Amendments to Criminal Code Increase Penalty for Reckless Driving
The House of Commons considers amendments to the Criminal Code to raise penalties for failing to stop at accidents from $50 and 30 days to $500 and six months. Aimed to shift proof of intent to the accused, the changes also allow courts to ban a reckless driver from driving any vehicle in Canada for up to three years. Provincial laws would continue to apply within their own borders.
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House of Commons
Ernest Lapointe
Minster of Justice
Canada
Women urged to join air defence drive as ARP plans expand
Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare launched a new campaign to recruit women alongside men into the air raid precaution corps. He cited 400,000 current citizens and pledged family gas mask training, home gasproofing, and fire response. Injured ARP workers would be compensated to protect families.
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Samuel Hoare
Home Secretary
Sir Samuel
United Kingdom
Seed Grain Exports From Airdrie Reach 60 000 Bushels
Wheat and oats for seed were shipped from Airdrie Alberta during three months, yielding about 40 000 dollars to producers. Elevators moved over 50 000 bushels in bulk carloads to southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan under Dominion seed branch supervision. Most grain came from registered or certified seed and state oversight.
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Airdrie
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Dominion Seed Branch
Italian decree bars bachelors from municipal posts
A government decree in Italy forbids bachelors and widowers without children from holding mayoral and council positions. Those already serving must resign from such posts.
Umbrella Passes And Dresses Drive Marital Quip
A light exchange between spouses centers on shared duties and finances. He notes her umbrella care, while she jokes about paying for her dresses, hinting at evolving domestic roles. The dialogue reveals affection and humor in everyday partnership.
National Health Drive Aims To Sell Good Health Canada
The Health Program Department announces a nationwide drive to promote health to Canadians from cradle to rocking chair. Hon C G Power, minister of pensions and national health, has created a health education branch to lead the campaign focusing on beauty of health, not sickness. It will partner with provincial and private health authorities, the medical profession, and the public, launching with a semi popular National Health Review.
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Department of National Health
C. G. Power
Pensions and National Health
National Department
National Health Review
Oban Fisherman Found After Two Years in Row Boat
James MacDonald a 70 year old retired fisherman lived in a row boat stored in a trunk in Oban Bay Scotland for two years. He kept his life savings of 6000 dollars in the boat and refused to quit the water. Neighbors and sympathizers fed him as he grew ill and was finally taken to a hospital.
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James MacDonald
Oban Bay
Oban
Scotland
MacDonald
Quote on etiquette of wearing watch with dress suit
A speaker remarks that wearing a watch with a dress suit is not good form and explains the habit of never having both watch and dress suit at the same time. The exchange reflects social norms and personal style considerations.
Education fund aids children of WWI veterans in Canada
Mrs J D Detwiler of London Ontario told the 38th annual Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire meeting that more than 250000 dollars had been spent on educating children of soldiers who served in the Great War. The fund, started after the war memorial, has distributed bursaries and postgraduate scholarships totaling 247 bursaries since 1920. Last year 78 bursaries and 18 postgraduate scholarships were awarded. The fund is being discontinued as the number of soldiers' children in school declines. 1000 sets of war memorial pictures were sent to Canadian schools to teach the war's horrors and deter future conflict.
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J. D. Detwiler
London
Ont
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
War Memorial Fund
Size Changes of Early Earth Across Deep Time
Scientists note Earth started with a diameter around 5,500 miles. It then accreted planetesimals to about 8,100 miles before geological forces reduced its diameter to roughly 7,926 miles.
The English Sparrow Dominates as True Sparrow in America
The text states that there are no native true sparrows in America and that the imported English sparrow is the only true sparrow present, while other so-called sparrows are actually finches.
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America
Arson punishment reform proposed in Commons
Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe brings a Code amendment to reduce arson penalties. The current life maximum for setting fire to buildings ships munitions and stores would drop to 15 years, with a five year cap for arson in chattels over 200 dollars reduced to 25 dollars.
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Commons
Ernest Lapointe
Loveliest switchboard operator in India advice
A humorous remark praises a tele phone girl as best wife material after years in a telephone exchange. The quip notes the operator understands men’s moods and remains free of illusions about them.
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India
Man yearns for a home by the road becomes a filling station friend
A wry note suggests a modern way to be the neighbor next door would be to run a filling station as a place to meet people. The speaker muses on the changing means of forming friendships and community ties.
Historic London home for lease at 145 Piccadilly
The Crown Lands announces offers for leasing the four story 145 Piccadilly mansion once housing King George and Queen Elizabeth. Lease runs until 1975 for about £200 monthly plus taxes. heat and light add roughly £86 monthly. A staff of 20 to 30 would be needed to operate nine reception rooms, twenty bedrooms, nursery, kitchens, and grand staircases including gilded nursery netting installed for the princesses.
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London
Piccadilly
George
Queen Elizabeth
Commissioners of Crown Lands
Old Time English Farm Life and Prices in 11th to 17th Century
Records describe serf-like farming in 1137 with rents from pasture at one penny per acre and arable land at sixpence. Horses cost three shillings, oxen five shillings three pence, a Henry II era sale included 51 oxen and 200 sheep for £9 10s. Wheat once 1s 8d a quarter, later up to £1. Lord Mayor’s rent 19s 8d yearly. Elizabethan inns bed price one penny, dinner sixpence. Labor paid a penny to two pence daily. wool middlemen grew rich, Thomas Guyon left £100,000 in 1664 from trade.
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England
London
Thomas Guyon
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