World Happenings Briefly Told From Across The Globe
A digest of global items notes a 3187 year old proclamation in the United States, US air routes to expand, and talk of two billion dollar annual traffic cost. It reports Welsh coal imports debated, a British minister’s death in London, a barefoot bet repayment, and a stamp bearing Wilson planned for December.
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J. &. Maletead
United States
Potenty
Safety Association
Pennsylvania
New York
Sir J. Jordan
Peking
League of Nations Advisory Committee
China Association
London
Robert A. Loar
West Virginia
Davis
Coolidge
Wilson
United States Post Office Department
Soviet Russia
Central Executive Committee
London to Australia by airships for 1927 era service
Airships under construction in England promise week long flight to Australia. The two 5,000,000 cubic foot ships will inaugurate inter-empire service in 1927, carry 20 tons and up to 140 passengers. Burney predicts later ships may reach 100 mph and shave four days from the journey.
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England
Australia
Air Services
Burney
Air Ministry
Europe
Asia
Empire
Wonders Of Radio And The Grand Central Exposition
The fourth annual radio exposition at Grand Central Palace in New York featured a simultaneous radio transmission of a photo of RCA vice president Tavis Sarnoff with his address. Sarnoff forecast a future where farmers could listen in on Covent Garden operas and speakers could beam their voices into homes via radio.
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New York
Grand Central Palace
Tavis Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
Sarnoff
Covent Garden
London
Leaves on an Elm Tree Yield Vast Crops of Foliage
A botanist estimates a large elm could produce at least seven million leaves with a combined leaf area of no less than 204 006 square feet.
Perrin Sees Path to Another Sun With High Voltage Breakthrough
The Paris physicist Professor Jean Perrin declares a 14 000 600 volt direct current experiment could reproduce sunlike radiation on a small scale. He envisions 16 000 000 volts to break atomic structures and transform hydrogen into heavier elements, potentially delivering solar energy to power cities instead of coal.
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Paris
Jean Perrin
Frederic M. Delane
Popular Science Monthly
Perrin
Laboratory of Physical Research
University of Paris
Earth
Canada Well Represented on League of Nations Committees
The Dominions and India are represented on League of Nations committees in Geneva. Canadians include Hon. Philippe Roy in Paris on the technical and financial economic committees, Senator Hewitt Bostock of Kamloops on the armaments committee, and W A Riddell as permanent representative in charge of the Canadian bureau on the social and political questions committees.
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Dominions
India
Assembly of the League of Nations
Geeva
Philippe Roy
Paris
Hewitt Bostock
Kamloops
B.C
W. A. Riddell
Canada
League
British Soldier Detained For Offence In Bun Doran
A British soldier from Enniskillen with relatives entered Free State territory at Bun Doran in khaki. Civic Guards arrested him for allegedly committing an offence and detained him. He claimed unawareness, was given civilian clothes, released to enjoy his holiday, and later reported back to the guards to return to uniform. A hospital engineer is praised as a capable savant for saving over £1000. In Ur of the Chaldees a sculpture depicts workmen carrying mortar up ladders.
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Enniskillen
Free State
Bundoran
Donegal
Bunderan
Civic Guards
Ireland
Pattern Request Note From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Postal inquiry from Winnipeg pattern office requests 20 cents or stamps to obtain pattern numbers and names.
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Winipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Simple Girls Dresses with Belts and Narrow Collar
Patterns show a single piece dress with a belt as main trim and fullness over the hips at the low waist. Sleeves short or long gathered, opening at center front, neck finished with a narrow collar. Sizes 6 to 14 years. 2% yards 32 inch or 2 yards 36 inch material. price 20 cents. Fashion Book offers advance home dressmaker styles at 10 cents per copy with a coupon for five cents off patterns.
Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed Across Horizontal and Vertical
A dense list of crossword clues across horizontal and vertical entries including 1-Colored crayon 6-Talks 11-Greasy 12-Injured 13-Preposition 15-Separating and more, with many short answers and paired numbers, covering physician abbr. male child smell nickname for relative and other common crossword terms alongside numerically marked entries and theme indicators.
Wembley Exhibition Faces Major Financial Deficit
The British empire exposition at Wembley may again fail financially this year, with a projected £3,000,000 loss for big firms backing the event. Attendance is lagging. only about 8,500,000 visitors are expected by October, far short of last year’s 17,000,000. A London newspaper blames inexpert management and a lack of a showman guiding the grand exhibit.
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Wembley
London
Today
Manitoba Wheat Pool Reports Record Wheat and Costs
The Manitoba Wheat Pool shipped nearly 8.5 million bushels last year at an administrative cost of about 0.6 cents per bushel. Interest, insurance, and elevator charges added just under 0.5 cents, totaling a little over 1 cent per bushel. At Winnipeg's annual meeting, three $75 prizes were set for rural high school teachers and college students' essays on cooperation, and a resolution barred legislators and certain unionists from pool directorship.
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Manitoba Wheat Pool
Winnipeg
United Farmers of Manitoba
Farmers’ Union of Canada
France's Painleve Chairs League Assembly in Geneva
Premier Painleve, retiring chair of the League of Nations Assembly, lauds Canada as a model for minority treatment and notes Raoul Dandurand of Canada was elected president. He praises Canada as common ground for British and French views and cites peaceful French Canadian unity.
