World Happenings Briefly Told Across The Globe
Canada led June trade with the United States in exports and imports. Erich Reparque, author of AD Quiet on the Western Front, may win the Nobel Prize in literature. British Columbia distributed 642 dollars in profits for six months ending March 31. The John Gooding Thresher Co cut staff by a third in Sarnia after a small western crop impact. Chief Justice Morrison of British Columbia received a doctor of laws at Dalhousie on August 26. Britain and France discussed closer air transport cooperation at a meeting of Lord Thomson and Laurent Eynac. Miss K Bloomfield, 24, became Victoria Australia’s first woman pilot to pass finals. Graf Zeppelin flight spurred a 20 million dollar German Russian Japanese air service plan with terminals in each country. Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor resigned as Bank of Montreal general manager to become bank vice president. H B MacKenzie succeeds as general manager.
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Canada
United States
Erich Reparque
Stockholm
British Columbia
Sarnia
John Gooding Thresher Company
Ruley Morrison
Dalhousie University
Great Britain
France
Lord Thomson
Laurent Eynac
Air
Miss K. Bloomfield
Victoria
Australia
Friedrichshafen
Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor
Montreal
Bank of Montreal
Bank
H. B. MacKenzie
Sir Frederick
Great World Scout Jamboree Ends at Arrowe Park
Tens of thousands of Boy Scouts depart Arrowe Park England at dawn after the great jamboree ends. About 50 000 boys travel home to nearly fifty countries while 214 422 total visitors leave. The next jamboree is planned for 1933 with a site to be decided at a conference in Salzburg Austria.
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Arrowe Park
England
Salsburg
Austria
Peace River Grain Shipments Mark Growth of District
The first grain convoy from Peace River left Vanrena for Reno on three wheat cars hauled five miles era by teams. Now 1 650 000 acres are under cultivation with a 15 000 000 bushel crop projection. Population rose from 3 000 to 50 000 as infrastructure grew with schools churches stores elevators electric plants and roads.
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Peace River District
Vanrena
Reno
Fashionable Pleated Collars and Bows for Girls’ Dresses
The Style No. 605 outfit showcases a flat hipline simple bodice with plaited collar, turn-back plaited cuffs, and bows in red white or brown patterns. Fabrics include gingham voile brown velvet bows shantung maize and orchid linen with pleated collars and cuffs. Early Fall option uses navy wool crepe with red crepe de chine collar. Pattern price 25 cents.
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Shantung
Church At Jasper Is Soldier's Monument
The St. Mary and St. George church at Jasper in Canada was consecrated recently by the Bishop of Edmonton. The stone and stucco structure, designed by A. H. Calderon of Edmonton, cost 17000 dollars and was gifted by an anonymous English donor in memory of her son killed in war. A testament found under the cornerstone, laid last year by the Governor-General, accompanied the gift. The unknown donor funded furnishings and fittings, while the bell came from Viscount Willingdon.
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Canada
St. Mary and St. George
Jasper
Edmonton
A. H. Calderon
England
No Man's Land
Viscourt Willingdon
May Kill His Art G Boruchoff Faces Hair Shortage
Russian artist G Boruchoff, noted for works woven from human hair, fears the bobbed hair fashion will endanger his art as long strands grow scarce. He blends hair shades like oils, uses silk or linen as canvas and a knitting needle as brush, likening his technique to Gobelin tapestries. He began at age ten while apprenticed to a hairdresser and practiced during a German captivity.
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G. Boruchoff
Borucho
Boruchoff
Germany
How To Order Patterns Pattern No tes Size Name Town
Pattern ordering guide notes numbers and sizes. It references pattern no and specific town details related to purchasing options and name style. The fragment hints at exclusive sheer velvet patterns and order process.
Outstanding exhibit at Calgary Stampede features record cows
Hon. J. D. McGregor lauds Strathmore CPR Supply Farm display showing five Holstein cows with 365 day production totaling 127 583 pounds of milk. Cows Strathmore Sylvia 89340 Belvedere de Kol Ruby 82 432 Valley Farm Francy Legis 154139 Strathmore Texaline Sylvia 111946 Strathmore Lassie Sylvia 130501 produced high milk and butter yields, earning prizes across Calgary, Brandon, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Regina exhibitions. Total revenue above feed costs exceeded 4700 per cow, with 3 214 10 earned from milk sales to Union Milk Co. in Calgary.
