World Happenings Briefly Told 1932 Highlights
Alberta sugar beet crop aims for a record 30 million pounds in 1832. Bahama legislature ratifies UK Imperial Conference agreement. Senate votes for Philippine independence by 1944 despite potential veto. Canada supplied 11.2 million of 19.6 million UK wheat imports in October 1932. Agnes MacPhail to address United Farmers of Alberta in Calgary. Ontario legislature may delay session to February 1933. Premier Henry names Yen ambassador to Moscow. New Zealand resumes war debt payments after Hoover moratorium. Ottawa leaks suggest April world economic conference date. Germany owes about $4.812 billion, with 40 percent in the United States. Air mail pilot Claire Kinsey Vance dies in California crash.
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Bahama
United Kingdom
Ottawa
Philippine Islands
United States Senate
Hover
Canada
Agnes MacPhail
House of Commons
South East Grey
United Farmers of Alberta
Calgary
Easter
Ontario
George S. Henry
W. W. Yen
Geneva
Russia
China
Moscow
New Zealand
Great Britain
Radio Sets In Canada Reach 770 436 in 1931
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canadians owned 770 436 radio sets in 1931, averaging 74 sets per thousand population. Rural areas had 40 per thousand and urban areas 99. Ontario led with 106 sets per thousand. Forest Hill Ontario tops towns for sets per population.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario
British Columbia
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Yukon
Fat Man Wins Walkway Case In Clerkenwell
Judge Rowlands ordered the removal of a bicycle from a shared walk between houses so a fat man would not be impeded. The landlord filed the complaint and the man testified it was either wedged or pushed aside to gain full passage width.
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Rowlands
Clerkenwell
England
Eight Islands In The Hawaiian Group And Oddities
The text lists eight main Hawaiian Islands Hawaii Maui Ka hoaolawe Lanii Molokai Oahu Kauai and Niihau plus unrecognized rocky islets. It notes a rubber company building its 20000000th tire and a director celebration blowout. It also mentions Hopi Indians dedicating more than a third of the year to religious rituals.
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Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii
Maui
Kahoaolawe
Lanii
Molokai
Oahu
Kauai
Niihau
Question Is Unique Manitoba Court Must Decide If Widow Is Unmarried Woman
Annie Hawrysh of Sky Lake Manitoba sought relief under the Child Welfare Act as an unmarried woman. The magistrate lacked jurisdiction, a prohibition and later appeal followed after Justice Adamson ruled she was a widow, not unmarried. The appeal awaits in the Manitoba court.
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Manitoba
Court of Appeal
Justice Adamson
Annie Hawrysh
Sky Lake
Man
F. A. E. Hamilton
Fairy
Toronto Artists Reply To National Gallery Criticism
Charles Comfort leads 11 Toronto artists in a statement defending the National Gallery of Canada Ottawa. They say 118 painters seeking an investigation and boycott do not reflect the majority view of Canadian artists. The signatories include Royal Canadian Academy and Group of Seven members.
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Charles Comfort
Winnipeg
Toronto
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Royal Canadian Academy
Group of Seven
Darling One Piece Pajamas for Wee Misss
A cheerful description of simple one piece pajamas for young girls with front opening and drop seat back. Highlights include Peter Pan collar, tiny pocket, and affordable fabric options such as striped flannel and floral flannelette. Pattern No 785 targets sizes 4 to 8 with material and ruffle requirements and a 20 cent price in stamps.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg Pattern No. Name sence Town address listed as 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. The notice outlines ordering patterns by mail from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union with pattern numbers and contact details.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Sunday School Lesson January First Golden Text
A compact church lesson notes Mark 1 1 11 and Isaiah 40 3 11 with theme make ready the way of the Lord and straight paths. Readers study Mark 1 1 11 and the devotional Isaiah 40 3 11.
Rocket Flight In Spring Pilot To Descend By Parachute
The world's first rocket flight with a human pilot directing the craft is planned for next spring. Engineer Heinrich Nebel outlines a rocket reaching about 3000 feet, returning by a built in automatic parachute. The pilot would deploy a separate parachute to descend after leaping from the vehicle.
