Boxing Day law drive by Retail Merchants Assoc
The Retail Merchants Association of London Ontario launched a campaign to make Boxing Day December 26 a legal holiday across Canada. Risseta’s 1987 war budget tops last year by over one billion, and 21 of 27 BC cities named mayors by acclamation.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
London
Ont
Canada
Risseta
British Columbia
Nichi Nichi
Toklo
Charlies A. Lindbergh
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board
J. A. Faulkner
Ontario
Pelham Edgar
Association of Canadian Bookmen
Seaken Treasure Seeks Hussar Wreck Treasure
Simon Lake, 70, a submarine inventor, shows a small cache from three-year hunt for the wreck of the British frigate Hussar in the East River. He has found modern coins and junk items, with only 3.87 dollars in recovered value, while insisting the hulk lies buried under mud and tar near New York.
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Simon Lake
New York
East River
Lake
Hussar
New York City
Vancouver to reclaim Murillo painting from New York
Vancouver owner Hugh Maxwell plans to bring the Bartolome Bate ban Murillo painting back from New York where it had been stored after an unsuccessful museum purchase. The work, once offered for 2000, is now valued at about 100000 and will be kept in a bank vault rather than loaned again to the city.
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Vancouver
New York
Bartolome Bate
Ban Murillo
Vancouver City Museum
Hugh Maxwell
T. P. O. Menzies
Board of Directora
Murfilo
Menzies
President asks for nearly one billion defense fund
President Roosevelt sent the 1938 budget request detailing a peacetime defense fund approaching 1 billion dollars to begin two new battleships. The proposal also increases air force and ordnance spending, expands both army and navy personnel, and boosts pay to accommodate larger ranks.
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National Defence Fund
Roosevelt
United States Army
Navy
Congress
National Defence
Navy Department
Bureau of Aeronautica
Navy Marine
Army
Silk For Coronation Robes From Lullingstone Silk Farm
The first large English silk production since Charles I is spun at Lullingstone Castle Eynsford. Lady Hart Dyke operates 50 000 mulberry trees for silkworms to yield 500 000 miles of thread for coronation robes. Queen Mary has inspected the farm with interest. Bank of England began operation January 1 1685.
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George
Lullingstone Castle
Eynsford
England
Charles I
Lullingstone
Lady Hart Dyke
Mary
Slimming frock pattern promises flattering fit and length choices
Anne Adams Pattern 4295 offers a slender line with a deep V bodice and three buttons, a rising skirt-yoke, and three sleeve lengths. Available in sizes 86 to 48 with 59 inch fabric for size 36, pattern includes illustrated instructions and costs 20 cents. Send size, name, address, and number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Fritz Kreisler quips about his violin at a Hollywood dinner. Horses can sleep standing up much like elephants.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Air Rifles Are Dangerous and Reckless Firearm Use
A Toronto Telegram opinion notes air rifles pose serious risk to bystanders as two youths face Police Court action. It argues banning sale to minors is needed, citing a window being perforated and calling for stricter laws on air rifles and explosives.
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Toronto Telegram
Calypso’s Jail Plan Prompts Odd Classified Ad
Calypso North Carolina drew wide notice by advertising for two used jail cells in outside papers. The town, which had managed without a jail by sending offenders to a neighboring village, sought WPA aid for a brick building meant for municipal services. No provision was made for jail cells, prompting the unusual ad and public curiosity.
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Calypso
North Carolina
Calypsos
Serial Has No End In Japanese Newspaper Tale
A long running Japanese serial continues weekly in a newspaper well past seven thousand installments. The tale, a romantic sprawling epic, has endured for over twenty years with the author long dead. The publisher keeps the series alive by consulting the author’s son for new installments.
Stockton and Barlington Railway Opens in 1825 England
The Stockton and Barlington railway in England became the first public railway in the world, opening on September 27, 1825.
