World Happenings Briefly Told In World News Roundup
The Duke of Gloucester is made a full major in the 10th Royal Hussars. Canadian Bisley team enjoyed hospitality in Glasgow. British Commons adjourned to Oct 28 with no general election planned before spring. Sing Sing electric chair has 375 executions in 44 years, four women. Southern Rhodesia prime minister suggests United States of Africa. Belfast rioting ends with reopened shops. Harold Sutherland, 17, first piper to play for TV, guest at Charlotte Town service club. Manitoba field day on barley crop and marketing under National Barley Committee. Military police outside a U S army reservation study a new mystery ray to detect ships at sea in fog.
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Duke of Gloucester
10Th
Royal Hussars
Glasgow
Scotland
House of Commons
Sing Sing
Cape
East Africa
United States of Africa
G. M. Huggins
Southern Rhodesia
Belfast
Harold Sutherland
Westville
N.S
Service Club
Charlottetown
Sutherland
Canada
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg
National Barley Committee
Record Of Publisher Lord Atholstan 87 in Montreal Star
Lord Atholstan, born Hugh Graham in Atholstan Quebec on July 5 1848, is 87 and active. He has led the Montreal Star for sixty six years and built a leading Quebec paper with a weekly reach of about 250 000 subscribers. He remains a daily presence guiding his newspapers and public commentary.
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Lord Atholstan
Montreal Star
Montreal Standard
Montreal
Canada
Quebec
Weekly Star
Hugh Graham
Atholstan
Huntingdon County
Star
Metropolis
Sherbrooke Record
Governor Talmadge Voices Sympathy For Newspaper Workers
Eugene Talmadge, editor in Atlanta, laments low pay in journalism while noting the hard work of keeping a paper afloat. He recalls his own experience with debt, stressing the challenge of maintaining engaging news columns. The governor, associate editor of The Statesman, comments on the press.
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Eugene Talmadge
Atlanta
Georgia
the Statesman
Recipes For This Week Emergency Special
114 lbs round steak mixed with breadcrumbs egg onion juice salt and pepper. Add milk to mold into small cakes and fry until browned. Prepare gravy from pan fat with browned flour then cream sauce with milk and return cakes to simmer. Serves about eight.
Montreal woman completes 550 mile solo canoe voyage
Ida Lyman, 22, a Montreal based social worker born in Denmark, finishes a solo 550 mile trip from Montreal to New York in a 15 foot Eskimo kayak. She faced storms and rapids on Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River, the hardest leg, before tying up at New York.
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Ida Lyman
Montreal
New York
Lake Champlain
Bill Byrne
George Washington Boating Association
Miss Lyman
Denmark
Richeliu
Dried Apricot and Pineapple Jam Recipe
A recipe for dried apricot and pineapple jam uses prepared fruit sugar and fruit pectin to make about eleven 6 ounce jars. The method covers soaking apricots, grinding fruit, boiling with water, adding pectin, skimming, and sealing with paraffin.
Famous Nurse Florence Nightingale Ties Highlighted in Ontario Collection
University of Western Ontario receives a collection from Thomas Connor of Goderich about Rev. John Smithurst who died in Elora in 1867. Smithurst, born in Derbyshire, was Florence Nightingale's fiancé in youth but the match was broken due to age and family objections. Nightingale later rose to global nursing fame.
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University of Western Ontario
London
Thomas Connor
Goderich
John Smithurst
Elora
Ontario
Florence Nightingale
Derbyshire
England
Canada
Daniel in Babylonian College and the King’s Test
In the third year of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar captures Daniel and companions for a three year royal education in Babylon. Daniel refuses kingly dainties, proposes a ten day pulse and water trial, and proves healthier and wiser, earning high positions with the king.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel
Jehoiakim
Babylon
Jerusalem
Temple
Princes’ College
Ashpenaz
Brunswick Star Quilt Pattern Description and Purchase Note
The Brunswick Star quilt pattern features an eight point star with diamond patches, simple to assemble with only four materials and three pattern pieces. Pattern 5249 includes Block Chart, yardage, and block layout diagrams for sizes, with a 20 cent request to the Household Arts Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Brunswick
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Town Crier of Cromer Resigns After 200 Years
The Cromer town crier R H Laurence has resigned for lack of pay. Summer earnings averaged $3 a week, winter brought almost nothing. The 200 year old bell is silenced and the uniform stored. Town crying fades as newspapers and radio take over.
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Cromer
England
R. H. Laurence
Crier
Laurence
Woman Learns to Drive Imagining Husband at Wheel
A domestic vignette shows a woman hesitant to drive while her husband reassures her by saying to imagine he is driving. The brief exchange highlights common early driving jitters and humorous coping.
Little Journeys In Science: Alkalis and Their Uses
Gordon H. Guest explains alkalis origin and properties, lists common bases such as sodium hydroxide potash and calcium hydroxide, describes their reactions with acids indicators and practical uses in soap making testing fibers mortar lime water and the breath test. It notes ammonium hydroxide as a cleansing agent and neutralizer.
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Magnesia
Blind Students Learn to Swim at Chorleywood College
Viscountess Hampden opened Chorleywood college pool in Hertford where totally blind or nearly blind girls are educated. The pool features a raised edge pavement and a padded four foot diving board. An official of the National Institute of the Blind says swimming boosts confidence and grace for the blind.
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Viscountess Hampden
Chorleywood College
Hertford
Eng
The
National Institute of the Blind
Chorleywood
Prince the Royal Artillery drum-horse euthanized at 18
The famed cream colored drum-horse Prince died after a sudden illness during Jubilee Review rehearsals. He was examined at Aldershot veterinary hospital and euthanized. Prince, aged 18, was well known to the King and Queen.
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Prince
Royal Artillery Mounted Band
Aldershot Veterinary Hospital
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Gordon H. Guest
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