House Of The Future At Rockefeller Center Attracts Crowds
A $5,500 three room house on view at Rockefeller Center showcases an architectural prize winning plan for mass produced future homes. The design features built in lamps, glass partition walls, cork floors, rubber kitchen and bath surfaces, and integrated appliances with a timed oven. Rockefeller Jr. viewed the model and remains in his own residence.
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Rockefeller Centre
America
Mr. Rockefeller, Jr
Mussolini Orders Six Month Diet To Combat Sanctions
Italy imposes a six month diet under Premier Mussolini to reduce meat imports and conserve supplies. Effective Nov 5, butcher shops close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, beef pork and poultry sales are restricted, while hotels and trains may serve only one meat or fish dish per meal. Fish industry to boost output and game restrictions lifted to aid food supply. Spaghetti and bread deemed safe due to the 1935 wheat crop of 282 million bushels plus reserves.
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Mussolini
Italy
League of Nations
Il Duce
Quite A Family Affair At Ellesmere Port Parish Church
The marriage of David Blinston Jones and Phyllis May Jones took place at Ellesmere Port parish church with Rev. J Ivor Jones officiating. Witnesses were Ronald Jones and Ruby Jones, highlighting the Jones family in the register.
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Jones
England
Ellesmere Port
J. Ivor Jones
David Blinston Jones
David Maurice Jones
Phyllis May Jones
Thomas Henry Jones
Ronald Jones
Ruby Jones
Emancipated Chinese Women Thrive in Education and Work
Miss Florence Kirk, an English teacher at Ginling College in Nanking, says Chinese women now freely pursue careers and face strong demand for trained workers. She notes two graduates per every graduate, English often serves as a common language, and anti foreign sentiment is fading, especially toward Britain.
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Florence Kirk
Ginling College
Nanking
China
Saskatoon
Chinese Republic
Miss Kirk
Proposal to draft only men over fifty for war
A university head proposes that future governments protect youth by drafting only men past fifty during war. The idea argues against using young men as cannon fodder and notes wars are often started by those over fifty. The piece cites the impracticality of such a pact and suggests those who must fight favor peace.
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Sarnia
Stranger Offers Room for Rent after Buying Insect Powder
A stranger at a door offers to rent a room advertised for rent after being refused insect powder. The woman rejects the powder and the stranger immediately expresses interest in the room, suggesting a potential scam or ulterior motive in this encounter recorded as a real strategy vignette.
New Dress For Steel Uses Decalcomania On Metals
A Toronto Daily Commercial News note describes a process to mass produce steel sheets that resemble marble or fabric textures. Terne plate is heated and a fabric layer is pressed into the softened coating, then a photographic image is applied with resin and baked under pressure. The result combines steel strength with nonsteel appearance for interiors and storefronts.
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Daily Commercial News
Toronto
Provisions In Hollow Rope Aboard 1907 Polar Flight Ship
In 1907 the dirigible America carried provisions including ham bacon butter bread in a 134 foot hollow leather guide rope designed to float and move over ice floes with little resistance.
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North Pole
America
Damp Battle to Save Cleopatra's Needle in London
Scientists confront a puzzling damp problem threatening Cleopatra's Needle in London. Researchers test preservatives and climate control measures to slow stone deterioration and preserve the ancient obelisk for future generations.
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London
History and impact of the English Rose industry
The English rose traces to Roman Britain with seven native varieties. The National Rose Society founded in 1876 spurred new varieties. The British cut flower trade employs 100,000, worth about £15 million, with rose growing supporting 3,200 jobs. In 1931 British growers produced 6 million bushels, 1934 18 million, and last July Covent Garden sold over 250,000 roses in a single day.
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Great Britain
National Rose Society
Covent Garden
Western Canada Grows Rice on Lake Superior Shores
The article notes that rice, a staple for China and Japan, is being grown in Western Canada along Lake Superior and nearby small lakes. What began as a lure for ducks has become a food source for Indigenous peoples and livestock. From a half acre eight years ago at Cranberry Bay, the crop now spans nearly 100 acres with rising yields in other districts, and Whitefish Lake hosts the strongest natural crop drawing thousands of ducks during hunting season.
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China
Japan
Canada
Lake Superior
Cranberry Bay
Whitefish Lake
Spreads Industry Drives Northwest Georgia Growth
A two million dollar home industry in northwest Georgia employs 7,000 to 10,000 workers, mainly wives and daughters of tenant farmers, producing bed spreads for major department stores and manufacturers. The sector, centered in Dalton and Calhoun with other plants in nearby towns, is expanding with 1935 shipments predicted to exceed two million dollars in sales.
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North Georgia
Tennessee Boundary Line
Georgia
Dixie Highway
Ringgold
Acworth
Candlewick
Dalton
Calhoun
Chatsworth
Rome
Hill City
Sumter
S.C
Scottsboro
Ala
Alberta Fire Toll Rises to 35 in 1934 Report
Alberta fire toll for 1934 stood at 35 deaths, up from the prior year, according to Fire Commissioner Henry Brace. Seventeen deaths resulted from gasoline use in cleaning clothes or lighting fires with coal oil. The report notes serious school losses in country districts from log or frame structures, with 23 schools burned for a total loss of 31,422 dollars, compared with 20 and 25,590 dollars the year before. Twenty eight incendiary fires were investigated across the province, while overall property loss reached 1,177,370 dollars, down 258,242 from the previous year.
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Alberta
Henry Brace
Voters rise to record turnout in federal election
Canada reported 5,917,376 eligible voters and 4,022,576 cast ballots in the federal election this year. The record turnout pleased officials but left a sizable number of eligible citizens unaccounted for, underscoring continued neglect among some voters.
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