War Volunteers and Monarchic Promotions Across Brief World Happenings
More than 17 000 priests volunteer to fight for France. Alfred Baudrillart notes changes in Paris. The King cancels traditional summer courts due to war and promotes the Princess Royal to chief controller of the auxiliary territorial service. Ottawa mourns Harlan Ingersoll Smith at 67. Prague quotes Nazi German name orders for Czech towns. US donors aid Canadian Red Cross blood plan. Italy’s Ciano proposes an anti Comintern bloc with Japan. Northern Ireland takes an option on Canada’s flax acreage.
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France
Alfred Cardinal Baudrillart
Paris
le Journal
Princess Royal
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Harlan Ingersoll Smith
Dominion
National Museum of Canada
Ottawa
Prague
Czech
United States
Canadian Red Cross Society
Asahi
Galeazzo Ciano
Japan
Germany
Northern Ireland
Making friends pays in hotel business says Christian Science Monitor
Always pays dividends guests at his hotels found their laundered socks turned inside out just as at home and a hometown newspaper in their mailbox in the morning. These were only two reasons why the late Ralph Hitz, immigrant who began as a bus boy at $3 a week, built an $80,000,000 hotel empire with $15,000,000 annual business. The Hitz chain boasts a 70 percent occupancy due to personal touches that please travelers.
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Ralph Hitz
Hitz
Christian Science Monitor
Albinen Village by Ladder Reach in Bernese Alps
A Swiss village Albinen sits 4800 feet up the Rhone valley reachable only by seven ladders from Leukerbach. Locals carry heavy burdens but youths adapt and climb with ease showing resilience and attachment to home. Also notes world gold production since 1492 and a sulphur cake at Cornell ticking like a five year watch.
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Rhone Valley
Bernese Alps
Albinen
Leukerbach
Home
Modern housewives praised by Montreal chemist
Gordon Maybee of Montreal, a chemist, told Ottawa’s Society of Chemical Industry that today’s wives cook better meals than their mothers. He said husbands may not notice, as aging dulls flavor and aroma perception, yet modern meals may surpass mothers’ in content and nutrition.
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Gordon Maybee
Montreal
Maybee
Ottawa
Society of Chemical Industry
Five London pub owners renew royal licenses share palace visit
Five pub landlords, the sole licensees in Britain under His Majesty, appeared at Buckingham Palace to renew licenses. Each year they attend the Verge of London, the Board of the Green Cloth, a historic court overseeing palace kitchens and domestic matters within a one mile radius. The Verge requires proof their houses have been properly run. Theinkeepers do not meet the King and are greeted by the Master of the Household.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Britain
Verge of
Board of the Green Cloth
Palace
Would Be Cheaper Dress Plea Turned Advice From Mother
A university girl writes her mother asking for money for a new dress after dating multiple times, promising to wear each dress once. The mother replies with blunt guidance to get a new boyfriend and start over, implying financial prudence versus romantic choices.
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Air Mail
Jimmy
Ruth
Popular Cowboy Songs Songbook Promotes Singalong Night
The Home Service advertises a 19 hit songbook "Popular Cowboy Songs" with full lyrics and piano accompaniments. Send 15c to Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man for copies and related booklets such as "Good Letter Writing Made Easy" "Good Table Manners" and "Tap Dancing Simplified."
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Missouri
Sonora
Ozarks
Arkansas
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Plain truths from Dorothy Thomson on U S war policy
Dorothy Thomson in Ladies Home Journal argues that the United States avoided major wars from 1812 to 1914 not by luck but because the British Empire kept the peace. She contends the postwar era offered a chance for the United States to guarantee peace using its financial and naval power.
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Dorothy Thomson
Ladies’ Home Journal
United States
British Commonwealth
Cute Panele for Tots by Anne Adams
sewing pattern advertisement presents Anne Adams pattern 4259 for children's dresses size 2 to 10 with a waist seam panel and center front skirt panel. includes short or long sleeves Ric rac edging and bloomers or panties. order form and price 20 cents, Winnipeg Pattern Dept. 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Ricrac
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Gutenberg Bible Earliest Print Latin Bible 1452
The Gutenberg Bible marks the first printed Latin Bible completed in 1452 A.D. by Johannes Gutenberg. Its completion established movable type printing in Europe and significantly influenced the spread of printed texts.
