Tales Of Adventure Aboard The Schooner Yankee
The schooner Yankee a former Dutch pilot boat arrived in Gloucester Mass after a 15 month 35000 mile world cruise with 20 crew aboard. Captain Irving Johnson recounts a near death incident from fish poisoning near Pitcairn Island and details visits to Pitcairn descendants and Galapagos legends. The crew also hauled 20 tons of hardwood for Pitcairn and collected curios including a war canoe a bronze gun and anvil. The voyage touched Tahiti the Marin ers museum at Newport News Va and the Gala pagos islands and mentioned the mysterious Baroness Floise Bousquet de Wagner Von Lehrborn allegedly linked to Charles Island disappearance cases.
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Gloucester
Mass
Pitcairn Wiard
Irving Johnson
Pitcairn Island
Bounty
Pitcairn
Newport News
Solomon Islands
Johore
Johnson
Baroness von Wagner
Galapagos Islands
Floise Bousquet de Wagner von Lehrborn
Charles Island
Robert Phillipson
Alfred Rudolf Lorenz
Vienna
Galapagos
The Good Old Days and Irish Potato Decline
The item reflects on life in the good old days with chores like chopping wood and fetching water. It contrasts those memories with a note about a drop in potato cultivation in Ireland last year, attributed to the General Electric Philadelphia Work News.
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General Electric Philadelphia
Ireland
Choosing Life Work Father Son Career Advice
Magistrate Arthur Hanrahan of Windsor urges graduates at Assumption College to pick a life work based on personal fit not parental demand. He warns against dictatorial parenting and suggests counsel plus guidance. Parents should help, but allow sons to choose and heed wise advice for success.
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Arthur Hanrahan
Windsor
Assumption College
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Ontario Motor Accidents Rise in 1937 Fatalities
Official Statistics of the Highways Department show 1937 motor vehicle deaths reaching 766, up from 546 in 1936, a 40 percent rise. Injuries totaled 12 092 versus 10 251. fatal accidents grew from 501 to 686. Total economic loss estimates at 38 300 000 dollars.
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Ontario
Highways Department
When a pump runs dry the sane repair wins out
A reader in West New York N J argues that a pump needing continued priming signals a fault in the pump. An insane person might waste priming, but a sane person would mend or replace the pump and then use a small amount to bring up the water.
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S. P. Barackman
West New York
N.J
Paradox Of France and Rug Knots Mentioned
The piece contrasts French hesitation with logic and notes a Daladier reference from a Paris blunder during a November demonstration. It also explains hand knotting in Oriental rugs with Sarouk examples of up to 250 knots per square inch.
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France
Daladier
Paris
Ten Thousand Year Lease At Oswestry School
An English note recalls Oswestry School in Shropshire obtaining a lease for eight acres for 10 000 years dating from 1407. The piece muses on long horizons and historic legends about King Oswald and the Field of the Cross while reflecting on improbable futures under looming global conflict.
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Canada
Oswestry School
Shropshire
Sir Watkin Wiliams Wynn
Oswald
Maserfield
Penida
Mercia
America
Port Royal
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Britain
Empire
H. G. Wells
Oswestry
Germany
Hitler
Japan
China
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Princess Elizabeth Dreams Of Playing The Tuba
Princess Elizabeth heir presumptive reportedly aims to learn the tuba after seeing the instrument at a Windsor Castle concert by the Fodens Works band. She asked about the bass as King George and Queen Elizabeth, along with bandmaster Fred Mortimer, listened to her ambition. The king gently noted she is not yet big enough to handle the instrument.
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Elizabeth
Fodens Works
Windsor Castle
George
Fred Mortimer
Mortimer
Canada to boost egg trade with Britain at Glasgow exhibit
Canada plans three carloads of fresh grade A eggs for the Glasgow display and British market. shipments originate in Winnipeg and eastern Ontario co operatives. Henry Noble and Son of Glasgow will distribute to major shops, with Canadian pavilion displays guiding buyers.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Trade and Commerce Department
Dominion
Britain
Winnipeg
Montreal
Co-Operative
Ontario
Henry Noble and Son
Glasgow
Talkative Canadians lead world in telephone usage
Canadian telephone activity tops the globe with 210.8 conversations per person in 1935 and 222 in 1936, surpassing the United States and other nations. Canada also claims the longest direct wire voice path of 2,200 miles from Toronto to Calgary.
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House of Commons
Canada
United States
Denmark
Sweden
Alexander Graham Bell
Toronto
Calgary
Surface dwelling fishes have large eyes while deep water fish have small eyes
Fishes near the surface possess large eyes to spot prey and predators in bright light. deep water species develop reduced eyesight due to darkness and pressure, resulting in smaller eyes and limited vision.
Combat Measles and Child Health Day Warns Defenses
The Children's Bureau of Washington marks Child Health Day May 1 to debunk the idea that children should “get diseases early.” Dr. Marian Crane says no child under four should contract such illnesses, though prevention remains challenging. The piece urges fly control, screens, and cautious summer footwear to curb disease spread.
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Children’s Bureau of Washington
Marian Crane
Bureau
Cats learn fear after aquarium eel shock lessons
Christopher W. Coates of the New York City aquarium staff describes a method where cats roam near tanks with electric eels to deter rats. The eels are electrified to stun the cats, causing the felines to misidentify fish as electric eels afterward.
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New York Citys Aquarium
Christopher W. Coates
Aquarium
No Passes On Planes For Free Trans Canada Rides
Hon. C. D. Howe told the Commons committee on railways that passes will not be issued for free flights on Trans Canada Airlines. He answered a question from Olaf Hanson of Skeena regarding free travel passes.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines
C. D. Howe
Transport
Commons Committee On Railways
Olaf Hanson
Liberal
Skeena
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Marchena Island
Trygve Neggrudd
Baroness
Phillipson
Pesta
England
A. M. Shaw
Federal Department of Agriculture
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Alberta
Eastern Canada Livestock Union
Shaw
G. E. Christie
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Dr. Christie
Alice Brooks
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
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