World Happenings Briefly Told From Across The World
George 8 Black, district agriculturist at Grand Prairie, promotes livestock for Alberta. A paralysing outbreak in Halatead, Ease England disrupts the quiet country. The first Turkic submarine to be launched since the Great War arrives at Kiel. Mexican schools gain arms authority amid rural attacks. Arthur Bartholomew, Canada's famed hangman, buried near Montreal. British Coal Campaign urges native coal use in ships. Belgium war veterans fund a memorial to King Albert on the Yser. A Vimy Battle cat dies in Suffolk aged 23. Freight on the Fort Fitzgerald to Fort Smith route records heaviest year to date.
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George 8 Black
Grand Prairie
Alberta Department of Agriculture
Halatead
Ease
England
Germany
Launches & Yards
Kiel
Arthur Bartholomew English
Arthur Ellis
Canada
Montreal
Belgium
Albert
Yser
Vimy Ridge
France
Covehith
Suffolk
W. Folkard
M. I
Mickey” Ryan
Northern Transportation
Fort Fitzgerald
Alta
Fort Smith
N.W.T
North West Territories
Opinion on Art and Artist’s Craft
The speaker rejects mere technical skill without vision. A painter must present new, individual views and convey emotion through light and subject. A strong artist can stir feeling only if they understand the grammar of their art and can render it beyond a literal image.
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Rembrandt
Red Fescue Grass Grows for Alberta Golf Courses
Alberta farmers in the Olds district north of Calgary cultivate Red Fescue a Czech export grass ideal for golf course fairways. It spreads with strong turf holding power and clings to embankments. seed sales go to United States clubs. The seed originated in Canada from Czechoslovakia via the Dominion Department of Agriculture but found a market as a golf grass rather than forage.
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Olds
Calgary
United States
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Empire Unity Urged By Chamberlain At London Meeting
Prime Minister Chamberlain called for empire unity in foreign affairs at the Empire Parliamentary Association annual meeting in London. Capt. Edward Fitzroy presided as speakers from opposition parties attended, urging a united front to influence world affairs. Scientists warned Britain faces rising sea levels with embankments and coastal towns at risk, citing Winchelsea and Dunwich as submerged sites in parliamentarily noted projections.
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Empire
Chamberlain
London
Empire Parliamentary Association
Edward Algernon Fitzroy
House of Commons
Pygmies Exceed Olympic High Jump Mark In Congo
Missionary Rev Howard Bigelow reports from Congo that a pygmy tribe held a village high jump record four inches above the Olympic standard. He notes natives work long hours for meager pay, suffer disease, and subsist on antelope meat and roots between periods of famine.
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Central Africa
Howard Bigelow
Calgary
Belgian Congo
Walk in London Brings Mockery for German Arrival
A Windsor Star report recalls a visitor meeting a German arrival child in London who says she now enjoys walks without being spat on. The piece condemns Nazism as filth and includes dialogue from Joyce and Bertie. It ends noting a hemispheric temperature difference.
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London
Windsor Star
Germany
Jumper Frock News Pattern 4859 for Anne Adams
A new jumper dress pattern 4859 from Anne Adams offers a jaunty panel design with blouse. Sizes 6 to 16 available. fabric guides include cotton breadcloth or warm flannel. order by sending 20 cents to Winnipeg Pattern Dept at 175 McDermot Ave E, Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Montreal hunter returns with Africa trophies and record albino giraffe
Harry Snyder, Montreal businessman and big game hunter, sails to New York after a Kenya expedition that yielded a world's record elephant and the first albino giraffe reported by a white hunter. He brings museum specimens, film, photos, and claims Arctic gear aided travel.
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Harry Snyder
Montreal
Canada
Mr. Snyder
New York
Kenya
Arctic
Eldorado
North West Territories
Africa
Athabasca
Mackenzie Rivers
Rockies
Edina the Oldest Steamer of the British Empire
The Edina, 171 feet by 26 feet six inches, registered in Melbourne, built by Barclay Curle & Co on the Clyde 84 years ago, survived three strandings and as many collisions. Now an excursion steamer on Port Philip Bay, she previously sailed Leith to Hull, served Crimea operations, and even ran the Civil War blockade to bring cotton to Lancashire. Florence Nightingale may have been a passenger.
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Melbourne
Australia
Barclay, Curle, & Co
Clyde
Port Philip Bay
Leith
Hull
Crimea
Florence Nightingale
Manchester Guardian
Catholic parishes denounce Fascist racial doctrine as idolatry
Bulletins distributed in Rome churches condemn the Fascist racial theories as a new form of idolatry threatening Europe with apostasy and barbarism. They stress Christian worth lies in the soul’s nobility, not physical traits, and warn the new religion will sow hatred, war and persecution.
