Coqualeetza Indian School Anniversary Celebration Highlight
The Coqualeetza School near Chilliwack BC marked a birthday anniversary with Indian children and staff attending. Granddaughters of Chief Pilly Sepass lit candles on a birthday cake in the dining room as former staff and students gathered. The 231 children aged seven to eighteen study at the 125 acre campus, with 24 staff offering crafts, home economics, nursing, and boys’ technical training. The school, started in Rev. Tate’s home, now cultivates 80 acres and produced six tons of wheat, twenty tons of oats, and hay for cattle this year, while fifty children have been discharged from the tubercular preventorium on site.
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Coqualeciza
Chilliwerk BC
Tonttie Doris
Barty Sepass
Pilly Sepass
Willam Newby
Banks
M Tate
Mr. Tate
Shape of the world lesson and class joke
A geography class humorously tests a boy named John seven years old who describes the world as "in an awful shape" after the teacher prompts him. The note then cites that a nautical mile equals one minute of latitude at a given location, reflecting Earth's imperfect sphere.
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John
Academic Degrees Questioned by Carnegie Leader
Frederick P. Keppel of the Carnegie Corporation criticizes degrees as often meaningless outside few strong professions. He notes the group granted 4,846,126 last year to U S and British entities, including a 250,000 grant for joint library services at Vanderbilt, Peabody, and Scarritt. Keppel warns education faces real need and uncertainty amid widespread confusion in the field.
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Frederick P. Keppel
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Keppel
Andrew Carnegie
United States
British Dominions
Vanderbilt University
Peabody College
Scarritt College
Nashvile
Tonn Keppel
Civilians Return From Safety Zones In Wartime Evacuations
Health ministry figures show 1,230,000 evacuated from dangerous areas since last September, with 540,000 or 44 percent returning. Of 758,000 evacuated school children, 233,000 have returned to parents, and among 445,000 mothers evacuated with infants, more than 500,000 have returned.
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Health Ministry
Portraits Claimed to Be Shakespeare Seen as Lord Oxford
Expert X ray study by Charlies W Barrell argues three famous Shakespeare portraits the Ashbourne Janssen and Hampton Court are actually of the Earl of Oxford. Barrell notes doctored features rings and heraldry hide Oxford family ties and traits similar to Lord Oxford.
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Shakespeare
Lord Oxford
Wiliam Shakespeare
Earl of
Oxford
Charlies W. Barrell
Earl
Avon
Barrel
Scientific American
Ashbourne
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington DC
Cornelius Ketel
Barrell
Power From The Atom At Carnegie Institution Exhibit
At the Carnegie Institution of Washington annual exhibit Dr Merle Tuve and colleagues publicly demonstrated a process to release over 200 million electron volts from a uranium atom with only a tenth of an electron volt of energy. They discuss the potential chain reaction and its societal implications while noting no definitive evidence yet of such a reaction.
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
Merle Tuve
Germany
Tuve de
Remains of Great Range Exposed on Brittany Shores
Geologists note mountains are ever changing and reveal the former range once near the English Channel now visible along Brittany shores as erosion uncovers ancient terrain.
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Britanny
Old headmaster says Hore-Belisha was not brilliant at school
The headmaster notes Hore-Belisha was not standout in school, yet he rose to a top post. He adds that school clubs often propel future success. The piece compares U.S. colleges, noting about 700 play football and only 30 reach a major league money class.
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United States
Radio listeners in Britain rise by 327 444 total 9 065 050
Radio users in Great Britain increase by 327 444 bringing the total to 9 065 050. The report notes that poor families in Britain receive a pint of milk daily free as part of a welfare provision.
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Great Britain
Remembered The Formula German Refugee Scientist Has Antidote
A German refugee scientist brought to Toronto has the antidote to phosgene gas, a toxin used in the last war. He reportedly carried the antidote formula in his head after leaving Germany and working in a Nazi lab. Banting laboratories will study the new development as Canada expands war research coordinated by the British council.
