Independence Day toll and world events in brief
The United States marks 156 years of independence with over 240 lives lost. Congress approves a $2.1 billion unemployment relief bill. Canada opens a new Dominion Day highway linking Ontario and Manitoba. Türkiye snowstorm kills shepherd and hundreds of sheep near Mount Olympus. Soviet-style price fixing alleged in Ontario fruit baskets. Katharine Medill McCormick dies in Versailles at 79. Pirate treasure reported on Cocos Island. Thelon River gold prospectors urged by past deaths. Montreal hospital reports a punctured heart repaired in a child with a knife wound.
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United States
House Representatives
Senate
British Columbia
S. L. Howe
Mount Olympus
Bursa
Turkey
Canadian Medical Association
Ontario
Manitoba
Dominion of Canada
F. A. McGregor
Katharine Medill McCormick
Robert S. McCormick
Versailles
France
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Cocos Isle
Vancouver
B.C
R. D. Adams
Jack Hornby
Thelon River
Hornby
Homeopathic Hospital
Montreal
J. Harry Condon
Robert Shepherd
Roman coins unearthed near Thames home of Viscount Craigavon
A workman digging at the river side home of Viscount Craigavon in Northern Ireland finds Roman coins dated from A D 320 to A D 324. The discovery is believed tied to the site of an ancient Roman road near the residence.
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Thames
Viscount Craigavon
Northern Ireland
Debated Monetary Reforms From Major Strange Proposals
A survey lists proposals to curb credit in good times and loosen in downturns, including central bank controls, a labor-based Canadian dollar, indexed price systems, bi and symmetallism, stronger silver use, nationalized finance, and maintaining the gold standard with reforms.
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Major Strange
Karl Marx
Waiting Time Is Over Says Canadian Optimist Barnjum
Frank J. D. Barnjum urges prosperity by public action and spending. He argues people should buy freely, build, repair, and stock up now to save thirty to fifty percent, and to meet prosperity halfway. He also advises advertising.
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Frank J. D. Barnjum
Limitations Of Distributional Valuations In Bridge
The article explains how distributional trick taking values in two hands can overstate potential tricks beyond ten due to overlap between high card and ruffing tricks. It discusses slam bidding rules, the need for strong aces and kings, and how balanced versus unbalanced hands affect the likelihood of making high contracts. An example shows a deal where distributional counts predict fifteen tricks but actual play yields eleven.
Griddle Cake Machine Ousts Fifty Girls at Childs NY
Government railways in Japan earned almost eleven million dollars in the prior year, reflecting robust financial performance for the network.
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Childs
New York
Japan
Duplicate high cards forestall slam bid in bridge
The North Hand holds Ace King hearts and Ace King diamonds while the South Hand shows void hearts and void diamonds, with the voids and duplicated values signaling no slam bid. The bidding revealed the duplication of strength across hands, discouraging a slam contract.
Sunday School Lesson on Passover Timing and Rite
The lesson outlines the instituting of the Passover rituals from Exodus 11 12, noting the calendar shift to Abib Nisan and the dual year systems. It explains Passover symbols including the roasted lamb unleavened bread and bitter herbs as reminders of liberation and readiness for departure.
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Wise
Baylonians
Egypt
Edersheim
R. C. Gillie
Subsidy Expired Leaves Omagh Builders to Pay Costs
In Omagh Ireland householders who recently built homes learned subsidies from the city and government had expired. At a council meeting it was disclosed that many began work assuming aid would be provided, only to discover the subsidy ended March 31 1931, requiring builders to bear all expenses themselves.
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Ireland
Omagh
Emancipation Push For Deaf At Western Canada Deaf Meet
Ed win G. Peterson of Saskatoon urged social emancipation for deaf persons and equal opportunities in education and employment at the triennial convention of the Western Canada Association of the Deaf held in Winnipeg.
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Edwin G. Peterson
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan School For the Deaf
Western Canada Association of the Deaf
Winnipeg
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