Dominion Botanist Pleads For Canadian Botanical Gardens
Dr HT Gaenow, Dominion botanist, urged creation of botanical gardens in Canada in a Mantotm lecture. He cited Kew as model, noting two million annual visitors and a 300 acre estate with vast herbarium and library, and argued gardens aid economic medical and industrial research.
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Canais
Globe
HT. Gaenow
University of Mantotm
Wiltian, Saunders
Dominion
Australia
India
Hotante
Ceylon
Jamaica
West Indies
Canada
Gurson
Kew Botanical Gardens
Kew Gardens
Paintings Believed To Be Titian Works Taken For Expert Opinion
A worn canvas group owned by Henry Cink of Stafford Springs Conn is believed to include a Titian Madonna and two other Venetian paintings. Taken to Mrs Robert Grimes in New York for appraisal several experts called them very valuable and one said the Madonna may be a genuine Titian. The Madonna is noted as a long sought lost work with faded draperies and a standing Christ Child. other pieces depict St Joseph and a guardian angel.
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New York
Henry Cink
Stafford Springs
Conn
Robert H. Grimes
Park Avenue
Grimes
St. Joseph
Christ
American Offered 560000 For Famous Jonker Diamond
An unnamed American reportedly offered 560000 for the Jonker diamond, the Transvaal’s 176 carat stone. If accepted by the Diamond Corporation, the gem may be cut into ear drops and a necklace. The stone was found January 1834 by a native on Jacobua Jonker’s claim at Blandsfontein.
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Jonker
Diamond Corporation
Jacobua Jonker
Blandsfontein
Transvaal
Africa
Yonker
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer
London
Russia Develops Touring Or Training Aircraft
Russian experts unveil a two seater airplane powered by an ordinary light automobile engine. Built for touring and training, the craft reaches 70 miles per hour with an engine from the Gorky motor factory. Accidents rise up to 20 percent due to defective vision in operations.
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Gorky Motor Factory
Newfoundland to Form Rangelike Police Force
The Newfoundland commission government will form a ranger force modeled after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Sixty two members start with 18 posts on the island and five in Labrador. A chief ranger, inspector, sergeants, corporals and 37 rangers will patrol outside Avalon with planes cars boats horses and dog teams for police and administrative duties.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Newfoundland Commission
Dominions Office
London
Labrador
Canada
Royal Northwest Mounted ‘Police
Newfoundland
Avalon Peninsula
World’s most accurate clocks on display in Berlin
Reichs Institute for Physics in Berlin unveils four quartz crystal clocks touted as the world’s most accurate. Each uses a vacuum tube and dual copper boxes to stabilize temperature, with the crystal vibrating 60,000 times per second to regulate time, claiming only 0.002 seconds deviation in six months.
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Reichs Institute For Physics
Berlin
Woman-Female Death Penalty Ban Proposed in Commons
Proposal amends Criminal Code to bar death sentences for any female person and requires one third of jurors in a female trial to be female. Filed by T. L Church in the House of Commons. Toronto Globe notes.
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House of Commons
T. L Church
Toronto Easty
Toronto Globe
The
Globe
King’s Shadow Nemesis Fitch Dies in London at 58
Henry T. Fitch former Scotland Yard detective known as the King’s Shadow died suddenly in London at 58. He hunted spies during the Great War helped trace the master German spy Steinhauer and later recounted anti espionage work in his book Traitors Within.
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London
Henry T. Fitch
Scotland Yard
Edward
King's Shadow
Fitch
Steinhauer
Great Britain
Apies
Soho
Lenin
Trotzky
Man Plans Best Kitchen Model Wins National Contest
Anthony Trew, a 75 year old retired Poole architect, won first place in a British Commercial Gas Association contest for a modern labor saving kitchen from 20 000 entries. Second prize of 3 1 900 was shared by Miss Elliott Douglas of Kelso and Mrs N Collins of Stoke on Trent.
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British Commercial Gas Association
Anthony Trew
Poole
Elliott Douglas
Kelso
Roxburghshire
Aye-aye uses water dip as feeding habit
In Madagascar the aye-aye feeds by dipping its fingers in water and pulling them through its mouth. In Deal England two hundred anglers fished for six hours catching 976 fish in a contest.
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Madagascar
Deal
England
Candid Photography: The Snapshot Hobby Explained
John van Guilder introduces candid photography as capturing people unaware in natural action. Emphasizes close, unobtrusive shots with miniature cameras, focusing on genuine expressions and scenes. Next week covers equipment and practice for enthusiasts.
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Congo
Florida
John van Guilder
Baldwin warns Europe on dangerous path to war
Stanley Baldwin says European nations are not pursuing peace but a dangerous road that could lead to war. He cites disarmament failures, economic nationalism, and dictatorship as harm from 1914 style errors, and references Berlin gas mask fears amid Germany’s League of Nations stance.
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Stanley Baldwin
Council
Assembly of Free Churches of
Eppland
Wales
Paris
Locarmo
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Baldwin
Frith
Germany
League of Nation
Early Spring Gardening Tips and Rock Garden Ideas
The article encourages early sowing of tender vegetables like beans and corn with frost risk noted, and advises hardy greens such as spinach and lettuce can be planted as soon as soil is workable. It also outlines transforming steep banks into rock gardens with embedded boulders and alpine features, stressing seed selection and seed catalogs for Canadian conditions.
Cooking Under Water Pudding Proves Impossible Feasible
An Englishman cooked a pudding at the Thames bottom by placing it in a tin and lowering the tin packed in lime into the river. After three hours the heat from lime slaking cooked the pudding, proving the initial claim of impossibility false.
Chinese Emperor Shou-ning on agriculture and trade roots
Quote attributed to Shou-ning, ancient Chinese emperor and inventor of agricultural implements, stating that people's well being resembles a tree with agriculture as its root and manufacturing and commerce as branches. He warned that injury to the root causes leaves to fall and the tree to die.
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Shou-ning
New Heart Disease Drug From Poisonous Nut
Dr. Albert S. Hyman of Beth Israel Hospital and Dr. K. Ke Chen of Lilly Research Labs announce the discovery of theresin, derived from the bestill or yellow oleander nut. Tested since last September at Beth Israel with remarkable success, the drug is claimed to be superior to digitalis, as it can be injected rather than administered orally.
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Toronto
Alberts. Hyman
Witkin Foundation
Beth Israel Hospital
K. Ke. Chen
Lilly Research Laboratories
Indianapolis
Hawait
India
Hyman
Chen
Superstition In China Triggers Mass Abduction and Murders
Reports from Lalyang district southwest of Honan allege South China laborers killed locals and abducted 43 workers to appease underground spirits and ensure favorable weather for railroad work between Canton and Hankow near Chioukuoan. The fate of the 43 abducted remains unknown.
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South China
Lalyang
Honan
Canton
Hankow
Oear Chioukuoan
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Rupert
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Hayao Mada
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