Royal Hussars Promotion and World Briefs
The Duke of Gloucester is promoted to major in the 10th Royal Hussars. Glasgow hosts hospitality for the Cans-Gian Bissey team. The Birth House of Commons adjourns August 2 with no spring election plans. A prison “electric chair” killed 375, four women. G M Huggins hints at a United States of Africa. Belfast riots reopen stores and factories. Harold Sutherland, 17, Westville, first piper on television visits Charlotte Town. Manitoba barley field day discusses crops and marketing. Military police observe a new mystery ray off an overseas army reservation.
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Duke of Gloucester
Royal Hussars
Cans- Gian Bissey
Glasgow
Scotland
House of Commons
Sing Bing
Cape
East Africa
United States of Africa
G. M. Huggins
Southern Rhodesia
Belfast
Harold Sutherland
Westville
N.S
Service Club
Charlottetown
Sutherland
Canada
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg
National Barley Committee
United States
Record Of Publisher Lord Atholstan Has Served Montreal Star For 66 Years
Lord Atholstan, publisher of the Montreal Star and other Montreal papers, is eighty seven and active in public commentary. He has spent sixty six years with the Star, leading with weekly circulation around a quarter million. Born Hugh Graham on July 5 1848 in Atholstan Huntingdon County, he moved to Montreal and started the Star amid a crowded press scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Atholstan
Montreal Star
Montreal Stan‘dard
Montreal
Canada
Quebec
Weekly Star
Hugh Graham
Atholstan
Huntingdon County
Star
Metropolis
Sherbrooke Record
Governor Eugene Talmadge Teases Hard Life of Editors
The Georgia governor and newspaper editor in Atlanta laments the tough, unpaid hours of newsroom work. He notes keeping a paper afloat is difficult and stresses the grind behind compelling news and debt-free operation. A note mentions a London archive preserving famous voices including auctioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Talmadge
Atlanta
Georgia
Dalai Lama Chosen After Long Search for Tibetan Baby Successor
A seven member commission narrowed a field of twenty infant candidates to six, selected by the Grand Lamas in Lhasa for final choice as the new Dalai Lama. The infant, after anointment and ritual, is separated from his mother with wealth granted to her, and receives rigorous schooling for his sacred role. Tibet is a vast plateau, its size and height highlighted alongside other world facts. also includes assorted unrelated snippets and fake headlines from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ganges
Dalai Lama
Tibet
France
Siberia
Mont Blante
The Joys Of Motoring Toronto Man Had Plenty Of Grief
A Toronto man narrates a string of misadventures involving a tight parking spot, a coal truck, and a stray cigarette. He floods Yonge Street with five tons of coal, then causes a back seat fire that spreads to a hay field before volunteers extinguish the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Yonge Street
Toronto Telegram
Rubber Industry Growth Surges Worldwide in Early 20th Century
The piece notes phenomenal rubber growth this century led by British Malaya producing 465,765 tons last year, about half the world supply. It cites rubber exports from British Malaya rising to 229,640,000 dollars in ten months of 1934 from the prior year, with 3,135,000 acres under rubber last year. Imports from Canada up 30 percent in 1934, driven by motor cars and other goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Malaya
Industrial Department
Canadian National Railways
Canada
Recipes For This Week Round Steak Cakes
A recipe uses 1 lb round steak 1 cup breadcrumbs 1 egg 1 tsp onion juice 4 1 2 tsp salt pepper milk to moisten. grind beef four to five times then mix with ingredients form small cakes about 1 inch thick fry until browned. Make gravy with fat and flour then creamy sauce with 1 2 cup milk 2 tbsp flour return cakes and simmer serves about eight.
Dried Apricot and Pineapple Jam Recipe
Step by step guide for making fruit jam with dried apricots and crushed pineapple. Includes preparation with water soak, grinding fruit, combining with sugar and pectin, boiling to a rolling boil, skimming, and ladling into jars. Yields about eleven glasses of jam.
Fortune Plays Strange Tricks in Calcutta Jubilee Dip
Fortune has played queer tricks on prize winners in Calcutta India. A bald business man drew a ticket for a free permanent wave while a poverty stricken coolie won a cookier taker. An Indian cook earned a prize to dine free with a friend at a palatial hotel.
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Fortune
Calcutta
India
Montreal Worker Completes 550 Mile Solo Canoe Trip
Ida Lyman a 22 year old Montreal social worker completed a solo 550 mile voyage from Montreal to New York in a 15 foot Eskimo kayak. She endured storms and rapids including the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain as the first to make the journey single handed. Lyman built her cockleshell craft two years ago and returned to Montreal by air.
