World Happenings Briefly Told From Around The Globe
Canadian Fisheries Association schedules its 1929 convention for September 12 and 13 in Winnipeg. The United States Navy awarded a low bid of 2 937 000 dollars for three more submarines like the Squalus. British importers show interest in Canadian wheat as George McIver notes shipments to Britain. An Auburn Massachusetts student wins the national spelling bee with a 500 dollar prize. Ontario woman found dead with odd banknotes tucked in stockings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Fisheries Assuniation
Winnipeg
Britasin Shipyards
Dominion
United States Navy
Elizabeth Rice
Auburn
Maas
United States Army
Tribute To Queen Mary On Her Birthday Anniversary
The New York Times praises Queen Mary's poise courage and charity on her birthday anniversary noting her survival of a 72 year old capsize near misses and her enduring public sympathy. It highlights her role as Queen Mother and her approachable kindness toward common people and champions alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Queen Mother
Princess May of
Teck
Victoria
Queen Mary
New York Times
Yukon Workless Debate Highlights Territorial Struggles
Mrs. George Black tells the Commons that healthy workers remain scarce in the Yukon while aging prospectors face hardship. She urges Mines Minister Crerar to visit and grasp conditions firsthand as packers lose horses to predators and meat prices rise. Peru imports 7,000 cattle to stave off shortages amid regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Yukon
George Black
House of Commons
Turkey
Crerar
Simple Frocks by Anne Adams Pattern 4149
Outdoor gaieties demand a fresh Anne Adams dress pattern. Pattern 4149 features a yoked bias trimmed six gore skirt and options for straight or bias cut. Sizes 14 to 42 with 4½ yards needed for size 16. send 20 cents to pattern dept. Winnipeg Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Wees Union
McDermot Ave
World’s Best Loved Poems booklet offer in Winnipeg
A Winnipeg newspaper notice promotes a 32 page booklet of poems by Browning Longfellow and others with lines about love life and virtue. It invites readers to send 15 cents to the Ser vice Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union and lists additional booklets available for 15 cents each including travel etiquette and ballroom dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Browning
Longfellow
Sim Foss
Eugene Field
Tennyson
Wordsworth
Walt Whitman
Scott
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Leap Year Adds 200000 Pound Salaries in RAF Costs
A leap year extra day increases expenses with 200000 dollars spent on Royal Air Force salaries. The neutral note highlights unit cost impact without broader context or additional figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Air Force
How Industries Grow By A. H. Warwick
The Industrial Development Board of Manitoba notes long effort to build new industries and expand existing ones in Western Canada. It cites St Andrew's flour mill as early West industry, now replaced by modern mills. A Winnipeg firm started about 1935 grew to 42 workers by 1938, with wages about 38 600 dollars annually. The piece urges buying Western made goods to boost jobs and regional prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Industrial Development Board of
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Red River
St. Andrew's
Western Canada
Gibe
West
British Isles
Canada
Britain
America
Industrial Development Board of Manitoba
Confederation Life Building
Western
Why King George VI Visits Columbia University
The article recalls Col umbia University origin as King's College founded in 1754 with a royal charter from George II and later renamed. It notes the King's Crown, royal symbols, and the Lion’s Den snack spot. It ends by linking King George VI’s visit to the historic institution, with New York Sun reflections on life and exertion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Columbia University
Columbia
George VI
New York
Holland
England
George Sr
Trinity Parish
King’s College
Samuel Johnson
Committee of Safety
Columbia College
Morningside Heights
University
King’s Crown Board
New York Sun
Be Worthy of the Gospel in Church Life
Sunday school lesson outlines Philippians 1 27 and related scriptures with emphasis on duties of church members. It urges peace among members, respectful admonition, loving correction, encouragement of the weak, longsuffering, and returning good for evil. It presents practical guidance for pastoral and lay leadership within the Christian community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moffatt
Paul
Patience
Christ
Trans-Canada Air Lines Plans Expansion of Passenger Service
Hon. C. D. Howe announces five additional Lockheed planes ordered for rapid delivery. Extension of the Toronto Detroit Buffalo main run is planned with likely daily service to Buffalo. Aimed at standardizing equipment on Vancouver to Seattle and Toronto to Winnipeg routes with day and night flights for passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trans-Canada Air Lines
C. D. Howe
trans-Canada
Vancouver
Seattle
Toronto
Detroit
Buffalo
Montreal
Winnipeg
Howe
Fortune Fateful at World’s Fair Mahara jah and Maharanee of Nepal
A near-sighted shopper drops a quarter in a bazaar at the New York World's Fair. The dignified Hindu garbed couple, the Maharah jah and Maharanee of Nepal, refuse the fortune and return the coin. They depart in silent dignity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maharajah and Maharanee
Nepal
Friction on Maginot Line and Trade Shifts
The text notes the Maginot line as impervious and the German line as unbreakable, then laments the idea of having only one such barrier between France and Germany. It states France ships three times as much rayon to the United States as a year ago and closes with a moral reflection on charity and sin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
United States
Night driving perils and safety tips from traffic study
A 1930s traffic safety briefing notes night fatality rates exceed daylight by over three times and traffic deaths rising 43 percent since 1930. It cites improved highway lighting in Michigan cutting accidents 79 percent in early 1938, vs 19 percent on unlit stretches, and urges pedestrians and cyclists to use lights and drivers to avoid alcohol and reduce speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Michigan
Lansing
Detroit
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Readers urged to request cancer article set from Health League
An editorial note invites readers seeking Dr McCullough's cancer articles to obtain the complete set by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond Street in Toronto Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. McCullough
Health League of Canada
Bond St
Toronto
Ont
Addressing Hitch-Hiker Menace On Highways
Regina Leader-Post argues for stronger laws to curb hitch-hikers and beggars seeking rides on busy roads. It warns that unknown individuals alighting from moving vehicles pose safety risks and have caused accidents nationwide, contrasting past neighborly lifts with today’s strangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina
Buffalo Police Motorcycle Unit to Use Chalk-Tipped Lances
The police commissioner says motorcycle officers will patrol on sight using chalk tipped poles to reach tire sides without dismounting. Union College researchers bring back 4000 ants from British Guiana. Transatlantic air fare reportedly set at 375 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Glenn McClellan
Union College
Schenectady
N.Y
British Guiana
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Post Office
Rachal Kostinsky
George Mcliver
Canadian Wheat Board
Great Britain
Jack Cameron
Edmonton
Acter
Peru
Nicaragua
Home Service
A. H. Warwick
George
Mauretania
Liverpool
Clyde
Atlantic Ocean
Health League
DR. J.W. $. McCullough
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