Intimate Portrait of Early Years of King and Queen
The article traces the early years of Albert later George VI and his family, noting birthplace at Sandringham and York Cottage, the birth of Albert and his elder brother Edward, Victoria’s diaries, and the Bowes Lyon lineage. It describes royal upbringing, maternal connections to Glamis, and historical context of royal succession and titles.
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Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York
Sandringham
George VI
Great Britain
Ireland
Bowes Lyon
Canada
Prince Albert
Edward
Prince of Wales
Edward VIII
Duke of Windsor
Albert
Victoria
George
Queen Victoria
King George
Queen Mary
Albert Frederick Arthur George
Prince Consort
Georgie
George V
May
York Cottage
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
Prince Edward
Bertie
David
Lord Esher
Windsor Castle
Elizabeth Bowls Lyon
Claude George
Nina Bows Lyon
Claude
Earl of
Strathmore
Kinghorne
United Kingdom
Henry VII
Elizabeth of York
Sir John Lyon
Forteviot
Robert II
Scotland
Glamis
Formarshire
St. Paul's Walderbury
Hertfordshire
England
Shakespeare
Duncan
Macbeth
Elizabeth
Indian Barbers Rally Against Safety Razors in Calcutta
About 600 barbers gathered in Calcutta to condemn the safety razor as harming their trade. They adopted a resolution blaming the razor, urged public abstention, and pressed for government representation, barber education for children, and uniform salon charges to stabilize prices.
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Calcutta
Calcutta Statesman
Coins as souvenirs for royal visit to Canada
The Timmins Advance notes Cobalt's proposal to mint silver coins as souvenirs of the King and Queen's upcoming Canadian visit. It suggests gold and nickel coins could also mark the occasion, citing Canada's great mining districts for silver, gold, and nickel. Possible legal and church objections are mentioned.
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Canada
Timmins
Strange Hiding Place in Salvage Shop Discovery
An excited San Francisco woman rushed to the Salvation Army salvage shop and, after learning her discarded drapes were with a prospector buyer, felt a seam and uncovered two platinum diamond rings. She valued them above $1,000 and had sewn them for safe keeping. this occurred as Brigadier Sturm investigated.
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Salvation Army
San Francisco
Joseph Sturm
Sturm
Training for Arctic Posts at Winnipeg Fur Trade School
Fourteen young men attend Findson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Training school in Winnipeg preparing for posts as far north as the Arctic circle. In nine weeks they learn fur grading merchandising post accounting first aid wireless telegraphy radio mechanics carpentry and cooking.
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Findson’s Bay Company
Winnipeg
Arctic Circle
R. H. G. Bonnycastle
Anne Livingstone
Elizabeth Pickersgil
Temple of Religion at New York World’s Fair planned
The article notes a Temple of Religion at the upcoming World’s Fair with $80,000 raised and more expected. It will offer nonsectarian spaces for rest and meditation and may include rotation services. It contrasts with Glasgow’s Empire Exhibition which featured daily worship in two churches. The piece argues for acknowledging a Creator amid grand displays. The Isle of Man remark follows.
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New York
Glasgow
God
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Madonna and Child embroidery pattern pattern 6246
Easy to embroider transfer pattern for a Madonna and Child scene with a 14 by 18 inch image. Includes color key chart materials list and stitch illustration. Send 20 cents in coin to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Canada Health Service Vision Warns of Broad Public Impact
Dr. R E Wodehouse addresses the Royal Canadian Institute on safeguarding Canada's health. He outlines narcotics control, international cooperation, and border checks plus the department's global and domestic roles in sanitation, quarantine, and immigrant inspection. He notes federal provisions for veterans and future divisions in maternal hygiene, industrial health, and public education.
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Toronto
R. E. Wodehouse O.B.E
Pensions and National Health
Wodehouse
Royal Canadian Institute
Canada
Department of Pensions and National Health
Inter
U.S. Public Health Service
Department
Paris
Antwerp
Hamburg
London
Maternal and Child Hygiene
Road to Perfection in Air Travel Cited by Riesenberg
Felix Riesenberg recalls how rugged simplicity gave way to complex yet safer vehicles. He cites the Point Reyes air wreck as evidence of evolving radio maze challenges and argues progress requires funding. The disaster is a challenge, not a setback, to engineering progress.
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Felix Riesenberg
Point Reyes
California
Riesenberg
Christian Science Monitor
Longest Manitoba highway No 10 to open next summer
The Winnipeg Tribune notes route No 10 will open next summer to Manitoba motorists and tourists. The 427 mile road runs from Peace Gardens to The Pas through Turtle Mountains Souris and Assiniboine valleys Riding Mountain Clear Lake and along Duck and Porcupine mountains and Lake Winnipegosis shore. A plow left leaning against a tree on the Leffingwell farm near Extra Iowa more than fifty years ago remains embedded in the trunk.
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The
Winnipeg Tribune
Manitoba
Peace Gardens
Pas
Turtle Mountains
Souris
Assiniboine
Riding Mountain
Clear Lake
Duck and Porcupine Mountains
Lake Winnipegosis
Leffingwell Farm
Extra Lowa
Portugal and Britain Maintain Deep Alliance Despite Misunderstandings
A report from the Overseas Trade Department cites A H W King, the British embassy’s commercial attache in Lisbon, stating Portugal clings to its alliance with Great Britain. He notes misunderstandings arise from Portugal’s relations with other powers, but emphasizes the alliance remains rooted in Portuguese sentiment and shared interests with the UK leading in trade ahead of Germany.
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Portugal
Great Britain
Overseas Trade Department
A. H. W. King
Lisbon
King
Britain
United Kingdom
Germany
Students rank nations as preferred citizenship options
Good Neighbors students at a New Jersey college ranked Great Britain Canada Ireland and France as preferred alternatives if not U S citizens. Canadians would be second, while Americans favor good neighbors but not next door ones. The second fragment notes the human eye at five feet can see 2.9 miles at sea or over flat terrain.
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Women’s College
New Jersey
Great Britain
Canada
Ireland
France
United States
Kingston Whig Standard
Noisy Car Owner and Bark Data in Bolivia
The text notes a car owner who always reopens and slams the door after you shut it. It also describes Bolivian natives wearing bark cloth sourced from trees, soaked, and beaten to make it pliable.
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Bolivia
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Claverhouse
Andrew Pettigrew
Joan Cottam
South Africa
St. Marylebone Presbyterian Church
S. G. L. Horner
Model Trading
New Zealand
Isle of Man
British Isles
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