Travelling clinics fixed teeth for thousands of children
World happenings briefed from across Canada and beyond note: over 3,500 school children in Mani toba’s unorganized districts received dental care via travelling clinics in 1985. Other items announce a new super-silencer, a Canadian gold production forecast, a Soviet demand to Japan on fishing, an ancient mastodon remnant found near Hillsboro NB, optometry act revisions, and a large butter shipment by rail to Great Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Is Tefanis
Canada
Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Hon
T. A. Crerar
Dominion
Japan
Kamchatka Peninsula
Siberia
Alberta
N. P. McLean
Quebec
North
Hudson's Straits
Straits of
Belle Isle
Vancouver
Saskatchewan
Great Britain
Butter Awards Biggest Creamery Show Ever Put On At Calgary Exhibition
Manitoba creameries won 29 prizes in May including four firsts and 18 seconds, with Alberta taking 27 prizes and six firsts. In June butter awards, Manitoba had 36 firsts and 25 seconds, Alberta 28 seconds but no thirds. Stetler Creamery led overall for 1939 two-class score, while St Lazare and Northern Alberta Dairy Pool tied for second. entries also came from Saskatchewan, BC and Quebec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Manitoba
Alberta
Stettler Creamery
St. Lazare
Mra
H.C. Taylor
Drought Lowers Underground Water in Dakotas Montana Wyoming
The U S Geological Survey begins an intensive study of water table declines in the Dakotas Montana and Wyoming as drought stretches across the region. George Farrell says the drop is very serious even though the drought area is smaller than in 1934. Oscar Meinzer notes field teams will cooperate with army engineers to study fluctuations and plans may include surface reservoir construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Geological Survey
Dakotas
Montana
Wyoming
George Farrell
Western Regional Aaa
Washington
Hhe
Oscar Meinzer
Geological Survey
Army Engineers
American Geophysical Union
Soviet schools purge advanced teaching methods and pedology
The Communist party ordered elimination of advanced and scientific teaching in Soviet schools and the abolition of pedology. The central committee condemned pedology as bourgeois and racial class theory, announcing reorganization of special segregated schools and the end of mass questionnaires and exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communist Party
French psychologists seek last chance to identify living unknown soldier
After nineteen years with no usable memory, the Lyons wanderer known as Mangin remains unnamed. French doctors, aided by three eminent psychologists, aim to finally establish his identity in Paris as crowd-sourced efforts from across France have failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Mangin
Lyons
France
Halifax Sends Parchment Roll to Nova Scotia City
Greetings from Halifax England extend to Halifax Nova Scotia with a parchment scroll presented in the council chamber. The ceremonial address arrived aboard the Queen Mary and was given to Mayor Cragg. The Empire State Building is cited as a wind-sway comparison in the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
England
Nova Scotia
West Riding
York
Buckingham Palace possibly sold for building use in London
Reports indicate Buckingham Palace and its 40 acre grounds could be sold for 15 million dollars with part of the grounds kept as a public pleasure ground. A city of London syndicate is linked to the plan as surrounding streets have become office and business centers. Also noted are Montreal potato market prices and Alberta potato shipment values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Residence
Buckingham Palace
England
City of
George
York House
St. James
Crochet This Bag and Sailor Summer Set Pattern
Crochet this sailor styled hat and bag set from pattern 343. Easy stitches explained with blocking and alternating plain and rib stitch. Complete instructions and illustration available for 20 cents from Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave E
Winnipeg
Haile Selassie faces exile yet holds firm to crown
The New York Sun reflects on Haile Selassie’s interview with Captain Eden, noting his refusal to abdicate and vow to fight for Ethiopia despite Italian conquest. It contrasts Eden’s view of resistance as tribal separatism with Selassie’s pledge to endure, while mentioning Swiss counsel against long exile. The piece praises his unbroken spirit and kingly bearing amid looming disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painon
Haile Selassie
Anthony Eden
Haile
Richard II
Shakespeare
Captain Eden
Lion of Judah
Ethiopia
Eden
Geneva
League of Nations
Switzerland
New York Sun
Hindenburg's British Crossings Spark Press Anxiety
British newspapers discuss the German airship Hindenburgs routes over Great Britain and Canada. The Daily Express notes four voyages crossing industrial Midlands areas and naval shipyards along the Channel coast. In Canada the ship hovered near Prince Edward Island and ports Saint John and Halifax, both ice free and with dry docks for warships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Hindenburg
Britain
Canada
Daily Express
Midlands
Channel
Prince Edward Island
Saint John
Halifax
Canadian
Construction Work Over Nine Million Dollars Expended On New Dwellings In 1884
Do minion Bureau of Statistics shows that in 1994 expenditures on new dwellings in Canada amounted to 9 207 913 dollars. If average home value was five thousand dollars about 1 840 homes could be built on fifty foot lots along both sides of a nine mile avenue. Ontario led with homes followed by Quebec and then other provinces. Roads and highways accounted for the largest single construction spendings, with total new construction nearly 116 million dollars and repairs and alterations over 70 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Alberta
Nova Scotia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Saskatchewan
Gold production value eyed at two hundred million
Hon A Crerar and Hon C D Howe addressed Sault board of trade before visiting Michipicoten and Goudreau mining areas. Crerar cited Canada’s mineral output at 22 million dollars and gold production at 16 million dollars last year while noting Ontario mining helps bridge eastern and western Canada as agriculture remains first. He predicted mineral production could surpass agriculture in the next decade or so.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
A. Crerar
Dominion
C. D. Howe
Sault Board of Trade
Michipicoten
Goudreau
Mr. Crerar
Italy Will Steadily Build New Empire in Ethiopia
Count Giuseppe Volpi, named by Premier Mussolini to organize industry in the Ethiopian project, outlines six guiding principles for a calm expansion. He stresses advance preparation, private enterprise with no monopolies, a controlled pace, no black army, and using natives as workers while safeguarding racial purity. Volpi cites coffee, cotton, wool and mineral resources as promising sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Ethiopia
Guiseppe Volpi
Mussolini
Count Volpt
Volpi
Long Distance Voice Breads 9000 Miles From Philadelphia
Kelvin Rogers three, who came from Australia to have a nail removed from his lung, used short wave to greet his father and dog Briar in Australia. His voice traveled 9000 miles to Melbourne, where his father and dog listened as the nail removal proof was demonstrated by dropping a metal tray. A quotation about leadership concludes the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelvin Rogers
Philadelphia
Australia
Melbourne
Briar
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Bitar Caies
Conrad J. Osman
Hillsboro
Cmansavy
Soviet Union
King Kong
Peter Vennot
House of Commons
Bathurst, N.B
Empire State Building
New York
Grosvenor Place
Grosvenor Gardens
Buckingham Palace Rd
Montreal
Ousehold Ae
Alice Brooks
Tye
Canadian Pacific Railway
Wominian
H. J. Main
John Queen
John Bracken
W. J. Tupper
K.C
W. M. Neal
Western
Mayor Queen
Bracken
Neal
James Gooderham
Canadian Pacific
J. St. Leger Maginn
Andrew Murdoch
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