World Happenings Briefly Told
The contract to retard the action of the Chateau Frontenac was awarded to Antiin Norcross Company of Montreal. Major items include Field Marshal Allenby's Canada tour from Victoria on March 5 and a renewed British Iraqi mandate lasting up to 26 years. Ernest and Charles Datton, long separated, reunited in a Montreal employment office.
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Chateau Frontenac
Bite
Antiin Norcross Company
Montreal
Casries Koos
Servation Army
Weettern Capenda
New Zealand
Vancouver
Viscount Allenby
Canada
Victoria
Viscounters Allenby
Ernest
Charles Datton
Arctic Circle
Hudson's Bay Company
KFKX
Hastings
Neb
Arctic
Rise to Fame For Boyer Painter Of Montmartre
The piece highlights Boyer, a Montmartre artist rising from selling fried potatoes to fashionable portraiture. Discovered by an art dealer, he had a princess portrait hung in the Salon and now finds American buyers outbidding each other. He keeps his old lodgings while owning a motor car and a country house.
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Sean O'Casey
London
Boyer
Montmartre
Mr. O'Casey
English Woman Admires Gandhi and Enters India Cause
Miss Mirza Madeline Slade daughter of Sir Bedmoun Slade arrives in India drawn to Gandhi and his doctrines learned in France through admirer Romain Belland. She vows to devote her life to the Master’s cause. Also notes Newspaper Passes 105th Anniversary and brief Canadian press history.
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India
Mirza Madeline Slade
Aghniral
Bedmound Slade
East Indies
Segadrom
Miss Shute
Mr. Gandhi
France
Romain Belland
Europe
Miss Stade
Turning Point For China In coming months may decide fate
The Montreal Gazette notes retirement of Chang Teo-lin and Feng Ya Hsiang signals shift from war lords to a newly ascendant China. It predicts youth and reform pushing toward a united, militant China seeking a central role in world affairs as civil war lords fade. The next months may decide China’s fate for a century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chang Teo-lin
Manchuria
Feng Ya Hsiang
China
Minty
Turkey
Persia
Montreal Gazette
Apron patterns and fashion book for home dress makers
A home sewing note describes four apron views using yardage for lace ribbon and binding and mentions a larger View C and a View D with a yoke. It notes No 1274 in one size and prices for the apron 20 cents and the fashion book 10 cents per copy.
British naval build at Singapore signals future policing by League
French marine experts say London plans for a vast floating dry dock at Singapore imply Britain expects the League of Nations to oversee world seas. They note Washington treaty limits and large ship plans as signs of possible treaty invalidation and Geneva council control shifts.
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Britain
Admiralty
Pour
Singapore
London
League of Nations
Pacific
Geneva Council
How To Order Patterns in Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern order notice from the Winnipeg Union lists address 175 McNermot Ave and patterns numbered Bize. Requests mail orders with 20c coin or stamps and careful wrapping.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McNermot Ave
Winnipeg
Radio devices and broadcasts stir Arctic listening zeal
Secret US development weighs less than 1606 pounds a radio device to guide 1000 planes. The era’s listener is shaping radio, with tests now sent from many stations. Saskatchewan set a two way record in 1930s wireless talk, while Arctic communities tuned in. KFI Los Angeles cites blind listeners developing uncanny radio sense from ear.
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United States
KFI
Los Angeles
Penniless Millionaire Pastor Gave Away Millions
Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell of the Baptist Temple New York earned 11 million dollars by his own efforts and spent every dollar on the poor and for education. He died leaving a small estate and a son and daughter inherited 314000. He earned fame for charity and education and left an imperishable name.
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Russell H. Conwell
Baptist Temple
New York
Jesus
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Straus
Fick
Kingston
Saskatchewan trustees gain extended powers for canteen funds
An order in council in the Saskatchewan Gazette grants trustees added authority to appoint a secretary and staff, require meetings at least quarterly in Regina, keep books in the province, and elect a chairman. Saskatchewan’s share of 350,000 will be managed by Colonel James McAra, Albert H. White, and Charles G. Cox.
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Saskatchewan
Regina
Ing. Saskatchewan
James McAra
Albert H. White
Charles G. Cox
Saskatoon
Federal Prison Population Declines in Last Fiscal Year
The average daily number of inmates in Canada’s federal penitentiaries fell to 2,217 in the last fiscal year from 2,373 the prior year and 2,582 two years earlier. Per diem cost rose from 1924 to 1925 and averaged 1.53 in 1923, 1.48 in 1925, and 1.30 in 1924. Total administration cost was 1,683,192 with 168,328 earned by inmate labor.
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Canada
Superintendent of Penitentiaries
Dominion
Motor cars rise as necessity boosts 1925 totals
The Buffalo Courier notes that passenger car output exceeded 4.6 million in 1923 and rose by about 256 thousand in 1925. Analysts say autos are increasingly seen as essential in town and country, while modern road construction remains in its infancy, delaying any predicted peak in the industry.
