World Happenings Briefly Told
Believed killed in the battle of Jutland John Evans a Royal Navy stoker was reported as recently turning up. He was discharged from the navy in 1919. The grasshopper plague does not haunt Missouri farmers who harvest the pests for winter poultry feed. The Women's Road Records Association standard London to Portsmouth and back figures were cut by 38 minutes by Mrs Lillian Dredge. Norman Prior 46 was bound over for a year in Battersea charged with theft of 12 50 his daughter's holiday money. Royal Treasures Exhibition will show personal treasures from earliest times to present in coronation year next April and May. British Columbians spent over 14 000 000 on alcohol in the year to March 31, liquor board reports. A new British gliding record around 110 miles was set by Philip Wills surpassing 75 miles. Wheat from British Columbia may ship to southern Alberta after many years. Seed wheat available from a 12 000 acre Creston area farm for growth districts in the south. Discovery of tar sands near Lac la Nonne and Lac Ste Anne and west of Lacombe promises enough sands for hard surfacing many miles of roads, announced by Alberta minister W A Fallon.
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Jutland
John Evans
Stoker
Royal Navy
Navy
Missouri
Philip Wills
British Columbia
Alberta
Creston
B.C
Grouth
Lac la Nonne
Lac Ste. Anne
Lacombe
W. A. Fallon
Canadians Honor German War Dead With Wreath Laying
Canadian Olympians led a wreath laying at the grave of the unknown soldier in the former Frederick the Great palace to honor Germany's war dead. Dr. Ross Millar represented Canada as athletes from the Dominion and German and British officials attended the ceremony. William Peden and Tom Allison headed the parade with the wreaths as crowds promenaded Unter Den Linden.
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Germany
Frederick the Great
Unter den Linden
Ross Millar
Department of Pensions and National Health
William “Torony’ Peden
Victoria
Tom Allison
BBC plans London television service with extra funds
The British Broadcasting Corporation aims to start three-hour daily programmes from October with a 100 member staff at Alexandra Palace. Officials say plans are complete but expenditures may rise beyond the $900,000 already granted, with programme costs to be covered separately. Madge warns of marriage as Ted agrees to quit smoking and clubs.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Alexandra Palace
B.B.C
Remarkable Woman and Makeshift Surgery in India
Sir Henry Tristram Holland recounts using hair pins crochet hooks and embroidery scissors as instruments for eye surgery on a Pathan woman under a juniper tree in Baluchistan He describes a successful double cataract operation with cocaine a cataract knife and iris scissors and notes a second case where a man fell from a palm tree and rode a camel 70 miles to a railway for hospital recovery.
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England
East India
India
East India Association
Henry Tristram Holland
Baluchistan
Quetta
Sir Henry
Notable Dame Henrietta Barnett Dies at 185 in London
Dame Henrietta Barnett founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb died at her home in South Square aged 185. A friend of Queen Mary she helped launch Toynbee Hall with her husband Canon S A Barnett and promoted social reform for decades. She attributed her health to five rules rising at 5 30 am hard work reading newspapers eating little and praying often. She inspired undergraduates including Arnold Toynbee to Whitechapel and supported the settlement movement before her breakdown eighteen months ago.
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London
Henretta Barnett
Hampstead Garden Suburb
South Square
Queen Mary
Henrietta
Canon S. A. Barnett
West End
Whitechapel
East End
Arnold Toynbee
Toynbee Hall
Million Dollar Dilemma Prompts Public Contest
Detroit Saturday Night notes a feature from Atlantic Monthly about a midwest city man offering a $1000 prize for the best plan to spend a million for public good. The contest invites practical, broadly beneficial ideas benefiting all town residents.
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Atlantic Monthly
Solomon
Tugwell
Detroit
Small Thanks For Favors
We reflect on the slowness of people to thank editors for favors newspapers do for them. Individuals and organizations seek publicity to promote worthy causes while space and circulation are the publisher’s only commodities. A biblical point is cited where only one in ten shows proper gratitude. Toronto Mail and Empire.
