Distinctive Traveller Praises Canadian Rockies Scenery
Dr W G Van der Steen of Haarlem Holland praises the Canadian Rockies noting Moraine Lake Lake O Hara and Paradise Valley as stunning. He describes a Rocky Mountain circuit from Lake Louise to Jasper, Bow River beavers and Stoney Indians, and foresees a future Jasper Lake Louise road enhancing access to Athabaska and Dome glaciers.
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Camadas National Parks
Rockies
Department of the Interior
W. G. van der Steen
Haarlem
Holland
van der Sleen
J. B. Harkin
Himalayas
Andes
Java
Alps
Canadian Rockies
Lake O'Hara
Earth
Paradise Valley
Sentinel Pass
Lake Louise
Rocky Mountain
Bow River
Kamloops
Jasper
Selkirks
Athabaska
Dome
Columbia
Care Of Milk Containers And Cleanliness Advice
Guidance warns milk must be kept cool and covered after delivery to prevent air exposure and fly contamination. Use scrupulously clean vessels rinsed with near boiling water, do not mix new and old milk, and avoid warm containers or dusty, soiled receptacles.
Made By Scottish Queen Curtain Tapestry at Edinburgh Museum
A woollen cense curtain in the Royal Scottish Museum is said to date from 1567 1565 and commemorate Mary Queen of Scots imprisonment on Loch Leven. The textile features two panels with vases of flowers bordered by scrolling stems in black silk velvet cord and yellow silk brick stitch. Mary’s beauty and achievements are noted alongside her skill as a needlewoman.
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Royal Scottish Museum
Edinburgh
Mary Queen of Scots
Loch Leven
Duke of Athol
Glasgow Herald
London Law Courts
Knights Templars
Comparative History of Fashion Socks Through the Ages
The article notes that seven hundred years ago socks did not exist and legs were covered with wrapped cloth or tight trousers. By Henry III’s end, shorter coats and hose with gussets appeared, Elizabethan embroidery on hose grew, and modern socks retain clocks as ornament recalling doublet and hose era.
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Henry III
Elizabeth
Queen Mary Gift Reaches Bethnal Green Museum Children
The Daily News reports Queen Mary presented a miniature Japanese house to Bethnal Green Children's Gallery. A duplicate house from Buckingham Palace arrived the same day, note from Queen Mary says it was given by King Edward in 1922. The model stands 11 inches high and 12 inches wide and can be disassembled.
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Museum For Children
Bethnal Green Museum
London
The
Daily News
Buckingham Palace
Queen Mary
Edward
Bethnal Green
Growing Up Bear Cub Has Healthy Appetite
Has Healthy Appetite Little Jubilee, Vancouver's Stanley Park Zoo bear cub, is growing up as he devoured a dozen apples a head of celery rhubarb cabbage lettuce rock candy toast and peanut dessert within thirteen minutes reflecting a strong appetite and rapid growth.
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Jubilee
Vancouver
Stanley Park Zoo
Paris Police Hold World Largest Fingerprint Collection
Paris police boast the world’s largest set of criminal fingerprints numbering in the thousands. authorities say the archive provides rapid intelligence for investigations and historic case matching.
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Paris
Royal Windsor Castle hosts fully equipped branch post office
The Post Office Magazine reports a complete post office inside Windsor Castle with a year round staff from the Windsor Head Post Office. A full time postman in waiting and messengers handle inside Castle postal work when the Court is in residence, with Buckingham Palace direct exchanges via G P O motor vans. The Windsor postman delivers to Court officials and visiting Ministers and handles daily collections for principal despatches.
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Windsor
Royal
Windsor Castle
The
Post Office Magazine
Castle
Windsor Head
Royal Household
H.M
Buckingham Palace
G.P.O
Renovation Underway in Jerusalem Chamber Ahead of Coronation
Preparations for next year’s Coronation include cleaning and refurbishing the Jerusalem Chamber in Westminster Abbey. The chamber serves as the regalia’s treasure house on the eve of operations, a duty dating to the days of Edward the Confessor. The Crown and royal ornaments will be brought from the Tower to the Abbey the day before, guarded by Yeoman of the Guard, then moved to the annex before the procession into the church.
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Jerusalem
Westminster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Istanbul workers fund 27 planes for Turkish air force
Istanbul butchers will donate four fast pursuit planes while waiters provide bombers funded by ten per cent tips. The drive marks the republic’s fourteenth anniversary on October 29. Jupiter’s orbit hosts 50 comets observed in the sky.
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Istanbul
Great Britain Reaffirms Claim To Eight Islands In South Sea Archipelago
The Glasgow Herald notes Britain extends its claim to eight Phoenix Islands amid German fears of imperial expansion. Berlin papers decry the move while New Zealand naval sloops reaffirm Britain’s right, posting signs on palm trees. The piece contrasts population densities and revisits the Margate conference stance.
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Great Britain
South Sea
London
Germany
Italy
Berlin
der Angriff
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Australia
Arctic
New Zealand
Phoenix Islands
England
Margate
Conservative Party
Clean Bill Of Health For Eskimo Population In Arctic
Doctors aboard the Hudsons Bay Company steamship Nascopie report a clean bill of health for Eskimo communities across eastern Arctic Canada. They found few diseases, with scabies present and no tuberculosis. several cataract cases caused blindness, but overall health was strong on the yearly voyage.
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Canada
Arctic
Hudson's Bay Company
R. G. M. Keeling
Southampton Island
Flowers Sought in Himalayas for Royal Gardens
Royal gardens seek rare poppies and lilies at 10 000 feet in the Himalayas and search others at 13 500 feet in Bhutan. Explorers report finding rare blooms and plan further expeditions to secure specimens for England.
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Himalayas
Royal Gardens
England
Bhutan
Cross Stitch Adds Color to Kitchen
Simple cross stitch motifs for a cheerful kitchen set of seven days of the week. Pattern 5708 includes transfers color suggestions stitches and material requirements. Send 20 cents in stamps to Household Arts Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave KE Winnipeg. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Agriculture Takes To Air In BC For Pea Pest Control
Pilot Maurice McGregor dusted over 100 acres of peas on Sea Island near Vancouver with 650 pounds of poison in two hoppers attached to wings. The plane sprayed 20 acres in thirty minutes at 85 miles per hour, marking a pioneering use of aircraft in Canadian farming.
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British Columbia
Maurice McGregor
Sea Island
Vancouver
McGregor
Canada
Experts Claim Hidden Brain Power Yet To Be Tapped
The article notes belief that people rarely use more than a small fraction of brain capacity and that leaders succeed by extending their mental endowment. It also states about 100 of 60,000 London school leavers last year could not secure employment.
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London
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