World Happenings Briefly Told In One Global Roundup
A compact summary from various locales notes military actions near Singapore, a fatal windshield accident in Ontario, honorary degrees for Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and European leaders, Canada’s capital investment and relief figures, Iraq compensation for a Mosul death, rural mail carriers to receive metal markers, and Germany's sign swap to wooden designs as scrap-metal drives continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Earlwin of Bewdley
Prams
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Labor Department
Iraq
George Monck-Mahon
Mosul
Norman McLarty
Ottawa
Une
Germany
Eskimos Inspect Viceregal Train Before Departure at Churchill
A party of Eskimos toured the Canadian National car service aboard the viceregal train carrying Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir South at Churchill. They watched ice bunkers being used to cool the moving igloos and left puzzled by the white man’s ways as they returned to their boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Lord
Lady Tweedsmuir
Eskimos
Canadian National Car
Not A General Failure In Wheat Crop Outlook
The Lethbridge Herald notes there will be no 406 million bushel Western wheat crop this year but 300 million bushels are viable. Regions show grain, seed, and feed in sight despite earlier pessimism from delayed June rains. overall western outlook is more hopeful than in prior years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge Herald
Shipwrecked crew offered newspapers before rescue
After months on a desert island a large liner and a small boat approach. An officer throws a bundle of newspapers ashore saying the captain sent them, joking that they might not want to be rescued after reading them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desert Island
Vitamin C in the Body Is Stored for Later Use
The body does not store up vitamin C mainly found in citrus fruits tomatoes and green vegetables as it moves other vitamins through its system.
High standard of living praised by British poultry chief
Percy A. Francis, Poultry Commissioner of Great Britain, told a Connecticut service club that Americans and Canadians live in a land flowing with milk and honey. He contrasted European struggles with the comfortable United States scene while noting Europe’s luxuries are scarce there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy A. Francis
Great Britain
Connecticut
World Poultry Congress
Cleveland
Francis
Britain
United States
Canada
Brantford
Carved Swedish Clock Marks 1767 Romance Gift
Michael Horvath of Miami Florida recalls a 172 year old tale of Gustav Ellshoff a Swedish farmer near Stockholm who carved a three story miniature home in bed after blood poisoning amputations while engaged to be married. The clock features glass windows a grape vine two doors and figures that appear when chimes play four love songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Horvath
Miami
Gustav Ellshoff
Stockholm
Ellshoff
Taj Mahal
Indian woman farmer wins best dressed Indian prize at Merritt parade
A 102 year old Indian woman farmer won first prize as best dressed Indian in Merritt British Columbia’s stampede parade. The prize was a 50 foot hose but she took cash. Her farm relies on wells and irrigation ditches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabby Fish
Merritt
B.C
Impressive British wartime measures since Munich
The Ottawa Journal reports Britain prorogued Parliament after a long session and outlines vast wartime steps. Provisions include 3500 million pounds for wartime costs, pledges of military aid to Poland Romania and Turkey, conscription for 20044 men annually, doubling territorial army to 340 000, 1600 0 percent under arms, 24 hour anti air raid defence, a 19 division field force, and a new Ministry of Supply overseeing 500 million in annual purchases. The piece notes the Munich question and frames Britain must choose its ground and weapons to fight for life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Poland
Romania
Turkey
Uns
Ministry of Supply
Munich
Chamberlain
Ottawa Journal
Were Reece
Canary Witnesses Move Courts Through Birds Tales
Lancelot Robson recalls animal witnesses in court. A 1928 Strassburg case had a canary as the sole witness in a husband wife dispute. The bird’s frantic attempts and plumage loss prompted the wife to confess, swaying the judge to rule for the husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancelot Robson
Strassburg
London Listener
Becoming shirtwaister pattern for summer wardrobe
Anne Adams Pattern 4185 offers a shirtwaister with gored front skirt and soft bodice fullness. Choose air cooled or straight sleeves with scalloped collar and waist buttons. sizes 34 through 48. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union, Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Anna Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Popular Cowboy Songs booklet for Home Service fans