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Rotary Club
Calgary
J. D. McGregor
Manitoba
Canada
C.P.R. Supply
Strathmore
McGregor
Belvedere de
Brandon
Edmonton
Saskatoon
Regina
Valley Farm Francy Legis
Strathmore Texaline Sylvia
Strathmore Lassie Sylvia
Province of
Alberta
Union Milk Co
Strathmore Sylvia
Holstein-Freisian Association of Canada
Lady Pentland
Miss Sinclair
Lord Pentland
George H. Jones
Strathmore Farm
Chiffon Pie Recipe With Citrus Custard Carmel Topping
A biscuit-crisp chiffon pie recipe uses 144 cups sugar, 14 cup flour, salt, boiling water, lemon juice, orange rind, three eggs. Prepare custard by cooking sugar and flour in water, add yolks and fruit accents, then fold in meringue and bake until browned.
Preserving Tomatoes and Lemons with Ginger Sugar Mix
The recipe outlines proportions for sugar green tomatoes and lemons with preserved ginger. It instructs washing and trimming tomatoes, blanching, layering with lemon and sugar ginger, overnight rest, then boiling syrup, then cooking tomatoes until clear and sealing in hot jars.
Private telephone bridges 13000 miles London to Sydney
A Hamp shire widow spoke with the matron of a Sydney hospital via a private telephone marking the first long distance contact between London and Sydney. Cadet Jack Sigrist, 18, aboard the Valencia in Australian waters, called his mother in delirium to report he was improving during experimental radio telephone connections.
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Hampshire
Sydney
Australia
London
Jack Sigrist
Valencia
Australian
Post Office Department
C. G. Sigrist
New York Museum Roots in Navajo Shirt Purchase
The Museum of the American Indian in New York grew from George G. Heye's purchase of a Navajo shirt. Barns are commonly painted red due to inexpensive durable oxide of iron pigment.
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The
Museum of the American Indian
New York
George G. Heye
Snow houses a myth Eskimos rarely know
Arctic explorer Stefansson tells Cambridge audience that Eskimos endure warm sun, and that snow houses are a myth they have seldom seen or heard of. He notes Arctic wildflowers are exquisite and snow houses are mainly learned in school.
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Arctic Circle
Stefansson
Cambridge
Arctic
Inside View: Tiny Camera Probes Stomach Interior
A miniature camera can be lowered into the human stomach to take sixteen pictures from all angles. The device aims to provide an inside view of the interior and may allow enlarged images after capture.
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Interior Department
Airmail to Madagascar via Sahara Desert by Night
A weekly airmail service between France and Madagascar will fly the Sahara by night once the desert route is lighted. The new service aims to shorten the mail transit time and connect Paris with Antananarivo with regular flights.
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France
Madagascar
Sahara Desert
Test for Your Eyes
You are asked to judge distance by sight and assess if a person can be seen at various ranges from fifty to four hundred yards. The text notes that on a clear day objects appear closer and weather affects visibility.
Minister Says Canada Must Grow High Quality Agricultural Goods
Hon. Motherwell, Federal Minister of Agriculture, informally opening Vancouver's 20th annual exhibition, argued that larger production of high quality agricultural goods is essential for Canada to remain an exporter of agricultural products.
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Canada
Hon
Motherwell
Vancouver
The tactful woman and the flighty blonde remark
A compact opinion contrasts behaviors noting a tactful woman avoids missteps while labeling the other as light and flighty. The quote reflects gendered impressions about restraint and frivolity in social conduct.
Ezra Goes to Jerusalem to Teach the Law
Ezra the ready scribe seeks and gains permission from Artaxerxes to lead Jews from Babylon back to Jerusalem. He travels with priests singers and temple servants to teach, enforce, and rebuild under Persian support, prayer, and gold to beautify the house of Jehovah. Ezra's mission highlights devotion, reform, and the bridging of knowledge with action.
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Artaxerxes
Ezra
Jerusalem
Seraiah
Judah
Aaron
Israel
Judea
Temple
Babylon
Nisan
Horace Bushnell
Palestine
Jehovah
Trapper Ivan Christie Frozen to Death in June Blizzard
Ivan McKay Christie, Bathurst Inlet trapper, perished in a Arctic blizzard on June 21. His husky dog survived, found by a search party and taken to Herschel Island RCMP headquarters, with Christie buried at Bathurst Inlet.
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Arctic
Ivan McKay Christie
Bathurst Inlet
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Herschel Island
Christie
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Peace River
Prayer Presse
Prague
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
TSNOX
Winnipeg
Univun
McDermot Ave
Betty Barclay
Price
F.o.b
Toronto
John A. Chantler & Co., Ltd
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
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