World Peace Praised as Roosevelt Aids Americas Unity
Ottawa Journal reports a world peace boost from President Roosevelt's Monroe Doctrine stance, linking the United States with England and France against dictatorship. Dr. Stanley Kemp urged extended oceanography and fisheries science, noting Canada’s vigorous maritime research and ongoing Gulf Stream studies by Britain, the US, Germany, and Denmark.
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Roosevelt
Asia
Europe
Canada
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
England
France
Ottawa Journal
Stanley Kemp
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Kemp
Marine Biological Association of
United Kingdom
British Commonwealth
Gulf Stream
Great Britain
Germany
Denmark
North Atlantic
Colonization Backed by British Migration Plan For Western Canada
The article discusses Sir Henry Page Croft's push for assisted British migration to Western Canada to boost prairie populations and railway revenue. It cautions that colonization should wait until conditions stabilize, noting drought relief, grasshopper damage in Saskatchewan, and the risk of settlers lacking farming experience to achieve self support in a few years.
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Sir Henry Page Croft, Bart
Cmg
Canada
Sir Henry
England
Edward Beatty
C.P.R
J. S. Hungarford
Canadian National Railways
Prairie
Great Britain
Prairie Provinces
Sir Edward Beatty
Henry
Saskatchewan
Training Ship Admiral Karfanger Lost Near Antarctica
The Hamburg American Line reports its cadet training ship Admiral Karfanger missing in Antarctic waters with a 60 crew aboard for six months. Last seen leaving Germain, South Australia in February, the vessel is believed to have struck an iceberg. A separate note mentions a large oak tree possibly spreading leaves over two acres if laid flat.
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Hamburg American Line
Admiral Karpfanger
Antarctic
South Australian
Germain
Overeating Duke of Queensbury and odd facts
A quirky 18th century note profiles the Duke of Queensbury known as Old Q a famed eater who lived to 85 with a day like two breakfasts two lunches and five more meals. It cites Hygeia lampooning wart remedies and includes miscellaneous curiosities about bees mildew and Japan China.
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Duke of
Queensbury
Old Q
English and French Outlooks on World Affairs Compared
Harold Nicolson argues in BBC Listener that the French view events with pessimism and a belief in cause and effect, while English optimism colors their judgments. The piece contrasts French gloom over the Russo Japanese dispute with English reluctance to expect disaster, and notes French distrust of hopeful English outlooks.
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Harold Nicolson
BBC Listener
Germany
Prague
Kent
Has Taste For Libraries Liverpool’s new donor library.
Liverpool builds a £100000 library named after donor Harold E Cohen for the University of Liverpool. Designed by Harold A. Dod, it features a two floor reading room and an eight floor stack, air conditioned, with capacity from 250000 to 750000 volumes. A New York driver’s 1925 Chevrolet is described with its mixed-brand components. Conscience is the voice that tells you not to do something after you have done it.
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Liverpool
Europe
Harold E. Cohen
University of Liverpool
Harold A. Dod
Reduction In Accidents Marks Nine Months Of Decline
The National Safety Council reports nine straight months of falling motor vehicle fatalities from November 1937 to July 1938, with 24 510 total deaths October 1937 through July this year and 5 310 lives saved. Wyoming led with a 45 percent drop, followed by Pennsylvania and Michigan with 39 percent declines.
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U.S. National Safety Council
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Forgotten Men Freed After 20 Years in Siberian Camp
Stanislas Musielinski returned to Poland after 700 prisoners of German Polish and Czechoslovak origin were freed by Japanese troops on a Soviet island during fighting near Manchoukuo. He found his wife remarried with two children, learned she had been reported killed in the Great War, and left to avoid upsetting his family.
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Siberian
Stanislas Musielinski
Poland
Manchoukuo
Changkufeng
Musielinski
Gorzupiv
Hanpy
Air Tragedy Attributed to Company Neglect
A transport department inquiry found the Vancouver to Zeballos flight a contributory loss due to the operator’s failure to organize weather reporting, verify load carried, and assess the pilot’s experience on the Fairchild aircraft. Pilot L G Waagen and three passengers disappeared May 27 between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. wreckage unlocated and no witnesses.
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Vancouver
Zeballos
Vancouver Island
Transport Department
Fairchild
L. G. Waagen
Cowboys Build Battery Powered Electric Rods
In Oregon, cowboys devise an electric pole powered by tiny batteries to automate cattle loading, letting them rest on corral fences while the hot sticks perform the work.
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Oregon
Selected Recipes for Wheat Flour and Nut Dates Bread
Lift first four ingredients together. Add Whole Wheat Flour and sugar, walnuts and dates, then syrup, milk, water, egg and maize oil, and let stand 20 minutes in a leaf pan rubbed with maize oil. Bake slowly for 1 to 1.5 hours.
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St. Lawrence
Drive Carefully Today
A brief caution urges careful driving today with a reflective line about choices and a sense of irreversible time. The note emphasizes personal responsibility on the road and presents a contemplative mood.
Vintage Fruit Gelatin Mold with Cabbage and Apples
Recipe for a lemon Jell-O mold using 1 package Jell-O 1 pint hot water 4 teaspoons vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup shredded cabbage 1 cup diced apples 4 cups chopped sweet pickles. Dissolve Jell-O in hot water, add vinegar and salt, chill until slightly thickened. Fold in cabbage apples and pickles, turn into molds, chill until firm, unmold on lettuce, serves six.
First Alberta Wheat Harvest At Edmonton District
A farmer in the Edmonton district cut the first wheat of the province this year. The field grew winter wheat sown last August and the farmer, with ten years of experience, believes this wheat can be grown successfully.
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Edmonton
Sensible agreement settles Canton Enderbury dispute
The United States and Great Britain reached a working agreement on Canton and Enderbury islands, tiny Pacific outposts valuable for aviation and communications. After months of a comic dispute with settlers on the islets, the nations chose a peaceful settlement to show civilized world that peaceful commercial competition can replace force.
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United States
Great Britain
Canton
Enderbury
Pacific
Detroit News
Indian widow completes three year road journey to Benares by wheel
An Indian woman from Poona to Benares has reached Allahabad after rolling on a jhoola for three years. Widowed four years ago, she slept near her husband’s cremation for nine months and says a vision urged penance to meet him in Benares. A British writer notes energy in swimming at four mph surpasses a shark at twenty mph.
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Poona
Benares
Allahabad
India
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Siberia
Pei Ae
Firestone
Alberta
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Appleford Paper Products Ltd
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