A Winnipeg release promotes Popular Cowboy Songs with 19 tunes including Home on the Range and In the Gold Fields of Montana. The offer invites 15c payments to Home Service Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union, plus 15c booklets like Hand-Made Gift Novelties and The Meaning of Dreams and Build Your Own College Background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Bill
Texas
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Selected Recipes Mix with Lemon and Ham and Tomato Sauce
Two egg omelet style dish with lemon flavor and corn syrup plus a ham mushroom bake. Crumbled crackers mixed with milk and eggs form a top layer over ham and mushrooms, finished with a tomato onion parsley sauce. Serves six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson's
Canada
Crown Brand
Mazda
Christie's
Civil pilots sought in Britain amid pilot shortage
Britain offers civil air pilot jobs paying up to 5500 dollars yearly with two months paid holiday, yet vacancies remain unfilled. The RAP retains skilled pilots in service. thousands of Volunteer Reserve pilots train at forty reserve schools, creating demand for more qualified instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Uzziah Sins And Punishment In Judah Chronicles Lesson
The lesson covers Uzziah's rise to power at sixteen, his initial godly rule aided by Zechariah, and his later pride leading to punishment. He entered the temple to offer incense, was confronted by Azariah and priests, and struck with leprosy, forcing him into isolation while his son Jotham ruled as regent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uzziah
Yemah
Fathe Mazak
Judah
Jerusalem
Jehovah
Sarah
Zechariah
Umziah
Azariah
Uzzish
Bennett
Jotham
Canadian Legion Grows Stronger Under Unity Call
Brigadier W. W. Foster of Vancouver told delegates at the British Columbia command’s 13th annual Kamloops convention that the Canadian Legion is bigger and more powerful, stressing consolidation and unity. He cited a national veterans survey prompted by a message to Prime Minister Mackenzie King and urged veterans’ services for any needed capacity. He warned the Legion’s objective is peace but pledged readiness if liberty is threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Legion
W. W. Foster
Vancouver
Dominion
British Columbia
Kamloops
B.C
Foster
Canada
National
Mackenzie King
Legion
England’s Women Farmers Profit At Royal Show
One in twenty British farmers is a woman and nearly all are profitable, a finding from the Royal Agricultural Societies centenary show at Windsor. Among 15,000 profitable women is Mrs Enid Southey, once a London actress, who took over a 500 acre Lincolnshire weed farm five years ago, mechanized operations, and now breeds belted Galloways and hunters while growing pedigree wheat and barley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Royal Agricultural Societies
Windsor
Enid Southey
London
Lincolnshire
Were Still Nice and the Gull Confusion at Sea
An Irishman aboard a ship mistakes gulls for a pigeons, sparking a light exchange with another passenger who remarks on the flock. The discourse veers into a remark about Japan and silk and cotton trade, mentioning U.S. and Japanese commerce. A final note describes a beehive’s worker and drone counts and a queen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Man
United States
Insulin Patent Seen as Public Shield for Toronto Science
At a Chicago AMA conference Toronto officials explained why a basic University of Toronto insulin patent was essential to prevent profit driven misuse. They cited a second patent for a silicosis prevention machine and the need to keep benefits free to users through the Ontario Mining Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Frederick Baryting
Best
Toronto
American Medical Association
Chicago
F. Lorne Hutchison
Connaught Laboratories
Insulin Committee
University of Toronto
Banting
University
Ontario Mining Association
Editorial Note on Dr McCullough Cancer Articles
Readers are invited to request the complete set of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont. The notice promotes a direct mail request for full coverage.
Interesting Hobby Boy Builds Global Wood Scrapbook
Ten year old Ruland Williams of Kirkland Ohio collects woods from around the world and mounts samples in a scrapbook. The collection includes DG native species and over 600 rare foreign woods such as lancéwood from Australia snakewood from Dutch Guiana and wool from Hawaii. The oak is noted as the tree most frequently struck by lightning. England has had no record of a beech birch horse chestnut or holly being struck since 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruland Williams
Kirkland
Ohio
Australia
Dutch Guiana
Hawaii
England
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Carrier Eagle
Singapore
Wiliam BicKay
Timmus
Hin Bey
Mary Ann Burns
Kias
Home Service
U2ziah
DR. J.W. S. McCullough
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