World Happenings Briefly Told
Six South Africans sail from Durban in a small ketch Land's End with a 40 horsepower diesel engine. A. Vartanian, a Moscow engineer, discusses Soviet Arctic aerial exploration in Portland. The University of Oxford awards Lord Nuffield a Master of Arts degree for his donations. Canadian October building contracts total 20,169,900 dollars, down 7 percent from September but up 34.8 percent from October 1936. Windsor Park to host Royal hunts this winter under King George VI. Vladimir Vorobieff, embalmer of Lenin, is dead. Six autogyros ordered by the British air ministry will be two-seaters with six lifting blades driven by an engine.
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Durban
Land's End
Soviet Russia
Arctic
A. Vartanian
Moscow
Portland
Oregon
University of Oxford
Lord Nuffield
Canada
British
Air Ministry
Cancer Research Institute
Frederick Banting
Department of Medical Research
University of Toronto
China
War Chest
United States
South America
Hawaii
Canada 1937 radio series returns with new format
The Friday 10 pm program features Vernon Bartlett guiding Europe based interviews in Canada and Lionel Shapiro reporting from New York NBC studios. Walter Bowles will narrate weekly district progress while national builders are highlighted. Music will be newly arranged for a large orchestra and choir. Sponsored by Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada.
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Canada
E.S.T
Vernon Bartlett
Europe
Lionel Shapiro
New York
N.B.C
Walter Bowles
Victor George
Two Aprons From One Pattern Offer Christmas Gifts
Puzzled about Christmas gifts This feature presents Anne Adams pattern 4591 for two aprons A and B cut from one design. Apron A in gingham percale or chambray with ricrac trim and B in dimity dotted swiss or batiste with ruffles. Pattern sizes small medium large fabric yardage listed and 20 cents price includes illustrated instructions. Order to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot
Farm Tires Spark Big Growth at Fergus Proving Match
The International Prow ing Match at Fergus Ontario drew over 70 tractors with 115.14 Attended by 115.14 farmers. Six tractors ran on steel lugged wheels while the rest used rubber tires. Firestone Ground Grip tires dominated eight of nine first awards and the grand championship, won by Fred Timbers of Ringwood Ontario for the third straight time.
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Fergus
Ontario
Ottawa
Firestone
Fred Timbers
Ringwood
Sunday School Lesson on Timothy and Doctrine
Devotional notes on first and second Timothy and Acts 20 31 35 warn against false teaching. Paul instructs Timothy to remind brethren of true doctrine and live as a good minister, training in Christian living and proclaiming God rather than arguing philosophy.
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Timothy
Jesus
Paul
Jesus Christ
W. J. Lowstuter
Absen
God
Malcolm James MacLeod
Christ
Albert W. Beaven
Helium Purifier Planned for New Zeppelin
The Zeppelin company orders a helium purifying plant in Germany to be ready for Zeppelin No. 130's maiden voyage to Lakehurst New Jersey next spring. Helium used in airship containers will be periodically emptied cleaned and reused to curb the high US imported helium costs.
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Zeppelin Company
Germany
Zeppelin
Lakehurst
New Jersey
United States
Egg freshness and air space explanation
If an egg rattles when shaken it is not fresh. The air space inside the shell has grown larger due to slow evaporation inside the egg.
Saskatchewan Leads Fight Against Tuberculosis Twenty Years On
A Saskatchewan Tuberculosis League marks twenty years since the first sanatorium opened on October 8, 1917. Messages from leaders across Canada praise the League’s educational and preventive work financed by Christmas Seals, noting Saskatchewan’s low death rate and urging continued contributions to cut mortality from TB.
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Canada
Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League
John McEachern
Sanatorium Board of Manitoba
A. E. Miller
Kentville
Nova Scotia
League
Saskatchewan
America
P. A. Creelman
Prince Edward Island
Tuberculosis League
Pei
W. H. Hatfield
Vancouver
The
Three Killed In Separate Transport Accidents
The Ottawa Journal reports three passenger deaths in an automobile crash into a rail fence and a passenger killed when a car backs off a wharf, plus two killed when a truck collides with a railroad train. No limits to mischance and safety rests in caution.
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Lmit
Ottawa Journal
Edison on Results From Thousands of Failed Experiments
The quote recalls Thomas Edison remarking to an assistant that he achieved thousands of results that did not work after conducting about 50,000 experiments before perfecting a new storage battery. The line underscores persistence amid trial and error.
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Edison
Chicago surpasses Wisconsin in population claims
A claim states Chicago's population exceeds that of the entire state of Wisconsin. The note contrasts city and state population sizes, highlighting a dramatic urban figure relative to a large Midwestern state.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Shakespeare Birthplace Debate and Teaspoonful plural note
The article questions Stratford on Avon as Shakespeare's birth origin while clarifying the correct plural of teaspoonful as teaspoonfuls. It presents two separate facts with no clear linkage between them.
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Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare
Cancerophobia and the hopes for early cancer care
The article argues fear of cancer is common among adults especially women but truthful, clear information reduces fear. A lecturer recalls that showing facts to 250 women dispels cancerophobia and promotes proactive learning and early treatment. The piece ends hinting at the next article, Prognost for the Cancer Patient.
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Horace Blank
Cancer articles by Dr McCullough available by mail
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario.
Air inflated horse collar promises comfort for horses
The Compressed Air Magazine reports a new horse collar that resists chafing. A rubber tube inflated to about five pounds pressure makes the collar highly flexible enabling a hand to slip between collar and shoulder even under full load.
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Horel
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Windsor Park
George VI
Royal
Vladimir Petrovich Vorobieff
Lenin
Red Square
International Harvester Company
Geelong
Melbourne
Australia
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Vicks Plan
New Zeppelin
Sask
Dominion
Ibbotson Leonard, Dso
Canadian Tuberculosis Association
Wealth League
DR. J. W. S. McCullough
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