World Happenings Briefly Told
A roundup notes bans on Journal 1936 1937 by Helen Keller in Berlin. U S circles ponder Harry R Wextring as possible minister to Canada. Creaser named honorary physician to the King at Gosport. A 116 year old Mexican retiree Luis Flores marries Agripina Ramirez. Kenya cruiser launched at Clydebank in presence of Duchess of Gloucester and 15 000 workers. Frank Greenland dies after operation in Toronto. KLM suspends most routes as pilots mobilize. Tree series minesweepers named Acacia Pine Fir to begin construction. BC to send 200 300 young prospectors geologists after highway survey.
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Kenya
Clydebank
Scotland
Duchess of Gloucester
Frank Arthur Greenland
London
Toronto
KLM
Berlin
Paris
Stockholm
Admiralty
British Columbia
Alaska
W. J. Asseltine
Are Always Practical Here in a Westernized China
A humorous tale reports two Chinese brides wed to the same social groups travel by sedan chairs. Storm drives shelter at a tea-house and the brides swap chairs unseen by veiled bearers. Reunited at homes, four families agree Fate ordained the match and all husbands keep the wrong brides.
BC poultry breeders report strong sales at World Congress
Made Some Good Sales As a result of its fine display of live birds at the 7th World's Poultry Congress held in Cleveland Ohio the British Columbia Congress Committee an organization of Record of Performance R.O.P. poultry breeders saw solid sales of birds and hatching eggs. Shipments totaling about 200 birds were booked to Denmark New Zealand Cuba and several US states. The display featured Buff Orpingtons Light Sussex White Wyandottes Silver Spangled Hamburgs Rhode Island Reds Barred Plymouth Rocks White Leghorns Pyle Game Bantams and Rose Comb Black Bantams.
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Cleveland
Ohio
British Columbia Congress Committee
R.O.P
Denmark
New Zealand
Cuba
United States
Rhode Island
Plymouth Rocks
Bees Take Over British Cruiser at Portland Harbor
The article recalls a prior tale of robins nesting in an aircraft. Now bees allegedly sought to take a boat from a British cruiser at anchor in Portland Harbor. The incident prompted the Navy to call police to repel the insect boarders in a scene described as possibly unmatched in naval history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
The
Christian Science Monitor
Canadian House Finches Record in British Columbia
A pair of house finches, normally found as far north as Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming, nested in Okanagan Landing, B C, June, raised five eggs in a Virginia creeper at the district migratory officer's home, then departed. The birds, shy and quiet, were later not seen, with additional sightings in Penticton and Victoria, B C, suggesting their establishment as a Canadian species.
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Oregon
Idaho
Wyoming
Okanagan Landing
B.C
J. A. Munro
Department of Mines and Resources
Penticton
Victoria
Piracy Hit Scotland Yard Fingerprint Textbook
J Edgar Hoover reports a U S copycat pirated a Scotland Yard fingerprint text book three years in the making. The work describes a new single fingerprint system illustrated by criminals’ prints with limited copies for police abroad. Copyright rests with H M Stationery Office. The pirate allegedly promised students employment at Scotland Yard upon course completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland Yard
United States
Metropolitan
J. Edgar Hoover
G-Men
Yard
H.M. Stationery Office
Selected Recipes for Pumpkin Pie
Two eggs and corn starch with brown sugar Crown Brand corn syrup and pumpkin mix. Mix with milk cream cinnamon nutmeg ginger and salt and melted butter. Bake in pastry shell at 450 degrees for 15 minutes then 350 degrees until set. Garnish with whipped cream and a dollop of corn syrup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson's
Canada
Bacon Bran Waffles With Bacon Bits
Recipe combines bran and milk with flour baking powder and salt. Egg yolks melted butter and chopped bacon fold in beaten egg whites and bake in a hot waffle iron yielding four four-section waffles. One cup uncooked bacon can substitute for cooked bacon.
Burial Ship of East Anglian King Found on Edith Pretty Farm
A coroner's jury at Ipswich ruled that the burial ship unearthed on Edith Pretty’s property holds items from the sixth century Raedwald tomb. The find on August 2 included coins, gold jewellery, and utensils, considered among Britain’s finest ancient artifacts.
