Queen Mary Not Built to Win Speed or Luxury
The Times disputes expectations that the Cunard Queen Mary will reclaim Atlantic speed or be the era’s most luxurious liner. It says the ship aims to be the smallest, slowest vessel for a weekly service, while highlighting safety, stability, and advanced tech like radio searchlights, infrared detectors, an automatic helmsman, echo sounder, thermostatic alarms, and carbon dioxide fire suppression.
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Cunard-White Star
Atlantic
Cunard Steamship Company
Mauretania
Italy
North Atlantic
Great Britain
Clydebank
London Times
Times
the Times
Seven Seas
Aize
Pearson's Weekly
Southampton
New York
Queen Mary
Calendar reform proposal set by Rev Father Wilhelm
Rev Father Jacob Wilhelm of Regina drafts a 1938 reform calendar with equal four quarters and 365 days, leap day added every fourth year between June 30 and July 1. January 1 would be international day, January 2 a Sunday, December 31 a Saturday, and Easter dates fixed. Five business holidays would include random Saturdays and rest days for debt reviews, offsetting a 13 month 28 day plan.
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Father Jacob Wilhelm
Regina
Father Wilhelm
Patient revived on operating table after near death
In the British Medical Journal a case describes Ernest Hinsley about 45 from Waterloo Asthon who apparently died on the operating table. Dr J V Fiddian performed cardiac massage and intra cardiac adrenaline, restoring heartbeat and breathing after several minutes, though memory of the event remained absent.
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British Medical Journal
Ernest Hinsley
Waterloo
Asthon
J. V. Fiddian
Hinsley
World's smallest book on sale in London
The tiny edition measures a quarter of an inch by three sixteenths inch and weighs a grain and a quarter. E F Thompson renders Rubaiyat verses printed from minute copper plates with ink on paper. Pages are hand-stitched and leather bound. legibility requires a magnifier.
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London
E. F. Thompson
Worcester
Massachusetts
Global Jewish population figures and distribution reported
The Jewish Scientific Institute states a world Jewish population of 16,240,000 with 5,000,000 in the Americas and a 1,300,000 increase over 100 years. It notes three countries hold over two thirds: the United States 4,450,009. Poland 3,150,000. Soviet Russia 3,080,000.
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Americas
Jewish Scientific Institute
United States
Poland
Soviet Russia
Deaf Youth Graduates University and Finishes Murals
Born deaf and unable to hear Hillis Arnold, a University of Minnesota graduate, learned to speak through lip reading taught by his mother. He completed a three year mural project depicting engineering professions and now serves as an instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Hillis Arnold
University of Milnesota
A. L. Arnold
Hillis
University Engineering School
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Flying boats built in Rochester for Imperial Airways fleet
More than 1,000 skilled men in Rochester England work on 29 giant flying boats for Imperial Airways world wide service including the Atlantic. Each two deck craft carries 24 daytime passengers and 16 bunks by night with four 740 hp engines, cruising at 155 mph and top speed near 200 mph. The crew includes two pilots two stewards and a purser with a smoking room and two high lounge cabins.
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Rochester
England
Imperial Airways
Cherry and Corn Syrup Tea Biscuit Roll
Drain cherries and save juice then boil with water sugar and Crown Brand corn syrup. Prepare tea biscuit dough roll with cherries spread, cinnamon and butter, roll jelly roll style, bake in a hot oven. A 1935 Monroe Wisconsin hamburger contest is noted.
Call for Canada to design a new royal coinage
The Montreal Star urges that with King Edward VIII’s coronation Canada join other dominions in issuing a fresh coinage. It argues the mint’s current portraits and wreaths lack artistic appeal and proposes inviting Canadian artists to submit coin designs to create a more representative and proudly Canadian currency.
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Edward VIII
Canada
United States
Dominion
Montreal
Star
London’s First Film Show Recalled at 40th Anniversary
London's 40th anniversary event at the Polytechnic Cinema revived the Lumiere projector era. The screening featured relics like Trewey on screen, Louis Lumiere's tea moment, and historic scenes such as St James Palace changes, surfchildren, a wall collapse, and a French Carabiniers charge. Cecil Hepworth’s funeral films of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII were shown, with notes on camera noise during Victoria’s funeral and Edward VII’s procession pause for a shot.
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London
Polytechnic Cinema
M. Lumiere
Trewey
Louis Lumiere
St. James’ Palace
Queen Victoria
King Edward VII
Cecil Hepworth
Edward
Ethics traded for a Hudson causes freshman uproar
A professor questions a rude freshman about ethics, the student replies he traded ethics long ago for a Hudson car. Separately, horticultural experiments report seedless watermelons being grown.
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Hudson
Find Out Before You Use Aspirin For Pain Relief
The notice urges consulting a doctor before using aspirin for headaches rheumatism neuritis or neuralgia and notes aspirin changed medical practice by offering a safer pain remedy. It cites wide use and safety for the average person, mentions tablets made in Canada, Bayer’s trademark, and a Bayer cross on each tablet.
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Canada
Bayer Company, Limited
Bayer
Demand and Get Aspirin Animated Car Toons Debut
Max Fleischer announces three dimensional car toons playable on standard projectors without gadgets. The inventor says the full length animated films in 3D will be released in six months using foreshortened camera perspective and a special lens that avoids direct focus on objects.
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Max Fleischer
Fleischer
Floods Tied to Sun Spots Said by Planetarium Director
Dr Clyde Fisher, Hayden Planetarium director and Royal Astronomical Society fellow, told a Providence lecture that recent eastern floods are definitely correlated with sun spots and that damp rainy weather could continue for four to five years as spots reach maximum intensity.
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North America
Clyde Fisher
Hayden Planetarium
Royal Astronomical Society
Providence
Rhode
Taland
Cockney woman's claim in assault case against husband
A Cockney woman testifies she asked her husband if he loved her and, not thinking, hit him with a mop during the confrontation. The remark appears in the courtroom record of the assault charge against the woman.
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Pelea
Carter
Monroe, Wis
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Regiss
Winnipeg
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