World Happenings Briefly Told
Arthur Gray, a blind Birmingham newspaper seller, studies for the Alabama bar. A royal visit by King Edward to Scotland after his coronation is under consideration. The Free State banned arms exports to Spain. Surgeon Commander Henry Ellis Yeo White named honorary surgeon to the king. Canada July cheese exports rise by nearly a million dollars. Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent quips about moving to the Dominion. Jewish tourists in Austria find car tops cut to swastikas. Hardy Bent, Toronto bootblack to King Edward VI, dies at Digby. Ethiopian chieftains appeal for a British mandate. US Navy transport Vega arrives in Seattle with Pribilof sealskins worth 1.75 million dollars to be shared by the US, Great Britain, and Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Gray
Birmingham
King Edward
Scotland
Spain
Free State
Henry Ellis Yeo White
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Percy Vincent
London
Victoria
Dominion
Poertschach
Austria
Underground coal burning trial yields gas for heating
Russians report an underground coal seam fire project near Lishchansk producing gas via capped shafts and a piping system. Initial gas had low heating value but improves as the fire intensifies, demonstrating a novel method to transport coal gas over long distances for city use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Lishchansk
Opening Russian Canal Television To Control The Locks
The Moscow Volga Canal locks will be managed by television as thirty miles open for freight. Begun 1932, full use expected in ten months. Seven thousand workers trained for locks dams and pumping stations. Two hundred ninety three fast boats to be built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow- Volga Canal
Moscow & Port
Great Barrier film unit mounts mountain eagle hunt
Gaumont British team with Sepp Algeler and Rudolf Remmer spent a day in British Columbia and Alberta securing two flying eagles and a third in can to film a scene for The Great Barrier. The expedition covered six thousand miles from London to shoot on location near Kootenay Central line south of Golden BC. The eagle bite sequence ties to Major Hell's Bells Rogers and the route for a railway through the mountains, recalling Eagle Pass from the CPR era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genuins
Geumont
British Columbia
Alberta
Sepp Algeler
Rudolf Remmer
Kootenay Central Line
Golden
B.C
Gaumont
London
Hell's Bells Rogers
Farrell Macdonald
C.P.R
Simple Selation To Puzzle Over Heat-Resisting Brick
Prof J C Everhart of Ohio State University reports a simple fix for the long standing problems with refractory brick made from flinty coal region clays. Grinding the clay into finer particles stabilizes brick dimensions and performance, aiding Ohio and neighboring states where fire clay products form a major industry.
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Ohio
J. C. Everhart
Ohio State University
Engineering Experiment Station
Everhart
Global superstitions mirror urban and rural life
Traveler Claudia de Lys notes superstition spans all regions from New York skyscrapers to Towa farms and Tibetan villages. She cites bells in African villages, gender dance bans, and Western practices like horseshoes above doors and mascots, highlighting cultural parallels across civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Towa
Africa
Tibet
Claudia de Lys
Mira de Lux
Unitedtazes
Believes in Control by Jack Miner Sparks Debate on Wildlife
The piece portrays Jack Miner opposing protections for hawks owls and vermin that threaten poultry while contrasting government efforts to safeguard upland game birds. Miner advocates control of animals insects and birds and asserts a right to his opinion over wildlife management, noting sanctuary or garden owners would face loss of valuable life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Miner
Parable of Dog Lead Rule Corrected in German Town
A German parish council drafted a dog lead regulation. The first draft threatened shooting owners seen without a lead. After debate the wording was changed to say the dog owner will be fined or otherwise corrected rather than the owner being shot.
Caltech Bores 201-Inch Telescope Eye to Lose Four Tons
Captain Clyde S. McDowell U S N supervising engineer estimated the 201 inch eye for the world’s largest telescope to be installed on Palomar Mountain will lose four tons in grinding at California Institute of Technology Pasadena.
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Clyde S. McDowell
U.S.N
Palomar Mountain
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Unclear Seaside Hotels Log Grumbles in Guest Book
A fragment notes seaside hotels maintaining a guest book to record gripes and complaints. It mentions a “whine list” concept, implying systematic guest dissatisfaction notes.
Conditions Unfavorable Panhandle Louie Carter Sentenced in Essex
Louis A. Carter known as Panhandle Louie of the Bowery, New York, received 15 days in Essex County Penitentiary after telling Recorder Lloyd Beatty he could not help begging. He traveled to Atlantic City seeking wheelchair pushing work but found nights too cool and days too hot to work.
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Louis A. Carter
Milky Way formed by combined light of many distant stars
The Milky Way results from the aggregate light of numerous stars too distant to discern individually. Astronomers note the collective glow outlines the galaxy's disc and central bulge, with faint structures revealing stellar populations and galactic history.
