Drive Them Off The Highways
An editorial condemns reckless driving as a criminal act endangering others on Canadian highways. It urges the public to report wild driving to police, seek license suspensions, and support the Dominion Automobile Safety Council in reducing the accident toll. The piece champions public cooperation to drive dangerous drivers off the roads.
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Prairie Provinces
Dominion Automobile Safety Council Inc
Montreal
Canada
Not An Ordinary Search Two Victoria Horticulturists Trek
Two Victoria horticulturists Ed mund H. and Joseph A. Lohbrunner undertake a 3000 mile trek to the Arctic and sub Arctic Yukon and Alaska in pursuit of rare wildflowers including polemonium and dwarf willows. The summer journey aims to locate inch tall specimens in remote terrain. A recent find claims the earliest known written psalm was discovered and a 15 B C cuneiform inscription from Syria puzzled scholars.
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Victoria
Edmund H
Joseph A. Lohbrunner
Arctic
Yukon
Alaska
Syria
Rural mail carrier retires after 16 years of service
Henry Gingerich of Baden Ontario ends a 16 year run as rural mail carrier with a daily 28 mile route behind a slow horse. He completed nearly all rounds, missing only during two storms. The piece also notes Anna Sewell earned $100 for Black Beauty, a royalty far below potential.
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Henry Gingerich
Baden
Ont
Anna Sewell
Britain Faces Traffic Boom and Road Plan Upheaval
London dispatch notes Britain’s motor boom with 2 581 000 vehicles last year and 178 000 miles of roads. One in 19 owns an automobile while cyclists top 10 000 000. Hore Belisha says the country is the most densely vehicled, with 23 vehicles per square mile, as engineers chase safer flow. A $450 million five year program will add 230 miles of cycle tracks and 750 miles of dual carriageways, though cyclists oppose curbs on their routes.
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London
New York Sun
Great Britain
Hore-Belisha
Britain
United States
Record of Parliament Word Totals and Session Length
The passage notes the Canadian Parliament session lasted 90 days with House of Commons members delivering about 240,000 words and senators slightly more than 500,000 words. Hansard records for special committees totaled around 2,230,000 words, radio coverage about 500,000 words, and the Canadian Press supplied over 600,000 words. Additional wire reports and press gallery correspondents produced over a million more words.
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Doring Malon
House of Commons
Hansard
Ita
Dominion
Dame Of St John Lady Tweedsmuir Appointed Dame
The Westminster Gazette reports Lady Tweedsmuir is appointed a dame of grace in the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The order admits British subjects who profess the Christian faith and have performed or are prepared to perform charitable work, including ambulance and hospital services, under royal charter dating to 1888 with the King as sovereign head.
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Tweedsmuir
Queen Victoria
Elizabeth
Japanese Zeppelin Service Plans Face Obstacles
Japanese sponsors pursue ambitious trans Pacific Zeppelin plans with routes Tokyo to Hsingking, Tokyo to Singapore via Shanghai and Hong Kong, and Tokyo to San Francisco via Honolulu. They seek two or more German Zeppelins though Germany may lend experts only for limited times. A German pilot advisor returned to Germany without agreement.
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Japan
Tokyo
Hsingking
Manchukuo
Singapore
Batavia
Shanghai
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Germany
Increased Taxation Seen as Only Remedy for Expenditures
The Halifax Herald questions the current fiscal crisis noting a deficit forecast by the Finance Minister near 100 million dollars. It recalls past Dominion expenditures from 1900 to 1913 and asks whether more economies exist and if loopholes have been closed, urging alternatives to higher taxes.
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Halifax Herald
Skeena River Floods Church Wrecked but Bible Unharmed
Floodwaters from the Skeena river wrecked March Memorial church at Usk on the river bank. The interior was damaged with overturned organ and scattered chairs while the Bible remained undamaged on a muddy table. A second tale notes three hens roosting in a tree and four newly laid eggs found after the flood.
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Skeena
March Memorial
Usk
Selected Recipes Bran Drop Cookies
A compact recipe card notes bran drop cookies with shortening sugar eggs sour milk nuts salt soda cinnamon and cloves. It outlines creaming butter adding sugar beating eggs dissolving soda in milk and mixing in dry ingredients before dropping by spoonfuls onto buttered sheets and baking at 350 degrees F.
Lights guide speakers at North American health authorities meet
In Vancouver a convention of state and provincial health authorities used a traffic signal style system to pace speakers. A green light advised start, yellow warned near limit, and red ended allotted time, forcing speakers to conclude. The timing system kept the program on schedule.
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Convention of Health Authorities
North America
Vancouver
Hollick Kenyon Resumes Pilot Work After Holiday
Antarctic flyer Herbert Hollick Kenyon, after a holiday in B C with family, returns to Winnipeg to resume his pilot duties with Canadian Airways. He hints farming on an Okanagan fruit farm is unlikely as a living. The report mentions potential cotton use in Toad building with a projected market of two to three million bales yearly.
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Hollick-Kenyon
Herbert
Hollick- Kenyon
Okanagan
Ewing's Landing
B.C
Winnipeg
Canadian Airways
Oriental figure of speech story of Jonah translation claim
George M. Lamsa of Washington contests the traditional tale of Jonah’s three days in a whale. He argues the story stems from a mistaken translation and that the whale episode signifies trouble or upheaval in Eastern idiom rather than a literal event.
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Jonah
George M. Lamsa
Washington
Lamsa
Bible Times
Star Explosion Viewed From Earth After 2000 Year Delay
The article narrates a rare star explosion observed from Earth, dating back 2 000 to 3 000 years. Amateurs and scientists across the world tracked a bright new star near Cepheus and Cygnus, with L C Peltier in Delphos Ohio first noting it on June 28. Yerkes Observatory confirms the event’s long history and the star’s prior appearance on maps since 1893.
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Mother Earth
Reth
Space
Earth
Milky Way
Holland
Delphos
Ohio
L. C. Peltier
Britannia Yacht to Be Scuttled in English Channel
The royal cutter Britannia will be sunk in the English Channel under official orders. Built in 1893 for the Prince of Wales later King Edward VII, it amassed 231 prize wins and 129 other awards over 625 races in 43 years of competition.
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Britannia
English Channel
Royal Racing
George
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Legend About Water Filled Pool Fulfills King Death Tale
A Devonshire legend claimed a spring fed pool would fill when a royal dies. The pool at North Tawton filled as King George V died, signaling deaths of royal figures such as Albert, Victoria, and the Duke of Clarence. Three days after George V’s death the spring receded and cattle resumed grazing.
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Devonshire
George
North Tawton
George V
Albert
Queen Victoria
Victoria
Duke of Clarence
Edward VII
Bird foretells rain in Florida by Mexican road runner
Rafael Ruesga the Mexican consul in Tampa says a Mexican road runner predicts rain. He reports the bird’s bones ache in damp weather and it cries sharply before and during storms. The stubborn omen disturbs his sleep, prompting him to want rid of it.
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Rafael Ruesga
Tampa
Florida
Ruesga
Memorial to King George V Statue at Westminster Abbey
A memorial statue to King George V will be erected near Westminster Abbey. It is expected to depict the late king in the uniform of an admiral of the fleet.
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George V
Westminster Abbey
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Chang
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Edmonton
Regina
Winsipeg
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