Happenings Briefly Tells Of Land Entries and Global News
November filings at the Dominion Land Office Edmonton record five hundred fifty three homesteads and eighteen soldiers grants. Sweden shows little enthusiasm for talking pictures per Svensk Dagbladet. Moose Jaw poultry show canceled for first time in 15 years due to poor crops. U S population rose to 119,306,000 by July 1, 1928 per NBER. Choy visits Canadian Pacific Railway HQ Montreal to study railroading. Nobel prize in literature awarded to Thomas Mann marking 40th German laureate. Diplomatic talks planned to pressure China over Japan Air Transport Co access to Shanghai. Ontario attorney general Price says no prosecutions will follow after Waldr on inquiry into Amalgamated Builders' Council under the Combines Investigation Act.
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Dominion Land Office
Edmonton
Sweden
Svensks Dagbladet
Stockholm
Moose Jaw Poultry Association
United States
National Bureau of Economic Research
New York
Canada
Jun Ke Choy
Ministry of Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Thomas Mann
France
Japan Air Transport Company
Japan
Shanghai
Tokyo
W.H. Price
Ontario
Gordon Waldron
Amalgamated Builders’ Council
Modernizing China End of Lunar Calendar Use Declared
The National government ordered that documents framed by the lunar calendar are no longer legal, marking a decisive shift from the traditional Chinese method of tracking months by moons. Earlier attempts to adopt the Gregorian calendar faced futility despite penalties for printing or possessing old style calendars.
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China
Saskatchewan Lumber Industry Gains Massive Winter Sawn Output
The Saskatchewan lumber industry aims to saw 100 million board feet this winter to next spring from logs, with thousands of cords of fuel also produced. The Saskatchewan Farmer notes the industry’s vast scale for prairie residents and highlights new methods reducing waste, including using discarded jackpine for creosoted fence posts and other products.
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Saskatchewan
Leght
Ice Cream Firm Owner Declares Bankruptcy
The proprietor of a famed ice cream company has filed for bankruptcy. He is said to be deeply indebted, with creditors pushing for settlement. The case highlights mounting financial strain in the local confectionery business.
Ramifications Of War Target Civilians And Home Front
A.G. Gardiner cites the London Star warning that future wars will strike civilians and home fronts as fiercely as soldiers. He argues modern weapons extend destruction into homes, making starvation and bombardment of workers essential to war, not just frontline munitions.
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A. G. Gardiner
London Star
Japanese Poultry Dealers Pleased With Canadian Hatching Eggs
The Co operative Association of Poultry Breeders of British Columbia reports success shipping hatching eggs to Japan. Of 44 eggs sent aboard the steamship Empress of Russia six months ago, 43 hatched into good chicks, yielding 22 cockerels and 17 pullets now starting to lay. The association calls this a record for such a long journey and credits careful transportation.
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B.C
Co-operative Association of Poultry Breeders
British Columbia
Japan
Consignees
Oriental Poultry Estate
Unewatashi
P.O. Chibak
Empress of Russia
Association
Dangers Lurk in Everyday Life Says Pittsburgh Insurance Records
An official of a Pittsburgh insurance company, who kept fifteen years of unusual hazard reports, shows how ordinary acts can lead to injuries. Examples include a man breaking his foot while ejecting a thief, a man hung up chasing a chicken, a rib fracture from a friend’s embrace, and a hurt by hot asphalt in a troffey car.
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Pittsburgh
Sixth Avenue
Thirty- Fourth Street
Troffey
Insurance Company
New York Times
Lemon Coconut Filling for This Week Recipe
Betty Barclay presents a lemon coconut filling recipe mixing cocoanut salt water lemon juice sugar and cornstarch. Cook in a double boiler for 45 minutes to form a smooth filling.
Ultra-smart dress pattern for vacation wear
Style No. 2946 offers a sunburst bodice with opposite lip trim and self fabric buckle. The circular skirt features a full hem with a jabot frill and few seams to assemble, offered in multiple colors and sizes with a 25 cent pattern price.
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Paris
Chocolate Orange Marble Cake Recipe
Cream butter and half the sugar with melted chocolate. Beat egg yolks with remaining sugar until lemon colored. Alternate adding milk and flour sifted with baking powder. Fold in stiff egg whites and orange rind. Bake 45 to 50 minutes. Frost with boiled orange frosting and a final thin chocolate layer.
