North Lands to Watch as Northwest Territories Grow
Unprecedented attention assists a banner year in Canada’s north as science expands exploration from Gordon Lake to Great Slave Lake and Pine Point. The Arctic program includes royal visits, scientists, the Nascopie expedition, and reindeer transplants, with a territorial council governing under Minister Crerar.
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Canada
Northwest Territories
Three Prairie Provost
Northland
Gordon Lake
Yellowknife River
Outpost Island
Great Slave Lake
Pine Point
Great Bear Lake
Arctic Circle
Aklavik
Mackenzie River
Beaufort Sea
United States
Nascopie
Montreal
Arctic Archipelago
Arctic
Pole
Alaska
Territorial Council
Ottawa
Dominion
T. A Crerar
Unusual House Built From Junk Mosaic In England
A 72 year old retired seafarer from Chichester, John Tippen, spent eleven years creating a ten room house entirely from rubbish and broken china. He designs on a board and cements tiny fragments into blocks that resemble marble from a distance. Thousands of blocks form the structure titled junk mosaic.
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England
John Tippen
Chichester
Tippen
Combe Martin Grows Giant Strawberries
In Combe Martin a strawberry competition crowned a winner with four berries to the pound. Each berry required seven bites to eat and weighed six ounces. The famous berries come from the old North Devonshire town.
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Devonshire
Combe Martin
Old Way Is Best Community Feeding Centres Debate
Stanford professor James Luck spoke in Vancouver supporting replacing mothers with expert dieticians in community feeding centres. The Niagara Falls Review doubted progress, saying the average man prefers home meals and would resist centralized feeding despite potential efficiency gains.
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James Luck
Stanford University
Vancouver
Niagara Fall Review
Automatic radio alarms prove effective on distressed ships
Automatic radio alarms on scores of American ships have been remarkably efficient in picking up distress calls at sea. Charles J. Pannill, president of the Radio Marine Corporation of America, noted the system’s success in two recent emergencies. Signals from the Guardian when grounded off Lobos Cay Cuba triggered alarms 80 to 1,000 miles away while the Sandgate Castle fire reached 130 miles distant. Nearly 350 ships are equipped, offering 24 hour vigilance.
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Charles J. Pannill
Radio Marine Corporation of America
Guardian
Lobos Cay
Cuba
Sandgate Castle
Pannill
Advertising Emphasizes Newspapers Reach All Readers
The Amherstburg Echo argues newspapers are the surest way to reach every reader, claiming other media miss some people while newspapers reach all. It asserts readers of any material also read newspapers.
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Amherstburg Echo
King decorates veteran Coronation Scot engineer
Tom Clarke, a 48 year railway veteran and engineer of the Coronation Scot, received the Order of the British Empire from King George at Euston station. Sir Josiah Stamp announced the award as the royal party headed back to London after a four week visit to Scotland.
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Tom Clarke
London
Edinburgh
Euston
Clarke
Josiah Stamp
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Tom
Josiah
Scotland
Buckingham Palace 100th Anniversary Emphasized
The residence of kings marks a century as sovereign dwellings. Queen Victoria moved in on July 18 1837 from Kensington Palace with her mother the Duchess of Kent and noted the palace is hardly big enough for the royal family.
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Buckingham Palace
Victoria
Kensington Palace
Duchess of Kent
Good Plan For Everyone
A suggested safety plan urges no lone swimmers with the Boy Scouts method pairing boys to stay near a partner. It claims this approach could save dozens of lives this summer and is applicable to family groups and others.
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Boy Scouts
Archaeologists Trace 1000 Years of Horse Servitude
Field Museum of Natural History and Oxford University researchers report evidence from Kish Iraq tombs dating to 3000 B C showing domesticated horses used as work animals. The find extends the timeline of horse domestication and confirms early use with chariots and ritual burials.
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Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Richard A. Martin
Field Museum
Oxford University
Mesopotamia
Kish
Iraq
Babylon
Martin
Dominion Meteorological Bureau Expands Staff in Toronto
Five new men join the Dominion Meteorological Bureau in Toronto to meet demand for weather data for the projected trans Canada air service. John Patterson states the staff grows to 14 and will provide full accurate bulletins on weather along the aviation lanes. Special aviation duties require intensive training for the new hires.
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Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Toronto
John Patterson
Weather Bureau
trans-Canada
Pitcairn Islanders Work Tax-Free for Public Projects
Present-day descendants of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island, about 200 in number, pay no taxes in their Utopia. Instead each man aged 18 to 60 contributes seven days a year to build roads, boats, or perform other community tasks.
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Bounty
Pitcairn Island
Women's Institutes Chronicle Origin and Growth in Canada
The Health magazine outlines the origin of Canada's Women's Institutes from Ontario's first branch in Saltfleet in 1897 to 1935 totals of 1371 institutes and over 42,000 members. It highlights objectives in home economics leadership and health education emphasizing disease prevention from childhood onward.
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Women's Institutes of Canada
Health
The
Health League of Canada
Women's Institute of Ontario
Saltfleet Township
Wentworth County
Stoney Creek
British Dominion migration co operation not yet ready
The Dominions Secretary told the House of Commons no Dominion government is ready to cooperate in assisted migration schemes though Britain remains open to suitable proposals. The exchange referenced Canada’s provinces and authority resting with the Dominion government.
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Dominion
Malcolm MacDonald
House of Commons
Henry Page Croft
Canada
MacDonald
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