Prince of Wales Fort Belvedere Home Details
Fort Belvedere in Sunningdale Berkshire is being readied for the Prince of Wales return. An open air garden swimming pool is among features. The centre of the house houses an old guard-room from 1745 converted into a lounge hall with the Prince’s bedroom nearby. A dining room opens to the garden and a drawing room occupies a former banquet hall.
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Fort Belvedere
Sunningdale
Berkshire
Duke of Cumberland
Desert Air Ambulance Inaugurated For Sahara
An air ambulance service started in the Sahara Desert uses eight planes under military control and may serve civilians at about 25 cents per mile. Pilots are limited to early flights at low altitude during the hot season.
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Sahara Desert
Empress of Japan to Spark Pacific Ship Race
The Canadian Pacific Steamship Company brings the Empress of Japan to the Pacific coast August 19, starting a new race for trans-Pacific dominance. This liner will join Empresses of Russia Asia Canada and Japan, expanding a four-ship fleet and challenging the fastest Atlantic rivals Bremen and Europa. The Empress of Canada holds eight days 10 hours 9 minutes Yokohama to Victoria. others trail by about two days.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Far East
Russia
Asia
Canada
Japan
Empress of Japan
Yokohama
Victoria
Farmer redeposits 4000 after years buried in NC soil
A Lenoir County farmer returns a $4000 deposit to a Kingston bank after keeping the money buried near his home since 1920 due to fear of theft. The article notes the farmer’s persistent worry over his finances and mentions brass used to make 35000 household articles.
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Lenoir County
Kingston
North Carolina
A Valuable Study For Young People
An essay argues memorizing arithmetic tables trains the mind through discipline and focused practice. It compares mental drills to breaking a horse and stresses table work builds memory and reasoning, warning that absence of drill leads to aimlessness and static genius, while also noting rising boy crime in Ireland.
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Johnny
Old Fogey
Glencoe Massacre Ties Highlight Glencoe Earl Legacy
A recent camera study notes the Earl of Stair as ancestor of the first Earl of Stair renowned for his role in the Glencoe massacre. The present Earl of Stair is identified as lord high commissioner for the Church of Scotland.
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Earl of Stair
Glencoe
Church of Scotland
Driest and Wettest Spots Mentioned in Global Rain Records
An English paper notes that parts of South America endure droughts longer than seven years, while Lima Peru reports a rare seventy year dry spell broken by a five minute tropical shower. In contrast Greytown Nicaragua recorded 297 inches of rainfall in one year, highlighting extreme regional contrasts.
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Australia
South America
Ernest Hamilton
Lima
Peru
America
Greytown
Nicaragua
mink shipment reversed fuels new fur colony at Great Slave Lake
In an unusual reversal, three pairs of mink bred near Steveston, south of Vancouver, were shipped by J. A. Ramsford to Great Slave Lake. The live animals traveled 300 miles by air to reach their destination and may become founders of a new mink colony.
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Steveston
Vancouver
J. A. Ramsford
Great Slave Lake
Manitoba to Establish Rural County Health Unit Plan
Manitoba moves to create a County Health Unit in St James district with a full time medical director nurse sanitary inspector and clerk The budget totals 10000 yearly with 3333 from St James 2500 from the Rockefeller Foundation and 4166 from the province The plan mirrors efforts in Quebec Saskatchewan and British Columbia and aims to provide rural health protection comparable to urban departments
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Manitoba
H. F. Spencer
St James Hanitoba
Rockefeller Institute
Quebec
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Beauce County
St. James
Rockefeller Foundation
Spencer
Dominion
Canadian spruce drives huge pulp and paper investment
The text notes white spruce as the key raw material in Canada’s pulp and paper sector. It cites a $600 million investment in the industry and annual product value exceeding $220.9 million, underscoring spruce’s central economic role in the sector.
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Canada
Heraldic Lions and Unicorns Link to James I Era
The lion and unicorn in the British coat of arms trace to James I. The lion is common in English heraldry while the unicorn appears in Scottish heraldry. The piece also notes Zeppelin’s upcoming annual trip and a humorous London exchange about a timetable.
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James the First
England
Zeppelin
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Karikaturen
Osho
Winnipeg
Three
Prairie Provinces
William Baird
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Prince's Country Home
Ireland
P.r
Noarn BarTisrogo
Charceland
Saskatoon
Thorshe
Assiniboia
Choiceland
Prince Albert
Sonningdale
Rockglen
Leduc-Thorsby
Alberta
Mink
North
Hamburg
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