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New York
Ida Lyman
Montreal
Lake Champlain
Une
Bill Bye
George
Atiss Lyman
Denmark
Richeliu
Miss Lyman
Aviation official foresees safe novice flight planes
Eugene Vidal, federal director, noted at the 1935 All American Aircraft show that despite industry doubt a $700 airplane could soon reach the market. He praised several experimental designs built under bureau orders, claiming at least three projects show promising safety with novice pilots, featuring self-landing and stall-free handling after minimal instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Vidal
Vidal
Bureau
Town Crier Post Ends In Cromer England
The Cromer town crier post, held by R. H. Laurence, has ended as town crying fades. The job paid little with $3 weekly in summer and near zero in winter, the century old bell silenced, and newspapers and radio blamed for the decline.
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England
Cromer
R. H. Laurence
Rier
Laurence
Nurse Florence Nightingale Fiancé Revealed in Ontario Archive
University of Western Ontario received books and papers from Thomas Connor detailing Rev. John Smithurst of Ontario who died in 1867. Smithurst, born in Derbyshire, was once engaged in youth to Florence Nightingale but their match ended due to family objections. Smithurst later became a Canadian missionary while Nightingale rose to global nursing fame.
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Florence Nightingale
University of Western Ontario
London
Thomas Connor
God Trich
John Smithurst
Ori
Ontaro
Derbyshire
England
Mies
Smithurst
Canada
Cee
No Doubt About it Tho Up Your Nanass Pig Boy
A speaker with a gun orders the other to raise his hands and insists he cannot resist. The victim replies you can, while noting the assailant claims he has automatics and appears to be the stronger. The exchange ends with the victim surrendering and acknowledging the power imbalance.
Pattern Book Note from Vourdhal Prt. Mentioning Alice Brooks
Vourdhal parts confirm no pattern book by Alice Brooks published. The terse note indicates absence of an Alice Brooks pattern book in current publication records.
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Alice Brooks
Homemade Waterfall Scheme Brings Saxony Man Income
Herr Franz Donath of Lichtenhain profits from a 15 foot waterfall on his property by damming the creek above the bank, charging 10 pfennigs for a roar show. Visitors pay daily, a sluice release ends the spectacle in under a minute, providing a comfortable living.
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Saxony
Franz Donath
Lichtenhain
Praise For The Press Guide In Municipal Affairs
Finance expert Thomas Bradshaw praised the press as best at remedying municipal defects and guiding councils during the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association convention in Toronto. Chinese art treasures loaned by the Chinese government will stay under guard at Burlington House London before a fall exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bradshaw
Associa
Toronto
Charles
A. Barber
Chilliwack
B.C
Chemistry of Bases and Their Common Uses
The passage explains common alkalis such as sodium hydroxide caustic soda potassium hydroxide caustic potash calcium hydroxide slaked lime and ammonium hydroxide ammonia water. It describes preparation uses in soap making skin removal from fruit lime water tests carbon dioxide, milk of magnesia and other properties, with practical notes on indicators and lime-soda preparations.
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Posen Ie
Magnesia
Blind Are Good Swimmers at New Chorleywood Pool
Blind girls at Chorleywood college Hertford Eng learn to dive using their toes instead of sight guided by touch. An official of the National Institute of the Blind calls swimming a favored exercise for the blind and notes the girls’ cool grace leaping from a six foot board. The college educates those who are totally blind or have extremely limited vision.
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Viscountess Hampden
Chorleywood College
Hertford
Eng
The
National Institute of the Blind
Chorleywood
One paper mill in Egypt makes cardboard for cigarettes
An old practice continues with a single mill in Alexandria producing cardboard from waste paper and rags to satisfy strong demand for cigarette box stock. The plant uses locally sourced materials to manufacture the packaging material.
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Egypt
Alexandria
Roman customs of shaving beards at twenty one
An ancient Roman practice required men to shave their beards at age twenty one and present the beard to household gods as an offering. After this rite the beard could be grown again only as a sign of mourning.
Famous horse Prince of Royal Artillery dies at 18
Prince, the cream-coated rum-horse of the Royal Artillery mounted band, collapsed during Jubilee Review rehearsals at Aldershot. An exam at the veterinary hospital confirmed hopeless condition and the horse was humanely killed. Prince was 18 and well known to the King and Queen.
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Royal Artillery Mounted Band
Aldershot Veterinary Hospital
Prince
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Broadcasting House
Britain
Queen Mary
Victoria
Mary Augusta
Louise Olga
Pauline Claudine
Agnes Wind
Italy
Mussolini Barca —Thomas
Detroit News
Betty Barclayy
Vourdhal Prt
China
Ute
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