British Scientists Confirm Warming Arctic Temperatures
British researchers report a steady Arctic rise with temperatures in Spitsbergen area climbing about one degree every two years since 1910. Icefields recede, Barents Sea opens, and open water appears more often as polar conditions warm, while scientists debate causes from CO2 to solar radiation.
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Arctic
North Pole
Spitsbergen
Tolar
Barents Sea
Russian
Greenland
Ambitious girls urged to abandon singing for marriage by opera star
Brazilian soprano Elias Bidu Sayao of the Metropolitan Opera cautions aspiring young singers that the career brings endless travel and loneliness. She notes a young prize winner might be better off choosing a husband, despite the money and audience praise.
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Elias Bidu Sayao
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
Aliquippa Neighbors Honor Man With Street Sweeping Act
Citizens raise funds to move Mari Izzo from Potter's Field and place a tombstone over his grave. Izzo, a Hungarian immigrant on relief, swept streets six hours daily six days a week, saying he would be an honest man in gratitude to the country.
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Aliquippa
Mari Izzo
Potter's Field
Izza
New York Herald Tribune
Famous Chillingham Cattle Herd Saved From Extinction
The Chillingham wild cattle of Northumberland are confirmed saved through the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association and a maintenance fund. Curator J Russell Godard notes the herd likely descends from prehistoric wild cattle and has remained untouched by domesticated blood, numbering about 40 with glossy white coats and black facial features.
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Chillingham
Chillfingham
Northumberland
Chilingham Wild Cattle Association
J. Russell Godard
Hancock Museum
Newcastle
British Isles
Chillingham Park
White Park
London Listener
Early twelfth century deed rescued for York archbishop era
A long hidden document dating to the early 1100s was recovered by the British Records Association and linked to Thurston Provost of Beverley before his 1114 election as Archbishop of York. The deed, dated at least 25 years before, concerns East Riding properties and the papers were sent to the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in Leeds.
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Records Preservation Section
British Records Association
Thurston
Beverley
York
Rot
East Riding
Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Leeda
London Sunday Times
Reduction In Postal Rates For Circulating Libraries
The De Minton post office department announces lower postal rates for books mailed to and from non profit circulating libraries. Current Canada mail rate is one cent per two ounces. Starting April 24 the new rate is five cents for the first pound and one cent for each additional pound.
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DeMinton
Canada
Australians insist on retaining New Guinea mandate
W L Clark argues in the Windsor Star that Australia should keep the New Guinea mandate. He warns that Nazi threat could use the island as a base to menace Australia, making a German return unlikely to be acceptable to Australians.
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Australia
British New Guinea
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
W. H. Hughes
New Guinea
Germany
Papua
British Lord Chamberlain Bans Song About Hitler Mother
The Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain, blocked a London revue song titled Even Hitler Had a Mother. He said no one may ridicule a state's head, banning the performance before opening night.
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Earl of Clarendon
England
Hitler
London
Coral types and their value through history
The piece explains that corals are built by hard skeletons of various organisms and largely consist of carbonate lime. It notes most corals have little value except as lime sources, while red coral has long been prized for jewelry since ancient times.
Rural drama boom as Clive Alberta gains festival attention
The Dominion Drama Festival draws notice for Clive Alberta's three member company led by a farmer actor who performed Chekhov's The Bear. The piece highlights rural Ontario growing amateur dramatics beyond cities and calls for support to spread drama across villages like Alisa Craig Komoka and Hyde Park.
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London
Clive
Alberta
Checkov
Ontario
Ailsa Craig
Komoka
Hyde Park
Dominion Drama Festival
Little Theatre
Canada
London Free Press
Village Concert Plans and a Dilemma Over Bill Johnson
A village schoolroom hosts a concert with a meeting to organize the entertainment. Bill Johnson is chosen as doorkeeper and general treasurer, but Brown questions who will hold Bill, while others insist he is ideal to hold the money. World population in 1937 ends at about 2.134 billion, up 18 million from 1936.
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Bill Johnson
Brown
Bill
Memel Territory Historic Crossroads in Baltic Politics
The Memel region along East Prussia’s northeast frontier has long fed European power struggles. Once governed by Allied powers, it was ceded to Lithuania in 1924 then occupied by Germany, with a turbulent history of Lithuanian, Polish and Teutonic clashes and later Nazi influence before German reoccupation.
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Meme
East Prussia
Germany
Memel
National Geographic Society
Klaipeda
Bulletin
Lithuania
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Memal
Europe
Momel
Teutonic Knights
Mermelburg
Melno
Lithuanian Republic
Berlin
Moscow
Reich
Versalles
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Ernst Neumann
Munich
Neumann
Sailors clash in Shanghai saloon amid wartime bravado
A Scotsman says Italian Marines attacked him in a Shanghai waterfront bar as American sailors rallied for an empire stance amid bottles and chairs flying. The scene echoes a long history of port battles and cross Atlantic sentiment, with neutrality debates stirring in the background.
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Oura
Shanghai
Seaforth Highlanders
Nye
Baltimore Sun
National Library urged for Canada by Queen’s University librarian
E. Cockburn Kyte of Queen's University Kingston Ontario urged a national library for Canada. He warned that without a Dominion library the country's future history might be written by Americans.
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Canada
E. Cockburn Kyte
Queen's University
Kingston, Ont
Dominion
History in the News and Canada’s Paper Record
The article argues for integrating daily newspapers into education, noting historians rely on Fourth Estate records amid rapid current events. It stresses newspapers provide a factual news service beyond propaganda, highlighting Canada’s press role during turbulent times.
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Ontario
Dean Ackerman
Columbia
School of Journalism
Krantford
Coast Guard Cutter Honors Titanic Victims Annu ally
Annual April 24 ceremony as a Coast Guard Ice Patrol ship trims sails the Grand Banks. Officers and crew in full dress render burial service as a rifle squad fires three volleys and a wreath drifts above the sea.
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Coast Guard
Grand Banks
Altama
Prom Tim
Painting garage walls to ease car parking
Whitewashing the dimly lit garage walls can significantly aid parking by improving visibility and spatial cues. The change targets safer maneuvering, reducing the risk of collisions and aiding drivers in locating the vehicle.
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Hello
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the Rural Theatre
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