Stamp collecting lore and rare Mauritius error featured
In a recount from Leslie A. Barnes, the article details early Mauritius stamps, including a misengraved error with Post Office legend causing Gov. dissatisfaction and destruction. Three copies survived, one sold for two hundred pounds, later valued at twelve thousand dollars. It also notes Cape of Good Hope triangle error and Barbados displays at a 1908 Royal collection show.
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Vid
King George
Great Britain
Hong Kong
Roys
Barbados
Royal
Cape of Good Hope
Leslie A. Barnes
Tiny Toronto Artist Plans More Miniatures After London Study
Josef Hilpert a Canadian miniature painter once mayor of a Hungarian town has studied royal features in London and returns to Toronto to paint more miniatures. His Hepburn portrait measures one eighth of an inch and was shown at last year’s Canadian National Exhibition. He previously painted Archbishop Neil McNeill Cardinal Villeneuve Chief Justice Sir William Mulock and Gerardo Machado portraits and often works on black onyx.
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Josef Hilpert
Premier Mitchell Hepburn
London
Toronto
Hilpert
Hungary
Canada
Premier Hepburn
Canadian National Fix
Iete
Neil McNeill
Cardinal Villeneuve
Quebec
Wiliam Muloch
Ontario
Gerardo Machado
Cubs
Medieval torture device used to stretch necks in arthritis cure
Modern doctors describe a head harness and pulley system to suspend patients in air as part of treatment reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr Samuel Hansilg of Boston claims five cases of relief from severe shoulder and arm pains using the device.
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Journal of the American Medical Association Ag
Samuel & Hansilg
Boston
Man Frozen To Walk After Fall In Reinbeck
Henry Plaedin fell at his Reinbeck Iowa home and spilled a pail of water. The water froze on the steps trapping him until rescuers thawed him free. He fractured a general ride and was knocked unconscious but later recovered.
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Henry Plaedin
Reinbeck
Iowa
Unclear Text Refers to Hat and Bat Choice
Fragmentary dialogue mentions a hat a fallow and a bat with misused words. The readable parts imply a comic mishap or exchanged banter but no clear event, names, or actions to verify.
Towers calls Bank of England influence claim nonsense
Graham Ford Towers governor of the Bank of Canada rejects the idea of a universal malign influence in financial matters. He assures that central banks and governments will prevent undue influence and outlines central bank duties including regulating credit, defending currency value, advising governments, and cooperating with other central banks.
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Towers
Bank of England
Graham Ford Towers
Bank of Canada
Ottawa
Prairie Antelope Spotlight on Saskatchewan Coat of Arms
The pigmy deer known as pronghorn roams Saskatchewan with over 3,000 counted in the province. They reach speeds up to 30 miles per hour, stand about three feet high, and are tan black and white. Hunters note their dramatic pleas when cornered. Their hides yield fine chamois.
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Saskatchewan
College of Agriculture
University of Saskatchewan
Souvenir Jug From 1830 With Portrait Of King George IV
Mrs H Walker of Metchosin British Columbia owns an 1830 cream china jug six inches high. It bears a purple portrait of King George IV and is inscribed with his birth date August 12 1762 throne date January 29 1820 and death date June 26 1830 aged 68 years.
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B.C
George IV
Change in coinage marks new reign with different head orientation
An English paper reports that the new reign will feature a facing change on coins. King Edward VIII will be shown looking to the right, unlike his father and grandfather whose portraits faced left.
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Edward
George
Queen Victoria
Edward VIII
Wounds of the Spirit Highlight Patient Care Gaps
Miss Clare Gass of Montreal General Hospital told the 16th annual meeting of the Quebec nurses association that enduring wounds of the spirit affect many patients. She warned physicians may overlook the whole person in rushed hospital work and urged attention to the patient’s full personality beyond disease.
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Clare Gass
Social Service
Montreal General Hospital
Association of Registered Nurses
Quebec
Miss Gass
Deer Destroy Trees in Peachland Okanagan Orchard War
Orchardists in Peachland district Okanagan Valley wage war on deer after a reappearance of the animals in large numbers. Thirty young peach trees were destroyed in one night in a single orchard as farmers use repellents and wrap young trees. The note adds that Pasteur rabies treatment is over fifty years old.
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Okanagan Valley
Peachland
Okanagan
Price Rise for Halibut Liver Boosts Fishermen Revenue
Halibut and cod livers advance for a third season as drug firms bid 45 cents a pound for livers. With 2½ percent liver yield in halibut and about three to four percent in cod, a 100 pound halibut could yield about 9 dollars in liver value, lifting total earnings for Pacific coast fishermen.
