Britain Leads In Disarmament Leadership And Debt Talks
The column argues Britain sets the disarmament example amid war debt debates, claiming Britain reduced military spending, strengthened its navy for defense, and advocates for global readiness to follow its lead. It cites naval tonnage shifts from 1914 to 1936, cruiser use, and calls for others to adopt Britain's approach while noting evolving tech and banking reforms in Norway.
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Montana
Great Britain
United States
France
Germany
India
Gibraltar
Malta
Egypt
China
Britain
House of Commons
Admiralty
Japan
Work Progress On Partridge Island Channel Project
Two years of removal work on Partridge Island shores and channel straightening advance Saint John harbor access. Since 1929 Duchess of Richmond grounding sparked funding. $650,000 authorized by Parliament. Dredges Leconfield and another rock breaker operate after salvages, aiming to depth of 30 feet at low water.
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Partridge Island
Saint John Harbor
Dominion
Leconfield
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Saint John
Master Surgeon Phillipa Parry Martin profiles
Mrs Phillipa Parry Martin, ophthalmic surgeon at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women, earned the Master of Surgery degree becoming the only woman to pass this and FRCS on first attempt. She advocates surgery as a fitting career for women and cites her three daughters as aspiring doctors. She is married to E K Martin, who also holds a Master of Surgery.
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Phillipa Parry Martin
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
F.R.C.S
Canada's Rise in the World of Commerce speech
Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, outlined dramatic export growth for Canada from 1 million people to 10 million. He presented ratios of exports per person, noting a rise from about $3.50 to over $60, in a talk hosted by the Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada.
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Canada
H. H. Stevens
Trade and Commerce
Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada
Boston Sculptor Anne Ladd Honored by France
Mrs. Anne Colman Ladd, a Boston sculptor, received the Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for aiding postwar plastic surgeons. She detailed her por trait mask method using plaster, gutta percha, and copper enamel to restore damaged features for mutilated French veterans.
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Anne Colman Ladd
Boston
Notable Early Women and Men Solo Atlantic Flights
The record highlights Mrs. Putnam nee Amelia Earhart making the first solo woman Atlantic crossing with a landing in London derry. It notes von Gronau’s Germany to Montreal flight via Iceland Greenland and Labrador. It also covers Jas A Mollison's east to west solo Atlantic voyage from Ireland to Pennfield Ridge and mentions Mrs Mollison nee Amy Johnson who earlier flew to Australia and then lowered her husband’s Croydon Cape Town record in a similar Moth biplane.
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Mrs. Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Londonderry
von Gronau
Germany
Montreal
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Jas. A. Mollison
Ireland
Pennfield Ridge
Saint John
N.B. Mollison
Mollison
Remembered Engineer Sabin on The Seminole Train
Elmer "Dad" Sabin of Champaign spent 44 years as an engineer on The Seminole, an Illinois Central railroad passenger train. He recalls receiving a single thanks from an elderly man and his daughter on Christmas Eve after a blind snowstorm, as they trudged toward the cab to express gratitude for safe arrival.
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Elmer “Dad” Sabin
Champaign
Sabin
Safe Route Found For Man And Giraffe Journey
A man asked the London head quarters of the Automobile Association for the heights of all bridges on routes between London and Liverpool. He said he must transport a giraffe by road whose neck reaches 20 feet high. The association found a safe route.
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London
The
Automobile Association
Liverpool
Treetop cafe opens in chestnut near Paris
A novel French cafe has opened in a tall chestnut tree at Sceaux near Paris. Separate dining perches rest on branches, accessed by a winding staircase around the trunk, while food is lowered from the ground in baskets suspended by ropes.
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Sceaux
Paris
France
Directory drops Miss title for 12000 subscribers
The New York Telephone Company winter edition omits the courtesy title Miss from over 12 000 unmarried female subscribers cutting 10 pages. In Liverpool eight cents buys medical consult treatment and medicine at cheap dispensaries run by three doctors. An article notes moss on tree trunks helps navigation. Sea captains will welcome this.
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New York
Directory of the
New York Telephone Company
Liverpool
England
Plane engineer markets ultra cheap aeroplane in Koenigsberg
Rolf Meyer unveils a motorized aeroplane priced under 250 dollars with an air cooled two cylinder engine. It claims 609 mph speed and received police licensing after demonstration flights in Koenigsberg Germany. An old Cleveland ordinance bans displaying wrong time on public streets. Visitors are advised to keep dime sized wrist watches under cuffs. Chemically produced death rays are said to explode gunpowder charges from 500 feet away.
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Rolf Meyer
Koenigsberg
Germany
Cleveland
Silk Production Factoid From Fiber Textiles
One pound of pure raw silk yields about 20 yards of silk cloth. This fact highlights the efficiency of silk weaving and the value of raw silk in textile manufacture.
Forsell Fills In As Lothario At Stockholm Opera
John Forsell head of the Royal Opera of Stockholm and a leading Swedish artist saved a Mignon performance when the substitute singer for Lothario fell ill. At age 64 he donned the role, last played in 1898, delivering a skilled portrayal that drew ovations and underscored his long standing popularity.
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John Forsell
Royal Opera of
Stockholm
Sweden
Lothario
Forsell
Rman
Turkey Plans Air Service Between Istanbul and Angora
Two Curtiss Wright six passenger monoplanes arrived at Istanbul to inaugurate a 256 mile air route to Angora. The eastward extension of the Europe to Bosphorus line will shorten a three day train journey to hours, marking a major aviation development drawing global interest.
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Istanbul
Angora
Europe
Bosphorus
Snowy owls migrate south with six foot wingspread
Snowy owls are moving south from the Arctic in groups with broad six foot wingspreads. Record sightings indicate an unusual avian migration pattern as colder regions push birds toward temperate zones.
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Arctic
Best Credit Risk Among Single Women Says Walker
Ralph Walker of the Mutual Credit Rating Exchange in St. Paul says single women are among the best credit risks in the United States. He cites judicious use of credit, knowledge of spending margins, budgeting, and income discipline as key factors. He notes that, as a class, single women are safer credit risks than single men and even help explain why low-salaried married men rate well.
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Ralph Walker
Mutual Credit Rating Exchange of
St. Paul
United States
Walker
Irish Free State Grants 123 Percent Cattle Export Bounty
The Irish Free State announced a 123 percent bounty on cattle exports, a policy aimed at boosting shipments abroad. The move details a substantial subsidy intended to support farmers and the livestock trade amid economic pressures.
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Irish Free State
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