Experiments in Building Waldorf Astoria Replica
Lucus Boomer hires a 45th street floor to construct exact scaled reproductions of key Waldorf Astoria units over 6560 square feet. The project aims to preview the hotel design with interior decorators and artists shaping the color scheme. Costing about 200000 dollars, the work awaits jury verdict on presentation to the public.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Lucus Boomer
Bob Bar
Lucus
45Th Street
Boomer
England's roadmeter eyes road edges to curb fog crashes
An English inventor unveils the roadmeter a device with a level to tell motorists if they are on the road or heading toward a ditch. It relies on roads curving upward at the center and sloping to the sides and aims to reduce fog related accidents.
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England
Fragmented rule note on effectiveness and practicality
A snatched fragment discusses how a rule may work to some extent but also risk being ineffective or poor in practice. The brief hints at limitations and the need for careful implementation and evaluation.
New Portable Lifeboat Rescue Signal Device
A joint U S coast guard navy army and commerce department project develops a pocket sized signaling pistol for lifeboats. It fires a flare carrying parachute light up to two hundred feet and fifty thousand candlepower for thirty seconds. The device withstands waves and salt water and can be reloaded one handed for successive signals.
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Army
Navy
Steamship Inspection Service
U.S. Department of Commerce
Coast Guard
Scoff At Dry Year Forecast Refutes University Claim
Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan dismiss Dr Ralph Delury of the Dominion Observatory who predicted a series of dry years. Rainfall results from evaporation mainly from oceans, with heat driving moisture into the air and eventual rain. While regional shifts like ice cap movement may alter local climate, total precipitation is viewed as relatively stable.
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University of Saskatchewan
Ralph Delury
Dominion Observatory
German firm converts river mud into coal substitute on Rhine
A German company has found a way to turn mud from the Rhine bed into a usable coal substitute for an electricity works. The method taps centuries of Westphalian sediment washed into the river. Also notes a bee hive composition with a queen, drones, and workers.
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Rhine
Emscher
San Marino’s Anthem Noted as Second Largest in World
The tiny republic of San Marino is described as having the second largest national anthem globally, an assertion noted in the obscure claim about its cultural symbolism and record.
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San Marino
Kingdom of Heaven Is at Hand in Jesus Ministry
Devotional lesson on Matthew 4 17 25 explains the Kingdom of Heaven as a spiritual rule in hearts not a political realm. Jesus preached repentance and remission of sins and trained disciples to carry the gospel while healing many in Galilee, Syria, and beyond.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Capernaum
Jesus
Matthew
Galilee
Jerusalem
Syria
Decapolis
Judea
Jordan
Mechanical Bellboy Charms New Year’s Eve Guests in New York
A European mechanical bellboy appeared at a New York hotel for New Year’s Eve festivities. It wrote guest names on an easel, announced events, and assisted as master of ceremonies during the evening entertainment.
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Europe
New York
Heaven Crowns For Those With The Biggest Heads
A quip contrasts spiritual reward with physical size noting that those with the largest heads would wear the biggest crowns in heaven.
Memorial tablet honors Hornby and companions in Nantwich parish
A memorial tablet to John Hornby M D and two companions, Harold Achard and Edgar Christian, was unveiled in Nantwich church near their parental home. The dedication recalled their expedition death on July 21 1927 along the Thelon River in Northern Canada. The ceremony, led by Reverend J Armistead, included a dedicatory prayer and the hymn Fight the Good Fight, with the Union Jack draped over the tablet.
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London Daily Mail
Hornby
Nantwich
Achard
Harold
John Harold
Edgar
John Hornby
Thelon River
Canada
Harold Achard
Edgar Christian
J. Armistead
Sandbeach
Educative Blocks Teach Foreign Words With Interchangeable Faces
Children learn many foreign language words through blocks on the market. Each unit carries 380 words across faces, creating varied combinations as blocks are turned.
Counties in Ireland by region
A note states there are twenty six counties in southern Ireland and six in northern Ireland highlighting regional division between the two parts of the island.
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Southern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Constipation remedy claims gentle liver action
An advertising pitch extols Carter's Little Liver Pills as a purely vegetable laxative that gently stimulates the liver and bowels. It warns against habit forming and mineral laxatives and promises cleansing and tonic effects with no harsh side effects. Available from all druggists in 75¢ red packages.
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Carter
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