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Buffalo Courier
Linking of Railways Urged for Peace River Region
Premier John Oliver urged linking the Pacific Great Eastern with the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railways through the Peace Pass as the most feasible transport solution for the Peace River country with 70 million acres of farmland. He argued the route would add about 100 miles from Vancouver but not raise costs and would ease engineering challenges.
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Pacific Great Eastern
Edmonton
Dunvegan
British Columbia
Peace Pass
Peace River Country
John Oliver
Vancouver
Imperial conference plans eyed as mainly political says Evening Standard
The Evening Standard argues that if the proposed Imperial conference is held in October it will be largely political. It notes the United States poses no immediate threat while the Imperial economic committee remains virtually non existent. It adds definite plans for empire markets and trade could be ready by October 1928.
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Evening Standard
United States
Economic Organization
Imperial Economic Committee
Turkey’s Best Mother Named for Madame Ismet Pasha
Madame Ismet Pasha, former wife of Turkey’s premier, is chosen by the Turkish Women’s Union as “Turkey’s best mother” for her prominent role in politics and support of her husband’s peace work. She is a mother of four children.
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Ismet Pasha
Turkey
Turkish Women's Union
Real Religion In Russia Faces Renewal Amid Persecution
Burness De Hueck told the Women’s Art Association that Russia has more religion now than ever. She said official church power collapsed but faithful people are guiding the nation toward a spiritual religion that will endure.
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Russia
Burness de Hueck
Women’s Art Association
Ottawa Fair to Get Dominion Grant for Lansdown Park Buildings
Ottawa will likely receive a grant from the Dominion Government toward extensions to the exhibition buildings at Lansdown Park. Mayor Balbarrie said the grant is needed because the world poultry congress comes to Ottawa in 1927 and new structures are required to meet its needs.
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Hon. W
RK. Motherwell
Ottawa
Lansdown Park
Balbarrie
London lawyers return to school over new Property Act
More than 500 barristers and solicitors, many long in the profession, attend classes at Essex Hall to master the recently enacted Law of Property Act. The act overhauls prior statutes and prompts several weeks of study.
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London
Essex Hall
Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed From 11-Law Of A Kind
A dense list of crossword clues spanning legal terms actions and everyday objects with various definitions and cross references. It includes entries for killing by another murder epoch overwhelmed trophical food singular pronoun first man and many more covering grammar measurements and objects across domains.
Ephedrine: Ancient Chinese herb yields medical breakthrough
A herb known in China for millennia yields ephedrine a drug now shown by Dr. K K Chen at the University of Wisconsin to raise blood pressure with lasting effect and to aid colds asthma and local anesthesia. It may rival adrenalin in surgery for sustained vascular rise.
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University of Wisconsin
K. K. Chen
Oldest Known Bible Manuscript May Move to Church
Reported transfer of Codex Sinaiticus by the Soviet government could place the ancient manuscript in a Petrograd church. Discovered in 1859 at Sinai Monastery, it was presented to Tsar Alexander II and is dated to the fourth century.
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Russia
Petrograd
Mount Sinai
Alexander II
Ontario Prohibition Leader Changes Role to Prohibition Bureau
Ben H. Spence announces severing twenty years of work with the Ontario Prohibition Union to become managing director of the Canadian prohibition bureau. He leaves active duties with the Ontario temperance movement to take the new post.
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Ben H. Spence
Ontario
Ontario Prohibition Union
Canadian Prohibition Bureau
Ex-Scotland Yard Officer Inherits Buenos Aires Millionaire Fortune
A former Scotland Yard officer receives a large inheritance from a Buenos Aires billionaire who expressed gratitude for his rescue from a London swindle gang shortly before the tycoon’s death.
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Scotland Yard
Buenos Aires
London
German Prince Christian Dines With King George
Prince Christian of Hesse dined with King George and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace after the war to mark an unofficial first German host. He traveled to London for Queen Alexandra’s funeral, previously gaining attention for an anti submarine letter and resigning his German naval commission.
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Prince of Hesse
Buckingham
Prince Christian of
Hiesse
George
Mary
Buckingham Palace
Prince Christian
London
Alexandra
Alex
Kaiser Wilhelm
Livestock In Good Condition Across Western Canada
The department of agriculture and colonization of the Canadian National Railways reports livestock in the west are in better condition than in many years. Little snow allows farmers to run cattle and horses outside, saving feed. The feed reserve also boosts cattle movement through winter.
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Department of Agriculture and Colonization
Canadian National Railways
Teachers to study international law abroad under Carnegie Endowment
Fifty teachers will go abroad next July to study international law and relations at the Hague Paris and Geneva. The group will be selected from universities colleges and normal schools. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of the endowment announced. The moonshine line appears to be a fragment.
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Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Hague
Paris
Geneva
Nicholas Murray Butler
Endowment
United States
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