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Heinrich Nebel
Guardian proud as Eiffel Tower suicide jumps decline
Paris correspondent reports the tower's chief guardian notes no deaths by self harm from the top for over a year, after a Russian princess jumped on July 14, 1931. Vigilant keepers on every platform and staircase deter about six annual leap attempts. impulse often arises from dizzying height rather than prior intent.
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Eiffel Tower
Paris
Guardian
Eiffeld Tower
Fluently Speaking Tourist Guide Interview Mixup
A tourist agency seeks a guide to escort parties abroad. A hard-up young man applies for an easy post and is interviewed. The agent asks in French if he speaks Francais. The man responds with a confident fluency, claiming to speak French.
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Parlez-vous Francais
Suggestion for a national I C U gift idea
A Toronto Saturday Night column suggests Canadians give ten dollars to an I C U as a Christmas gift to boost national circulating credit. It imagines massive, hypothetical donations among Canadians, noting the idea would raise hundreds of millions or more with no one at personal cost, then questions the feasibility.
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I.C.U
Toronto
The Appearance and Preaching Of John The Baptist
Francis J McConnell argues that Mark quotes Isaiah and Malachi to show John the Baptist as the forerunner whose message clears the path for Jesus. He likens John’s directness to Roman road-building and notes John’s courage against Pharisees and Sadducees, contrasting a true voice with a whisper when yielding to opinion.
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John the Baptist
Jesus
John
Malachi
Isaiah
Babylon
Mark
Empire
Francis J. McConnell
Coconut Cream Jumbles Recipe Card
Creamy coconut cookies with flour sugar eggs and heavy cream. Mix sifted flour baking powder and salt, then blend with sugar and beaten eggs. Alternate flour and cream, stir in coconut, chill, roll, cut, and bake at 425 F for 13 to 15 minutes to yield about two dozen 3 inch rounds.
Lemon cream junket with cranberries dessert recipe
A vintage recipe for lemon junket with cranberry sauce. It instructs making cranberry sauce from cranberries, sugar, and water then preparing junket with milk and cream, chilling, and serving each dish with a spoon of cranberry sauce.
How China Does It
Lord Lytton, chairman of the Manchurian commission, recently in China saw property vanish and be swiftly recovered. Chinese authorities jailed the carriers of his property, then a laborer returned a chalking-stick after two days claiming to have found it.
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East
Lord Lytton
China
Manchurian Commission
French angel fish care in captivity and cleaning tips
French angel fish, a beautiful deep resident, survives only about a month in captivity. The article notes photographs can be cleaned by wiping lightly with old linen dampened in warm ammonia water.
Fruit Growing In Western Canada Shows Orchard Prospects
Hon Jas F Bryant notes strong farmer interest in starting orchards in Saskatchewan and Western Canada. Cross-breeding Siberian crabapple with hardy apples, grafting on Siberian stock, and trials at Indian Head and Brandon have yielded hardy, productive trees. Frank Boskill's Rutland orchard reports three to four tons of fruit per year, with prices and growing conditions highlighted.
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Jas. F. Bryant
K.C
Saskatchewan
Canada
Brandon
Manitoba
Indian Head
Europe
Asia
Imperial Botanical Gardens
St. Petersburg
Russia
Ontario
William Saunders
Dominion Experimental Farms
Minister of Agriculture
Dr. Hunt
H. Faquier
Maple Creek
Frank Boskill
Rutland
Boskill
MacNeill
Battleford Mental Hospital
Boskill Farm
Battleford
Alaska Air Service Expands With 1921 Reach
Alaska's aerial network grows as 26 commercial planes logged 947,695 passenger miles in 1921. Ernest Walker Sawyer, adviser to the secretary of the interior, notes the system carried 161,718 pounds of mail and express, highlighting aeroplane transport as the territory's key communications line.
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Alaska
Ernest Walker Sawyer
Secretary of the Interior
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Germany
United States
Claire Kinsey Vance
Rocky Ridge
Danville
California
Forest Hill
Ont
Medicine Hat
London
Hamilton
Windsor
Brantford
Victoria
B.C
Wion
National Art Gallery
Tan
Ruth Rogers
Sence
Canadian National Railways
Last Mountain Lake
Landon
Betty Barclay
Prairies
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