Global brief highlights cover employment, deaths, and policy
World happenings report United States employment up by 4 120 000 since Roosevelt took office. Manitoba medical pioneer Dr J A MacArthur dies in Winnipeg aged 86. Ontario education deputy urges extending recommendation system replacing exams. Major M Montague Marsden dies at 62 in Vancouver from heart infection. Australian cabinet supports Britain’s tariffs on Lancashire textiles. London Melbourne air race delayed by 1000 miles due to Indian ban on frontier flights. Henri Gagnon of Quebec named officer of France’s Legion of Honor. Persia seeks China’s UN seat as mandate nears expiry. Great Lakes captains report low water opening rocks and sandbars, reducing cargo and grounding vessels.
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J. A. MacArthur
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Duncan McArthur
Ontario
Persia
League of Nations
China
Asia
Great Lakes
Prison Visit Sparks Warden Reveal
A social worker on her first prison visit encounters a sorrowful inmate who laments his fate and reveals that his sentence depends on politics as the warden herself discloses. The exchange highlights grim humor and the harsh politics surrounding incarceration.
Cheap Television Sets Promised From New System
Plymouth engineer Mr. R W Hughes unveils a mass producible television receiver with light source and amplifier aimed at £10 or less. His crude prototype projects a 100 line image on a two foot square screen using vibrating mirrors. He claims a sync solved and steady pictures, with negotiations reportedly underway with a British firm.
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R W. Hughes
Plymouth
England
Hughes
Germany
United States
Your Handwriting Reveals Your Character
Editorial opines on grapho analysis as a science of character reading from handwriting. It notes growing global acceptance, use in hiring and courts, and public interest in personal analysis. Readers are invited to mail a handwriting sample with birth date and payment for a personal analysis.
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Robert Saudek
Lawrence Hibbert
C-O
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Pirates Converted to Chinese Army After International Incident
Sixty Chinese marauders who seized the British steamer Shantien and kidnapped six British subjects and 18 Chinese have been incorporated into the Shantung provincial army. Governor Han Fu-Chu said the pirates wished to surrender and become soldiers. Britain and the United States pressed for a wide search of the assailants.
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Shantung
Han Fu-Chu
Great Britain
United States
Farmer and wife pun over suet puddings and ducks
A farmer laments his ducks missing after his wife gives away the suet puddings they disliked. The wife explains she fed them to the ducks, prompting the farmer to quip that the ducks have sunk.
Sunday School Lesson Sept Ninth Theme
The lesson presents II Chronicles Chapter 30 centered on the call to return to worship, the gracious mercy of God, and the devotional reading from Psalm 72. It emphasizes repentance, communal observance, and God's readiness to pardon when the people seek Him with a sincere heart.
Hezekiah Reforms Passover observance and temple priorities
The passage describes Hezekiah's effort to restore Passover in the second month after priests and people were not ready at the regular time. He issues a royal proclamation for all Israel to come to Jerusalem, urging obedience to Jehovah and the temple, amid warnings from Assyrian threats.
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Hezekiah
Jerusalem
Nisan
Charles Reynolds Brown
Jesus Christ
Pilate
Judah
Israel
Beersheba
Dan
Temple
Jehovah
Abraham
Isaac
Assyria
Samaria
No Free Advertising Violinist Chides Paper Over Recital Report
A violinist complains to a small town newspaper owner that his recital was misrepresented, insisting his instrument was a genuine Stradivarius. The editor retorts that the Stradivarius Company advertises in the paper at ten cents a line, inviting him to complain.
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Stradivarius Company
Insects as Friends and Foes in Human Life
Insects number 340000 species with honeybees domesticated by man. Bees, flies, wasps, dragonflies, and butterflies have varied brain power and air systems. Bees, silkworms, wood ants and cochineal insects benefit human industries, while Hessian fly and boll weevil threaten crops.
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Earth
Texas
Europe
West Indies
Canadian hog farmers urged to raise quality to avoid losses
J. S. McLean of Canada Packers warns in the annual report that Canadians lost 12 million dollars in 1933 because Danish hogs outperformed Canadian hogs. He says continuous losses will occur unless Canadian hogs are improved and that the farmer must act to secure the benefit, citing a lack of farmer packer confidence as a main issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. McLean
Canada Packers
Not What He Meant
Two English tourists gaze at Niagara Falls. One exclaims at its marvellous beauty, while the other jokes that he feels like a little grub after a long fast.
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Niagara Falls
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Tweedy
Or Williams
Roosevelt
Arctic
M. Montague Marsden
Vancouver
Northwest Frontier
London
Melbourne
Henri Gagnon
Quebec
Canadian Press
le Soleil
Legion of Honor of
France
Tafriox
Ruth Rogers
Pirates
Denicotea Cigarette
Tobacco Empire
Chantler & Chantler, Ltd
Canadian Distributors
Weillington St. W
Toronto, Ont
N. U
Canada
Gordon H. Guest
M.A
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