World Happenings Briefly Told From Far Afield
A Reuters dispatch from Moscow reports a semi official note that the Russian fleet has seen service for maneuvers in the Baltic Sea. The Grand Army of Unified Veterans at Kamloops votes to join the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League. Mrs. Matilda Parnell, believed to be one of Canada's oldest women at 104, dies after a lifetime as a laundress. Col Sir William Wilson Hoy will join Prime Minister Hertzog at the imperial conference. Ford announces an air taxi freight and passenger service linking Winnipeg with major North West cities. Vergil will be honored with a monument in Mantua supported by a national subscription with government matching funds.
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Grand Army of Unified Veterans
Kamloops
Canadian Legion
British Empire Service League
Canada
Matilda Parnell
Laundrees
Winnipeg
Man
North West
Vergil
Rome
Mantual
Lombardy
Smith Funds Friendship Through Hungary Service
Jeremiah Smith Jr of Cambridge Massachusetts declined a $100,000 salary for two years as League of Nations financial commissioner in Hungary. He urged giving the sum to charity, saying his reward is friendship and international goodwill. The Worcester Telegram notes his influence on Hungary’s finances and global humanity.
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Jeremiah Smith
Leaague of Nations
Hungary
Jeremiah Smith, Jr
Berkeley Street
Cambridge
Mass
Smith
United States
Worcester
Sesqui Faces Large Deficit and Court Action
The Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia faces a court action to halt Sunday amusements and an operating deficit requiring 3 700 000 to meet obligations. Mayor Kendrick remains optimistic, calling the independence celebration cheap at any price and urging citizen support for Sesqui officials.
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Philadelphia
Woman Mine Engineer Hailed From French Schooling
A French trained mining engineer woman, daughter of the interior minister under Patn leve, works in the Sarre Valley mines. She wears overalls, supervises mining operations, and is noted as wealthy and uniquely suited to the field. Her exchange about safety and eggs in a basket reflects the era's gender views.
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Mite, Schrameek
France
Sarre Valley
Patnleve
Canada Must Keep Union Jack As National Emblem
The Sentinel argues Canada should retain the Union Jack as its national flag if remaining in the British Empire. It calls the jack an emblem of liberty and civilization, linking it to justice, religious freedom, and world service, and says replacing it would deprive Canadians of a valued inheritance.
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Dominion
Canada
Sentinel
Toronto
Prince of Wales to Camp with Welsh Boy Scouts
The Prince of Wales will join the Welsh Boy Scouts at camp an event seen as a moral boost for scouts nationwide. The piece praises scoutmasters across the empire for guiding boys in discipline crafts camp life and cooking while highlighting the prince’s example as a spur to broader support for the organization.
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Prince of Wales
Empire
London Morning Post
Dead Sea salt boom sparks new Palestine plant plan
The Palestine Government proposes a plant to recover thirty billion tons of salt from the Dead Sea. Soon chemical factories and warehouses would rise around the lake, transforming a desolate region into a busy economic hub. Most salt is potash and magnesium salts, enhancing Palestine’s wealth prospects.
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Palestine
Dead Sea
Mediterranean
Potential Murderers Who Sell Lethal Brew
The Hamilton Herald questions vendors and brewers who profit from a deadly drink. It argues their indifference to life turns their selling into a near murder act, even if not legally murder, contrasting it with a spur-of-the-moment killing.
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Hamilton Herald
Odd Test Answers Spark Laughs at Sacramento Sophomores
New answers to old questions were given on a recent test for high school sophomores in Sacramento California. Students claimed alcohol is made from gasoline air brakes are used on balloons organdie is a marmalade bacon comes from a cow.
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Sacramento
Cal
POEAL Fashions New Convertible Collar Daytime Frock
The border crepe frock features a high convertible collar, large shoulder tucks, full sleeves with narrow wristbands, two patch pockets and a low waist belt. Offered in sizes 24 to 42 inches bust, with yardage details and a 20 cent price. The Fashion Book costs 10 cents.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Union
A brief note outlines pattern ordering from the Winnipeg Union at 175 McDermot Ave. It lists Pattern NO and size details with concise instructions for purchasers.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Empire Parley Agenda Focuses On Trade And Defense
The Imperial conference in London this October will discuss inter imperial trade, the empire marketing grant, overseas settlement, economic defenses and currency within the empire, empire firm exhibitions, shipping, airship service and air routes, and taxation of state enterprises as Sir Henry Drayton notes more topics remain to be announced.
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London
Imperial Economic Committees
Empire Marketing Grant
Imperial Shipping Committee
Henry Drayton
Canadian Wheat Pool Pays 37 Million to 125000 Farmers
The Canadian Wheat Pool pays out 37 million dollars in the second interim 20 cent per bushel payment to its over 125000 farmer members in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. The pool controls about 14 million of 21.5 million acres and sells wheat through the Central Selling Agency with agents in 51 world locations. Aaron Sapiro lauds the pool at a St Paul coop conference calling it the greatest achievement in cooperative marketing in two years.
