Peaceful Canada U S Border Shows Power Of goodwill
The article extols the unfortified border between Canada and the United States as a remarkable example of peace driven by understanding and goodwill. It notes long standing harmony, vast American investment in Canada, and the Carnegie Endowment study on factors behind this unique friendship, arguing that peaceful living is a stronger defense than arms.
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Canada
United States
Fort Blands
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Brain Study Method Described By UC Psychologist
A University of California psychologist described to the American Association for the Advancement of Science a method using high radio currents to temporarily disable small brain regions while sparing others. Based on Dr Clarence W Brown's work, the technique aims to reveal functions of specific brain centres and potential anatomical and psychological insights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of California
Aassociation For the Advancement of Science
Clarence W. Brown
Psychology
Brown
Fixed Price For Tobacco Growers In Canada 1934 Deal Reached
Gray Miller, president of Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, states Ontario flue cured growers are practically assured for 1934 a price based on 2c per 1b for an average crop. He says the firm has agreed to meet growers request for a 27c average price and will adhere to that basis for 1934 if other manufacturers follow and pay the main price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray Miller
Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, Ltd
Ontario
Maine
Sacred Pipe Exhibited to Wyoming Bishop at Wind River
The Arapahoe sacred pipe, a guarded tribal fetish, was shown to Bishop Elmer Schmuck of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming during his Wind River reservation visit. The ceremony unfolded the cloth and hides enclosing the talisman for Schmuck, his son Gonlon, and Thomas E. Brown of New York.
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Arapahoe
Elmer Schmuck
Episcopal Diocese of
Wyoming
Wind River Reservation
Lander
Schmuck
Gonlon
Thomas E. Brown
New York
Britain's New Air Gun Sparks Global Arms Race
A 37 millimeter rapid fire aerial gun is being installed in large British planes and promises a major edge over machine gun armed opponents. The heavy gun fires slowly but with heavier shells at 2000 yards, aiming to deter small fast fighters. Experts from a leading armament maker back the innovation, likely prompting rivals worldwide to develop similar aircraft weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Detroit News
Christian Missions Aid Women’s Reform Efforts Highlighted
Dr J R Mott addressed South Africa meeting of Christian women workers praising missions for transforming lives of women. He argued foreign missions prove their worth through medical relief, hospital care, nursing services, and women leading the work, noting missions helped create the medical profession across Asia.
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Highclere
South Africa
J. R. Mott
World Missionary Council
Christian Missions
Asia
Fortune promises £160000 if John Gallagher weds by date
Mrs. R. Zarah of London offers a £160000 bequest to her nephew John Francis Gallagher if he marries and settles down by December 25, 1938. In a letter to Winnipeg’s Acting Mayor she explains she has lost track of him since the last known address in Carbon, Alberta, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. If he remains unfound or unwed, she intends to leave all property to church and charity.
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John Francis Gallagher
R. Zarah
Well Hall Road
Eltham
London
Eng
Costs of Farm Production on Prairie Farms
A prairie half-section grain farm run by one man and seven horses would produce wheat at 0.795 dollars per bushel. With a 10 hp tractor and two horses the cost rises to 0.85 dollars per bushel.
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Coninion Agricultural Bulletin
Praire Provinces
Proved Ibex Wrong About Tomatoes in Six Weeks
Remarkably vigorous tomato plants grown outdoors at Fairbanks Alaska under continuous daylight for six weeks contradicts claims that long daily artificial and daylight exposure harms tomatoes. Obligate plants are those that can grow in only one life condition.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Synthetic rubber tires touted as wartime rubber independence
The first American synthetic rubber automobile tires, teal in appearance and claims of equal wear to natural rubber, were announced by Dupont and Dayton Rubber Manufacturing. Costing about $10 per pound versus five cents to a dollar for foreign rubber, the new tires use acetylene, salt, and water, all home products. Dayton Rubber president J A MacMillan noted rigorous tests proving the tires equal to natural rubber and tested against natural rubber tires under severe use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dupont Company
Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company
Dayton
Ohio
Radium use in cancer therapy expands under Dr Shepley
Dr Earle E Shepley of the Saskatchewan cancer commission told CMA delegates in Calgary that radiotherapeutic attack now covers a large share of cancer treatment. He noted many cases lack curative options and that palliative radiotherapy can reduce patient suffering even when cure is not possible.