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Pacific
Frederick Cook Reemerges to Seek Pole Discovery Recognition
Dr. Frederick Cook, famed for the North Pole controversy, announces retirement return and asks the American Geographical Society for a full impartial investigation of his 1908 claim to reach the Pole, marking the 28th anniversary since leaving Greenland.
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Frederick Cook
North Pole
Science
The
Pole
American Geographical Society
Greenland
Cook
Tweedsmuir Compares Surveyors to Early Voyageurs
Lord Tweedsmuir told Canadian surveyors at Ottawa that their work opens vast unknown regions for Canada to become a leading air hub. He likened their mission to frontier pioneers, urging them to blaze routes, uncover resources, and expand civilization beyond settled areas.
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Lord Tweedsmotr
Canada
Dominion
Canadian Institute of Surveying
Ottawa
Lord Tweeds- Muir
Tristan da Cunha may become aircraft refueling base
Miss Hilda Hesson spoke in Victoria about Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, a remote island home to 178 people. She described isolation, lack of modern utilities, and a population largely of shipwrecked sailors and recluses who refuse outside offers, with no war-time ships seen.
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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cuntha
Hilda Hesson
Victoria
B.C
South Atlantic
Africa
South America
Miss Hesson
Antarctic
Settiera
St. Helena
The Reverend Hill Chooses Hall Duty For All
The tale recounts Rev. Rowland Hill using improvised errands to settle a dispute over washing the hall. He ends up mopping it himself while Peggy and Jane protest, declaring it not their duty. The hall is cleaned regularly thereafter. Also notes WWI battlefield visitors in 1935 were 3 percent British, others even fewer.
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Rowland Hill
Peggy
Jane
Christian Science Monitor
Badge of Honor awarded by Soviet Russia for productivity
A new order the Badge of Honor is to be given for high productivity in industry agriculture transport and trading. A western jeweler misread a staged gag when bandits taped a handkerchief in his mouth. Most worry is about others thoughts when they are not thinking of us at all.
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Soviet
Russia
Woman Rules Badu Island A Tiny Queensland Outpost
On Badu Island off northern Australia a white woman, Mrs. Zabel, governs a 600-strong indigenous community with a small council and three native policemen. Appointed 26 years ago by the Queensland Government she oversees land access, education, and daily life while guiding a wary, self-contained society away from modern temptations. Marble games were banned after they disrupted fishing and shell gathering.
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Om Badu
Australia
Thursday Island
Zabel
Bacu
Queensland
Badu
Rei
Canada Farm Exports Rise Yet Lag Behind 1930 Peak
House of Commons figures show Canada’s farm product exports rising but still far below the 1930 peak of 465,254,061. By the year ending March 31 last exports reached 280,068,923, down 185,185,128 from 1930, while imports fell from 441,821,654 in 1930 to 153,827,223 in 1933 and stood at 198,902,581 by last March.
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House of Commons
Canada
Queen Anne Gifts to Mohawk Church at Brantford Revealed
The article recalls gifts from Queen Anne to Brantford Mohawk church including a Bible and silver communion service engraved Gift of Her Majesty, Anne. It notes a bell as the first to call worshipers in Upper Canada and credits Joseph Brant with aiding fundraising aided by George III.
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Brantford
Lilz
Queen Anne
Anne
Great Britain
Ireland
North America
Upper Canada
Joseph Brant
George HI
Smallest Foreign Colony Found Near Lugar Scotland
Britain’s smallest foreign colony was located near Lugar in Scotland. Fifty Scottish iron emelters went to Spain in 1315, and fifty Spanish families from Santander moved to Scotland to live in the homes their friends left. After World War I most returned to Spain, leaving only three families in Lugar.
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Britain
Lugar
Scotland
Spain
Santander
Joca Fron
Children have keener sense of taste than adults
A brief note observes that children possess sharper taste sensitivity than adults, suggesting developmental differences in taste perception and culinary receptiveness.
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Aduita
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Philelac Society
Prince Edward Istein
Mauritius
Post Office
Henry
P.G. Casey
Paris
France
Germany
Rhine
Atlantic
Anthony Eden
Argentina
Falkland Islands
South Georgia
Falkland Isles
Eden
Northwest Territories
British Empire
Badu Island
Wee
Quteesland
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