Queen Mary World’s most powerful radio ship described
The Queen Mary is equipped with the most powerful radio and radiotelephone system at sea with a 70 kilowatt plant and duplicated machinery. Fourteen radio men operate high speed transmitters and receivers capable of twenty to thirty radiograms a minute. An emergency battery station and wireless lifeboats ensure continuous service even if main plants fail. Programs can be broadcast from public rooms to any location globally.
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Met
Radio City
Atlantic
Globe
Queen Mary
Two British Isles Dialects Voted Most Beautiful by Miss Fogerty
Miss Elsie Fogerty names Shropshire and border Scots dialects as the most beautiful with Oxfordshire next. A set of 12 double sided records covering principal dialects has been completed and the brass discs will be given to the British Museum to preserve these dialects forever.
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British Isles
Elsie Fogerty
Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art
London
Shropshire
Oxfordshire
British Museum
All Had Same Name Wood Wedding in Bellingen NSW
A wedding in Bellingen New South Wales featured a bridal party all named Wood with three unrelated Wood families among the guests. The bride was Dulcie Wood and her groom James Wood. James Wood was best man and Marion Wood, the groom’s sister, was a bridesmaid. The service was conducted by Rev Gordon Wood and his wife played the wedding march.
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Wood
Bellingen
New South Wales
Dulcie Wood
James Wood
Marion Wood
Gordon Wood
Needle as Lightning Rod Strikes Woman in Picton Home
Mrs Craight Platt of Picton Ontario was sewing in her home when a lightning bolt struck the steel needle she held. The shock she felt she attributed to the rubber thimble she wore.
Beautifying Home Grounds of Canada Book Promotes Planting
The Horticultural Council of Canada released Beautifying the Home Grounds of Canada a detailed guide on landscape architecture lawn design and planting plans for homes and farms. It covers rock gardens maintenance provincial plant lists and a practical approach for beginners. The article notes octopus flesh as a Hawaii delicacy.
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Canada
Horticultural Council of Canada
Victoria Street
Ottawa
Spring Flowers and Foreign Origins Highlighted by Revenue Review
The National Revenue Review notes that most spring garden flowers in Canada are imported. Tulips originated in Constantinople and Holland supplies many Canadian bulbs, while narcissus, primrose, hyacinth, and crocus have European or Asian roots, with 1935–36 florist stock imports to Canada totaling 573052 dollars and 170752 dollars of tulip bulbs from the Netherlands.
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National Revenue Review
Canada
Europe
Constantinople
Holland
Mediterranean
Asia
Swiss Alps
North America
Ethiopia
Java
Greece
Asia Minor
North Africa
Netherlands
Toronto Globe
Modern Spring Tonic Rhubarb Reaches New York Markets
State Agricultural Commissioner Peter G. Ten Eyck calls rhubarb New York’s first of the season vegetable crop and a modern spring tonic. He praises its tart flavor, versatility as a sauce or pie filling, and its health value including phosphorus and vitamin C while debunking acid forming myths.
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Ten Eyck
Dominion reports big rise in wheat acreage this year
The Dominion bureau of statistics says farmers plan to sow about one million more acres to grain than last year, a roughly three percent increase. Gains are concentrated in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Chemists claim Dowtherm A can boost coal-fired boiler power by replacing water with a new synthetic chemical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan
Alberta
New Kind Of Farmer "Irish Cobbler" Rears Butterflies
A Port Arthur News Chronicle reader describes a butterfly farm in England on half an acre with a three month season. The venture breeds hawk moths and other species for collectors and labs, selling tens of thousands of pupae to New Zealand and sending samples to Cambridge and Cambridge University for study and experiments.
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Port Arthur
Ontario
News- Chronicle
Bexley Heath
England
New Zealand
Cambridge University
Mayo Foundation Reveals Cold Sensitivity Mechanism
The Mayo Foundation researchers presented at the American Medical Association exhibit in Kansas City detailing a human chemical mechanism behind extreme cold sensitivity linked to collapses and drownings. Drs Horton and Brown with Grace Roth describe skin changes and sudden blood pressure drops, and advise a remedy of soaking an extremity in 50 degree water for five minutes daily over six days, which in many cases stopped cold intolerance.
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Mayo Foundation
American Medical Association
Kansas City
B. T. Horton
M.D
G. E. Brown
Grace Roth
B.S
The
Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research
Rochester, Minn
Moving Gold Shipments to Fort Knox Reported in Hearings
A plan to move about 6.6 billion dollars in gold bullion from New York and Philadelphia to the Fort Knox vault was outlined in a House Appropriations sub committee hearing. C. W. Cram Jr of the Mint testified the shipping cost would total 1,429,240 with 104,440 allotted for guards.
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New York
Philadelphia
Federal
Fort Knox
United States
House of Representatives Appropriations
C. W. Cram, Jr
Bureau of the Mint
Bath capacity at nine-inch depth exceeds 30 gallons
A bath measuring five feet in length and 18 inches in width, when filled to a nine inch depth, holds more than 30 gallons of water.
Rip Van Winkle Tales of Neighborhood Change
A terse note recalls Rip Van Winkle sleeping twenty years while his neighbors lacked radio. The line highlights how technology shifts daily life and community awareness over time.
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Rip van Winkle
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St. Thomas
Shropshire and Border Scottish
Agnes MacPhail
House of Commons
Beau Brummells
Parliament Hill
Hugh Plaxton
J. Earl Lawson
W. Earl Rowe
T. A. Crerar
Col
Edahl
Rocks
Devon
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