Canada to join scheme to span North Atlantic by air
Canada will join the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State in forming a joint company to conduct experimental flights over the North Atlantic and later operate a scheduled service. Imperial Airways will run initial tests while Pan American may participate. The plan envisions exclusive landing rights for 15 years with subsidies from participating governments and a 61 24 15 distribution of capital between Britain, Canada, and Ireland.
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D. Howe
Canada
North Atlantic
London
Philip Sassoon
Air
Howe
United Kingdom
Irish Free State
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Britain
Imperial Airways
United States
Ireland
Bermuda
Pan-American Airways
Railway workers seek comfort upgrades in engine cabs
The U S Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen petitions for softer seats foot warmers and padded arm rests in locomotive cabs. A London man reportedly kept the same umbrella for 39 years dining at the same restaurant since 1920.
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U.S. Brotherhood of Railway
London
No Motor Boats In Venice Declares Motorized Gondolas Illegal
Venice authorities order withdrawal of motorized gondolas after failed attempts to win public support for faster canal transport. Officials forbid motorized gondolas as they clash with the city’s aesthetic of the floating city and gondoliers control the motors with their feet.
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Venice
Australia expands civil aviation for commerce and defense
Australia grows its air network with 411 government aerodromes and 17,000 miles of routes, while 225 pilots and 262 civil agroplanes support defense. Plans call for nine new aerodromes, night illumination, radios, and rapid night service between Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne amid pilot shortages.
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Australia
Commonwealth
Brisbane
Sidney
Melbourne
Comyn-Platt weighs plans to control big game in Malaya
Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, after tours of Ceylon and Malaya for the Society for the Preservation of Empire Fauna, considers Project Jungle Game Flying quads to regulate elephants tigers and other big game in British Malaya.
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British
Malaya
Thomas Comyn-Platt
Ceylon
Society For the Preservation of Exmpire
Rotarians In Vicksburg Pledge Full Stop At Rail Crossings
Vicksburg Michigan Rotary Club members vow to stop completely before any railroad crossing. The pledge follows five village deaths at crossings in 16 months and echoes safety calls for better crossing devices. The Detroit Free Press notes true protection comes from cautious drivers.
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Vicksburg
Mich
Rotary Club
Michigan
Detroit Free Press
Man floats ten hours in Red Sea rescued at sea
A German passenger aboard the Wangoni fell overboard during a heatwave and slept on deck. The ship circled as a searchlight swept the sea and a wireless warning was sent. After ten hours a Dutch steamer found and rescued the man alive.
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Red Sea
Wangoni
Southampton
Cape Town
Hamburg
Menace to Wildlife in Raner Lake Fire Believed Severe
A local observer near Raner Lake Ontario describes a wildfire that forced six deer, three moose, foxes, porcupines and wolves toward a bottleneck lake. Many unknown numbers of game likely perished. rabbits and partridge were unable to escape, and fur bearing animals suffered along with timber losses.
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Raner Lake
Ontario
Drought Harms Ducks At Wood Buffalo Park
A. L. Cummings, district agent at Fort Smith, reports western drought devastates duck flocks in Wood Buffalo park on the Alberta Northwest Territories border. The park, the northern nesting limit for ducks, records fewer birds than any year since 1925.
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Prairies
A. L. Cummings
Fort Smith
Northwest Territories
Department of the Interior
Wood Buffalo Park
Alberta
Gas Mask Marathon By Four Russian Workers
Four Russian workers lived 10 days in gas masks, carrying out daily tasks with masks on at all times except four daily half hour breaks for washing and eating. They slept in masks each night and one man gave a daily speech about the experience.
Candlewicking Pattern Transfer 16x20 Basket Scene
A short note offers a pattern 5402 with directions and illustrations for candlewicking or French knots on heavy cotton. The transfer shows a 16 by 20 inch basket, with material requirements and instructions. Enclose 20 cents in stamps or coin and send to Heusnard Art Dept in Winnipeg.
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Heusnard Arta Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
MacDermot Ave
Sunshine Mac the diet the world’s healthiest baby
The piece reports on Donald H. Miller and his wife feeding their eight month old son Charles Miller nicknamed Sunshine Mac a synthetic vitamin rich milk diet since birth. The child is thriving gaining weight and height with early teeth and motor development. It notes the AMA may study the diet and discusses soil erosion and agricultural threats in Western Canada and the United States.
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McDonald
Charles Miller
Dayton
Donald H. Miller
Miller
Sunshine Mac
American Medical Association
Sub Stratosphere Plane Aims For High Altitude Passenger Flights
A new aeroplane built by Transcontinental and Western Air for sub stratosphere tests nears completion. It targets 20 000 to 30 000 feet, where weather is absent and storms are rare, potentially boosting speed from 200 mph at 10 000 feet to about 250 mph at 25 000 feet.
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Transcontinental and Western Air Line
Wiley Post
Will Rogers
Alaska
Sign For Door Handles Puzzles London Rail Users
A Sydenham Hill platform sign reads For Door Handles with a towel rack beneath. Regular travelers tear off a paper towel to grasp the door handle as the train enters a smoke-filled tunnel, keeping hands clean. Source: St Thomas Times Journal.
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Sydenham Hill
Crystal Palace
London
St. Thomas Times- Journal
Humorous Remarks on Milkman and Cow Exchange
A sharp exchange contrasts the milk man and the cow with a joke on milk and credit. A classroom dialogue shows Mary asking why the central telephone office keeps someone on duty and a teacher explaining the slang miscommunication about a busy lion.
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Mary
Painting of Ramsay MacDonald sold in Sunderland
A painting of former British premier Ramsay MacDonald, stored away for five years as unwanted, sold for 125 dollars in Sunderland England. A remark suggests incompetence is blamed on bad luck.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Sunderland
Enz
Giraffes Stop Train Crossing on Kenya Uganda Railway
In South Africa the Kenya Uganda Railway faces a problem as giraffes cannot pass under low bridges. Six animals were crated and raised but the necks proved too long for a bridge passage. They were unloaded and reloaded on the next train after crates were carried past the obstruction.
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Kenya-Uganda
South Africa
Mombasa
Turkey imposes annual exemption tax on women to avoid road work
A new Turkish tax requires women aged 18 to 80 to pay six pounds yearly to avoid a week of road labor as navvies. The policy previously applied only to men.
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Turkey
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