Acts 14 Lystra Mission Converts Gentiles In Awe
Sunday School lesson on Acts 14 8 18 where Paul heals a cripple in Lycaonia and faces a mixed reception The crowd mistakes them for gods while Paul and Barnabas preach turning the people toward the true God Makers of heaven and earth The text notes Greek Lycaonian speech and the priests plans for sacrifice and the restraint shown by Paul and Barnabas
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Lystra
Satan
Barnabes
Paul
Moffatt
Gaius Glenn Atkins
Maurice Jones
Barnabas
Jupiter
Lucky Catch Fishing Yields Tire Instead of Fish in Canada
Harold Graham, a Nova Scotia tourist, proves even a lazy sport can tire a man. While waiting near Fairbanks Lake on the Espanola highway in Ontario, he cast and hauled in a heavy catch: a brand new tire. He replaced his worn relic with the tire, as onlookers note.
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Harold Graham
Nova Scotia
Fairbanks Lake
Espanola Highway
Ontario
Graham
Simple Crochet Beret and Bag Pattern 568 Preview
Treat yourself to a stylish autumn crochet set with a puff stitch raised design. The pattern 568 includes instructions, an illustration, and stitch lists. mail 20 cents in stamps or coins to Household Art at Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
E. Wanipeg
First Colorcodes via Cable Bring Paris Hues to New York
New York and Chicago stores received five new colors direct from Paris within thirty minutes of transmission marking the inauguration of a colorcode service. The system uses a colorable machine to reproduce hues from disc numbers, promising fashion duplications in minutes. Reproductions were on sale within 48 hours and colors included mustard yellow, burly, vert poison, danger red and bleu de fumee.
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New York
Chicago
Paris
Saiona
Marcel Hechas
Molyneux
Patou
Schiaparelis
Howard Ketcham
Maxwell
Mr. Ketcham
Don Maximo Carbungceo’s $7500 sugar tax windfall
In Guaga Pampanga the aged landowner known as the don refused a $7500 payout from the Pampanga sugar mill under a New Deal crop plan. His heirs pressed the claim, court ordered payment to the sons, and the don lamented divine providence over his family.
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Maximo Carbungceo
Guaga
Pampanga
New Deal
Children dying in road crashes alarm British report
A Ministry of Transport review from England highlights child fatalities in road accidents. It notes over 10 percent of deaths were under five, with 314 victims in that group and 17 percent aged five to 11. Most crashes occur Saturdays, fewest Sundays, 58 percent daytime, only two percent in foggy conditions.
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Ministry of Transport
England
Water skis offer fast surface travel on Baltic Sea
The device uses two light tube-shaped struts six to nine feet long and about thirteen pounds to skim over water. A wearer recently covered fourteen miles on the Baltic Sea in four hours, demonstrating the sport's potential speed and novelty.
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Baltic
Not Primitive Affair of Australian Sheep Stations
Mrs Hedley Hardman described life on her late husband’s New England NSW sheep stations as comfortable and sociable. Merino flocks grazed on two stations totaling 27 500 acres with electric shears under contract. She noted workers’ cottages, gardens, recreation, and owners’ social life including quail shooting and polo. She spoke in Montreal about Canada and the scenic route from Vancouver.
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Australia
Down Under
Hedley Hardman
New England
New South Wales
Hardman
Sydney
Canada
Vancouver
Rare water plant hunt by McGill professor in Australia
Emeritus botany professor F. E. Lloyd of McGill University has arrived in Queensland to seek Utriculata Tubulata, a carnivorous plant fed on flesh and known from only one prior discovery in 1875. He plans a yearlong search across eight Queensland swamps, after exploring the Dutch East Indies, China, and Central America.
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Queensland
F. E. Lloyd
McGill University
Montreal
Australia
Armitt
Lloyd
Dutch East Indies
China
Central America
Names That Reappear Across Fatal Ship Wates
An authenticated record by Neal O’Hara notes multiple maritime accidents where a Hugh Williams survives or is saved. From the 1663 Menas disaster in the English Channel to the 1889 Leeds ship sinking seven aboard, the sole or saved men in each incident share the name Hugh Williams.
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Neal O'Hara
Hugh Wiliams
Menas
English Channel
Hugh Williams
Isle of Man
Thames
London
Leeds
Sorry He Spoke
A peculiar exchange unfolds in a office where a secretary replies to a visitor seeking the manager. The visitor, described with a striking voice, asks to inform him that his wife wishes to see him, prompting a tense yet humorous moment.
Dining room lighting for carving with preferred knife
A concise note stresses the need for a strong light in the dining room to aid carving tasks and expresses a preference for using a knife for preparation.
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Buckingham
Hardy Bent
King Edward VI
Toronto
Prince of Wales
Digby
London News Chronicle
Ethiopia
Great Britain
United States Navy
Vega
Seattle
United States
Japan
Honduras
Alice Brooks
Ales Brocke Patiere
Don
Australis
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