World Happenings Briskly Noted In Brief
A mixed Canada U K item set reports in Edmonton and Belfast. Details include a first use of microphone in Bomby high court chamber, Lord Allenby’s 74th birthday, an aviary with foreign finches, a woman cashing a cheque for 15 Canadian dollars, a fatal car crash near Edmonton, and rapid mechanization of the RCMP with no saddle horses at MacLeod barracks. Also a Stratford bicycle accident, a Belfast gunfire sentence of two men, and Vancouver’s claim of strong finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
MacLeod
Aita
Alberta
Joseph Eckert
Stratford
Ont
Belfast
Thomas Connolly
Joseph McDonald
Vancouver
Canada
Ald
C. E. Tisdal
Civic Finance Committee
Retail Credit Grantors’ Association
Cane sugar growers face beet sugar policy shock in Caribbean
The United Kingdom subsidy of beet sugar unsettles British West Indies sugar sectors. Barbados fears collapse as 100000 acres of cane feed 120000 workers, with planters deeply in debt and taxes tied to sugar revenues. Grenada shifts to alternative crops like bananas under a Canadian supply contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
British West Indies
British Guiana
Barbados
Dole
Grenada
Edm to Jasper Highway Secures Funds for 15 Year Project
Acting Premier Manning announces completion of railway grade takeover and securing funds to finish an all weather Edmonton to Jasper highway. Construction will focus on widening the grade to meet standard road requirements after a long dispute and delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Jasper
Manning
Sargon II Built Road Linking Nineveh to Another Town
An ancient highway constructed under Assyrian King Sargon II connected Nineveh with a neighboring town, illustrating early imperial infrastructure spanning Mesopotamia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Sargon
Nineveh
Value Of Grain Crop Stratosphere Flights
Western Canada's grain crop this year is valued at 241 million dollars based on current prices, with wheat set at about 156.6 million and the 1935 crop surpassing 1931 figures by 82.9 million. Col Roscoe Turner, visiting Toronto, calls stratosphere flying impractical for commercial use and suggests a mid altitude path for economic operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Canada
Winnipeg Free Press
Fort William
Roscoe Turner
America
Toronto
Turner
Singing Canaries and Speech: Urban Life Notes in Shanghai
In Shanghai, residents carry pet canaries and stage singing contests among the birds. The piece notes a broader idea that the average man speaks about 11 900 000 words annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Monument Unveiled For Unknown War Horse In Hungary
A horse monument to the Unknown War Horse was unveiled in the courtyard of the Francis Joseph Cavalry Barracks in Budapest Hungary. General Stephen Horthy initiated the erection and after the ceremony the Hussars mounted regiment units filed past the statue led by their riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Joseph Cavalry
Budapest
Hungary
Stephen Horthy
Regiment of Hussars
No Alice Brooks pattern book published
A local report states that no pattern book by Alice Brooks has been published. The note clarifies absence of a planned or released collection, with no further details on alternatives or related projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Brooks
Sunday School Lesson September 29
The lesson outlines Johns salutation as elder and author of the epistle to Gaius. It highlights the spiritual health, truth, and hospitality shown to traveling missionaries, stressing support for such workers as part of the church’s mission and the meaning of living in truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Gaius
Dummelow
Gaus
Ephesus
David Smith
Moffatt
These Frogs Are Different at the Aquarium Show
Three tiny frogs eleutherodactylus johnsoni from the American Museum of Natural History were shown among hundreds of amphibians reptiles and fish at the Aquarium Society exhibition in New York. Dr G Kingsley Noble noted they bypass a tadpole stage becoming adults directly from eggs, an adaptation formed over thousands of years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Aquarium Society
Eleutherodactylus Johnsoni
G. Kingsley Noble
Museum
Noble
Balloon gondola arrival hints future stratosphere travel
Colonel E B Mackintosh of the South Kensington Science Museum receives Professor Piccard's balloon gondola after its 12 hour flight from Dubendorf near Zurich to Lake Garda. The craft reached about ten and a half miles, sparking forecasts of long term space era holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Mackintosh
South Kensington
England
Science Museum
Piccard
Dubendorf
Zurich
Africa's Oldest Empire and Its Ancient Customs
Harold J. Shepstone details Abyssinia's enduring traditions, ruler Haile Selassie, and the country's isolation. He notes the 6,300 year lineage, the llama of dress, impromptu street courts, Mosaic justice, and high illiteracy with Amharic script and a 231-letter alphabet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold J. Shepstone
FRGS
Edinburgh Scotsman
Abyssinia
Italy
Haile Selassie
Solomon
Sheba
Menelik
Abysesiania
Addis Ababa
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Germany
France Possessions Map Across Oceans and Continents
A fragment notes France holds possessions mainly as small islands in the Atlantic Pacific and Indian oceans with continental territories in Africa South America and Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Africa
South America
Asia
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Jasper-Edmonton
Lian Pacific Photo
Sir Edward Beatty
G.B.E
Canadian Pacific Railway
Joyce Austin
W. T. Austin
Craigellachie
B.C
Sir Edward
Lord Strathcona
Ocean
Miss Austin
C.P
Famous Flyer
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Hese
the Minister
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