World Happenings Briefly Told From Across The Globe
Birmingham aids Liverpool by finding work for unemployed youths. Alberta restricts voting in long established school districts. A weather balloon found by Indian trappers near Sudbury. Windsor Ontario sends a jubilee plaque to Windsor England. Three Germans arrested in Algiers amid spy plot fears. Speaker Johnston honored as provincial legislature prorogues. Ontario to study education finances. Minister Leduc spoke to separate school trustees. Bill Brooks from Halifax continues long road trips for war memories.
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Alberta
Sudbury
Windsor
Ont
England
Windsor-Walkerville Vocation School
Algiers
Marseilles
Algeria
France
George N. Johnston
Edmonton
Ontario
Paul Leduc
Ontario Education Association
William “Bill Brooks
Halifax
Canadian Corps
Toronto
Nova Scotia
Montreal
Vancouver
Bill
Last Post To Be Sounded Daily At Menin Gate Ypres
The Last Post will be sounded daily at the Menin Gate in perpetuity. The ceremony, a long held emblem for Canadians who fought in the Great War, will continue thanks to an endowment fund raised by the British Legion to secure perpetual performance.
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Menin
Ypres
British Legion
Legion
Oxford Scouts Turn Old Hats Into Roman Helmets
Oxford Scouts showcased resourcefulness by supplying their own Roman helmets for a pageant. Instead of new gear they donated a stack of 100 old bowler hats, removed rims, and added one gallon of aluminium to fashion workable helmets.
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Oxford
Expedition Leaves Cairo for Libyan Desert Plateau
A scientific team departs Cairo to study bird migration across the Libyan Desert plateau near Glif Kebir and to investigate related ecological questions during their field trek.
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Cairo
Egypt
Glif Kebir
Libyan Desert
Mosquitoes In Amber Reveal Ancient Insect Size
A fossilized mosquito over 2,500 years old is preserved in amber owned by H C Page of Saint John. The specimen shows the insect larger than modern relatives and retains fibers on its body. The amber origins trace to timber along Baltic shores and the northern coast of Russia.
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H. C. Page
Saint John
Baltic
Europe
Page
Russia
Britain mobilizes civilian defense for gas and bombing risks
Great Britain quietly mobilizes civilian forces for gas and bombing defense. Colonel E M Cowell, director of the Red Cross in Surrey, appealed for 1000 volunteers for first aid nursing at Croydon airport. Over 500 have already been recruited and trained under Red Cross auspices.
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Great Britain
E. M. Cowell
British Red Cross
Surrey
Croydon
Red Cross
Handwriting Analysis Offers Personal Readings From Winnipeg Union
Readers are invited to send handwriting samples for graphology analysis by Lawrence Hibbert at the Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Each specimen costs 10 cents, with a 3 cent stamped addressed return envelope. responses promised within about two weeks amid high mail volume.
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Lawrence Hibbert
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Seagram Gold Cup Golf Tournament Plans Revealed
The Seagram Gold Cup brings six man teams from the United States and Japan to Lookout Point Country Club in Fonthill Ontario for July 11 12 and 13. George R Jacobus of the US PGA will choose captains from foreign and native born US pros. The Japanese entry lists Miyamoto Chin Asami Toda Yasuda Nakamura Kanuma with at least ten teams expected.
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George R. Jacobus
United States Professional Golfers’ Association
United States
Lookout Point Country Club
Fonthill
Ont
Seagram
Kobe
Kokichi Yasuda
Tokio Golf Club
Kenkichi Nakamura
Fujisawa
Yutaka Kanuma
J.G.A
Washington State Claims Trail fume damage settlement
The Washington State claim notes a convention signed in Ottawa by Canada and the United States to settle damage from sulfur fumes from a Trail smelter. It creates a joint arbitration tribunal to assess forest, crop and livestock harm since 1932, with $350,000 to be paid to Canada for damages up to 1932 and recommendations to prevent future damage.
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State Department
Washington
Trail
B.C
Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Pierre L. Boal
United States
United States Senate
Senate
International Joint Commission
Sunday School Lesson Prodigal Son and Forgiveness
The article outlines a Sunday school lesson on the prodigal son from Luke 15 11 32 and Psalm 51. It discusses the prodigal’s departure from home his ruin and return and emphasizes God’s forgiveness as shown by the father’s welcome and restoration of his son with robes a ring and rejoicing.
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Moses
God
Jesus
Ian Maclaren
New Time Table Printer Rolls Out at Victoria Station
A novel aid for rail passengers allows pressing a button to display a printed timetable at a lighted window. Each station has a numbered key producing a card with the full Victoria to station schedule. Similar machines planned for main Southern Railway stations, per the London Times via New York Sun.
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Victoria
London
Southern Railway
London Times
New York Sun
Distinction For Thursday Island On World Scout Tour
Lord and Lady Baden-Powell drew large crowds on Thursday Island Queensland as 200 Scouts and Guides greeted the World Chief Scout and Chief Guide among about 700 residents. The community’s mixed population included 400 whites and 300 Malays and Japanese.
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Lord
Lady Baden-Powell
Thursday Island
Queensland
Growing screens and hardy flowers for a Canadian garden
The article outlines two classes of growing screens annual climbers and perennials, with annuals like African Marigolds Cosmos and Nasturtiums offering quick privacy by July, while perennials provide lasting cover. It covers timely planting for vegetables, emphasis on rapid cultivation, watering, and fertilizer to ensure quality, plus sowing schedules for hardy and tender flowering plants and bulb timing for Dahlias Cannas and Gladiolus.
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Canada
Family farms dominate western Canada in 1930 labor
A report notes that in five areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan the farmer and his family supplied 82.7 percent of labor on 573 farms during 1930. This indicates the prevalence of family involvement in farm operations across the western provinces.
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Western
Canada
Alberta
Saskatchewan
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Menin Gate
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P.A.D
Seagram Gold
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Washington State
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Minnard
Perseon
PAIN
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Calgary
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