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Stockton and
Barlington
England
Reading the Bethesda Pool and the Feeding of Five Thousand
A Sunday school lesson outlines John 5 1 6 71 with Colossians 1 The Bethesda pool in Jerusalem near the sheep gate is described as House of Mercy where a man ill for 38 years is healed by Jesus on the Sabbath Jesus bids him rise take up his bed and walk Later Jesus meets him in the temple and warns him to sin no more The feeding of the five thousand on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee is noted as a key Christology moment and a shared gospel narrative across all four evangelists The lesson emphasizes Jesus as the Source of Life and the Sustainer of Life
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Bethesda
Jerusalem
House of Mercy
Jesus
Temple
Sea of Galilee
Foreign exchange savings cut of kettling accounts
Canada Post Office foreign accounts expenses were cut roughly in half last year due to tighter cooperation with the Bank of Canada. Annual foreign exchange transactions exceeded 37 million dollars, with savings visible in money orders to the United States Britain and elsewhere as rates moved closer to market. The reduced margins mean lower costs for US and UK money orders, notably from about two cents to half a cent or one cent on US orders and similar reductions on sterling.
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Post Office Department
Canada
Bank of Canada
United States
Britain
New Industry Grows Ladybug Farming for Pest Control
Dr Gordon W Haugh of Ohio State University told the Entomological Society of America in Atlantic City New Jersey that a new industry raises ladybugs to eat aphids. Lab cultivation feeds them through winter to prepare armies for spring release to farms.
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Entomological Society of America
Atlantic City
Gordon W. Haugh
Ohio State University
Leipzig Zoo bears record birth of Hons in captivity
The Leipzig zoo reports a historic birth tally totaling a thousand Hons within its walls, a record unmatched in zoological history. The facility is noted for breeding wild animals for zoos worldwide and supporting international exchange.
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Leipzig Zoo
Zoological Gardens
Leipzig
Relics of Canada's early aviation find home in new museum
A Canadian aviation history collection being assembled at Ottawa's aeronautical museum in the National Research Council building highlights the Silver Dart. Major General A. G. G. MacNaughton spearheads acquisitions with figures like J. A. C. McCurdy and F. W. Baldwin featured. The snippet covers the Dart's first flights in 1909, propeller models, and a wartime Royal Flying Corps aircraft with bullet-torn wings preserved for posterity.
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Canada
Aeronautical Museum
National Research Council
Ottawa
A. G. G MacNaughton
British Empire
Alexander Graham Bell
Baddeck
N.S
J. A. C. McCurty
McCurdy
F. W. “Casey" Baldwin
Nova Scotia
Bras D'or
Petawawa Camp
Baldwin
New National Museum
Graham Bell
Col
W. A. Barker
V.C
Royal Flying Corps
Sculptor and architect named for George statue near Parliament
The London Daily Sketch reports Sir William Reid Dick as the likely sculptor and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as the architect of a King George memorial statue facing Parliament. Dick, 57, already portrait busts for King George, famed for the Menin Gate lion at Ypres, faced a restless model search in the zoo. Scott, 22 when Liverpool cathedral design was chosen, later faced a scornful remark from a passing woman who praised the cathedral yet doubted the brain of an insignificant man.
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Lion
William Reid Dick
Giles Gilbert Scott
King George
House of Parliament
Sir William
George
Menin Gate
Ypres
William
Liverpool
Scott
London Daily Sketch
Lord Crewe Reflects on Three Sovereigns in Confidence
The London Spectator notes Lord Crewe, 78, told the House of Lords he has served three former sovereigns in confidence. He recalls Victoria era ministers and his era as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under the 1890s Liberal government, spanning a half-century of service.
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Lord Crewe
House of Lords
Queen Victoria
Ireland
London Spectator
Coronation Bible Portraits Omitted by Royal Request
The King ordered no portrait of himself and Queen Elizabeth in coronation issues of the Bible. Portraits of living persons had appeared in prior reigns. Bible printing remains a royal and university monopoly in England, controlled by the King's printer and Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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Elizabeth
England
Oxford
Cambridge
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