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Toronto
Germany
Banting
Canada
Sir Edward Melanby
Banting Laboratories
Montreal
I. N. Rabinovitch
McGill University
England
Frederick Banting
British Research Council
Sheep raising offer in Canada war needs
Hon P M Dewan urged Brantford farmers to increase sheep production as Canada faces an 8,000,000 pound wool shortfall. The Canadian wool administrator says Canada must boost wool output to meet wartime requirements, presenting a favorable opportunity for the industry’s growth.
Shade Grown Coffee Uses Tall Intercrop Shields
Farmers plant taller crops between coffee rows to shade young plants. Bananas castor oil plants and Indian corn shown to work well as natural shade providers.
Boys Town on Track to Shelter 500 by Next Year
In 1917 Irish priest Fr. Flanagan borrowed 90 dollars to start a home for boys in Omaha Nebraska. By Christmas 1940 the Boys Town program will finish a building project and house 500 boys as citizens of a unique town.
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Flanagan
Omaha
Neb
France
Exclusive and Expensive War for Canadian Officers
An article details the costly path to a commission in His Majesty's Canadian forces. Candidates face strict selection, lectures, exams, and potential vacancies. A 150 allowance covers some gear, but actual minimum equipment costs reach 310.50, with items listed such as battle dress 15, tunic 55, cap 6, great coat 55, boots 10, binoculars 60, compass 35, totaling 310.50.
Not A Happy Thought
A 13 year old British boy has invented a new aerial bomb praised by the ministry of supply. While classmates played cricket and rugby the pupil pursued the weapon. War’s influence is pervasive and the child’s scientific bent fuels a death making instrument amid a mournful societal tone.
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Buffalo Courier-Express
Ministry of Supply
Ambulances Sent to Finland From Canadian Red Cross
The Finnish Red Cross thanked the Canadian Red Cross for three ambulances already received and expected a fourth, funded at about $7,000 each. Sudbury and Toronto Finnish groups raised substantial donations to support the ambulance fund. The note ends with a sobering line about preventing loss of life.
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Canadian Red Cross Society
Finnish Red Cross
Dommon
Toronto
Finland
Sudbury
Science To Suffer Under The Nazis
Sir Thoragis Holland at Edinburgh University warns that neglect of scientific research in Germany over six to seven years has reduced output and quality. He predicts degeneration in German military efficiency and broader European danger, noting rebuilding will take many years.
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Thoragis Holland
Edinburgh University
Sir Thomas
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
London
Journal of the American Medical Association
Germany
Europe
Trans-Canada Air Lines Expands Across Canada
Canada’s 1939 aviation push connects Montreal and Toronto to Vancouver with four stops, enabling 17 hour transcontinental travel. Mail from Halifax to the Pacific takes under 20 hours as Trans-Canada Air Lines builds a world renowned network. Empire air training will use Canadian airfields while war limits may threaten growth.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Britain
Dominion
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Larg Cities
Halifax
Pacific Coast
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Ottawa
T.C.A
New Molded Shoes Claim Perfect Foot Fit
A new line of shoes in the Middle West molds to the wearer's foot. Neal O'Hara writes in the New York Post that an inner sole filled with gutta percha softens at 250 degrees, molds to the foot as the wearer walks, then solidifies in about thirty minutes to restore its hardness and fit.
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Middle West
Neal O'Hara
New York Post
Atlas Puzzle Remains A World on a Map
A teacher asks who Atlas was after a class reading. A child replies he supported the world, then wonders who supported Atlas. The boy finally imagines Atlas married a rich wife, yielding a charitable twist on the myth.
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Atlas
Tsea
Weill
First Canadian agricultural school opens in Quebec 1859
The first agricultural school in Canada began operations in 1859 at St. Anne de la Pocatiere in Quebec, marking a milestone in Canadian agricultural education.
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Canada
St. Anne de la Pocatiere
Que
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