World Happenings Briefly Told
General Baptiste Extienne, inventor of the French tanks, is dead at 75. The Canadian wheat board disposed of its U S wheat holdings in Toledo to an export house. Industrial workers who failed to vote in the Reichstag elections were dismissed. King Edward approves keeping the king's birthday holiday on the Saturday before Whitsun. In Bombay India, radios may be installed in 350 municipal schools. A US export embargo on scrap tin to Japan runs April 16 to July 1. Rudyard Kipling left an estate of £155,288 with widow as beneficiary. Chinese schoolchildren in Hanchow fund a golden sword for Chiang Kai-Shek. Wilam C. Gunson of Boston Tech wins a Royal Society of Canada geology fellowship for 1936-37.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptiste Extienne
Canadian Wheat Board
United States
Toledo
Ohio
Edward
Bombay
India
Japan
Hull
Rudyard Kipling
Burwash
Hanchow
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Wilam C. Gunson
Boston Tech
Cambridge
Mass
Saskatchewan University
Saskatoon
Ottawa
Royal Society of Canada
Grain shipping costs from Alberta to Vancouver listed
Cost estimates for moving grain from Alberta to Vancouver total about 30.5 cents per bushel covering handling insurance and transport from country elevators to Canadian ports. Breakdown includes 3.75 cents handling and storage at country elevators 15 days 13.5 cents freight via Vancouver to New Westminster 1.5 cents terminal elevator handling and loading while inspection weighing and registration add to charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Vancouver
KE. A. Ornell
Board of Grain Commissioners
New Westminster
Dandelions Turn From Welcome Showpiece To City Pest
The Brandon Sun reflects on how dandelions once welcomed in western cities have become a spring nuisance. Forty years after appearing along railway rights of way, they carpet early streets and release vast seeds like fog, prompting discussions of cheap chemical eradication that spares grass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon Sun
Fiskand’s Flower Girl Krown Tops Finland’s Power Girls
Maria Anderson, Finland’s famed power girl aged 107 in Helsingfors, remains daily on the market square selling flowers. She outings weather with humor, still shops, cooks, and washes herself as government salaries in Brazil rise.
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Krown
Finland
Maria Anderson
Helsingfors
Pilgrimage To Vimy Ridge To Include Extra Ship
Over 6600 reservations for the pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge in July were announced. An extra troopship was added to the five craft, increasing capacity to 5850. Brigadier General Alex Roas and Canadian Pacific and White Star Cunard officials agreed on the expansion. Col. D E McIntyre of Owen Sound named in charge of pilgrimage movements. He previously served as intelligence officer in the 28th Battalion and held staff roles in the 2nd Canadian division.
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Fotilla
Vimy Ridge
Canada
Alex Roas
Dominion
Canadian Legion
Canadian Pacific
White Star-Cunard Steamship Companies
Ross
Legion Head
Col
D. E. McIntyre
D.S.C
M.C
Owen Sound
Col. McIntyre
4Th
Glacier Priest Seeks New Arctic Expedition
Father Bernard Hubbard, known as the glacier priest, plans a Greenland ice depth test after disputing estimates of 10,000 feet. He'll trek Alaska’s Takue Glacier and brave the Taku and Inklin Rivers to test how pressure and melting keep ice at about 2,000 feet.
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Bernard R. Hubbard
Arctic
Greenland
Richard Byrd
Antarctic
Father Hubbard
Alaska
Takue
Taku
Inklin
Grievance Over Welfare Speed With No Shovel
A New York Mirror item recalls a PWA worker on Riverside Drive who complained he had no shovel. The foreman retorts that no shovel means no work, while the worker laments he has nothing to lean on like others. The cartoonish exchange highlights frustration with relief work logistics.
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New York Mirror
PWA
Riverside Drive
Finns Back English as World’s Most Important Language
Finnish Board of Education proposes teaching English in all high and secondary schools in Finland, replacing Swedish in some areas. The petition stresses thorough English knowledge as the most important language in the world and urges Parliament to adopt the measure.
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Finland
Finnish Board of Education
Mackenzie River Length Tops Canadian Rivers
The Mackenzie river, Canada’s longest stream, runs about 2,500 miles from mouth to headwaters. The St Lawrence follows as the second longest at roughly 1,900 miles.
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Mackenzie River
Canada
St. Lawrence
World reacts to disaster killing many noncombatants
widespread horror follows a major disaster that claimed numerous civilian lives, drawing global reactions from governments, communities, and aid organizations as details unfold.
