World Happenings Briefly Told
J Ramsay MacDonald plans a July end Canada trip with his three daughters. Two waiters hike Berlin to Geneva 1000 miles in boiled shirts and patent leather. General Moritz Aufenberg Von Komarow dies at 76. Rumors Kellogg may win Nobel Peace Prize for peace work. Canada to enforce long term farm loans act per Chapter 66. Justice Minister Lapointe quotes in Commons. Waterways power rights case deferred to September by Chief Justice Anglin. Ontario mineral output up by over 1.25 million dollars in Q1. British films to be shown in Canada under exhibit act. 12 titles bought for £100,000 for US bookings.
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Paris
F. B. Kellogg
Canada
Ernest Lapointe
House of Commons
Dominion
Supreme Court of Canada
Anglin
Ontario
Charles McCrea
United Motion Picture Products of America
Hall Caine at Seventy-Five Amid Honors and Plans
Sir Hall Caine, the Isle of Man novelist and dramatist, celebrated his 75th birthday at Greta Castle. He has been knighted for wartime propaganda work and is reportedly composing a personal life of Christ.
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Isle of Man
Hall Caine
Greta Castle
Sir Hall Caine
Christ
Champion Boy Orator Crowned in Canada Contest
William Fox junior of De LaSalle School London Ontario won the Canadian oratorical championship held in Toronto before nearly eleven thousand fans. Miss Swanhild Matthison of New Westminster was second and Miss Alice Elizabeth Muse Roblin was third. The winner earns a trip to Europe and will represent Canada in Washington at the international contest with competitors from Mexico Argentina England Japan Cuba Holland United States and Germany.
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Canada
William Fox
de Lasalle School
London
Ontario
Swanhild Matthison
Vancouver
Alice Elizabeth Muse Roblin
Manitoba
J. R Burnett
Charlottetown
Europe
Washington
Mexico
Argentina
England
Japan
Cuba
Holland
United States
Germany
Frederick Hotson
Tavistock
Ont
Mr. Fox
Toronto
Winnipeg Women’s Canadian Club
United Farm Women of Manitoba
Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
Alberta
Margaret Kinney
Victoria High School
Edmonton
Alice Elizabeth
D. M. Kennedy
Peace River
Alta
Donald Lamonte
P.E.J
Wilson Macdonald
British Columbia
J. T. Thorson
M.P
South Centre
Winnipeg
George M Wrong
Walter Keast
S. H. Henry
Teachers’ Association
Miss Kinney
Miss Muse
Matthison
Edison Smith
Prince Edward Island
W. D. Bayley
James L. Hughes
W. L. Mackenzie King
R. B. Bennett
Practical Farmer Produces Better Crops Than Theorists
A practical farmer outperforms theoretical approaches by delivering superior crop yields and efficient cultivation results. The statement contrasts hands on experience with theoretical planning, highlighting tangible gains in agricultural productivity.
Liverpool Cathedral Visit Highlights Great Britain Tour
The Farmers Marketing Tour visits Liverpool Cathedral lauding its Gothic red sandstone beauty and copper roof. The group tours Liverpool Produce Exchange and Liverpool Fruit Exchange, observes auction processes, and meets Benifits of Canadian market insights. They proceed to Manchester to explore the Ship Canal trade hub and the Smithfield Market before touring tobacco operations and Co-op Wholesale Society facilities.
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Liverpool
Great Britain
St. Peter's
Rome
Seville
St. John’s Cathedral
New York
Northern Counties
Liverpool Produce Exchange
Liverpool Provision Traders’ Association
Europe
Liverpool Fruit Exchange
Manchester
Globe Travel Company
Walton Hall
Lord Daresbury
South America
Italy
France
Hugary
Poland
Holland
Switzerland
Lancashire
Manchester Ship Canal
Canada
England
Wales
Smithfield
United Kingdom
Ship Canal
Co-operative Wholesale Society
Radio costs world sleep for hobbyists says RCA chief
General Manager Sarnoff of the Radio Corporation of America argues radio saves world money but costs sleep. He cites late-night listening by workers who must rise early, warning that lost rest and reduced energy threaten health, beyond any monetary expense.