Hummingbirds Can Hover Midair With Precision
The article notes hummingbirds’ remarkable ability to hover in place, flaring tail feathers for balance and using rapid wing beats to hold position against wind. This acrobatic skill allows them to feed, defend territory, and perch briefly in midair.
Finnish lieutenant claims world record in single sortie
According to a Helsinki correspondent, a Finnish air force lieutenant allegedly shot down six Soviet bombers in one morning with his pursuit plane before returning to base. The feat eclipses Canada’s Billy Bishop who had five in a day on the Western Front, with two later notches resulting from mid air collisions.
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R. M. Harrison
Windsor Star
Helsinki
William Avery Bishop
V.C
Western Front
Billy Bishop
Vickers
From Newsroom to Easel Charles Norman’s Watercolor Rise
Charles Norman, a former Associated Press feature writer and poet, switched from journalism to painting two and a half years ago. He began with watercolors in his Greenwich Village apartment. A first art dealer booked a one man show, and now the Julien Levy Gallery advertises Watercolors by Charles Norman.
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Charles Norman
New York
Greenwich Village
Julien Levy
Norman
Associated Press
War Prisoners in Britain Get Same Ration as British Troops
War Secretary Oliver Stanley told the House of Commons that German prisoners in Great Britain are supplied daily with the same ration as British troops at home under the 1929 convention. He noted no complaints about bread but said prisoners prefer rye bread and arrangements are being made for it.
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Great Britain
Oliver Stanley
House of Commons
Calgary Student Named 1940 Rhodes Scholar
Neil V. German a 23 year old third year University of Alberta student from Calgary has been named a Rhodes scholar for 1940. Officials note the scholarship will not be tenable until the end of the Second World War.
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Neil V. German
Calgary
University of Alberta
Alberta
Rhodes Scholarship Committee
Parable of the Two Sons Teaches Obedience and Repentance
The Sunday lesson analyzes the Parable of the Two Sons from Matthew 21:28 32. It contrasts the repentant first son with the insincere second son and draws moral guidance on genuine obedience over mere profession.
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George A. Buttrick
Jesus
Baptist
John
King's Pigeons Relay SOS Message From Sea Patrol
King's pigeons in active service at Sandringham have carried vital messages. One pigeon returned to the Sandringham loft with an SOS from an RAF pilot in difficulty at sea, leading to immediate action by the pilot's base. The service has long supplied crucial dispatches and wears a blue enamel badge topped by a gilt crown.
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Sandringham
R.A.F
Sandringham Lofts
Air Ministry
Population Boost Lord Riverdale Sees Canada Absorbing Forty Million
Lord Riverdale, head of the British air mission to Canada, says Canada can easily absorb 40,000,000 people. He argues empire youth training may repopulate Canada and that airmen and planes built there will aid the war effort and terrify the enemy.
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Lord Riverdale
Canada
Dominion
Earthquakes Said to Have Killed Over 13 Million
A historical estimate tallies more than 13 million deaths attributed to earthquakes across four millennia. The figure reflects broad scientific estimates of seismic fatalities.
Nutrition and hearing linked by British child studies
Tests of about 7 000 children from varied social backgrounds show middle ear disease is far more common in poorer environments. Despite housing equality, diet deficits correlate with higher defective hearing, and short-term dietary increases did not reverse damage, underscoring nutrition and social conditions as key to preventing deafness.
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Canada
Great Britain
Editorial Note Promotes Cancer Article Set from Health League
Readers may obtain the full series of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario.
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MccCullough
Health League of Canada
Bond St
Toronto
Ont
Red hair percentage and lightning strikes remark
A historical observational line notes that repeating lightning strikes to a place matters little to the initial witness and cites that about three percent of North Americans have red hair, a figure unchanged for years.
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North America
Canada Consumes Canned Foods Worth Millions Annually
Canada shows a yearly average expenditure of about 45.4 million in canned foods, indicating strong demand across households and markets as manufacturers maintain steady production and distribution.
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Canada
Elephants Outsize Horses in Work Capacity
From a strength perspective an elephant can perform the work of six to eight horses. The statement compares the animal’s power to multiple horse labor across tasks, highlighting the elephant's remarkable bulk and mechanical advantage.
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