Canada’s Atlantic wireless station guards ships and flights
Five men stand by year round at a tiny cape on the Newfoundland coast three miles from solid rock, guiding trans Atlantic air and shipping. The Cape Race station, established in 1919, has directed bearings for planes and ships, with crew members like H. R. Bridger noting the loneliness but potential inland postings.
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Sures
Canada
Trecleas
Peter Bishop
Atlantic
H. R. Bridger
Cape Race
United States
Azores
Bridger
Belle Ele
Labrador
Atlantic Seaboard
Helle Isle
Jonelinesa
Speed indicator warns drivers with red signal in AC display
A new speed indicator shown by RCA at Atlantic City uses two photo electric eyes spaced about a half mile apart to measure car speed. If excessive, it flashes a red warning ahead of the driver or can trigger police pursuit if ignored.
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Atlantic City
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Radio Corporation of America
No Canada hay export licenses currently required
The Dominions Department of Agriculture states that no license is needed now to export hay from Canada. Two years ago licenses were required due to forage concerns but that rule was cancelled at the end of January 1935. The item also notes a historical Catherine the Great dining table card about nobles not striking their wives in company.
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Canada
Dominions Department of Agriculture
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Catherine the Great
Great Ontario pig story weighs eleven pounds and more
The Peterborough Examiner notes a remarkable farm pig in Bexley township, Northumberland County. The animal weighed 11 pounds when killed, measured 8 feet 2 inches long with a body girth of 5 inches, aged two and a half years, a rare old hog with potential insights into seasons, feeding, and farm life.
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Peterborough Examiner
Philip Liscombe
Bexley
Northummberland County
Ontario
Five British Naval Yard Workers Dismissed After Sabotage Probe
Five dockyard workers were discharged from Devonport and Sheerness after a two year inquiry into suspected sabotage and leakage of confidential information. An admiralty statement cited discoveries of certain documents in workboxes and noted the probe stemmed from concerns over foreign spies operating in England.
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Devonport
Sheerness
Admiralty
England
Public Health In Britain Better Health For All
The London Daily Express argues British health is superior now than ever, challenging claims of national decline. It cites official health ministry data showing fewer maternal deaths in childbirth and ongoing advances in fighting disease, framing recent records as meaningful progress.
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London Daily Express
Ministry of Health
Appointment to Senate Admits Adrian Hugessen of Montreal
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the senate appointment of Adrian Knatchbull Hugessen, a Montreal lawyer, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator Richard Smeaton White. Born in Kent, England, 46 years ago, he is the son of the first Baron Brabourne. his father and grandfather served in the British House of Commons. He graduated from McGill University and practiced law in Montreal. named a king's counsel for Quebec in 1832.
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Adrian Knatchbull Hugessen
K.C
Montreal
Senate
Mackenzie King
Hugessen
Richard Smeaton White
Kent
England
Baron Brabourne
House of Commons
Westminster
McGil University
Quebec
Wildcat Request Sparks Quick Aid by Nova Scotia Guide
Clarence Gray of Yarmouth County helps Nova Scotia booth officials obtain a five foot wildcat car for their wildlife exhibit at sportsmen shows in Boston Hartford and New York. A Canadian boy rides a bicycle without holding the handlebars and is praised, while a German boy doing the same is arrested as a menace.
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Clarence Gray
Yarmouth County Guide
Nova Scotia
Boston
Hartford
New York
Gray
Eden’s ornamented diction earns an orchid for flair
The Stratford Beacon-Herald weighs Anthony Eden as a tailored but sharp speaker. It praises his European outlook remark and his use of vivid phrases such as inspissated gloom, likening him to historic leaders and rhetoricians while joking about vocabulary questions in Parliament.
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Anthony Eden
Great Britain
House of Commons
London
Eden
Winston Churchill
Angel baby joke and edible mushroom claim in brief
The excerpt notes a father answering a child's question about angels and a baby, reflecting a light moment. It then mentions authorities proving edible mushrooms of over 700 species and that fish, whether fresh or saltwater, is considered highly digestible compared with other meats.
Veteran Henry Coward began at nine in Sheffield cutlery factory
The 87-year-old Sir Henry Coward, famed composer and chorus master, started at a Sheffield cutlery bench at age nine, later becoming a master cutter whose knives sold for 36 shillings. Music dominated his life, though his employer disliked it. he only entered full music work at 39 after years in anonymity.
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Henry Coward
Sheffield
Sheffield, Says the News of the World
Fox Huntholds Up Express Train In England
Belvoir hunt met as fox and hounds swam the River Eye twice and crossed railway tracks amid an approaching London express. A railway worker signalled the train with a red fish ram, causing it to slow. A freight train had stopped earlier for the hounds. The fox escaped.
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England
Belvoir
River Eye
P.S
A conservative is a large greenhouse full of hot air
A London Tit-Bits passage remarks on language and misapplied terms with playful paradoxes about conservatism and science, framing definitions as misfit pairs and witty comparisons. The short piece reads as a quip-filled reflection on nouns, roles, and phrases.
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Great Britain
Euclid
London
Mavericks Calves Named After Texas Ranch Founder
Unbranded calves on the Texas ranch of 8. A. Maverick earned the nickname Mavericks as they ran free on the property.
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Mavericks
Texas
8. A. Maverick
Singing Insects Become Favorite Pets For Japanese Children
In Japan boys and girls favor singing insects as pets each summer. They buy new ones to brighten homes with chirping sounds, keeping them in copper wire cages or bamboo twig houses. Tokyo hosts many insect sellers, with markets selling these small creatures to households.
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Japan
Tokyo
Misused Slang Has Benefits and Dangers
Prof Ray K Immel head of Speech at UC tells NATS convention in St Louis that Can Be Misused Slang is vital yet risks misapplication. He cites incorrect usage such as cinching a job today as picturesque but notes That’s a cinch shows improper word use.
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Ray K. Immel
Department of Speech
University of California
National Association of Teachers of Speech
St. Louis
Immel
Australians End Diggers Hat Era for Blue Cap
The famous wide brimmed digger hat once iconic with Australian soldiers is being retired. It will be replaced by a blue peaked cap, marking a shift in uniform headgear adopted during and after the war years.
Plans Unveiled For 200 Inch Caltech Telescope At Palomar
Navy supervised project describes a massive 200 inch telescope to be built on Mt Palomar California. The tube 32 feet wide five stories high will hang between a tuning fork shaped yoke and a nearly five story high horseshoe. The assembly weighs 500 tons and will float on pressurized oil. An elevated flying field atop the mountain will allow researchers to reach the lab in Pasadena 90 miles away.
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Pasadena
Calif
Observatory
California
C. 8. McDowell
Navy
California Institute of Technology
McDowell
Westinghouse Co
Philadelphia
Capt. McDowell
Mt. Palomar
Practical Path to Sheep Farming in South Africa
Agricultural colleges offer practical training by apprenticeship with progressive farmers. After completing a stint as a foreman with a small salary and grazing rights, the trainee expands to a larger flock, hires land as needed, and eventually buys a farm to become an established sheep farmer.
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South Africa
Jethro Wood First Plow Models Carved From Potatoes
A quirky compilation notes Jethro Wood who innovated the modern plow by whittling his initial models from potatoes. It also mentions Japan and Italy surpassing twenty seven thousand earthquakes in fifty years and a casual nod to zipper fasteners for sardine cans.
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Jethro Wood
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