World Happenings Briefly Told
A pilot was beheaded in a hydroplane crash on the Mediterranean coast killing four aboard. Advocates for a larger U.S. Army Air Corps plan to ask Secretary Dern to act after President Roosevelt signs the Wilcox air bases bill. Various obituaries note Mrs. Grant's 102nd birthday and the death of Robert Hogard of the Salvation Army in London. Export prospects for Western Canadian beef to Britain improve per Jack Byers. The Soviet ice-breaker Sadko reports land nearby northeast of Greenland. Countess Bubna dies in Montreux at about 70. Two grains of rice shown at Toronto exhibits feature royal portraits and a Taj Mahal miniature. Jassie Condon appears on stage amid crime lecture buzz at a Bronx theatre.
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U.S. Army Air Corps
Roosevelt
Wilcox Air Bases
War Dern
Donald M. Grant
Ottawa
Robert Hoggard
Salvation Army
London
Canada
Great Britain
Jack Byers
Calgary
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Sadko
Greenland
North Pole
Switzerland
I. M. Bubna
British Columbia
Alberta
Montreuse
Toronto
Jassie’ Condon
Bruno Hauptmann
Bronx
Lindbergh
England's Early Letter Post System Document Shown
A proclamation by Charles I to Thomas Witherings is exhibited at the British Museum. It authorized him to set up a running post between London and major towns, with messengers riding between depots and returning within five days. Rates: two pence under 80 miles, four pence 80 to 140, five pence over 140, and eight pence to Scotland.
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England
British Museum
Charles I
Thomas Witherings
London
Witherings
Scotland
Wedding Feast Held Across Polish German Border
German and Polish guests attended a wedding near the border at Samegen with a feast straddling the boundary line. The table spanned both sides while frontier guards watched over the cross border celebration.
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Samegen
Poland
Germany
Lenses From Leicester Dominate U K and U S Film Manufacturing
About eighty percent of films produced in the United Kingdom and the United States are photographed with Leicester made lenses. Technicolor films use lenses exclusively from this source.
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United
Kingddom
United States
Leicester
Wrigley’s Silver Jubilee in Canada Marked by Growth
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of Canada Ltd celebrates a Silver Jubilee twenty five years since Allan Ross founded the business in Toronto. Ross credits capable helpers and teamwork for expanding from a small room to daily tons of production served by seventy five thousand retailers across the Dominion. He urges learning by experience as the path to valuable executive material.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of Canada Ltd
Allan Ross
Wrigley’s
Canada
Wrigley Company
United States
Toronto
Ross
Dominion
Wrigley
Mr. Ross
Wood Flour Finds Broad Use in Industry and Science
Wood flour, a fine powder from processed wood, is increasingly used across industries. Linoleum, cork composites, dynamite fillers, phenol resins, and plastics form a growing list of applications. Dr. Leo Baekeland helped pioneer these uses, with wood flour enabling lower nitroglycerine sensitivity and aiding molding of many everyday items.
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Leo Baekeland
Uncanny powers: Hungarian craftsman creates beetles from air
Lajos Pap, a Hungarian carpenter, claims trance abilities to conjure living and inanimate items including beetles and snakes from the air. Tests at the International Institute for Physical Research in South Kensington note 32 live beetles produced, with observers insisting no fakery and many items later housed in Budapest museums.
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Lajos Pap
Europe
International Institute For Physical Research
South Kensington
England
Budapest
Nandor Fodor
Institute
Doctor Mueller-Guttenbrunn Sentenced to Three Months
An Austrian doctor, Herbert Mueller-Guttenbrunn, received a prison term of three and a half months for attempting to publicize to degrade the Austrian regime. He sent novelty announcement cards to friends abroad noting his jail term, treating it like a wedding or birth notice.
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Herbert Mueller-Guttenbrunn
Austria
Fiat builds world’s largest diesel motor for Vulcan ship
The Italian Fiat company completed its largest diesel marine motor rated at 16,000 horsepower with trials surpassing 18,000 horsepower. It will be installed on the Italian transatlantic steamship Vulcan.
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Fiat” Company
Vulcan
Definition Of A Chef In Seasonal Farmer Banter
After another season, Farmer Corntossel jokes we will hire a chef for summer boarders. Mrs. Corntossel asks what a chef is, and he defines one as a man with a large vocabulary who can rename the soup every day.
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Farmer Corntossel
Seek Radium Substitute On Mount Evans Discovery Aim
Two scientists Dr. J. C. Stearns of Denver University and Dr. J. K. Froman of McGill University carried two bags of table salt to Mount Evans to induce radioactivity in salt. They predict success could replace radium in medicine if the experiment works.
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Mount Evans
J. C. Stearns
Denver University
J. K. Froman
McGill University
Swimmer Defies Law At Rockaway Beach
Aaron Greenspan of New York City says he is a good swimmer and lawyer and was arrested for bathing beyond safety lines at Rockaway Beach. He defends himself and argues the Atlantic Ocean belongs to no one. Magistrate Hakstra orders lifeguards to monitor Greenspan until the case is resolved.
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Aaron Greenspan
New York City
Rockaway Beach
Atlantic Ocean
Hakstra
Mr. Greenspan
New York Times
Cute cuddle toy patterns for kids and bazaars
A notebook-style promotion describes four easy sewn cuddle toys with two identical fabric pieces each, plus wing and jacket accents. It suggests fabrics like calico and velveteen, notes pattern 5011 with full instructions and yardage, and asks readers to send 20 cents to the Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
A Consecrated Man of Means Barnabas in Early Church
Barnabas, a generous member of the Jerusalem church, sold a field and gave the proceeds to aid the poor. The study traces his faith filled leadership as Gentile converts spread the gospel from Antioch, with praise from Luke and reflections on spiritual depth.
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Jerusalem
Barnabas
Cyprus
Aristides
Hadrian
Stephen
Judea
Samaria
Phencia
Tyre
Sidon
Antioch
Syria
Paul
Cyrene
Palestine
Luke
Alexander Maclaren
Berry Juice Preserving Steps From Betty Barclay
Instructions for making berry juice with lemon juice sugar and pectin. Includes crushing berries pressing juice through a bag, boiling with pectin, skimming and sealing with paraffin. Yields about twelve six ounce glasses.
Cocoanut Apricot Jam Preparation and Yield
The recipe yields about eleven glasses of jam from dried apricots cocoa nut and sugar. It details soaking fruit with water for four hours then grinding mixing with juice measuring sugar boiling in a kettle stirring constantly to a full rolling boil for three minutes and finishing with pectin skim and paraffin sealing.
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Mediterranean
Charles
Border
Gordon H. Guest
M.A
New York
Alice Brooks
Betty Barclay
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