World Happenings Briefly Told In Context Of Canada News
Political considerations will be cast aside in tariff board selection. Premier Bennett promised the House of Commons. Arthur Suave, aged 73, is dead. From June 1931 to November 1 1932, 187 Japanese and one Chinese were admitted to Canada. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 76, resigns as Harvard president after 23 years. Liquor revenue in British Columbia is down 40 percent. First shipment of 12,000 tons of Russian fuel oil arrived at Montreal. Since September three shiploads of Soviet crude oil reached Montreal. Harvard undergraduates form a permanent Harvard League of Nations. Nine sled dogs head from Copper Centre to Chicago with Clyde Williams. Canada backs disarmament efforts at Geneva. Sir George Perley heads Canadian delegation.
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Tariff Board
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
Louis Reil
Winnipeg
Regina
Arthur Suave
Canada
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
British Columbia
Government Liquor Board
Montreal
Russia
Harvard
Harvard League of Nations
Copper Centre
Alaska
Clyde Williams
Northland
Chicago
George Perley
Douglas Egyptian Liniment for toothache and neuralgia
Douglas' Egyptian Liniment relieves toothache and neuralgia and is valuable for croup sore throat and quinsy. Keep a bottle handy.
Edmonton Men Enter Manicure Field Training
Six Edmonton young men trained as manicurists by a prominent eastern beauty school say they will not compete with women but see room for both. They entered the field due to economic conditions and are serious about their new careers.
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Edmonton
East
Government May Remove Some Dumping Duties
The Canadian Government may remove exchange dumping duties on certain British imports. Hon. H. H. Stevens announced in the House of Commons that Canada will give sympathetic consideration under the Anglo-Canadian treaty to eliminating currency dumping duties on British goods.
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Great Britain
House of Commons
H. H. Stevens
Trade and Commerce
Canada
Pocket Sheep Shearer Aide for Car Mounted Fleece Cutting
A five pound portable sheep shearer designed to be powered by a car’s lighting battery. British shepherds can drive and shear from the dashboard with a flexible tether, removing about 12 pounds of fleece in five minutes.
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Britain
Charm daytime dress with raglan shoulders and crepe details
Describes a gay red rough crepe silk dress with black crepe collar and black crepe button rims. Notes pattern No. 938 in sizes 14 through 38 bust, fabric yardages for size 16, and related fabrics. Price 20 cents. Wrap coin carefully.
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Raglan
Weight loss claim with Kruschen salts testimonial
A woman describes dropping from 174 lbs to 136 lbs in six months by taking Kruschen daily with hot water, without changing her diet. She credits improved biliousness and overall vitality to Kruschen, claiming natural digestion support and a general youthful energy boost.
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Kruschen
M. K
Nature
Complete Moth Collection Showcased in Manitoba Exhibition
Manitoba has discovered a premier moth and butterfly collection owned by J Hannibal of Winnipeg and Jack May of Riding National Park. The two cabinets feature insects from around the world including a Silex Catagramma from Colombia with two onyx-like numbers 89 on its back, a death's head, and an owl's eye pattern. Specimens range from the eleven inch wingspan Great Hercules moth to minute specimens barely visible without aid.
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Manitoba
J. Hannibal
Winnipeg
Jack May
Riding National Park
Columbia
South America
Miller's Worm Powders Promise Healthful Relief for Children
The advertisement claims Miller's Worm Powders expel intestinal worms and create a healthful system where worms cannot thrive. It argues worms cause restlessness and pain in children, implying relief upon use and removal of suffering. It also briefly references classical mythology and a note about underwater gun explosions.
Sunday School Lesson Golden Text and Citations
Devotional and lesson text centers on Acts 10:34 as God shows no respect of persons. Included are references from 1 Kings 8, Luke 10, John 4, and Acts chapters 9 10 and 28 and 17 22 28 with Luke 10 30 37 as devotional reading.
Peter's Vision and Cornelius Bridge Gentile Barriers
In Acts 10 Peter’s vision of unclean creatures leads to breaking Jewish dietary norms to include Gentiles. Cornelius, a Roman centurion, invites Peter, who brings six witnesses, and this journey underlines equality before God and the readiness to share the message with non Jews.
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Jesus
Basil Matthews
Peter
Joppa
Cornelius
Caesarea
Griffin pilot surpasses one million miles in air
After fourteen years of flying, Douglas H. Davis an air mail pilot from Griffin Georgia has completed 1 000 000 miles in the air. A forestry course for army recruits has been instituted in Norway.
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Douglas H. Davis
Griffin
Georgia
Norway
Luck Drifts Past Rock Hazard Near Vancouver Is Coast
Mariners narrowly miss a rock pinnacle in the channel off Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound. The submerged rock, with less than fifteen feet of water at low tide, was charted by the Dominion hydrographic steamer Lilooet and deemed a matter of luck that ships cleared it without incident.
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Lady Luck
Reilly's Cove
Clayoquot Sound
Vancouver Island
Dominion Hydrographic
Plenty In a Name and a Railroad Rescue
Detective Thomas Hennigan and a New York Central railroad engineer stopped a train and helped shove an abandoned automobile off the tracks. The car had been parked there by a man named Leavitt. Seeds from water lily pods are used by Indians as food and taste like popcorn when roasted.
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Thomas Hennigan
New York Central Railroad
Leavitt
Wonder Paper dusts cleans and polishes in one
An advertiser touts Wonder Paper as a reusable dusting aid that dusts cleans and polishes. It promises easy disposal and sanitary use compared with cloths and belts. The copy notes Wonder Paper is from the makers of Parasani Heavy Waxed Paper in Green Box and urges readers to request a booklet of recipes titled Leftovers.
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Appleford
Appleford Eee Products, Ltd
Hamilton
Ontario
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Vicks
W. N. U. Iwze
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Tafon
Ruth Rogers
McDermot Ave
Elysium
Canadian National Railways
Kitwanga
Vancouver Coast
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