World Happenings Briefly Told
The House of Commons approved a gold tax amendment in committee. The disarmament conference adjourned June 12 for a breathing space as governments seek to resolve issues. Britain eyes expanding air force with 30 squadrons totaling about 600 machines. A Delisle blaze destroyed the Quaker Outs elevator. over 9,000 bushels of grain were ruined. John Duncan, railway telegrapher, died in Toronto at 91. The Victoria Daily Times marked its golden jubilee.
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House of Commons
Delisle
Bask
John Duncan
Toronto
Thomas Alva Edison
Victoria Daily Times
John Grant
M L.A
Cassiar
Timothy Seed Shortage Opens Western Growth Window
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture notes a timothy seed shortage in Canada boosting western growers. Timothy yields 200 to 300 pounds per acre with No. 1 grain selling around 6.14 cents per pound recently. Canada annually produces about ten million pounds with nine million imported from the United States prior to 1981. Domestic output rose sharply from under one million to about five million pounds in 1932 then fell to roughly 2.7 million pounds in 1833.
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Canada
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
United States
Melons Save Bank Notes After City Fire
A fire destroyed Constantinople's Law Courts with heavy damage. A cashier had stored £5000 in a safe amid debris. The door opened to reveal two melons that released steam, preserving the notes enough for the State Bank to accept them despite some damage.
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Constantinople
Press praise from British official Lord Londonderry
The Lethbridge Herald quotes Lord Londonderry, Secretary for Air, praising the press as fair, helpful, sparing in criticism and generous in praise. The statement underscores a respectful view of journalism within the British government.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lord Londonderry
Air
Ancestor Mortgages Haunt Old Place In Corners Tale
A haughty woman asks about ancestors actions for posterity. Farrier Corntensel replies that his grandfather placed mortgages on the place that still hang over them. The exchange hints at lingering financial ties shaping the family’s legacy.
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Farimmer Corntensel
Coast-to-coast airmall in 18 hours eyed by airmen
Squadron Leader A. T. Cowley in Calgary outlined plans for a rapid nationwide air service using seroplanes capable of over 200 mph. The route would run from Montreal to Vancouver via Regina, Lethbridge, and the Crow's Nest Pass, with a Calgary to Lethbridge branch.
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Montreal
Vancouver
A. T. Cowley
Calgary
Regina
Lethbridge
Crow's Nest Pass
Raining Gold Dust Reported Across India After Earthquakes
Seismic disturbances in outlying districts produced a shower of fine powdered gold, with reports of golden dust clouds drifting over the countryside. Scientists analyzed samples and found tiny gold particles in the dust, likely lifted from deep rock fissures by the earth shocks.
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India
Little Journeys to Science By Gerdes B Guest MA
In 1910 Madame Curie culminated years of work by yielding radium and introducing radioactivity as a new science. The Polish born French scientist directs Radium Institute in Paris with two grams of radium, one donated by American women. Radium, long lived, helps date Earth and powers cancer treatment and luminous paints. Canada’s Great Bear Lake deposits may expand supply, lowering prices. France plans to retire 80,000 of its 860,000 government workers.
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Madame Curie
Pierre Curie
Sorbornne
Paris
Curie
Belgian Congo
Radium Institute
America
Canada
Great Bear Lake
Arctic Circle
Canada designates Exchequer Court as Admiralty Court
The House of Commons approved third reading on a bill by Justice Hugh Guthne to designate the Exchequer Court of Canada as an Admiralty Court. Admiralty cases have been heard there since a prior Imperial Act, but the bill grants Canada full control and sets required regulations. It passed committee quickly and the house with no opposition.
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Canada
House of Commons
Dominions
Hugh Guthne
Unenviable World Murder Rates Reveal Regional Leaders
The report ranks nations by murder rates and totals. Chile records 2,913 murders in 1932, about 61 per 10,000, one every three hours. The United States totals 16,617 murders, Belgium tops Europe by rate with 186, while Germany’s 1,223 murders yield 1.88 per 10,000. Across nine countries, total murders reach 16,108.
