Garden of Eden to Bloom After Kut Barrage Project
Puntah engineers plan a three year £1,100,000 barrage across the Tigris at Kut to irrigate nearly 10,000 square miles of Iraq. The desert region, once fertile until about 3,000 years ago, would be turned into maize, cotton and wheat fields inviting Bedouins to settle.
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Garden of Eden
Puntah
River Tigris
Kut
Messrs
Balfour and Beatty
London
Iraq
Tigris
Euphrates
Babylon
Shatt-el-Gharraf
Eden
China Introduces State Run Life Insurance for All Citizens
A new law passed in Nanking establishes a government operated life insurance system under the Ministry of Communications. It bans private insurers from this class, sets a policy minimum of 50, targets ages 12 to 60, and waives medical exams to simplify the process.
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China
Nanking
Ministry of Communications
Spirit Behind The Words In Canada US Relations
The Ottawa Journal notes Norman Armour presented credentials to Canada’s Governor General with more than polite diplomacy. It highlights a genuine friendship and mutual understanding between the United States and Canada, an unusually strong historic bond.
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Ottawa Journal
Norman Armour
United States
Canada
Gift Of Conciliation and Courtesy
A quotation on conciliation and courtesy by Lytton: true breeding rests in the gift of conciliatory behavior. Courtesy protects dignity and prevents affronts. a person may hold many titles yet lose respect without polite manners.
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Lytton
Flunking Rates Fall as New Teaching Tactics Rise
A U S Bureau of Education report finds two of every seven students repeat a year, costing about 90 million dollars annually in urban white schools. Improved methods, early kindergarten expansion, and able students moving ahead without slowing the class boost promotions while subnormals receive closer attention.
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Dad
U.S. Bureau of Education
Willy
Jane
Bureau
South
Meeting Provocation and Self Control Under Attack
The piece argues that calm control is strongest in provocation. It asserts losing temper weakens the person and reveals weakness to others. A calm smile, inner and outward, makes a person invincible to enemies, while anger hands the advantage to opponents.
Extremes Of Temperature In The Himalaya Mountains
An article in Maclean's Magazine notes the Himalaya expose a 219 degree Fahrenheit daytime sun heat and a nightly drop to 31 degrees below zero, a total range of 250 degrees.
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Himalaya
Maclean’s
Oklahoma City Foreclosure Case Involving Split Lot House
Oklahoma City carpenters saved a house during a mortgage foreclosure intended to let a loan firm take half the dwelling. The property straddled adjoining lots with one lot mortgaged. When foreclosure proceeded, owner Mrs. Fren Chadwick moved belongings into the section built on the other lot.
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Oklahoma City
Fren Chadwick
League of Nations plans museum preserving speeches for all time
The communications section of the League of Nations secretariat in Geneva proposes a special museum to record voices of statesmen and famous speeches for posterity. Meanwhile many factories in Australia are being expanded.
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League of Nations
League of Nations Secretariat
Geneva
Australia
Oxford Doctor Seeks Human Trials For Curare Based Tetanus Cure
Dr. Ranyard West of Oxford University describes curare derived cura rine as a possible tetanus antidote. After two years of lab work he appeals for patients near Oxford or London dying of the disease. He plans controlled use with artificial respiration to counter breathing paralysis and has enough drug for 20 to 30 cases.
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Britain
British Dental Association
London
H. F. Humphreys
Hampton-in-Arden
England
R. N. Craig
Exeter
H. T. Roper-Hall
Birmingham
Oxford University
Ranyard West
British Guiana
West
Oxford
Bragg and
Paul
Dixi the watchman: Deaf owner’s Alsatian guard trained to respond
Six year old Alsatian wolfhound Dixi guard dog serves Johannes Hull, trained to obey finger signs, wake him at alarm, fetch to the door, and answer the telephone. When rings, Dixi takes the receiver and barks to alert his deaf master. Bicycle bells sometimes confuse him.
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Dixi
Johannes Hull
Ban on Foreign Clothes Aims to Heal Trade Balance
General Chen Chi tang, Commander in Chief of Kuantung forces, proposes a Canton plan to restrict imported goods and ban wearing foreign clothes. The measure targets government staff first and includes a requirement for government employees to arrive at seven each morning for exercise before work.
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Kuangtung
Chen Chi-tang
Kuangtung Forces
Canton
Political Research Institute
Chen
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