Seas Recede as Britain Faces Costly Coastline Erosion
A historic overview warns the sea is eroding Britain’s coast faster than land reclamation can compensate. It cites Norfolk, Suffolk and Cromer losses, aging sea walls, vanished ports like Rye and Winchelsea, and high protection costs from Minehead to Blackpool, with specific figures per mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Suffolk
Cromer
Shipden
Shipden Church
Overstrand
England
Rye
Winchelsea
Sussex
East Anglia
Great Britain
Minehead
Blackpool
Scarborough
Yorkshire
Pacific Science Congress Changes Location and Date
Canada to host Pacific Science Congress with 31 countries, plans for sixth meeting moved to Pacific coast venues Vancouver and Victoria. Economic conditions prompted postponement, now targeted for next June on the Pacific coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Vancouver
Victoria
Not Proficient in Gromer and the Bandmasters Wordplay
A Chicago Daily News item notes Jamey Bylrenter a Westcott Junior High bandmaster who studied in Nantes and served eight years in Chicago schools faced job loss after failing a language exam. It argues a capable bandmaster can be worth many grammarians when school needs demand musical skill over grammar precision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamey Bylrenter
Nantes
T49th Keke
Westcott Junior
Wis
Chicago
Sylvester
Grammer
Chicago Daily News
Scented musk plant found after 4world search
A tiny Gulf of Georgia island district yields a wild musk plant with the revived scent after twenty years of scentless finds worldwide. Botanists report the touch of perfume near a stand of musk, specimens sent to museums, and renewed interest from gardeners and florists in the resurgence of the famed fragrance once popular in Queen Victoria's era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf of Georgia
Queen Victoria
Word Very Debated In Post Herald Letter Foe Crusade
A New York editor recalls Franklin Adams action plans to ban the word very as overused and unnecessary. The piece notes Adams led a crusade against it, while the editor argues the term still carries meaning and should remain in use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Tat
Franklin Adams
New York Works
Fixit
New York
Leditor
Adams
Chicago Tribune
New Steamship Trade Link Opens Halifax Route
A monthly service connects Halifax with the Malay Archipelago Java the Netherlands East Indies Ceylon and Egypt to boost direct Canada trade. The first ship will reach Halifax from Java in January 1933 after visits to Singapore Ceylon and other ports. Arranged by Canada's Department of Trade and Commerce the service aims to grow imports of rubber pineapples pepper tapioca four peanuts tea and cotton from these regions and aid Canadian exporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
N.S
Malay Archipelago
Java
Netherlands East Indies
Ceylon
Egypt
Canada
Singapore
Department of Trade and Commerce
Publicity as a deterrent in criminal cases
Judge Clement in Kitchener rejected a defence bid to bar reporters from the courtroom. He argued publicity is a penalty for crime, especially for the guilty, and that innocent defendants have nothing to fear, while public notices deter future offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitchener
Clement
Storage Stocks Show Declines in Dairy and Eggs
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics report notes declines in creamery butter storage to 26,250,552 pounds from 31,385,246 the prior year. Dairy butter falls to 101,642 pounds from 287,692. Cold storage eggs drop to 4,068,772 dozen from 5,658,380, fresh eggs to 262,159 dozen from 297,373, and frozen eggs to 3,967,749 pounds from 4,553,995. Cheese is the only commodity with an increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Peking Replaces Arethusa as Training Ship at Greenhithe
The four masted steel barque Peking, acquired by the Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Training Ship Society, will replace the old Arethusa at Greenhithe. Built 1911, it follows the 1849 Arethusa famous for action under full sail in the Crimean War. the Peking belonged to a German company that also owned the Pamir and Parma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
Arethusa
Peking
Shaftesbury Homes
Arethusa Training Ship Society
Arethuss
Greenhithe
Navy
Merchant Service
London
Minnow Peddler Builds $50,000 Fishing Bait Empire
Charles C. Day of Port Huron Michigan began with a 14 quart pair of minnows sold for a dollar about 30 years ago and built a business supplying fresh and canned minnows grasshoppers crawfish angleworms salmon eggs and pork rinds to sporting goods stores nationwide earning $50 000 last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Maude