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Earle E. Shepley
Saskatchewan Cancer Commission
Saskatoon
Canadian Medical Association
Calgary
Shepley
Will Regulate Tariffs Says Dr Shotwell In Ottawa
Dr James T Shotwell told the Ottawa Canadian Club that tariff regulation powers given to President Roosevelt would ease economic problems between Canada and the United States. He noted tariffs would operate under executive decree without political prejudice, addressing an audience that included Prime Minister Bennett, Sir Robert Borden, and Mackenzie King.
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Canada
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James T. Shotwell
Columbia University
New York City
Ottawa Canadian Club
United States Congress
Shotwell
R. B. Bennett
Robert Borden
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Gold Found In All But Prince Edward Island Provinces
The Department of Mines Ottawa reports gold is present in every Canadian province except Prince Edward Island and ranks with coal as the two most important mineral products of the Dominion. Minnow submarines, each 12 tons and 29 feet long, have completed successful undersea tests in Japan.
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Canada
Prince Edward Island
Dominion
Department of Mines
Ottawa
Japan
Bailiwick Defined as Sheriff Jurisdiction District
In English law a bailiwick is the district where a sheriff may exercise jurisdiction.
Pistol Saga of Rev Elbert Moffatt In India And US
Regular White Elephant Rev Elbert M Moffatt central treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal Church in India arrived from Europe with a 45 calibre automatic revolver. The weapon caused trouble in Bombay where a bishop's sister had brought it for protection. Police refused to register it due to its bore matching their own. She asked Moffatt to bring it to the United States. He kept it two weeks in India before sailing with wife and children. In New York customs said it did not violate federal law but violated New York State law. Moffatt vowed to surrender the pistol at the nearest police station.
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Elbert M. Moffatt
Methodist Episcopal Church
India
Europe
Moffatt
Bombay
Oklahoma
United States
New York State
Mr. Moffatt
Tam
Miracle Of Speed In London Shirt Factory Exhibit
A building in London houses nineteen girls at nineteen tables in two blocks beside a moving conveyor. Each girl performs a distinct sewing operation from cuffs to collars to buttonholes. The process shifts between tables, claiming a shirt can be stitched in under a minute and potentially down to fifty five seconds at full pressure.
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London
Gift for British Admiralty Seeks Lord Kitchener Relics
Charles Courtney a master locksmith arrived in London from the United States and said he would present to the Admiralty rings and wearing apparel belonging to the late Lord Kitchener. He claimed the articles were salvaged from H M S Hampshire, the ship bearing Lord Kitchener to his death on active service.
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Charles Courtney
London
United States
Admiralty
Lord Kitchener
Courtney
H.M.8
Hampshire
Judge Grants Divorce As Favor To Husband In Toledo Record
In Toledo Ohio Judge James Austin grants a divorce to a talkative wife as a favor to her husband. Mrs Northerto V Mueller faced no contest from the husband who did not oppose the action while she launched a lengthy recital of domestic affairs. Bailiffs and attorneys were unable to stop her.
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Toledo
Ohio
James Austin
Northerto
Mueller
India population surpasses China for first time says census report
Citations from 1931 census chief J H Hutton note India now exceeds China in total population. India's 1931 census records 353 million, up about 34 million since 1921, with projections suggesting near 400 million by 1941 underlining the trend and government contrasts.
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J. H. Hutton
CLE
China
India
France
Italy
Poland
Spain
John Megaw
Calcutta
Three Men Revisit Denver Appointment After Years
Three men Earl E. Anderson of E1 Centro California H H Bromley of Denver and F A Donk of Rocky Ford Colorado entered a Denver newspaper office at 11 am to keep a rendezvous dating from 1914 when all lived in Denver. They planned to meet in the same building twenty years later.
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Denver
Keep & Rendevoua
Earl E. Anderson
E! Centro
California
H. H. Bromley
F. A. Donk
Rocky Ford
Colorado
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