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Ipswich
Eng
Great Britain
Edith May Pretty
Raedwald
Cloak of Marshal Foch Donated to Hazebrouck Museum
The long black cloak worn by Marshal Ferdinand Foch during World War I inspections was donated to the Casse Museum at Hazebrouck France by Foch’s widow known as Papa Foch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinand Foch
Hazebruck
France
Breakthrough Sky Mirror Measures Upper Air Temp With Mirrors
Dr. C. H. Heck of North Carolina State College describes a delicate instrument using a cascade of mirrors to concentrate light onto a thermocouple. The device can detect tiny light changes corresponding to 35 degree Fahrenheit shifts in the upper atmosphere and can forecast weather for the next 24 hours. It works day or night and responds to moisture variations in the upper air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Meteorological Society
C. H. Heck
North Carolina State College
Heck
Etiquette guidance booklet offers home service tips
Prominent visitors at a summer hotel prompt etiquette advice on proper introductions and manners. The Winnipeg Newspaper Union advertises booklets including Etiquette The Correct Thing To Do along with others on finances curtains and draperies.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Cheery Button Front Cotton Frock Pattern 4137
Ann Adams pattern 4137 for a blue cotton frock features front buttons, side panels for slim hips and flare, back panel, scalloped collar, potential contrasting cuffs, ric rac or ruffles, and a pocket. Sizes 14 to 42 with fabric needs listed. send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
When Icebergs Look Black by Mr Mackintosh
Mr Mackintosh recounts five years aboard Discovery II researching Antarctic mammals and iceberg behavior. Glaciers calve into the sea forming bergs that drift. dust can make some bergs appear black. He notes Antarctic seas teem with life and whale oil dominates from Antarctic whaling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackintosh
Discovery II
Antarctic
London
Carnegie fortune and Cambridge founder facts
Andrew Carnegie amassed a fortune around 400 million dollars with donations exceeding 350 million. Hugo, Bishop of Ely, established Cambridge University's first college in 1257.
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Andrew Carnegie
Hugo
Ely
College of
Cambridge
Sunday School Lesson Reflects Isaiah Calling
Devotional note highlights Isaiah 6:8 Here am I send me as the guiding text. Lesson centers Isaiah 6:1-13 with reflection on divine commissioning and service. Psalm 47:1-9 offered as a devotional reading to praise God’s sovereignty.
A Vision of God and Isaiah’s Call in Isaiah 6
In a lofty, temple transfigured vision, Isaiah sees the Lord enthroned with seraphim. He acknowledges unclean lips, experiences cleansing, and responds to a call to service with Here am I, send me. The vision yields self awareness, salvation, and a yielded life.
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God
Isaiah
Uzziah
A. B. Davidson
Phillips Brooks
Jehovah
Remembering Slim and the 132 horse hitch of 1923
A Prescott reader claims to own a photo of a man called Slim who in 1923 drove 30 horses pulling nine wheat wagons with 1 140 bushels to Vulcan Alberta, a feat hailed as a championship in western papers. The following year a tractor wagonade to Lethbridge surpassed that bushelage, but no other 30 horse team matched Slim's record in the wheatlands.
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Slim
S. A. Kingston
Regina
Leader-Post
Prescott
Ont
Kingston
Vulcan
Sask
Alta
Saskatchewan
MacLeod
Lethbridge
Western Wheatlands
Weather Prophet and Nervous Dog Foresee Storms
Hartford meteorologist Henry E. Hathaway notes a nervous dog can sense distant thunderstorms before humans. An observer’s dog barked before the first thunderclap near Blue Hills prompting questions. The piece also notes butterflies live from a few days to ten weeks.
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Henry E. Hathaway
Hartford
Millet used as hay and silage and global flour source
Millet feeds livestock in the United States and supports flour production for many communities worldwide. In Russia wine gradually replaces vodka as the preferred daily drink, reflecting shifting cultural tastes.
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United States
Russia
Lemon Guards Against Scurry In Mussolini's Army
Reports from the Ethio pia Red Cross indicate 30 000 scurvy cases among Abys sinian forces on the Somaliland front, while Italian troops show immunity due to a lemon a day. The piece explains scurvy causes and historic cures with references to James Cook and modern infant nutrition.
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Ethiopia
James Cook
Great Britain
Readers urged to request full cancer article set
Editorial note invites readers to obtain the complete series by writing to The Health League of Canada at 165 Bond St, Toronto Ontario. It emphasizes access to all Dr McCullough cancer articles through the organization.
British Columbia Clydesdales Dominate Golden Gate Exposition
At the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco among 70 head of horses the British Columbia display dominated the Clydesdale classes. Ten BC horses including four young stallions from Dominion Experimental Farm Agassiz and five mares from Colony Farm Essendale took top prizes. The BC exhibit was shipped under the BC Horse Breeders' Association with W. H. Hicks in charge.
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San Francisco
North America
British Columbia
Dominion Experimental Farm
Agassiz
Colony Farm
Essendale
B.C
Horse Breeders’ Association
W. H. Hicks
Association
How to Avoid Door Contact in Darkness
A tip from Popular Mechanics explains crossing arms to block door contact. Place thumbs together and spread fingers to cover a larger area, making it easier to sense objects overhead with both hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanica
Unusual Photograph Captures Longest Range View
A U S Army Air Corps captain took the world’s longest range photo from 23 000 feet altitude at 331 miles to show Mt Shasta. The exposure reportedly covers the greatest area of earth’s surface ever in a single shot. El Capitan in Yosemite Valley is noted as the world’s largest block of unfractured granite.
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Mt. Shasta
U.S. Army Air Corps
Earth
el Capitan
Yosemite Valley
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Helen Keller
U.S
Harry R. Wextring
Creaser
Royal Naval Hospital
Gosport
Luis Flores
Senorita Agripina Tovar Ramirez
B.C. Congress Committee
Hoover
Home Service
Ench
der Lustige Sachse
Germany
Ontario
Nealth League
DR. J.W. S. McCullough
Clydesdales
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