World teeters as Italy Ethiopia clash looms worldwide
The article warns that Italy and Ethiopia edge toward war with Haile Selassie rejecting surrender, Mussolini pushing war, and major powers fearing a wider conflagration. It explains League of Nations Article 16 sanctions and each member's duty to decide if an act of war occurs, stressing public awareness to avoid catastrophe.
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Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Haile Sellassie
Mussolini
Canadian Bar Association
Council
League
Village battles rat plague with anti-rat army
In Chilthorne England villagers fight a rat infestation that has besieged a farm. Fifty rats a night are killed as men join an improvised anti-rat army. So far the rodents hold the field.
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Chilthorne
England
Siamese twin dahlia displayed in Victoria
A two-headed pompon dahlia, grown by Mrs. W. G. Gordon of Sooke B C, was shown in Victoria. The back-to-back bloom forms a nearly solid pink ball and is considered a queer natural aberration by plant experts, possibly signaling an autumn variety.
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Victoria
W. G. Gordon
Sooke
B.C
Boston Artist Halted by Police Over Death-By-Action Scene
A rooftop painter in Boston drew a skyline view of the waterfront when his fervent act triggered alarm among office workers. Police and an ambulance arrived to halt the scene after concerns over a possible self harm scenario.
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Boston
Harvard Astronomer Dr Anne Cannon Receives Ellen Richards Prize
Dr Anne J Cannon of Harvard, a leading astronomer and delegate to the American Astronomical Society, comments that astronomy and science should be accessible to all. She shared the Ellen Richards prize for women in research, now renamed in her honor, for classifying stars by spectra, a feat totaling over 460000 classifications. Harvard hosts global astronomers seeking spectral observations.
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Anne J. Cannon
Harvard
Toronto
American Astronomical Society
Cannon
Madame Curie
France
Ellen Richards
Intricate Joining of Queen Mary Steel Plates Studied
Construction of the Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary faces complex plate joining as no two plates are identical. Many plates are curved, large, and thick, requiring precise rivet-hole alignment across over ten million pairs. A half-model at Clydebank shipyard guides engineers in arranging overlaps with six neighboring plates each.
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Cunard
Clydebank
New York Times
Great Scottish Cliff Blasted by 19th Century Explosive
A 500 foot high granite cliff on Ben Churnich near Bonar Bridge was demolished by blasting. A signal from Loch Etive triggered a distant worker to operate a dynamo lever, sending powder and dust into the air as the cliff shattered into fragments. The project cost about 20 000 and will employ 400 quarrymen for six years, yielding 1 000 000 tons of granite for industry.
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Scotland
Ben Churnich
Bonawe
Loch Etive
Soviet Parachute Attack Practice Reaches Airdrome
Soviet military strategists staged a mass parachute landing exercise, sending fully equipped troops behind enemy lines to seize an airdrome. Regiments captured the airfield but, advancing inland, were met by mobilized defense with tanks and armored trains that annihilated the assault.
Pavlov Honored by Tsarist and Soviet Regimes
The News of the World notes Prof Ivan Pavlov received lasting honors from both tsarist and Bolshevik governments. It cites his 1904 Nobel Prize work on brain digestion links and reports the Soviet state funded a laboratory in his 85th year with £10,000 and now pays him £2,000 annually.
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Ivan Pavlov
H. G. Wells
Stalin
Moorhen Nests Along Derbyshire Garden Stream
A moorhen builds a nest on the stream bank at Egginton Rectory Derbyshire. The garden edge is repeatedly adorned with sprays of buttercups gathered from the adjacent meadow, as the bird works each day.
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Egginton Rectory
Derbyshire
Portland inventor creates magnetic music plate for kids
A Portland resident has invented a metal plate painted with a musical staff to teach children. The plate accepts magnet backed paper notes, allowing kids to attach and arrange notes for learning.
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Portland, Ore
Suit Season Child Fashions by Ellen Worth
A fashion feature shows a 8 14 year old model wearing a wool dress with velveteen jacket in red brown patterns. Pattern No. 675 fits sizes 8 to 14 and requires yardage lists. mail orders go to Winnipeg Pattern Dept for fall and winter designs and a fashion magazine.
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Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Land Vanishes Believed Underwater in Esquimalt Case
A San Francisco seller discovers a tax title land parcel he paid taxes on for over 50 years has disappeared after seeking a title in Esquimalt. He checked Victoria B C registry offices and relations in Esquimalt with no trace. The family history links the land to a dry dock project and a tax sale buy back. locals say the municipality covered his tax sale payment.
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Seller
San Francisco
Victoria
B.C
Esquimalt
Land Registry Office
Coast
Victoria Real Estate
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