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Canada
Canadian Wheat Pool
The
Prairie
Manilcoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
American Institute of Co-operation
St. Paul
Minnesota
Aaron Sapiro
Chicago
Mr. Sapiro
Western
Crossword Puzzle Drill String Of Clues And Answers
A dense list of crossword clues across many numbers with hints for words such as edge of a car wheel tainted fox steal couch limit depart falsehood and more across and down entries including verb forms nouns adjectives and abbreviations with multiple language style prompts and crossword conventions
Sunday School Lesson on Love of God
Golden Text from Deuteronomy 6.5 urges loving Jehovah with all heart soul and might. Lesson centers on Exodus 19.1-20.11 with a devotional reading from Psalm 19.7-14. The card emphasizes reverence, covenant, and moral instruction for readers.
Royal couple to tour Australia and New Zealand
The Duke and Duchess of York will start from England mid January and travel via the Panama Canal to New Zealand in February. They plan to visit Australia from March through all states except Western Australia before Canberra ceremonies, detaching HMS Renown for the voyage. They will also visit Western Australia on the return leg.
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England
Panama Canal
New Zealand
Australia
Australian
Western Australia
Canberra
Preface to the Commandments and Sinai Moral Training
The passage explains that the Ten Commandments reveal moral principles given by God at Sinai. It argues God guided the process of moral training leading to Sinai, not just Moses as conduit, and that God uses suitable instruments in delivering laws. The quotes attribute these ideas to Bishop McConnell and Dr. Davidson.
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God
Israel
Sinai
Francis J. McConnell
Moses
A. B. Davidson
Planning New Air Line Across Northwest
A conference in St Paul reported Ford A plans to connect the northwest by air. Delegates from Manitoba and four states backed a regional aviation policy urging cities to unite and provide airports for immediate commercial aviation development.
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Winnipeg
Man
Northwest
St. Paul
Manitoba
Robbery Reward Tale of a Pearl Necklace
A London paper notes an anonymous return without claim of a 3000 pound reward for a 75000 pound necklace stolen from a jewel case. The same saga cites a higher value 136000 pound necklace theft where a thief's wife hid the item in a matchbox and dropped it in a gutter, later found by a plumber's mate who tried to sell it for beer but earned several thousand pounds in rewards.
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London
Bose Demonstrates Plant Heart Beats Before British Association
Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose showed that plants have heart pulsations and that snapdragon heartbeats can be recorded with a delicate apparatus. He also demonstrated that plant nervous reactions are stimulated by drugs similarly to humans.
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Jagadis Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadi
Car ownership in Canadian provinces and totals
Canada registered 728000 automobiles with eight per 196 inhabitants owning motor vehicles last year. Ontario shows the highest density at 11.1 cars per 100 population, followed by British Columbia at 19.1. Saskatchewan 5, Alberta 3, Manitoba 7.8 per 100.
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Canada
Ontario
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Canadian Radio Industry Expands With Local Sets
Canada’s radio sector grows rapidly as about 50 000 Canadian made receiving sets were sold last year for over two million dollars in revenue. Leading U S firms have opened Canadian branch factories, creating local jobs for Canadian labor.
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Canada
Factory payrolls show 800000 girls paid under 20 cents daily
A report notes that over 800 thousand girls work in Japanese factories with average earnings below 20 cents per day. The excerpt also includes a light comic line about shrinking and shrimps between characters Helen and George.
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Japan
Heat wave broadcasting compared to sound waves says Dibble
Prof. E S Dibble of the Carnegie Institute of Technology argues that broadcasting heat waves is no more improbable than sound waves. He notes that the main need is the discovery of instruments to control heat waves and a detector to hold and amplify them.
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E. S. Dibble
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Two Ways of Running for Office Mentioned
A quip notes there are two paths to office a failed alarm clock as the other cue to run. The remark frames political ambition with a humorous take on timing and opportunity.
Homage To Britain Intransigeant on Europe and France
The editorial argues France should pay homage to Britain for a potential restoration of Europe. It notes Britain's unemployment woes and mining disputes mirror France, warns against economic rivalry, and urges leveraging favorable UK sentiment in Washington while opportunities remain.
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France
Europe
Paris
Great Britain
Britain
Atlantic
England
Washington
London
Not Coming To Canada Duke and Duchess of York to visit Australia
Official announcement states the Duke and Duchess of York will not pass through Canada on their trip to Australia for the opening of the commonwealth parliament in Canberra next spring. They will travel via the Panama Canal and return through the Suez Canal, visiting New Zealand en route.
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Australia
Canberra
Duke of York
Duchess of York
H.M.S
New Zealand
Duke and Duchess of York
Canada
Panama Canal
England
Suez Canal
No Alibi For the Choir
A young clergyman presents the weekly church notices listing a mothers meeting on Thursday at 5 p.m. weather permitting church committee at 7 p.m. Friday and the usual choir practice on Saturday at 6 p.m. The notices humorously label conditional phrases God willing and weather permitting.
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God Willing
Boston Transcript
Cornish Village Claims High Elderly Population
Constanine on the Cornish coast states it has more septuagenarians than any other place. The village reports over 170 residents aged seventy or more, about one in nine of its population.
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Constantine
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H.M.S. Renown
Air Line
Northwest States
Famous Scientist
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Radio Industry
Helen
George
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