World Happenings Briefly Told
The House of Commons approved the amernment to the gold tax. The disarmament conference adjourned June 12 for a breathing space to settle political difficulties. Britain plans 50 air force squadrons totalling about 600 machines. Fire destroyed the Quaker Oats elevator at Delisie, 9,000 bushels ruined, insured. John Duncan, 91, veteran railway telegrapher, died in Toronto, succeeding Edison. Afrikaans Bible sales reach 150,000 in South Africa and Rhodesias. Soviet crop sowing 98.2 percent complete by early June, 228,328,000 acres seeded, largest area ever cultivated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
FE. N. Rhodes
Delisie
John Duncan
Toronto
Thomas Alva Edison
Northern
Victoria Daily Times
John Grant
M.L.A
Cassiar
South Africa
South African Union
Rhodesias
Soviet
Russia
Societ Union
Timothy Seed Market Shapes Western Growth Prospects
A Saskatchewan Agriculture report shows Canada still imports most timothy seed despite rising domestic output. Timothys yield 200 to 300 pounds per acre with average prices near 6 cents per pound for No 1 seed. Canada uses about ten million pounds yearly. imports fell after 1931 but domestic production surged to 5 million pounds in 1932 then dropped to 2.7 million in 1933.
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Canada
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
United States
Melons Save Bank Notes In Fire Ruins Of Constantinople
A fire gutted the Law Courts in Constantinople leaving a safe buried in debris. A cashier hid £5,000 of notes inside two melons placed for protection. Steam from the melons preserved the notes enough for the State Bank to accept them.
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Constantinople
Dore
Lord Londonderry Praises Press For Fairness Generosity
The Lethbridge Herald quotes Lord Londonderry Secretary for Air in Britain saying the press is fair and helpful to the government. He notes journalists spare in criticism and liberal in praise, expressing appreciation for the press in public affairs.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lord Londonderry
Air
Air Mail Across Canada Plan Outlined by Canadian Airmen
Squadron Leader A. T. Cowley outlined a coast-to-coast air mail plan during a Calgary visit. The service would use aeroplanes over 200 miles an hour to fly from Montreal to Vancouver in about 19 hours via Regina Lethbridge and the Crow's Nest Pass, with a Calgary to Lethbridge branch.
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Montreal
Vancouver
A. T. Cowley
Calgary
Regina
Lethbridge
Crow's Nest
Manitoba Fair Wage Schedule Cuts Rates Across Province
Hon W R Clubb Manitoba minister of public works and labor announced a new fair wage schedule applying to private and public works with reductions of five to 10 percent from last year. Effective June 15 the two set rates cover Winnipeg and 30 mile radius and the rest of the province. Stone masons receive two rates 80 cents and 1 dollar an hour compared with last year 1.05.
Far mer Corntessel recalls unpaid mortgages ancestor deeds
A haughty woman asks about ancestors actions to be remembered. Farmer Corntessel confirms, noting his grandfather placed mortgages on the family land that remain unpaid.
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Farmer Corntessel
Sunday School Lesson June 24 The Gospel According to Matthew
An instructional prompt lists questions about the Gospel of Matthew including authorship tradition earliest life record language of writing dating purposes and outline. It frames a Sunday devotional with Luke 1 33 as golden text and Micah 4 1 5 as devotional reading.
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Matthew
Christ
Jesus
Canada designates Exchequer Court as Admiralty Court
The House of Commons passed a bill making the Exchequer Court of Canada an Admiralty Court. The measure, sponsored by Justice Hugh Guthrie, grants Canada control over admiralty matters and sets required regulations. The bill moved quickly through committee and faced no opposition.
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Canada
House of Commons
Exchequer Court of Canada
Exchequer Court
Dominions
Hugh Guthrie
House
Raining Gold in India After Earth Shocks
Seismic disturbances in outlying districts produced a shower of fine powdered gold. Scientists analyzed the dust and found precious metal particles. the color was due to gold dispersed by earth shocks lifting particles from deep rock fissures.
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India
Unenviable Record of Murders by Country in 1932
The report ranks nations by murder rates and totals. Chile reported 2,913 murders in 1932, about 61 per 10,000 or one every three hours, while the United States logged 10,617 murders in total and 812 per 10,000. Belgium had the highest European percentage with 186 murders, and Germany had 1,223 total but 1.88 per 10,000. In nine countries surveyed, total murders reached 16,108.
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Holland
Great Britain
Chile
United States
Europe
Belgium
Germany
Comic Funeral Exchange Delivers Lasting Local Laugh
A brief rural exchange unfolds over the telephone as an undertaker asks if a mother-in-law should be buried or embalmed. Rastus responds with a blunt plan to cremation, delivering a sharp, culturally dated joke.
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Rastus
Oxford Group at Banff Portraits North American Gathering
Members of the International Team of the Oxford Group led by Dr. Frank Buchman were photographed on the Banff Springs Hotel terrace during the North American House Party in Banff Alberta from June 5 to 12 1934. The image lists participants from Ottawa New York Oxford London Boston Philadelphia and more with officials and sponsors present.
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Oxford Group
Frank Buchman
Banff Springs Hotel
Banff
Alberta
York
Roger Hicks
India
Oxford
Roger Faure
Paris
Ferdinand Laun
Germany
Eugene von Teuber
Czecho-Slovakia
Victor Kitchen
New York
Mrs. Wood
Boston
Frederick Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence
Howard Rose
London
Paul Petrocekine
Edward Hill
Audrey Haigh
Mary Gaddie
Edinburgh
Victor Turnbull
Toronto
Joyce Machin
Kate Cross
Montreal
Jack Smith
New
Pleasanton
Elia Lee
H. A. Armitstead
Mary Ferrabye
Ellen la Forde
Bishop Roots
Madame Curie and the Radium Age of Science
The text chronicles Madame Curie’s isolation of radium and its impact. It notes her Radium Institute in Paris, the source and quantity of radium from pitchblende, and the world’s supply and price shifts. It mentions radium’s longevity, uses in cancer treatment and industry, and new Canadian pitchblende deposits near Great Bear Lake.
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Madame Curie
Pierre Curie
Sorbornne
Paris
Curie
Belgian Congo
Radium Institute
America
Canada
Great Bear Lake
Arctic Circle
Panama Canal Rates Doubled Against Britain Proposed
Arthur Brisbane in Hearst papers protests Britain not paying U S debt and suggests canal rates could be doubled for British vessels. The canal was built under an international agreement ensuring equal rates for British and American ships, with British concessions pivotal to construction.
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Arthur Brisbane
Hearst
Great Britain
United States
Panama Canal
Toronto Mail
Empire
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Constantinople Law Courts
Air Mail
Manitoba
Bob Bowman
Ottawa
Rip van Winkle
Ted Devlin
W. Gra
Aberdeen
Alys Smith
Cleveland Hicks
Radium
Gordon H. Guest
M.A
Denicotea
Robt. Simpson Co
the T. Eaton Co
Liggetts Drug Stores
Moodey's Cigar Store
G. Whebby
Rutherford Drug Stores
Chantler & Chaniler, Ltd
Canadian Distributors
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
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