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Rome
Europe
Sunday School Lesson on Ruth Devotional Reading
The excerpt offers a Sunday school devotional focusing on Ruth 1 16 where Ruth pledges loyalty to Naomi and to God. It links the golden text Thy people shall be my people with Ruth 1 16 and includes Psalm 4 1 8 as accompanying scripture for reflection.
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Ruth
Ruth and Orpah accompany Naomi in farewell to Bethlehem
In a famine era Naomi leaves Bethlehem with her husband and two sons for Moab where her sons marry Ruth and Orpah. After her husband and both sons die Naomi plans to return home. Ruth insists on staying with Naomi and pledges loyalty to her people and her God.
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Moab
Ruth
Judea
Naomi
Bethlehem
Orpah
Better Left Alone Door-to-door rug sales warned in Toronto
The Peterborough Examiner notes that door to door rug salesmen push bargains by claiming owners are leaving city or downsizing. A buyer paid $20 for a so called genuine inlaid program rug that experts say is inferior jute. The piece warns shoppers to stick to reputable stores that will stay open tomorrow and next week.
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Toronto
Peterborough Examiner
Canadian boy speakers surprise Edinburgh luncheon
George Tuffs of Niagara Falls Ontario gave an unprepared address at a civic luncheon in Edinburgh honoring the Duchess of Kent. More than 120 touring Canadian schoolboys received surprise invitations and Tuffs said the occasion would be remembered as one of the greatest events of their lives.
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George Tuffs
Niagara Falls
Ont
Edinburgh
Duchess of Kent
Tuffs
Antarctic Region Remains Much Colder Than Arctic
The Antarctic region sits roughly 30 degrees cooler than the Arctic, highlighting a stark temperature contrast between the polar areas. This difference affects climate patterns, sea ice extent, and ecosystem dynamics across both regions.
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Antarctic
Arctic
Wet Weather Payment Agreement Approved in London
The National Joint Council for the Building Industry of Great Britain approved a plan to fund wet weather pay. A £2,000,000 fund will receive sixpence weekly from craftsman and twopence half-penny from apprentices with employers doubling each sum. When work stops due to bad weather, workers receive 50 percent of wages. The scheme starts one year after funding begins.
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London
National Joint Council For the Building Industry of
Great Britain
Guatemala Sets May Banana Export Record With 1 213 203 Stems
Guatemala reached a new high for banana exports in May shipping 1 213 203 stems. The feat highlights continued citrus demand and regional fruit trade momentum.
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Guatemala
Unusual Accident at Kirkland Lake Baseball Game
Young Thomas Brady lost his index finger while watching a game in Kirkland Lake Ontario. He sat on an iron fence with friends and jumped down as a fly ball neared. the ball struck his hand on the fence, severing the finger.
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Thomas Brady
Kirkland Lake
Ont
Flamingo Crowned as Brightest Large Bird
The flamingo stands out as the most brightly colored among large birds with its vivid pink plumage and striking silhouette. Its coloration results from pigments in its diet and serves as a signal in social and mating behaviors observed by ornithologists.
Editorial Offer for Complete Cancer Articles Set
Readers may obtain the full series of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 1035 Bond St Toronto Ont. The note invites subscribers to request the complete collection through the organization's Toronto office.
Loch Ness Monster Plan Fails to Raise Funds in Scotland
Glasgow reports Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a Scottish attempt to study the Loch Ness sea serpent with cameras echolocation and scientists. Capt D J Munro sought 1500 pounds via one shilling shares but raised only 50 pounds, leaving the plan unlikely to proceed.
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Glasgow
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Loch Ness
Highlands
D. J. Munro
Missouri
Misdated Tombstone Sparked Delayed Grave Marking in 1934
Willard Hyatt of Burlington Michigan believed death would claim him in his eightieth year after ordering a monument in 1919 bearing the years 1854 to 1934. The stone was erected but Hyatt lived on past 1934 as his family members supposedly did in their sixties and seventies. He jokes perhaps the dates were swapped and death kept waiting.
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Michigan
Willard Hyatt
Burlington
Mich
Hyatt
Arlo Mumaw
Marshall
Corrected Arithmetic Joke from a Father and Suitor
A father confronts his daughter's suitor at the door asking about intentions. The young man replies he hopes to become an addition to the family. The father retorts the man must subtract, not add, implying disapproval.
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Mabel
Seaside Search For Semi precious Stones In England
In England after winter gales searchers comb seashores for crystals carnelian amethyst quartz and other semi precious stones to be used in making jewelry.
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England
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Walter Disney
The
New York Times Magazine
Alberta
Britain
Isle
Thames
Old Winchelsea
Dunwiches
East Anglia
Norfolk
Howard Hughes
Barkentine
Cap Pilar
Globe
Adrian Seligman
Joyce
Bertie
Augus
Schweizer Illustrierte
Zofingen
DR. J. W. S. M.cullough
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