United States Joins The ILO Aims for Full Membership
The United States moves to apply for full membership in the International Labor Organization at Geneva. The decision, while preserving safeguards against entanglements, signals a shift in Washington’s stance toward League activity and could alter global perceptions of the League’s reach.
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American Congress
International Labor Organization
Geneva
ILO
United States
U.S
League of Nations
Lee
Japan
Washington
League
Act of Congress
World Court
Germany
ILC
Labor Organization
Congress
Central Office
China Fights Cricket Sport Faces Severe Penalties
China bans cricket fighting as a crime on par with opium smoking, yet it remains popular. Men pay up to ten dollars for a fighting cricket and many breed and train them like cockfighters, using bamboo rings and glass slides to judge battles with large stakes changing hands.
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Chim
Lindbergh’s First Flight Mentor H R Overly Dies
H R Overly, known for giving Col. Charles A. Lindbergh his first flat airplane ride, has died. Lindbergh later wrote in his book We how Overly’s plane sparked his early passion to fly while watching it soar over Madison. Milk praised as the highest in value among foods and deemed the most meatly perfect.
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Lindbergh
H. R
Russ) Overly
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Overly
Madison
Roosevelt weighs plan for 100 mile shelter belt across nation
President Roosevelt considers a vast shelter belt project to plant a 100 mile wide band of trees from Canada to the Texas panhandle. The plan calls for 100 strips running north to south across North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma and would take 10 to 12 years to complete to cut drought and wind erosion on farm lands. Separately printers announce four color letter head capabilities while Northern Ireland adds automatic telephone exchanges.
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Roosevelt
United States
Canada
Texas Panhandle
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Fraser river gold dredge project ready for summer attack
A new type of gold dredge on the Fraser river, designed to extract vast wealth once hidden in sands, is nearing completion at B C Marine Engineers. Led by Hume Robertson, the 12,500 cubic yard daily capacity dredge will be electrically driven with hydraulic pumps and a 2,000 horsepower hydro site on Jones Creek. If successful, the firm plans additional dredges and leased smaller units to cover more river sections.
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Fraser
Canada
Pacific Coast
Hume Robertson
Placer
Malaya Peninsula
B.C. Marine Engineers and Shipbuilders Limited
Jones Creek
Scottish names echo Quebec bilingual schooling in South Africa
Dr S S H Bloemfontein Orange Free State director notes parallels between Quebec and South Africa in bilingual education. Dr Pellissier studied Quebec methods for Dutch majority pupils and English minority, linking Scottish surname descendants to language transmission in frontier communities.
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Quebec
South Africa
Campbell, Fraser
MacDonald
S&s. H. Bloemfontein
Orange Free State
Union of South Africa
Pellissier
Soiled on the World Liver Pills Ad
An old, dubious advertisement touts Corners Little Liver Pills to “wake up your liver bile” and stimulate digestion. It claims no calomel, promotes natural bowel action, and urges readers to demand the product at druggists, pricing it 75 cents.
Year Of Anniversaries Highlight Jacques Cartier Era
Victor Morin chairing the Montreal committee on Jacques Cartier observances told the Quebec Women’s Institutes convention that 1934 marks anniversaries from Canada’s discovery by Jacques Cartier to the founding of Three Rivers in 31634 and the first road between Quebec and Montreal in 1734, plus Toront?e charter in 1834.
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Victor Morin
Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Quebec
Dr Werner’s Powder Promoted For Secure Teeth Fit
An old advertisement touts Dr Werner’s Powder as the largest selling remedy for false teeth enabling secure, comfortable grip with no slipping or clicking. It claims a cushion for gums and fresh breath with a colorless, gum-friendly paste, marketed as inexpensive through druggists.
Remarkable Sleep Records Across History
A Huddersfield man endures eight years without real sleep while others famed or infamous for long slumbers are recounted. W Foxley slept fourteen days and nights in 1546, Arnheim woke after two years, Marguerite Bovenval slept nineteen years and six months, and Rip Van Winkle-like Harms slept twenty six years before waking.