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Canada
Paul Painleve
France
League of Nations Assembly
Assembly
Geneva
Raoul Dandurand
M. Painleve
Dandurand
Rust resistant wheat claim from Aberdeen tested true
Aberdeen reports that R S McFadden of South Dakota developed a cross bred wheat variety resistant to rust. Department of Agriculture scientists tested the claim and found it true. A rust resistant wheat could bring billions to global agriculture, surpassing war or peace news in importance.
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Aberdeen
R.S. McFadden
South Dakota
Department of Agriculture
Fort Worth
Christening Robe Wears Family History Across Generations
A lace-ruffed christening gown worn by Marion Jane Fleming recalls her grandfather Alexander Fleming who was christened at sea en route from Scotland to Canada seventy years earlier. The robe linked ceremonies in London Ont and Galt Ont with a noted Beattie baptism.
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mid-Atlantic
Scotland
Canada
Alexander Fleming
Crampton
Ont
Marion Jane Fleming
Edgar Fleming
Galt
London
William Beattie
Radio negotiations with France fail to end 450 and 300 metre usage
The British Government reports unsuccessful talks with France over halting 450 and 300 metre radio use by ships and stations off eastern Canada. Germany, by contrast, has agreed to comply with Canadian radio operators and issued instructions to German flag vessels.
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Canada
Baldwin Fires Up Pipe Touching Coal Talks
In a tense week of negotiations between coal miners, owners, and government, Premier Stanley Baldwin pulled out his pipe and proposed smoking. The simple act eased the atmosphere and within an hour a provisional agreement basis emerged.
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Stanley Baldwin
Butter shipments from Manitoba enter British dairy show
Sixteen 56-pound boxes of salted and unsalted Manitoba butter shipped to England compete in the 47th annual dairy show at the Royal Agricultural Hall Islington London. Entries originate from Crescent Creamery Winnipeg Gallagher Holman Manitoba Co operative Dairies Shoal Lake Creamery City Dairy. Show runs October 20 through 23 with W A Wilson reporting improving Canadian exhibits and promising results.
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Manitoba
England
British Dairy Farmers’ Association
Royal Agricultural Hall
Islington
London
Crescent Creamery
Winnipeg
Gallagher, Holman Company
Manitoba Co-operative Dairies
Shoal Lake Creamery
City Dairy
W. A. Wilson
Dairy Products
Broadcast Carnival Sounds at Minnesota State Fair
A St Paul station plans to broadcast the carnival noises from the Minnesota state fair grounds for the first time. The sounds include hot dog vendors cries merry go rounds animal noises racing hoofs and speeding cars across the fair audience atmosphere.
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St Paul
Minnesota
Plan to Salvage Treasure Off Irish Coast
Salvage experts plan operations to recover treasure lost at sea since the Spanish Armada. The estimated value of sunken treasure is one billion pounds. Initial salvage efforts will take place off the Irish coast.
Locust Swarm's Flight Ends in Ground Devouring Reign
A locust swarm lifts to great heights covering up to fifty miles in a day before alighting. There it stays, feasting on green vegetation and leaving fields barren as it loses its wings.
Matrimonial Failures Fade Amid Courteous Clerks
Witty editorial notes that wives and clerks share politeness, implying divorces are rarely recorded as marital failures in the era.
Site for national women's memorial hall granted in Ottawa
The Dominion Government has granted a site for a national woman's memorial hall after a delegation of Ottawa women pressed the Privy Council last January. The hall will serve all national women's organizations regardless of race or creed, though the exact location remains undisclosed.
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Dominion
Ottawa Woman's Club
Privy Council
Gasoline Energy Report Notes Five Gallons Equal 418 Dynamite Pounds
A historical note states that five gallons of gasoline possessed an explosive power equivalent to 418 pounds of dynamite, illustrating early comparisons of fuel energy to an explosive benchmark.
C N R Tourist Traffic Sets New Record
Canadian National Railways reports record passenger traffic this year across rail and steamship services. At Jasper Park Lodge a capacity summer, Alaska trade success, and the Triangular Tour involving Vancouver, Jasper Park and Prince Rupert boosted arrivals in the Northern Canadian Rockies. R Creelman announces plans to promote Canada to travelers and expand traffic regionally. The western region meeting highlighted stronger efforts to grow tourism travel across the Dominion.
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Canadian National Railways
Jasper Park Lodge
Canadian National
Alaska
Vancouver
Jasper Park
Prince Rupert
Canadian Rockies
R. Creelman
Canada
Dominion
British doctor claims rat cancer cure in Lancet report
Dr Thomas L. Mundsen of the Lister Institute reports in The Lancet a potential cancer cure tested on rats. Of fifty treated, 82 percent showed cure, though the method has only been applied to animals so far.
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Lancet
Thomas L. Mundsen
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
Mundsen
Pacific Coast Lumber Exports Rise to Japan 1922-1924
Official figures show Pacific coast exports to Japan climbing over three years. Logs timber and lumber totaled 568,438,000 feet in 1922, 742,821,000 feet in 1923, and a value of 39,751,000 dollars in 1924, reflecting a steady growth after the war.
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Pacific
Japan
Thomas Builds Four-Room Wooden House in Ten Hours
G. Holt Thomas of Buckinghamshire claims the world time record for building a four room wooden house. He and four men erected the structure in ten hours and 45 minutes.
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G. Holt Thomas
Buckinghamshire
Thomas
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Fred Britten
Ilinois
Russia
Tehueherin
League of Nations
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Britain
Leon Trotzky
Wonders of Radio
Elim
Ww. NU
Electrical Wizard
Irish Free State
Ceed
Baldwin
His Pipe
National Woman's Memorial Hall
C.N.R
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