World Happenings Briefly Told
George Simpson a 49 year old former editor of House of Commons Debates died in Ottawa General Hospital. Civic census shows Edmanton population at 85 470, up 4 000 from last year. Cape Town burned 58 old cars valued at 7 500 as road safety offering. The Soviet Union reportedly builds about 6 000 airplanes yearly. An Indian skeleton was unearthed at Mount Hope cemetery Brantford Ontario. Southern Alberta farmers hold wheat for higher prices as deliveries lag. Benjamin Disraeli’s Bucking hamshire estate bought as King George memorial. An Italian decree taxes bachelors age 25 to 30 at 9 20 yearly and up to 55 at 12 40. Lieut G K Hargey RAF, censured after crash at Normandy, given delayed promotion.
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George Simpson
Ottawa
Edmoanton
Cape Town
S.A
Soviet Union
Loula Breguet
Russia
Mount Hope
Brantford
Ont
Alberta
Hughenden Park
Buckinghamshire
Benjamin Disraeli
High Wycombe
King George
East Africa
G. K. Hargey
Royal Air Force
Normandie
Southampton Docks
Mother's Grizzly Attack Forces Alpinists to Fight Off Bear
Mr and Mrs Don Munday veteran climbers describe a perilous encounter in the Rockies near Bearpaw canyon Mount Silver throne. They spotted a cub while a mother bear charged from 30 feet away forced to act with an ice axe to protect her young before driving off the animal.
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Rockies
Cuba
British Columbia
Don Munday
Vancouver
Coast Range
Bearpaw Canyon
Mount Silverthrone
Chicago Tenants Paid No Rent in Unowned Six-Flat, Owner Unclear
Whitlam Ihde testified before Judge McCarthy that for at least ten years in a Chicago six-flat building no rent was paid because ownership was unknown. Delphina Lance posed as owner and sought to evict for nonpayment. Ihde admitted he was not owner and did not know the real owner. The judge fined Ihde $100 and ordered an ownership investigation.
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Chicago
Whitlam Ihde
McCarthy
Delphina Lance
Ihde
City Of The Future Vision By Dr Ludo L Zimmer
A forward looking concept describes a city where air and auto commuters use a central airport with radiating streets. Dr Ludo L Zimmer of Cleveland, Ohio outlines an industrial engineer’s vision of urban design and aviation integration. The note also mentions a separate fact about a porpoise consuming its own weight in fish roughly every two days.
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Ludo L. Zimmer
Cleveland
Ohio
Notable Pupils Record at Eton Retires Clerk
Eton school clerk A B Baker who served since 1908 retires after compiling a carved wall name record of 18 000 names. He notes many pupils later rose to government positions and other eminence. Names span from 16th century to modern figures including Eden and the Duke of Gloucester.
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A. ©. Baker
Eton
Baker
Claude Eliott
Mr. Baker
Gladstone
Shelley
Feel
Duke of Gloucester
Leopold
Siam
Anthony Eden
G. ©. Allen
Smiths
Campbells
Scotts
Wilsons
Hamiltons
Goslings
College
Henry VI
Sardinian Novelist Grazia Deledda Dies at 61 in Rome
Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient in 1926 for The Flight Into Egypt, died in Rome at age 61. A peasant girl who taught herself to read, she rose to prominence with regional novels rooted in Sardinia and gained fame after Howells praised her work.
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Grazia Deledda
Rome
Signora! Deledda
Egypt
Sardinia
America
William Dean Howells
Academy of Immortals
Mussolini
Man Receives Vacate Notice From Landlord
A man got a notice to vacate from his landlord and replied immediately with a poetic note about loving beauty and working on motoring glasses to view landscapes without seeing hot dog stands, referencing 2167.
Queen Macebose recalls Matabele era in Bulawayo
A frail but regal former Matabele queen Macebose of Lobengula reflects on Rhodesia’s past, Jameson’s 1891 Gazaland drive, and the shift from warrior raids to Christian outreach. The piece closes by contrasting machines with human brains.
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Bulawayo
Rhodwia
Macebose
Lobengula
Matabele
Queen Macebose
Gungunyana
Dr. Jameson
Gazaland
Southern
Rhodesia
Xing
Music in Industry Boosts Worker Spirit at Factory
The Oshawa Times reports The Standard Motor Co Limited of Canley Coventry England found that broadcasting music in part of their factory improves worker spirit and atmosphere without harming efficiency or workmanship. The observation notes music helps in various tasks from amusement to concentration and neat writing.
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Standard Motor Co., Limited
Canley
Coventry
England
Oshawa Times
Trade barriers urged to prevent war says Murdoch
Keith Murdoch in Montreal declared the best way to prevent war is for nations to ease trade barriers and expand international commerce. He noted English experts are studying bank credits for nations under hardship and freeing trade channels to revive global trade.
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Si Keith Murdoch
Montreal
Spain
France
Germany
England
Hartford Luncheon Ad Sparks Amusing Divorced Joke
A Hartford lunchroom ad jokes about marriage and cooking, urging readers not to divorce wives who cannot cook and to eat there to “save her for 4 pets,” reflecting a humorous retro ad cue.
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Hartford, Conn
Crochet Your Way to Flattery Pattern 5679
Crochet blouse pattern 5679 offers long or short sleeves in sizes 16-18 and 38-40 with lace and net stitches. Includes stitches illustrations and material lists. Price 20 cents. Also pattern 5353 for a skirt in sizes 16-18 and 38-40 with illustrations and material lists. Price 20 cents. Send 20 cents each to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Sunday School Lesson on Acts 15 Gentile Faiths and Circumcision
Devotional material recounts the Antioch dispute over Gentile believers and Moses law. Peter Paul James guided a church decision to avoid circumcision as a condition of salvation while abstaining from idols and strangled foods. The Jerusalem and Antioch churches cooperate, praising God for opening Gentile faith.
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Antioch
Syria
Paul
Jerusalem
Peter
Joppa
Barnabas
James
Idola
Dream of Love and Alarm Clocks in a Poor Man’s Life
A conversation unfolds as a woman teases love with a poor suitor. He questions marriage while she imagines a routine of waking to coffee and frying eggs, only to be met with a sharp retort about eggs and mornings.
Gilletts Lye Booklet Free Offer For Cleanliness
Free booklet from Standard Brands Ltd offers instructions to make a cap at home and details methods to clean and disinfect farm equipment and buildings. Readers are invited to request a copy by mail from Fraser Ave and Liberty St in Toronto, Ontario.
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Handy Gillett’s Lye
Standard Brands Ltd
Fraser Ave
Liberty St
Toronto
Oat
Streamlined Jubilee Express Sets British Speed Record
The streamlined Jubilee Express of the London and North Eastern Railway ran from Newcastle on Tyne to London and hit a maximum speed of 113 miles an hour. Excluding engine, passengers and baggage the train weighed 270 tons, and the figure is believed to be a world record for a streamlined passenger train.
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England
London and Northeastern Railway
Newcastle-on-Tyne
London
Plant Out Of Place Menace to Agriculture
A weed described as a plant out of place with unsightly appearance. It spreads by root stalks, ages, and becomes a menace to agriculture on highways, by-ways, public or private property.
Letters to Spain Censored in London Advises Caution
Letters addressed to Spain and received in London are being opened and censored. Correspondents are urged to avoid incautious comments that could endanger recipients.
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Spain
London
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