World happenings briefly told from around the globe
A compilation of quick news items cites Lindberghs planning a children's welfare centre at their Hopewell home. Westmount Quebec intends mufflers for fire engines and Manitoban arts building faces possible temporary closure. Missionaries flee northeast Szechuan amid Chinese Communist incursions. Jean Barnes completes a 1706 mile ride to a world fair and trades the horse for a plane ride home. Norris warns Russia may seek meat and cotton from the U.S.. Britain to receive 60 000 Canadian hogs weekly for five years. Mackenzie King to visit Alberta in August. de Valera pushes ahead with independent economic plans. Mountie Norris Yates drives 425 miles Chesterfield Inlet to Churchill in seven days for mail runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopewell
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bernach
West- Tount
Quebec
Arts and Science
University of Manitoba
Szechwa
China
Jean Barnes
Butte
Mont
Russia
Norris
America
Great Britain
Canada
D. G. McKenzie
Brandon
Manitoba Board of Trade
W. L. Mackenzie King
Liberal Party
House of Commons
Alberta
Calgary
N. S
Euthanasia Debated by American Homeopaths Delegates
American Institute of Homeopaths delegates debated physician legal right to end life for incurable patients. Dr. W A Guild of Chicago argued for medico legal death citing a saved infant case and proposing a humane court to grant pleas to die. Dr Alonzo Tenney of Chicago opposed legalizing euthanasia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Institute of Homeopaths
W. A. Guild
Largest military band leads Aldershot tattoo
The world’s biggest military band joined 5,000 soldier actors in a Rushmoor Valley pageant before 56,000 children in Aldershot. Eleven bands, 17 bandmasters, 14 drum-majors, and 849 musicians highlighted the event, with officers noting unparalleled impact. Additionally, slow motion footage shows compressed air creates a hole in glass ahead of a speeding bullet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldershot
Rushmoor Valley
London
Home Counties
Fire in garden at Neapul Hotel Torquay
A fire broke out in the garden of the Neapul Hotel in Torquay England. Amber fragments from the roof fell on a car bonnet and damaged a guest's vehicle. The report notes a recent strike in New Zealand with air delivery of mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neapul Hotel
Torquay
England
New Zealand
Aeroplane
DAME FASHION CREATES RUFFLED SHOULDERS DRESS PATTERN
A vintage pattern description details a bodice with a surplice collar tying at the back, puffed short sleeves or long, a slender skirt, and a small coat. The design uses gray crepe or white accents and offers sizes 14 through 40 bust. Pattern No. 722 costs 20 cents in either color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batiste
Colin
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg Pattern No.205 offered via the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 275 McDermot Ave. How to order details appear in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Sunday School Lesson July 8 on Caleb and Canaan Faith
The lesson outlines the division of Canaan among the twelve tribes with Levi set apart for priestly duties. It highlights Caleb’s Henizrite lineage, his faith in God, and the call to vision and perseverance, contrasting dullness with striving faith. It ends with Paul’s note on finishing the race and awaiting a crown of righteousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan
Joseph
Ephraim
Manasseh
Jacob
Levi
Judah
Simeon
Benjamin
C. R. Brown
Caleb
Joshua
Othniel
Kenaz
Kadesh-Barnea
Jehovah
Paul
Mysterious Irish Banker Returns with Hidden Fortune
An elderly man in Dundalk, his clothes in rags, drew civil guards’ attention and was taken to the barracks for care. In a startling turn, he produced $50,000 in bills from his pocket, claiming to have served as his own banker during United States bank troubles before returning to Ireland after 46 years abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundalk
Ireland
United States
Trade gains from Ottawa Conference cited by Stevens
Hon H H Stevens Dominion Minister of Trade and Commerce says Ottawa Conference trade agreements raised Canada's exports to the United Kingdom by over 10 million dollars in 1932 while global trade declined. Also notes 60,000 hot dog stands planned for Chicago Exposition and a century of progress with rising Italian electric power consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
H. H. Stevens
Dominion
Chicago Exposition
Thief With Expensive Taste Loots Dunhill Shop
A small agile thief forced entry through two transoms into Alfred Dunhill Inc at 514 Firth Avenue New York and stole thirty display cases along with jewelry cigar lighters clocks and pipes valued near 25000 He bypassed silver items and chose gold cigarette and vanity cases and pipes from the Grade A rack priced 50 to 65.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Dunhill
London, Inc
Firth Avenue
New York
Seven Siblings in Edmonton Ages Reveal Family Total
In Edmonton England the ages of five sisters and a brother sum to 471 years. The oldest sister is 86 and the brother is 49, the youngest. One fourth of the divorced people in England and Wales live in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
England
England and
Wales
London
Gl aiPE-NUTS Raisin Pie And Lattice Top Crust
A pie recipe outlines making a grape nuts raisin mix with brown sugar hot water cider vinegar and butter. The dough is rolled to 14 inch thickness line a pie tin bake 15 minutes at 425F reduce to 375F and bake 25 minutes until delicately brown.