Charles C. Day
Port Huron
Mich
Day
Sporting Goods
Two Capitals Highlight Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa maintains a dual capital system with Capetown hosting the legislature while Pretoria stores the rest of the government. In Denmark prices for commodities have risen over the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union of South Africa
Capetown
Pretoria
Wisconsin farmer fires on relatives after mistaking them for gunmen
A Wisconsin farmer shot at relatives, killing a cousin and wounding two others, amid a mistaken-identity incident. The report recalls a separate English train episode where an unknown passenger triggered an emergency stop. A nervous man delaying his wedding was questioned by a guard who asked if he pulled the cord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Poppy Culture Banned in British Columbia
Mounted police order poppy culture and any commercial development or sale in British Columbia to cease after December. The narcotic content of the poppy is high, with morphine levels near those used in medicinal opium precursors. The report also notes other crops and their oil or content percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Far East
Arliss as Model Voice Praised by Inspector Quarry
Inspector Quarry hails George Arliss as a model voice for teachers in London Ontario. The English star trained on the English stage and in Mrs Patrick Campbell's company, urging parental and instructional voice training to counter atmospheric voice conditions and poor examples set by Coolidge and Hoover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Arliss
Inspector Quarry
London
Ont
Arliss
Patrick Campbell
Calvin Coolidge
Hoover
The Rarest Gift Three Swift Flying Hours
A fragmentary passage contrasts tangible gifts with intangible ones such as prayers, glances of hope, and a brave thought. It then shifts to a miscellany of notes about dental mischief in George Washington and a scientific comparison of weight at Earth's poles and equator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufe
American Dental Association
George Washington
After dive speed reaches limit propeller becomes brake
When a aeroplane reaches a critical speed in a power dive the propeller reverses its effect and acts as two brakes, increasing deceleration.
Canada Australia trade rise boosts wheat shipments to Europe
Government reviews show Canada increasing trade with Australia and higher wheat exports to Great Britain the Netherlands and Belgium. First seven months of the year see exports to Britain up about 5.5 million dollars while Australia trade grows and overall business remains more stable than in 1950 and 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Canadas
Australia
Europe
Aml
Canada
Department of Trade and Commerce
Dominion Boeau
Holland
Belgium
Canadian Co operative Associations Report Totals and Distributions
The Canadian Government Labour Department reports 1452 co operative associations in Canada with 525 216 members. Marketing groups total 803 with 374 516 members and purchasing groups 467 with 49 361 members. Quebec dominates housing credit and poultry handling among marketing sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Labour
Quebec
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Captain Spooner Engages Hazardous Flying in War Zones
Captain Tony Spooner once Montreal Light Aeroplane Club instructor and prominent Canadian air figure now flies hazardously in Palestine and Iraq for a British mail and express operator linking with the India England mail route at Bagdad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iraq
Montreal Light Aeroplane Club
Tony Spooner
Palestine
Bagdad
Color line tensions at New York church cited in report
The article notes a New York church threatened with disruption as the minister and bishop back allowing black worshippers. Journalistic comment claims color prejudice runs deep, with mentions of the color line extending south of the Potomac and west to Tennessee. It also states Portugal’s wheat crop records and gives the actress Pola Negro’s real name as Appolina Chalupez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Potomac
Tennessee
Washington
Jon Crow
Pola Negro
Appolina Chalupez
Also Mentioned on This Page
British Isles
Regency Mile
Peter
Paul
Belgece
Pacific Science Congress
Pacific Coast
Fenale
Erie
Walton-on-Thames
Lewer
Denmark
U.S. Naval Observatory
Portugal
Mange
Captain Spooner
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!