World Happenings Briefly Told
Increases of two to three shillings will be made in weekly allowances to unemployed in Britain this winter due to rising living costs. A London hotel chef is loaned to Buckfast Abbey monks to advise on maximum efficiency at minimum cost. Sir Robert Hodgson will be the first British agent to insurgent Spain. Barclay's Bank Canada elected A A Magee as president to replace the late Sir Robert Borden with H A Stevenson as VP. Two cows join Washington national zoo for city children's education on milk origins. Emperor Haile Selassie reportedly lives in poverty, with fire only in the children's nursery. In seven months to Oct 31 Canadian exports totalled 670,037,800, up from 596,776,021 in 1936. Mrs. Martin Johnson returns to New York after solo jungle safari and plans to resume next year. Gladstone creamery won top score at the Royal Winter Fair in butter sections. Mrs. John Tait led dairy butter class with 95.7 points.
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Great Britain
London
Buckfast Abbey
Robert Hodgson
Spain
A. A. Magee
K.C
Barclay’s Bank
Canada
Robert Borden
H. A. Stevenson
National Zoo
Washington
Haile Selassie
London Sunday
Department of National
Martin Johnson
New York
Martin
Gladstone Creamery
Gladstone
Man
John Tait
Meota, Sask
Bear tale from Lindsay ends with unlikely escape
Claire Walton, a telegrapher in Lindsay Ontario, recounts a two year old bear encounter. He shot twice but the bear circled him. With one bullet left he hid behind a tree and struck the bear on the head, snapping its neck and tail. The brain and animal fled as Walton stood stunned.
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Claire Walton
Lindsay
Ont
Claire
Clair
Self shining shoes perfected in laboratory
A laboratory has perfected self shining leather shoes that release lubricants to the surface under foot heat. The invention uses impregnated leather and a heating effect to maintain a bright finish without manual polishing.
Rocks Found in Rivers and Streams of the Swiss Tyrol
Readable text notes rocks may be found in rivers and streams within the Swiss Tyrol region. The fragment suggests geological observations without naming specific sites or dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swiss
Tyrol
Cat Resists Science Asserts Own Mastery At Vanderbilt
A columnist mocks an experiment at Vanderbilt University where electrodes induced a cat to perform unnatural actions. The piece extols the feline over human meddling, praising the cat as a perfect fighting machine and artistic creation while lamenting the intrusion of science.
Gift For Princess Elizabeth From Canadian Mounties
A Canadian woman author and former Toronto resident Mrs. Merrill Denison wrote Susannah a Little Girl with the Mounties. The book about Muriel Goggin and her Regina childhood was sent to Buckingham Palace for Princess Elizabeth, who later reviewed the Mounted police. Her Majesty accepted the volume for Elizabeth. The Goggin family home hosted Mounties and the tutor to the commissioner’s children often tutored young Muriel.
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Susannah
Merrill Denison
Toronto
Britain
Mounted Police
Buckingham Palace
Denison
Anne Adams Pattern 4596 for Misses and Women Sizes
Very nearly the perfect frock for wharability adaptability and smartness. Features include panel lines that slim the waist with a graceful flare at the hem plus long bracelet or short sleeves and three necklines. Options include sparking buttons and contrast ribbon piping at the V neck. Pattern 4596 suits silk crepe synthetic or novelty wool. Sizes 14 to 42 with 16 requiring 314 yards 39 inch sabre and % yard trim. Illustrated instructions. Send 20 cents for pattern to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
McDermot Ave. E
Winnpeg
Edison Memorial Bulb Tower Theme Sunday Lesson
The feature discusses a Sunday school lesson on John 15 1 16 focusing on fruitfulness and pruning led by the true vine metaphor and Christlike love. It then details the 14 foot Edison Memorial Tower bulb at Menlo Park New Jersey including Coring Glass Works 150 foot beacon dimensions weight and construction raising notes about Edison’s original bulb and the gift from William Slocum Barstow to the Fulson Pioneers.
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Christ
Jesus
Judas
Menlo Park
New Jersey
Coring Glass Works
Plass
Thomas Alva Edison
Corning
Edison
Bronx
Jersey
Thomas Edison
William Slocum Barstow
Fulson Pioneers
von Company
Cabinet Minister At School Receives Brief Career Note
Lord Charlemont, Ulster's education minister, has resigned due to ill health. He returned to school and took a carpentry course in his own institution to understand technical schools better. His hobbies include drawing, fly fishing, and music. his aristocratic title dates back over three centuries.
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Lord Charlemont
Ulster
Smallest English Inn Sold at Auction in Dorset Village
The Smiths Arms in Godmanstone Dorsetshire, built in the sixteenth century and once a blacksmith forge, has been sold at auction. The thatched inn, about 20 by 10 feet, lacks space for darts yet draws visitors from around the world.
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London
Smith's Arms
Dorsetshire
Godmanstone
Smiths Arms
Snakes Dominate Alberta District Winter Headlines
In southeastern Alberta the winter hot stove league is overshadowed by a snake surge as rattlers infest the Combrey district. Residents recount escapes, including Mrs. P. M. Stevens removing a large snake from her kitchen and Percy Stevens fleeing a biting rattler while tending a herd.
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Combrey
Alberta
P. M. Stevens
M. Nicholson
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Big Ben
Hunter
Vanderbilt University
Edo
Chicago Daily News
Princess Elizabeth
Chhildhood
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Edison Memorial
World
John M. Craigie
Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada
Ottawa
Craigie
J. C. Beauchamp
Dr. Craigie
Sir Charles Saunders
Marquis Wheat
Rattlers
Province
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