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Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
Canadian Business Conditions Improve with Most Indicators Up
After the first quarter, Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports ten indicators. One unchanged from last year while the rest rise, with coal output flat and measures such as employment pig iron steel bank clearings car loadings building permits imports exports and coke increasing by one to twenty eight points.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Not what I will but what Thou wilt in Sunday lesson
The June 3 Sunday school lesson centers on Mark 14 1 42 with the golden text Not what I will but what Thou wilt and devotional reading from Psalm 22 1 5 18 19 The Betrayal announcement is read as Jesus tells the twelve one of you shall betray Me The discourse mentions Judas as the betrayer and references Dante Grist and biblical context noting the cross as foretold and the fall of Judas with emphasis on self examination by followers.
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Jesus
Thomas Fuller
Paldrew
Christ
John
Judas
Wm. A. Grist
Rockets Will Propel New Plane To Atmosphere For Test
The Opel works at Kessel Germany plans a rocket propelled aeroplane piloted by Anton Kaab. It aims to reach 35000 feet with 100 hp rocket power and oxygen masks. After meteorological work a parachute landing will follow.
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Opel
Kessel
Germany
Anton Kaab
Waliers-Sanders
New Blackburn Ripon II Torpedo Aircraft Demonstrated
A Blackburn Ripon II fitted with a Napier Lion engine flew over the Humber and dropped a nearly one ton torpedo at a marked target in front of air ministry officials and foreign attaches. The aircraft carries an observer and rear gun, can fly over two miles per minute, lift 113 tons, and climb to high altitude. A new single seater fighter with 200 hp, once secret, was also demonstrated to prove an efficient design with reduced power.
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Humber River
Air Ministry
Canadian Exhibits Abroad Aide Sail to Britain
Major J Paxymalee, assistant deputy minister of trade and commerce, sails for England to oversee a large programme of empire exhibitions across Aberdeen, Birmingham, Belfast, Bradford, Bristol, Hull, Bolton, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth and Plymouth. A Canadian air mail route survey between Montreal and Winnipeg will locate landing fields amid forthcoming air contracts. Reading United States laws would take eight years and four months at eight hours daily.
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J. G. Paxymalee
Hull
Bolton
Leeds
Leicester
Manchester
Newcastle
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Montreal
Winnipeg
Canada
United States
Western provinces report strong wheat seeding in 1928
A Winnipeg paper’s first 1928 season report notes the prairie provinces seeded wheat area is the largest since 1921 by May 10. By May 18 over 90 percent of the crop is in the ground, with the best seed bed in 14 years and higher wheat averages predicted across provinces.
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Winnipeg
Prairie
Saskatchewan Eyes Mining Boom Says Regina Leader
W M Van Valkenburg president of the Regina Board of Trade reports Saskatchewan aims to form a ministry of mines and establish a mining bureau in Regina and other major cities. He notes northern Saskatchewan is forty percent pre Cambrian.
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Saskatchewan
W. M. van Valkenburg
Regina Board of Trade
Ministry of Mines
van Valkenburg
Bienfait Briquetting Plant Alterations Underway
Alterations are being made to the briquetting plant at Bienfait Saskatchewan with foundations laid for extra machinery from England. It is expected about thirty carloads will arrive to equip the expansion.
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Lriquette
Bienfait, Sask
England
Wheat Pool Raises Vancouver Elevator Project
Over 600 workers are assembling the Alberta Wheat Pool terminal elevator in Vancouver with completion targeted for September 1. The project marks a major effort to expand grain handling facilities on the coast.
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Alberta Wheat Pool
Vancouver
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Farmers’ Marketing Tour
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