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Toronto Mail and Empire
No Pure White Color Debate at MIT Conference
David L. Macadam of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented three years of research to the color conference. He argued perfect white cannot exist on earth with new fallen snow and chalk as closest natural references and science produces the third category of whites.
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Earth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David L. Macadam
Canadian Named President of American Poultry Judges’ Association
The Department of Agriculture disclosed that George Robertson, Dominion poultry husbandman, was elected president of the American Poultry Judges’ Association at its meeting in Topeka Kansas. Robertson is the first Canadian to hold the presidency in the 53 year history of the association.
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Poultry Judges Association
Department of Agriculture
George Robertson
Dominion Poultry Husbandman
American Poultry Judges’ Association
Topeka
Kas
Robertson
Sunday School Lesson on Galatians Harvest and Reward
Sunday school lesson centers on Galatians 6 7 10 and Galatians 5 16 24. It emphasizes that God is not mocked and that one reaps what one sows with focus on sowing to the Spirit for life and eternal reward. It urges gentle correction of faults and doing good to all, especially fellow believers, with a call to perseverance.
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Moffatt
Moffatts
Malcolm McLeod
RAF to form civilian volunteer pilot reserve
Viscount Swinton told the House of Lords that the Royal Air Force will create a civilian volunteer reserve to supply pilots for the expanded force. The program aims to recruit 800 pilots annually, with entrants aged 18 to 25 and an annual retaining fee of 25 dollars.
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Viscount Swinton
Air
House of Lords
Royal Air Force
Education panel to form special classes in Manchester schools
The education committee will establish special classes in Manchester schools for children with impaired vision, aiming to improve access to tailored instruction and support services. The plan signals a focused effort to accommodate students with visual impairments within the city’s education system.
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Manchester
England
Newest Notion in Knits Coat and Hat Pattern
Simple knitted coat with matching hat in stockinette, yoke cuffs and hat band in checkerboard. Uses sport yarn for durability. Pattern 5678 provides coat and hat sizes 4 6 8 years with illustrations and materials. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Fokker’s two-storey plane aims for high-flying service
From Holland comes news of Anthony Fokker’s two-storey airliner the F-56 planned to carry 66 passengers with sleeping rooms and dressing facilities. It follows the F-36 and promises speeds up to 225 mph, cruising around 200 mph high above, with service ceiling near 24 700 feet.
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Zeppelins
Holland
Anthony Fokker
Lke
London
Amsterdam
Berlin
Brandon Sun
Germany Reclaims Scrap Steel From Warship Hulls
Germany is buying back steel from surrendered battleships at Scapa Flow and smelting it into ship plates for its modern navy. The process supplies scrap to German steel works and even fed steel used in ships like the Queen Mary and Mauretania.
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Scapa Flow
Germany
Mauretania
Ox Team Race Promised on Labor Day in Nova Scotia
Halifax district trades and labor council touts a race of the century for ox teams on Sept 1 Labor Day. Course length and time limit undecided. Preston’s color ed residents enter Gee-Haw, the village racing pride, in a go as you please event with any pace allowed.
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Nova Scotia
Halifax
Bluenose Trials With New Engines After Refitting
The international champion fishing schooner Bluenose completed a power trial with 300 passengers aboard. Captain Angus Walters reported nine miles per hour under power and expected improvement as engines bed in, noting the bow sprit and topmast can be reinstalled quickly if needed.
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Cross Island
Angus Walters
Bluenose
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Women's
Portsmouth
Lillian Dredge
Norman Prior
Battersea
Eng
Liquor Control Board
Madge
Ted
West
Historic Monuments and Sites Board
Ottawa
F. W. Howay
New Westminster
Dawson Road
Lake Superior
St. Anne Des Chenes
Fort Maurepas
Winnipeg River
la Verendrye
Howay
Winnipeg Free Press
U.S
SAS Snc Wes Snoton
Alice Brooks
Alice
Brooks
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