Selected Bread Recipe From Purity Cookbook
Recipe details for four loaves using Purity flour with 12 cups flour 4 cups water 2 tablespoons shortening 3 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons salt and compressed yeast. Includes steps to dissolve yeast warm liquids knead shape proof bake at 400 to 425 degrees for 40 to 60 minutes. Also notes variations with potato water milk and liquid yeast. Mentions French government wells and bluings dye.
Armament Cost Per Person Across Nations Noted
The St Thomas Times-Journal cites a London Morning Post tally of per person armament costs by country. Canada 1.24, New Zealand 1.50, Denmark 2.18, Australia 2.40, Japan 3.70, Belgium 4.10, Italy 8, Great Britain 9.50, United States 5.60 with no Germany data.
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George Bernard Shaw
London Morning Post
Canada
New Zealand
Denmark
Australia
Japan
Belgium
Italy
Great Britain
United States
Germany
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Prodigal Son Devotionals and Parable Reflections
Sunday School lesson on Luke 15 and the prodigal son in the Lost Parables. Commentary notes the father’s welcome, the son’s repentance, and the moral focus on God’s mercy toward sinners, with references to Psalm 103 and insights from Vincent, Barton, and Trench.
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Luke
Jesus
Marvin R. Vincent
Bruce Barton
Trench
Royal Toast Protocol for naval messes and national events
Orders specify the correct royal toast practice in naval messes, requiring seating for His Majesty’s health except during the National Anthem when toasts are drunk standing. Foreign heads of state toasts stand, regardless of the anthem. The seated custom dates to wooden ships with limited space. visitors to Nelson or the Victory at Portsmouth would recognize it.
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Portsmouth
Fellowship Awarded to Norman Keevil in Botany
Norman B Keevil of Harvard University Cambridge Mass and formerly of the University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon has received a Royal Society of Canada research fellowship in botany. The $1500 award is funded by a Carnegie Corporation grant to the Royal Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman B. Keevil
Harvard University
Cambridge
Maso
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Royal Society of Canada
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Royal Society
You Can Knit This Chair Set Quickly Pattern
Simple chair set pattern by Alice Brooks offers a quick knit craft for summer furniture. The instructions cover a three-panel chair back and one-panel arm, using humble string. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union to obtain pattern 5561 with illustrations and stitching details.
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Alice Brooks
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Red Cross in Peace Time Aid During US Floods
The Red Cross operates worldwide in peace as well as war and rapidly responds to emergencies. It aided flood victims in the United States, caring for about 400000 homeless with 171000 assisted in Pennsylvania, a vast effort that supported municipal, state, and federal authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Society
Red Cross
United States
Pennsylvania
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Sleeping car seating history and Indian dental practice
An ambulance company explains why sleeping cars used head-first orientation toward the engine to reduce soot and drafts, a practice once common for comfort. The piece notes that Indians cleaned teeth with twigs as far back as 1700 B C.
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India
B.C
Perennial Flowers and Varied Vegetables Enrich Gardens
The article urges planting perennial flowers as backbone for reliable color and suggests diversifying vegetable crops to prevent gaps. It recommends Swiss chard, broad beans, broccoli, Kohli Rabl turnips, red cabbage, yellow tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, muskmelons, watermelons, acorn and Table Queen squash, leeks, radish, and multiple pea and corn varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Protection In England guards through unseen law and vigilance
The article argues that Col Lindbergh and family in England are not visibly cordoned by police yet receive real protection from a highly organized police force. It contrasts English methods with American fears, noting legal safeguards and constant scrutiny deter crime. The piece emphasizes invisible protection as a real, effective safeguard.
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Col. Lindbergh
England
St.Detroit Free Press
King Edward Visits Magdalen College Rooms During Boat Race
King Edward, while his university trailed Cambridge for the 13th year in a row, made an unplanned visit to his old rooms at Magdalen College. He acted as a guide for three companions and showed them sites from his undergraduate days before heading north to Himley Hall to stay with the Earl of Dudley.
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Edward
Cambridge
Magdalen College
Himley Hall
Earl of Dudley
Wife sale remark sparks debate in paper sections
The reader cites a controversial line claiming a wife can be bought for five dollars in some paper sections. The remark invites mixed reactions, with some defending value while others call it shocking and demeaning to women.
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