World Happenings Briefly Told
Britain sends a cost saving measure to the supervisory committee. Italy eases grain import rules while Sardinia and Sicily lift restrictions. An Armenian woman seeks a $180 million fortune in India with her sons. Empire Day hopes for unity amid the empire. Shanghai postal strike isolates city from mail. Baychimo salvage efforts abandoned. A Chicago youth commits suicide during aviation dreams. A London Ontario man pays 5 25 for a stamped cheque in the first such district court case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Nations
Great Britain
House of Commons
Italy
Sardinia
Sicily
Marianne Djanikian
India
British Empire
J. H. Thomas
Dominions
Shanghai
Hudson's Bay Company
Baychimo
William R. Graham
Edna Christofferson
Angus D. Graham
London
Ontario
New Earl Of Egmont Struggles With Diminished Wealth And Isolation
The new Earl of Egmont, aged 18, emerges as a lonely figure who shuns society and publicity. Death duties slash the family estate from 2.5 million to 1.5 million, forcing the father and son to sell game on the castle grounds to cover expenses. The heir, lacking a mother’s influence and formal schooling, faces daunting responsibilities amid disappointments since his arrival in England. Elephants have been known to live 200 years.
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Lord Egmont
Earl
Egmont
England
Carter's Little Liver Pills Promoted by Miss E. T
Advertising copy touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a pure vegetable tonic that cleanses the liver and bowels. Miss E. T. endorses the product claiming it keeps the coinmon clear better than face creams and helps constipation acidity bilious headaches and indigestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T
Carter
Canada Begins Selenium Production in Copper Refining
Selenium, a by product of copper refining, is newly produced in Canada at Copper Cliff Ontario with first output in 1931. Experts say demand remains limited but market growth is likely as research expands uses for this scarce element in glass pottery rubber and photoelectric cells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Copper Cliff
Ontario
Arthur Buisson
Dominion Department of Mines
Ottawa
Disastrous Economy Promotes Advertising Demand
A Le Droit editorial argues that advertising drives demand and profitability, noting the most advertised and stores with heavy advertising attract more customers and can price competitively. It warns against cutting advertising, calling such a move a false economy that harms industry and commerce and circulation of money.
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le Droit
Ottawa
Forgotten Soldiers and Lost War Office Pay
Candide in the Sun day Pictorial recounts cases of British troops forgotten after World War I. Two soldiers at Havre in 1914 reportedly stayed on guarding a rifle range until 1919 and claimed five years' back pay. He also met a captain in Innsbruck who believed he’d been forgotten since 1918 and chose exile over contact with London.
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Cedric Hardwicke
Havre
Candide
Sunday Pictorial
Innsbruck
Tyrol
War Office
London
Recipes For This Week Beetled By Dessert and Coconut Souffle
Two recipes are presented: cookies and a coconut souffle. The cookie directions cover flour, baking powder, butter, sugar, egg yolks, rolling, coating with nuts or colored candy, and baking at 350 F for about 15 minutes yields 31 to 48 cookies. The coconut souffle blends butter, flour, sugar, milk, egg yolks and whites, coconut, salt, and vanilla baked in a water bath at 375 F for 50 minutes, served with lemon sauce and yields eight servings.
Joseph the Vizier and the Years of Plenty
The Sunday school lesson reviews Joseph as Pharaoh's vizier at age thirty, overseeing Egypt's grain stores during seven years of plenty. It contrasts confident, prudent planning with unnecessary anxiety, emphasizing trust in God and prudent foresight.
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Joseph
Egypt
Breasted
Pharaoh
Jesus
A Hundred Point Man Definition and Roles
A Hundred Point Man is loyal to friends and employers, true to every trust, polite, cautious yet courageous, and considerate to workers. Such safe men include chauffeurs, motor men, clerks, cashiers, engineers, teachers, or presidents, who never seek slights and keep their word.
Where to Spent AN ENJOYABLE VACATION IN CANADA
Canada offers diverse regions from Atlantic coast to Pacific, with scenic beauty and recreation including fishing hunting camping canoeing and golf. The National Development Bureau Ottawa provides automobile road maps and a booklet Vacations in Canada and will mail them to readers who request information on areas of interest.
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Canada
Atlantic Coast
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
Laurentian Mountains
Prairies
Rockies
Pacific Coast
National Development Bureau
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Irene Rich declares age and beauty secret
Irene Rich proclaims she is 40 and proud of her two grown daughters. She explains Hollywood guards complexion beauty, noting Lux Toilet Soap as her long time grooming aid and promoting a bargain French soap at 10 cents.
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Irene Rich
Hollywood
Lux
Frances
Miss Hich
Empress liners overhaul moved to Esquimalt from Hong Kong
Repair work on the Empress liners operated by Canadian Pacific Steamships will be done at Esquimalt, British Columbia, instead of Hong Kong, starting with the Empress of Russia on July 15. The shift, agreed with the Dominion government, adds local employment and covers higher labor costs while the ships’ winter overhaul remains in the Orient.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Vancouver
Esquimalt
Hongkong
E. Aikman
Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd
Orient
British Columbia
Dominion
S.S. Empress of
Great Bear Lake Mapped At Eight Miles To An Inch
Canada’s Great Bear Lake, the continent’s fourth largest, covers about 11,663 square miles. The Topographical Survey Department in Ottawa issued a new map of the lake at a scale of eight miles to one inch.
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Canada
Great Bear Lake
Topographical Survey Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Bahia City Elevator Carries Pedestrians Up Hill
A 240 foot elevator tower in Bahia Brazil lifts pedestrians from the bay street to hillside streets. A local exchange includes a request for a pocket knife to carve two hearts crossed by an arrow on a tree.
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Bahia
Brazil
James
Wahre Jakob
Berlin
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Chicago
Earl of
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Joseph the Worker
NCE
Rea
O.P.R. Pacific
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