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Huddersfield
W. Foxley
Mint
Arnheim
Marguerite Bovenval
Thenolies
Rip van Winkle
Harms
French Company Plans Bear Lake Mining Development Survey
Dr. Bruet of Omnigum and Paul Jenvrin arrive in Edmonton to survey Bear Lake district for potential French investment. A夏survey this summer will decide on large scale development. The Canadian branch will oversee north country work including minerals gold silver pitchblende and more. Bruet will study Indian conditions and collect plant and insect specimens for Paris.
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Great Bear Lake
Edmund Bruct
Edmonton
Paris
Bruet
Paul Jenvrin
Dr. Bruet
Omnigum
Department of Natural Resources
Queen's voice to be heard on wireless at Cunarder launch
For the second time in broadcasting history the queen's voice will likely be heard on the wireless in September during the launching of the Cunarder No. 534 at Clydebank. Her Majesty previously spoke on the radio in the early BBC era. Gold reportedly fell from the sky to earth with meteorite evidence found near Melrose New Mexico and Berkeley California reports by Dean Gillespie.
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Clydebank
British Broadcasting Corporation
Science
Berkeley
Calif
Dean Gillespie
Denver
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Melrose
N.M
Russia considers joining League of Nations move
The Edmonton Bulletin reports Russia may enter the League of Nations, aiming to avoid explaining long absence while showing chivalry and shrewdness. Stalin faces western front concerns and Japan’s expansion, so joining could ease European trust and free Soviet focus on the Far East.
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Russia
League of Nations
Europe
Moscow
Stalin
Japan
Edmonton Bulletin
Turns Page In History of Englishwomen’s equal rights milestone
An English girl of 21, Ina Ginn of Stanmore, Middlesex, becomes Mme Lucien Albert of Paris and the only Englishwoman to marry a Frenchman and retain British nationality. She explains writing to the Home Secretary to pursue dual status before marriage, then receives a new British passport in her married name marked British subject under the 1933 Act.
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Ina Ginn
Stanmore
Middlesex
Mme
Lucien Albert
Paris
Home Secretary
Machine Read Minds and Walls of Jerry-Built Homes
A device by Dr. Alexander Cannon uses flexible tubes attached to a subject to record brain reactions on graph paper. It claims to register emotions fatigue concentration and truthfulness, and even asserts waltz music soothes breathing and relieves asthma. It also alleges telepathy as a physical fact.
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Lkely
Alexander Cannon
Crack Shot Forstund Of Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Acting Sergeant D. E. Forstund of the K division in Alberta tops remarks in the force annual report tabled in Parliament. He excels with rifle and revolver, holds the Connaught cup, and scored a possible 240 points during Regina instructional class. Also notes tobacco seed import ban to prevent blue mould disease.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
House of Commans
D. E. Forstund
Alberta
Forsiund
Regina
Canadian Egg Stocks on June 1 Drop From Last Year
Total storage stocks of eggs in Canada at June 1 were 9,949,535 dozen, compared with 11,507,695 dozen on June 2 last year and with a five year average on June 1 of 141,270,9061.
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Canada
Myth of Indian rope trick debunked by Magic Circle
The Occult committee of the Magic Circle concluded the Indian rope trick is a myth after a solemn inquest. No one could prove the trick or identify a performer, and a $2,500 reward stands for anyone who can execute it. Notable figures cited doubt the feat's reality.
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The
Magic Circle
Lord Ampthill
India
George
Mary
Sidney Clarke
Nizan
Hyderabad
Fimiticas
Michael O'Dwyer
Michael
Harry Price
Imtional Physical Laboratory
Francis Griffin
Police
All India
British Aviatrix Arrives in New York on Majestic Visit
Amy Mollison, British aviatrix, lands in New York aboard the Majestic for a brief stop. She notes the 1933 Connecticut crash with husband James Mollison, says she has done little flying since, and expresses enthusiasm for the England Australia air races next October in which they will participate.
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Amy Mollison
Majestic
New York
Connecticut
James Mollison
Atlantic
Mallison
Moving Again Sparks Mark Twain Tale in San Francisco
A friend teases Mark Twain about a cigar box yet he explains he is moving again. The anecdote recalls the young writer’s early trials in San Francisco journalism and his frequent relocations as he pursued his career.
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Mark Twain
San Francisco
Mr. Clemens
Mark
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