Parachute Jump Saves Pilot After Spin Crash
Flight Lieutenant Staniland, a veteran aviator and acrobat, faced repeated spins during a test flight at an air ministry experiments station. He leapt first from the right side then the left to escape the spinning aircraft, pulling his rip cord only after safely clearing the machine. He landed near Colnbrook as the aeroplane crashed in a disused gravel pit two miles away. Staniland, noted for speed records and selection to the 1938 Schneider Trophy team, was unhurt.
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Lient
Stanlland
Hey
Waculty
Colnbrook
Lieut
Staniland
Philadelphia Poe House Reopens as Public Shrine
The Philadelphia home of Edgar Allan Poe has been restored to its 17th century look and opened as a public shrine. Visitors see original manuscripts first editions and artifacts including a stove desk and bedroom furniture with a bust of Pallas on display.
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Philadelphia
Edgar Allen Poe
Poe
Pallas
Motorist Faces Manslaughter Charge After Auto Crash
A Quebec motorist in Huil involved in a fatal automobile crash collided with a truck while a friend rode as a passenger. The incident is cited in a discussion about highway safety and driver responsibility.
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Huil, Que
Wan Field
Gan
Unsafe cars on highways demand protective law
In Oshawa Times style the author argues that aging or poorly controlled vehicles endanger lives on highways. Cars once fit for scrap are now common on roads, and pedestrians and safe drivers deserve protection. If no law exists to remove unsafe cars, it is time one was enacted.
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Oshawa Times
Johannesburg Crowned Richest City in the World
The article proclaims Johannesburg as the richest city surpassing London and New York. It notes booming mining shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange reaching three hundred million pounds and describes miners and workers celebrating wealth amid a carefree outlook on the morrow.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
London
New York
Samuel Storey
Sunderland
Transvaal
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Safety Rules For Home Use And Preventing Accidents
Safety advice stresses keeping tote boards clear of greases and toys and keeping stairs clear. It advises rubber mats in the bath, a stepladder for above car work, non inflammable cleaners, and dry hands before using electrical appliances. Read labels on medicines and use commonsense to avoid accidents.
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Ollees
New York
Unwritten Law Questioned in Canadian Case
The London Ontario court hears Judge Joseph Wearing discuss unwritten law in domestic cases. He notes Canada has no unwritten law and contrasts with the United States where judges and juries recognize such a rule allowing self help by fathers or husbands.
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Canada
Joseph Wearingman
London
United States
Christian Science Monitor
Debate on Titles for Canadians Opens Next Session
Parliament will discuss whether Canadiana may accept titles from the king when it opens next January. Labor MP Humphrey Mitchell of Hamilton cast is expected to begin a full debate with a resolution to keep the titles ban except for judges and military naval officers. Prime Minister Bennett had said the government did not feel bound by the Nickie titles motion of 1919.
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Federal House
Humphrey ‘Mitchell
Hamilton Cast
R. B. Bennett
Three Flags Expedition Seeks Modern Car Design
The piece argues older automobiles use most fuel to beat wind resistance. Streamlining cuts drag and boosts economy. It foresees cars adopting blunt noses, broader fronts, and rear taper inspired by aero science.
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Institute of Aero-Dynamic Research
How He Understood It Small Boy Mistook Book Title
A boy applying for registration at the Griffin town club in Montreal Federated Charities misheard the title Recording Angel as a woman. After missing the registration book, he was sent to fetch it from Miss Mackay, but burst into the superintendent’s office and asked for the Resurrection Book on Mrs Sayers’s instruction.
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Grifintown Club
Federated Charities of Montreal
Red Hat Signals In Deer Season Misouri Ozarks
A fragment notes hunters in Missouri’s Ozarks use red hats or feathers as signals to avoid accidents during deer season. It mentions no fatalities last year and credits the signaling with safety. It also briefly discusses black diamonds found in Brazil and Paris amusement spending on movies.
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Missouri
Ozarks
Brazil
Lancashire Woman Invents Fog Lamp and Life Jacket Claims Edison Kin
A Lancashire woman stirs interest with inventions including a fog penetrating lamp, an improved robot signaling device, and an anti drowning life jacket. Miss Bradshaw asserts a distant New York birth and kinship to Edison as she demonstrates a lamp with 15 foot visibility, a four pocket life jacket with a SOS wireless net, and a robot street signal system. She envisions sea fog clearing over five ship lengths and notes prior life saving ideas driven by necessity.
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Bal‘edn
Lancashire
Neli Sredahew
Heston Chapel
Manchester
Mise Bradzhaw
Misa Bradshaw
Stockport
Min- Watery of Transport
Mina Bradshaw
Bradshaw
New York
England
Edison
Empire State Building observes steady post opening crowds
The article notes 81 000 visitors in the first week and 28 000 during Christmas week six months later. In a recent week only 5 685 visitors leaned over the ram part and exclaimed. A visitor registration shows guests came from 46 states and 45 countries, with only ten percent from New York. Noted outliers include John Stephens from Mudros and Paulin Mastaton from Libau Latvia who mapped unfamiliar places.
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Empire State Building
Talen
Observatory
New York
City
John Stephens
Mudros
Paulin Mastaton
Libau
Latvia
National Geographic Society
Lemnos
Aegean
Liepaja
New York Evening Post
Unusual Operation Removes Entire Lung in Cancer Patient
Dr Evarts A Graham and Dr J J Singar of Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis report the first deliberate whole lung removal in a single stage. The operation on a Pittsburgh physician was performed last April 5 and the patient is fully recovered.
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Evarts
A. Graham
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Graham
J. J. Singar
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Singar
Misses Lose Pounds Aunt Mamie Williams Seeks Peace
Miss Mamie Williams of Jacksonville Florida known as Aunt Mamie once weighed 798 pounds. She told the sheriff that troublesome neighbors caused her to lose 200 pounds and she now seeks peace and quiet to regain her former weight. She is forty eight and tends a garden where much of her food is grown.
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Mamie” Williams
Jacksonville
Florida
Cost Of Armaments In Japan And Nation Surplus Deficit
Tokyo budget shows a deficit of 270 million dollars for the coming year while military outlay reaches 352 million dollars. Ottawa Journal notes the NYT cites this clash of civilization and cites a separate 307 million deficit for the country where the New York Times is published. Toronto Star adds figures of 580 million dollars in navy and army expenditures excluding non military items.
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Tokyo
New York Times
Japan
Ottawa Journal
Toronto Star
Honor Goes To Prussia The World’s Oldest Flea Found
The world’s oldest flea, 5,000 years old, has been discovered in Palmnicken East Prussia. The venerable insect is housed in amber found on the Delile shore and dated by scientific examination.
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Palmnicken
East Prussia
Delile
Mutoh More Important Hitler Boasts About Vices
Mutoh asserts he neither drinks nor smokes in a boastful note. The Brickville Recorder and Times counters by noting he has not addressed the commandment Thou shalt not kill.
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Hitler
Brickville Recorder
Times
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