Rapid Advances In Rail Engineering May Revolutionize Transportation
Movements toward rail planes and autotram designs promise faster, cheaper cross country travel. Aluminum alloy trains powered by high horsepower engines aim to cut costs while practical tests at Chicago Exposition herald near term deployment. The New York Sun notes streamlined trains could reach ninety miles per hour, reducing horsepower needs and changing passenger service dynamics.
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Union Pacific
Autotram
New York Sun
Triumph over Adversity: Lewis Passes Royal College of Organists Exam
Reginald Silby Lewis, missing three fingers on his right hand after a Ypres artillery service, triumphs in the associateship exam of the Royal College of Organists. Despite severe injuries and hospital operations, he returned to study, shifting from law to music, and earned the diploma of the world’s leading organ school.
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Reginald Silby Lewis
Royal College of Organists
Ypres
Prediction Comes True of Canadian Self-Government
The Earl of Durham’s 1838 forecast that Canada would gain full self-government with both British and French races contributing has proven true. He delivered a farewell proclamation after reporting on conditions that sparked the 1837 Rebellion and urged Canadians to have faith in British freedoms.
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Earl of Durham
Canada
Earl
Arabia citizens urged to donate gifts to state fund
Citizens are asked to contribute to state needs with five cents as the minimum. Donations of five dollars earn the title Patriot, seven fifty Active Patriot, ten Great Patriot, and twenty nine Super-Patriot, for use in ordinary government purposes.
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Arabia
Weaver's Shuttle Becomes Obsolete Woven into Loom
The article reports that a shuttleless loom replaces the traditional weaver's shuttle. Light aluminium rods with grippers transfer weft across the warp, reducing cost and machinery, enabling more patterns and multiple colors. It promises higher worker output, with one craftsman able to oversee three to six looms.
Limited Population Does Not Guarantee Prosperity
Canadian opinion argues that population size alone does not ensure prosperity. It stresses sensible immigration, expansion of production, and careful development, noting Northern Ontario’s minerals as a stabilizing factor and Bennett’s cautious stance on large scale settlement.
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Canada
Bennett
Ontario
Toronto Evening Telegram
Family Record Of Chinese Founding Lineage Astonishes West
A married Chinese woman is said to descend from the great founder of Confucianism, with historians tracing lineage back 4600 years. The tale contrasts Chinese pedigree claims with Western pride in ancestry. Meanwhile Trinidad anticipates rising employment as British West Indian limes are to be imported.
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China
Confucius
Roger Williams
Providence Journal
Incomparable Treasures At Toronto Museum Highlight
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto opens with praise from British and American institutions. Ontario's five departments include archaeology and geology, led by Prof. C. T. Currelly. The piece applauds Canada’s growing national collection and its role as a model for other provinces.
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Canada
Ontario
Toronto
Royal Ontario Museum
London Times
London
British Isles
Dominion Museums
British Museum
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
C. T.currelly
F.S.A
University of Toronto
Winnipeg Free Press
Airborne irrigation advances from Russian institutes
Russian Hydro Technical Institute and Lenin Academy of Agriculture unveil a gas balloon system to irrigate land. Water is pumped from canals to hoses on two tractors, spraying rainlike showers. Early ground tests in Central Asia showed crop yields tripling, with winter wheat more than doubled, while canal maintenance costs drop. China also reports nearly 500000 dollars from its first national lottery.
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Russian Hydro- Technical Institute
Lenin Academy of Agriculture
Central Asia
Kingsford Smith and Lindbergh Named Greatest Flyers
London debate over the world’s greatest flyer centers on Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Lindbergh. Kingsford Smith flew London to Australia in 7 days 4 hours 44 minutes, while Lindbergh praises Kingsford Smith as the best. Kingsford Smith counters Lindbergh as the greatest. The News Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor quote both aviators and invite world opinion.
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Lindbergh
Kingsford-Smith
London
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Australia
News Chronicle
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Kings
Women to hold income tax collectors posts in new service
Sir Charles Higham urged that women will play a big part in the reorganized income tax collection at Somerset House. He said women are as efficient as men and more loyal, challenging Sir Herbert Asquith's view that industry should send women out of business and back home.
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Charles Higham
Somerset House
Herbert Audi
Hall Caine's Last Book Published From Surviving Manuscript
Hall Caine's Life of Christ, hailed as a monumental literary effort, is prepared for publication in London. After the author left a 3.5 million word manuscript in 1931, his sons Ralph Hall Caine and Derwent Hall Caine hired an expert to distill the material into a 600,000 word work, preserving Caine's original voice.
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Sir Hall Caine
Christ
London
Ralph Hall Caine
M.P
Derwent Hall Caine
Hall Caine
Soap making goes modern and scientific in India
In India the craft of soap making embraces modern methods and scientific steps. London's trolley lines expand coverage to 167 miles, extending current public transit reach and linking more neighborhoods.
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India
London
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