Perfumed air for Queen Mary passengers signals luxury
The Queen Mary will offer perfumed air and smoke-free rooms to women, with cinemas and kitchens purified every three minutes and air continuously refreshed in 25 public rooms. The piece contrasts this with Dickens era transatlantic travel aboard the Britannia, noting sensory differences and modern comforts.
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North America
Atlantic
Charles Dickens
United States
Dickens
John Forster
Liverpool
Manchester Guardian
The 1936 Farm Problem in Canadian Prairies
The piece outlines how farm planning has grown complex by 1936, urging farmers to study land, seed, pests, weather, and markets. It highlights a new government aid, The Agricultural Situation and Outlook 1936, issued by Canada’s Dominion Department of Agriculture with trade input, presenting 1935 conditions, 1936 projections, and conclusions per cereal and livestock sectors. It emphasizes reading the bulletin to guide decisions and capitalize on an anticipated upward trend in agriculture.
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Solomon
Philadelphia
Prairie
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Department of Trade and Commerce
National Advisory Committee On Agricultural Services
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Brown Rice Valued Higher By Home Economists
Home economists say brown rice retains bran and germ portions for higher food value than white rice. They warn feeding hens onions and turnips or other strong flavored vegetables may give eggs an unpleasant flavor.
Dutch Apple Cakes From Basic Sponge Mix
A historic recipe describes a Dutch Apple Cake made from a sponge base with milk butter sugar and eggs. It instructs to knead a soft dough, place in a greased bowl to rise, roll to fit a tin, fill with apple segments pressed on edge in circular rows, top with butter sugar and cinnamon, let rise, then bake at about 380 degrees F for two cakes.
Pilgrimage to Vimy Draws Transport Sector Attention
The Canadian Legion organized a July 1936 pilgrimage to Vimy for about 5000 participants. The France visit ends with the unveiling of the Canadian War Memorial on July 26. Employers offer four to six weeks paid leave to veterans. many back the effort to honor those who fought overseas. Canadian Business.
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Vimy
Canadian Legion
France
Remarkable Value of Earth's Traced Radium
The extractable radium once mined could fill a two inch cube yet is valued at thirty five million dollars.
Kipling Quotations in Common Sayings and Poems
The passage lists well known Kipling quotes and poems as familiar lines in everyday language. It mentions phrases from The Colonel's Lady and Judy O Grady and lines such as East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. It cites poems On the Road to Mandalay Danny Deever Rolling Down To a Rio Fuzzy Wuzzy and If among others.
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Judy O'Grady
Kipling
Mandalay
Danny Deever
Rio
Important nerve discovery at Illinois described as rayon like
The University of Illinois reports a breakthrough where nerves were disassembled and spun back together using a method identical to rayon production. Dr. George L. Clark led the X ray lab experiments, touted as advancing knowledge of nerve disease. In Berlin a dangerous driver earns a yellow cross on his windshield.
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University of Illinois
George L. Clark
Berlin
Beards Shield Travel Pair in Moroccan Highlands
Kenneth Chapman and A. B. Cozens return to Cambridge England after a perilous trek in the Middle Atlas Mountains. They collected 2000 insects including new species while wild beasts and hostile tribes loomed. They credit beards with providing status and facial protection against giant wingless grasshoppers.
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Morocco
Kenneth Chapman
A. B. Cozens
Cambridge
England
Middle Atlas Mountains
Chapman
Montreal Prodigy Andre Mathieu Tours with Symphony
Six year old Andre Mathieu dazzles a 30 piece Montreal orchestra with his concerto for pianoforte and orchestra though he cannot reach the pedals. Critics hail him as a likely long running triumph for the French Canadian prodigy son of Rodolphe Mathieu. Andre dislikes the label child prodigy. He has studied piano since he could sit upright unaided.
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Andre Mathieu
Montreal
Andre
Rodolphe Mathieu
Argentine Crusades Against Locusts and Harvests Dried Beat Meat
Argentine teams wage large scale locust control and process the carcasses into dried meat for export as fertilizer. The program combines pest eradication with value recovery, turning locust biomass into a secondary product for international markets.
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Argentine
Electric chair claims 375 slain at Sing Sing in 44 years
The electric chair has claimed 375 slayers at Sing Sing since capital punishment began there forty four years ago, including four women. A Frenchwoman whose mate hurled her from a hundred foot cliff refused to prosecute, perhaps he convinced her it was a bluff.
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The
Electric Chair
Sing Sing Prison
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