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Holland
Great Britain
Chile
United States
Europe
Belgium
Germany
Panama Canal rates battle echo in British debt dispute
Arthur Brisbane in Hearst papers protests British failure to pay US debt and suggests canal rates could double, though the canal was built under an agreement ensuring equal rates for British and American ships. It notes British concessions enabled the project while rose growing under glass rises as a notable industry.
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Arthur Brisbane
Hearst
Great Britain
United States
Panama Canal
Toronto Mail
Empire
Sunday school lesson June 4 overview
Golden Text Luke 1 33 and devotional Micah 4 15 frame a Sunday school lesson on The Gospel According to Matthew Questions probe authorship audience language dating purpose and structure The list asks about tradition earliest records Jewish phrases Old Testament quotations Gospel outline and major sections
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Matthew
Christ
Jesus
Manitoba Fair Wage Schedule Sets Rates for Private and Public Works
Hon. W. R. Clubb announced a province wide fair wage schedule applying to private and public works with reductions of five to 10 percent from last year. Effective June 15, the board prepared two rate sets—one for Winnipeg and nearby 30 mile radius, another for the rest of Manitoba. Stone masons receive two rates, 80 cents and $1 per hour, down from $1.05 last year.
Funeral prank prompt and auto import policy note
A joke exchange features a telephone call where an undertaker asks if to bury or embalm, and a punchline suggests cremation. Separately, Austria discourages importing foreign automobiles, signaling trade attitudes.
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Rastus
Oxford Group at Banff Portrait of North American Group
Members of the International Team of the Oxford Group led by Dr. Frank Buchman posed on Banff Springs Hotel terrace during the North American House Party in Banff Alberta from June 5 to 12 1934. The photograph lists attendees from Ottawa New York Oxford Toronto London Boston Philadelphia and other cities with many named individuals and representatives from multiple countries.
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Oxford Group
Frank Buchman
Banff Springs
Banff
Alberta
York
Roger Hicks
India
Oxford
Roger Faure
Paris
Ferdinand Laun
Germany
Eugene von Teuber
Czecho-Slovakia
Victor Kitchen
New York
Mrs. Wood
Boston
Frederick Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence
Howard Rose
London
Paul Petrocekine
Edward Hill
Audrey Haigh
Mary Gaddie
Edinburgh
Victor Turnbull
Toronto
Joyce Machin
Kate Cross
Montreal
Jack Smith
Mrs. Pleasanton
Ella Lee
H. A. Armitstead
Mary Ferrabye
Even la Forde
Bishop Roots
Hankow
Lady Richmond
Princess Risborough
R. R. Coush
Banff Springs Hotel
Hamilton
Nanton
Winnipeg
Bourdillon
Agricultural Notes on Food Preservation and Crops
Agricultural Notes discuss quick freezing and food preservation challenges for breeders and chemists, quality indicators for alfalfa and clover meals, and resistant swede varieties against club foot disease. It covers cropper farm acreages in Eastern Canada, two-plough tractors versus two-horse teams, dry ice as ship refrigerant, activated ice sterilization, and pest issues like aliverfish and gypsy moth. It also notes peat use on golf courses, mud deposits as soil enrichment, fish meal quality, and Canada’s potential independence from dried apricots through Summerland research. Soybean flour’s low starch benefits for diabetics and its use in bread and pastries are highlighted.
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Canada
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Germany
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
New England
Massachusetts
Dominion Entomological Branch
Summerland
B.C
Soyula Bulletin
Employment by Forest Industries in Normal Times
The Forest Service reports that during 1926 to 1930 about 244000 people would have worked year round if the work were spread evenly across the year. The annual wage bill reached about 250 million dollars, representing over forty two percent of the value added to lumber by manufacture.
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Dominion
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
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Gerdes B. Guest, M.A
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