World Happenings Briefly Told Highlights Abroad and At Home
Hon Iyeman Tokugawa retires as Canadian minister and leaves Ottawa for Turkey. George Jihlavec of Dugald Manitoba, 50, dies in a crash involving a 60 foot pole from another truck. Stephen Leacock receives the Mark Twain Medal at McGill. Manitoba farm placements under relief reach 4 400 this winter. 5 140 last winter expected to be surpassed. BC forest fires in 1934 total 993 481, second highest on record. 649 911 acres burned, three times the prior year. Maud Gillespie, 12, disappeared 46 years ago, now linked to a white woman possibly her sister near Link Lake Ontario-Manitoba border.
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Iyeman Tokugawa
Canada
Ottawa
Turkey
George Jihlavec
Dugald
Stephen Leacock
Mark Twain
Mark Twain Society
Leacock
McGill University
Manitoba
Relief Commission
E. D. Barrow
M.L.A
New
British Columbia Chamber of Commerce
Advertising and Sales Bureau
Vancouver Board of Trade
British Columbia
A. Wells Gray
William Gillespie
Thessalon
Ontario
Link Lake
Maud Gillespie
Welded Rails Tested In Germany By State Railway
The German State Railway is testing welded rails to see if they handle high speeds without adverse effects. A 98 foot jointless trial line will host an express train without passengers, running about 62,500 miles over three months with ten daily trips at 75 to 95 mph.
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Germany
German State Railway
University experiments link smoking to dulled taste
Experiments at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC tend to prove that smoking dulls a man’s sense of taste, suggesting nicotine affects taste perception.
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Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C
Novel diving suit aids saving lives tested at Geneva
Tests of a new diving suit for rescuing drowning people, conducted in Lake Geneva, reportedly succeeded. Invented by Commander Prieur of the French Navy, the suit features a breastplate that is a steel compressed air bottle. It can be donned in 30 seconds and allows about 25 minutes underwater. The diver operates free of ropes or air tubes, and in the public demonstration three men stayed underwater for an extended period.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Prieur
Cheap Flying For The Masses Club Opens In Sywell
The Northampton shire Aviation Club opened its new clubhouse at Sywell England under the slogan Cheap Flying For The Masses The organization boasts over 400 members largely small merchants and artisans with a $6 25 yearly subscription and financing at $5 per hour provided a student earns his flying license within eight hours The club aims to become the nation s largest civil aviation body.
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Northamptonshire Aviation Club
Sywell
England
Mature figure dress pattern designed to disguise overweight
This pattern offers a black satin back crepe dress with white lace vestee and a rever collar highlighted by crepe. It targets sizes 36 to 48 with specific yardage, pattern No. 993, 20 cents, and mail order options from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union pattern department.
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Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Little Journeys In Science Electricity
This piece traces the electron theory's rise, naming G Johnstone Stoney as the suggester of the electron term in 1891. It explains electrons as negative charges, protons as positive, current as electron flow, and how rubbing a glass rod with silk creates charge. It links electricity to lightning and rain formation via charged moisture and hailstone development.
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G. Johnstone Stoney
Admiralty Plans Autogyros For Naval Aviation
The Daily Telegraph reports the British admiralty will add autogyros to naval aviation units. Hector Bywater says airplanes carriers remain essential but a perfected autogyro could land in small areas, reducing the need for large carriers.
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British Admiralty
Admiralty
Daily Telegraph
Hector Bywater
Wincarnis advertised as a tonic for run down health
The ad promotes Wincarnis as a non drug tonic containing grapes beef and malt extract. It claims to restore energy assist sleep improve mood and aid nerves for those run down or suffering from insomnia anemia or debility. Harold F Ritchie & Co. Ltd. Toronto is named as the seller.
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Nce
Wincarnis
Harold F Ritchie & Co. Lad
Toronto
Peter Denies Christ Hidden in Sunday School Lesson
A devotion analyzes Peter’s threefold denial of Jesus amid Gethsemane betrayal and trial. It cites Mark 14 and 27 and contrasts self confidence with reliance on God, noting Peter’s fear, Galilean accent, and the warning from Jesus about faith under pressure.
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Peter
Jesus
Jofatt
Zechariah
Dummelow
John
Fathomitus
Christ
Gethsemane
Jerusalem
Galilee
Tragic Tay Bridge Disaster Reflects on History
A recounting of the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster in Scotland where a wind-driven collapse killed passengers as a train crossed. The Ottawa Journal notes the tragedy as a lesson that led to stronger bridge construction in the future.
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Lisbon
Pompeii
Tay
Scotland
Ottawa Journal
New Air Express Links New England to Pacific Coast
A hot New England supper of baked beans codfish and potatoes prepared in Portland Maine and served in Portland Oregon the same night marks the launch of a new air express service linking the northern New England region with the Pacific coast.
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New England
Portland
Maine
Oregon
Air Express
Pacific Coast
Handwriting Analysis Letters Prompt Public Interest
A Winnipeg notice recounts readers sending handwriting samples for graphology with personal advice from Lawrence Hibbert. The feature urges birthdates and a 10cent fee per sample, promising confidential analyses from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Lawrence Hibbert
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
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