrogen peroxide.
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Hippocrates
From Blacksmith to Garage How Industry Creates Jobs
The Ottawa Journal notes that when a blacksmith shop closes a garage or service station often takes its place and hires more workers. It argues that engineers inventors and scientists create far more jobs than they destroy and greatly expand popular comforts and luxuries.
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Ottawa Journal
Two Sides to an Argument Like a Gramophone Coil
A compact reflection compares argument to a gramophone disc with a controllable spin. It notes you can stop a record to end a clash, implying debate hinges on pacing, pauses, and decisive action to halt endless cycles.
Your Liver And How It Affects Your Mood And Digestion
A fragmented health note links liver function to feeling blue and low spirits. It discusses digestion slowing and mentions remedies like laxatives and dietary aids, with unclear references to substances and products.
Agricultural Notes on World Production and Trade
The report covers wheat in Peru’s sierra, Japan’s wool mills and Australian wool imports, peaches in Ontario and British Columbia, and Aberdeen Angus sales in Scotland. It notes Canada as a top butter supplier to British Honduras, hay regions in Canada, and opportunities in British Malaya for condensed milk and canned goods. Hog, seed grain, oats usage, and grain export trends are discussed, plus sheep in Manchukuo and Canada’s poultry hatchery program and cockerel distribution.
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Perth
Scotland
Sir Edmund Findlay
Aberlour
Canada
British Honduras
West Indies
Ottawa
St. Lawrence
St. John River
Maritime Provinces
Georgian Bay
Ontario
Alberta
British Malaya
Korea
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Lake grain rate set at six cents a bushel to Montreal
W H Coverdale president of Canada Steamship Lines told Montreal shareholders the six cent rate for carriage of grain from the Great Lakes to Montreal was agreed last season, with the 1933 season averaging about 34 cents. He expects more stability this season aided by N R A codes preventing undercutting by U S inland lines. The report notes spectroscopic findings of iron sodium and copper among elements.
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Great Lakes
Montreal
W. H. Coverdale
Canada Steamship Lines Limited
Coverdale
Canada Steamships Lines
N.R.A
United States
Sunday School Lesson April 29 on Greatness Through Service
The lesson centers on Matthew 20 1 34 and the theme of true greatness as service not power. Jesus rebukes worldly authority and teaches that the greatest among you must be a minister and a servant, embracing sacrifice over status.
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Jesus
J. H. Jowett
Kingston Police Courts Closed After 122 Years
After 122 years of operation the police courts in Kingston on Thames England have shut down and will be razed, marking the end of a historic legal building.
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Kingston-on-Thames
England
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Briffly
Calgary
Medical Society
Mumber
Gordon H. Guest
M.A
Terest
Peru
Sierra
Japan
British Columbia
Niagara District
Prairie Provinces
Head of Lakes
Minard
King OF
PAIN
Liniment
Christ
Denicotea
Robt. Bimpson Co
the T. Eaton Co
Liggetts A Drug Stores
Moodey’s Cigar Store
G. Whebby
Rutherford Drug Stores Bess Metkiejohbn
Chantler & Chaniler, Ltd
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
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