Air Service Across Pacific Plans Powerful Planes
Major James H Doolittle describes Pan American Airways bold Pacific route from San Francisco to Hong Kong with stops in Honolulu Wake Island Guam and Manila. The 4000 horsepower aircraft would carry 52 passengers and reach Manila in four days and Hong Kong in five after mail and cargo tests establish safety.
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Manila
San Francisco
Pan-American Airways
Hong Kong
James H
Jimmie”) Doolittle
Honolulu
Wake Island
Guam
Doolittle
Interesting Bee Farming Talk From St Marys Journal Argus
A local beekeeper, William Pulleyblank, discusses bee gains and losses from moving hives and queens escaping. He mentions Russian long tongued bees from Sebringville, brought from Texas, for experimental purposes. Northern winters prompt bees to store honey and food, aiding winter provision.
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Wiliam Pulleyblank
Sebringville
Texas
Nature
Providence
St. Mary's
Argus
Faith in Future Calls Manitoba Farmers to Endure Losses
The Manitoba agriculture minister reports 2000 farmers with total crop failure this year. Many others with partial losses remain uncounted, leaving a large unknown number. The text laments helpless farmers unable to recover this season while urging resilience for next year.
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Manitoba
Stratford Beacon-Herald
England Grants Cruelty Convicts Dog Ownership Reprieve
England enacts a humane law authorizing magistrates to deprive a cruel dog owner of ownership or custody. The measure is noted as unique, with no other country adopting the policy.
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England
Logic Is Not An Canada Attends Banff Conference
Lord Snell a 68 year old UK delegate to the Institute of Pacific Relations fifth biennial conference in Banff discusses marriage in a Lords speech on the Nationality of Women Bill. The bachelor, who began as a farm laborer, traces a career from groom to secretary and noted speaker. He quips that men who marry should be punished and that logic is not all of life, noting April first as his birth anniversary.
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Canada
Lord Snell
United Kingdom
Banff
Institute of Pacific Relations
House of Lords
Ottawa Journal
North Wales bus conductor reports plane crash hoax
A North Wales bus conductor near Colwyn Bay claimed an aeroplane plunged into the sea triggering a large alert. The find sparked responses from two lifeboat stations police coastguard and multiple airports and stations, with 100 Llandudno residents 50 holidaymakers in bathing costumes and Chester Llandudno train passengers involved. Only a patch of oil was found and all likely aircraft were accounted for.
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North Wales
Colwyn Bay
Llandudno
Thousands Going Blind At Paris Home For The Blind
In Paris the opening of the French home for the blind reveals that ten thousand veterans from World War I, wounded in the trenches, are slowly going blind. In fifteen more years many thousands more may become sightless, with the home training them to care for themselves when darkness arrives.
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Paris
French Home For the
Trebled Salary For Artist Effect Of Electrical Storms
English woman singer Miss Winifred Ray of Birmingham once bought the rights to It s a Long Way To Tipperary and helped make the song famous after 1912. She recalls how storms frightened some and how a girl who saw a barn struck by lightning as a child still fears storms and how others laugh at her.
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Tipperary
Winifred Ray
Birmingham
Grand Theatre
Gravesend
London
Manchester
Lancashire
France
Blackpool
Isle of Man
Zigzag Driving Defense in Pedestrian Hit Case
A taxi driver faced charges after striking a pedestrian. The magistrate advised zigzag driving, and the driver claimed he zigzagged in self defense though he argued the victim's own zigzagging and speed caused the collision.
Electrically Charged Rods Used to Catch Fish in England
Report notes the use of electric rods to catch fish in England drawing attention from authorities and fishermen. The technique aims to stun fish for easier capture, stirring debate over safety and environmental impact.
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England
Reseeding Abandoned Rangeland With Crested Wheat Grass
Crested wheat grass tested at the Dominion Range Experimental Station Manyberries Alberta for reseeding abandoned fields. Under very dry ranching area conditions the grass has given excellent results according to Dominion Agrostologist.
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Dominion Range
Manyberries
Alberta
Dominion
Nest Building by Fish At London Zoo Aquarium
Craven Hill notes fish also build nests with active breeding behavior. Eichlids create sand nests with both parents shaping a hole for eggs while East African perch females mouth brood eggs until hatching. Chinese paradise fish father builds bubbles nest and carries eggs in mouth to protection.
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Craven Hill
London Zoo Aquarium
The Soil Belongs to Life Says Sum merby
Professor Sum merby of MacDonald College argues soil is a dynamic, ancient medium. He notes soil forms from rock through chemical, mechanical, and biological changes over millennia and still shapes fertility today.
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Summerby
MacDonald College
St. Thomas
Unclear letter causes misreading between confidants
A troubled correspondent fears their note to Jack was misunderstood about reconsidering a decision. The writer worries their last message was read as a change of mind.
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Jack
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