Orange Malted Milk Drink and Curious World Notes
A recipe for orange malted milk serves one with steps to mix malted powder hot water cold water and orange juice on cracked ice. Brief items mention a nearly invisible British plane and a pun about joints. Also notes a statue for Marshal Foch in Compiegne forest and a large amusement plier project near Scotland with miners and coal.
Cunard Line marks 93rd anniversary with Aquitania voyage
A historic look at the Cunard Line birthplace and its milestones from 1840 to the late 19th century. Key figures Samuel Cunard and ship names Britannia Aquitania Mauretania are noted along with Halifax Boston voyages and the evolution from wooden steamers to steel liners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunard Line
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Cunard
America
Lfe
Nova
Boston
trans-Atlantic Steamship Company
Atlantic
Britannia
Savannah
New York City
Georgia City
Livrpool
Royal Wiliam
Sirius
London
England
New York
Bristol
Great Western
Atlantic Passage
Samuel Cunard
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Sir Samuel
Robert Napier
Clyde
Glasgow
Napier
Mr. Cunard
Great Britain
George Burns
Scotland
David Maciver
Liverpool
Columbia
Caledonia
Hibernia
Cambria
Australia
Campania
Lucania
Queenstown
Marconi
Berengaria
Aquitania
Mauretania
Sask coal subsidy boosts prairie shipments to Manitoba
Federal order grants a one seventh of a cent per mile freight subsidy on Saskatchewan lignite coal shipped to Manitoba and western Ontario for industrial use, with a cap of 40 cents per shipment. Applies only to pre December 1931 mines and excludes carload totals, payments made to railways, with adjustments to mine operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Sioux Lookout
Saskatchewan Department of Railways, Labor and Inustries
Ontario
Germany’s Social Democratic Party Uprooted by Hitler Rule
In Germany the Social Democratic Party dissolved as Hitler’s regime consolidates power. An official order by Chancellor Hitler bans central retail and service shops including barbering, bakeries, and crafts, while authorities clamp down on National Deustache Zeitung. The move follows earlier actions against the Communists and signals a total power grip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Social Democratic Party
Ithe
Hitler
Komini Saar
Otto Wag
Ener
National
Deustache Zeitung
Hugenberg
Mechanism Of the Ear and Brain Conveyance Examined
The article discusses enduring questions about how ear vibrations become brain signals. It explains sound waves strike the eardrum and move bones, while tiny threads translate vibrations into neural activity, a process not fully understood despite detailed descriptions.
Prosperity hints highlighted in 1920s New York cafe idea
A Broadway cafe in New York plans floor windows paved with silver dollars to deter theft. In Creecat’s sole air service, 18 months logged 10,950 passengers, 257,700 pounds of merchandise, and 17,500 pounds of mail. Europe sees record air travel with Barcelona to Seville as its longest route at 570 miles.
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Broadway
New York
Creecat
Spain
Barcelona
Seville
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Norris Yates
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Munhed
Chesterfield Inlet
Churchill
Mall
Taitoo
Ww. ON. Blainy
Wiemipag
Sy Rath Rogers
DAME
Italy
Mme. Venizelos
Greece
Athens
Betty Barclay
Smartie
Marshal Foch
Compiege
France
Firth of Forth
Westcliff
Alfonso
Prince of the Asturias
Senorita Edelmira Sampedro
Cuba
Maria
Lausanne
Switzerland
Pioneer Steamship Company
Cunard Life
Europe
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