Winter Fire Toll on Prairies 1935 36 Warned by Officials
A Canada prairie study warns that the 1935 36 winter will bring many fire deaths and vast property losses. Gasoline coal oil and defective heating cause most fatalities and three provinces Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba face yearly losses of about 2.25 million dollars from 3,000 buildings. Officials urge precautions and safer use of fuels and heating devices to reduce needless tragedies.
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King Winter
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Prairie Provinces
Ear defenders aid noisy British factory workers
The article notes workers in loud British factories are to be supplied with ear defenders for well being and safety. It also mentions the Cullinan diamond cut into nine large stones and over 100 small ones, Linnaeus creating a floral clock, zigzag lightning being myth, a right heart prevalence of one in 30 000, and a quip about a wife coming from a very large family.
Vacuum concrete revolution shown at Yale labs
Engineers and officials witnessed Karl Billner’s vacuum concrete method that removes excess water instantly after pouring, compresses the mix to dense, crack resistant material, and promises faster drying times up to twenty minutes. The technique aims to strengthen dams bridges piers roads foundations and tall buildings.
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Yale University Laboratories
Karl Paul Biller
New York City
Duff A
Billner
Bilmer
Britain's Oldest Woman Hosts Tea Party at 110
Mrs. Caroline Merriott, believed Britain’s oldest woman, celebrated her 110th birthday at Mayday Hospital Croydon with a tea party. She remains mentally sharp, eats three meals daily, drinks tea in pint portions, and recalls events from the Crimean War to the Coronation of Queen Victoria. Born near Waterloo, she has been married twice, with her second husband dying in 1906, and worked in a laundry until age 85.
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Britain
Caroline Merriott
Mayday Hospital
Croydon
Merriott
Tooting Corner
Waterloo
Queen Victoria
News of the World
Trans Atlantic Air Service Craft May Enter Trials Next Year
Imperial Airways Limited reports two radically different planes are under construction for trans Atlantic service. Sir Eric Geddes says one craft could be ready for experimental flights next year and advocates UK US cooperation to establish regular Europe to North America air service. Modern Shanghai housing project aims to shelter about 100000 slum residents. Four model units will each house 300 homes in rows of six with a school tea house cooperative store and public bath. Siam reforms ease divorce via new marriage laws.
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Imperial Airways Limited
Trans
Shanghai
Ancient silver ring found in Vancouver garden sparks BC history debate
A heavy silver ring unearthed six feet deep in A. Speir's Vancouver garden prompts BC history students to debate its origin. The undecorated band shows a lead-inset front, suggesting heat setting, with shell and glass fragments on the log prior to discovery. Theories range from Indian or miner to premodern Chinese use centuries before whites arrived.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
A. Speir
Marvels Of Surgery Improve Limbs Of Crippled Children
Surgeons described to the American College of Surgeons a technique to straighten and strengthen limbs in crippled children. Leroy C. Abbott and Frederick C. Best of the University of California reported on a 13 year old girl with leg deformity from birth brain injury. Nerves to faulty muscles were severed to reduce spasm and muscles lengthened by tendon operation to relieve the bent position.
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American College of Surgeons
Leroy C. Abbott
Frederick C. Best
University of California Medical School
Westerner Obtains Honour Vancouver Youth Is First Merchant Service Midshipman Pilot
Cadet Captain Walter R. N. Sturdy of Vancouver has become the first merchant service midshipman in the British Empire to enroll for aviation and win a pilot's A license. He left on the Empress of Japan for the Orient with CPR for three years. Training for cadets occurs on HMS Conway in Liverpool and at Hooton aerodrome. Sturdy nearly set a solo flight record, achieving 5 hours 20 minutes against the 12 hour requirement.
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Vancouver
Merchant Service
British Empire
Walter R. N. Sturdy
Orient
CPR
HMS. Conway
Liverpool
Hooton
Sturdy
British Air Ministry
Military Roads Super Highways To Be Built In Germany
A plan for a vast network of super highways in Germany moves forward with a 19 mile initial Berlin stretch in two suburbs as part of a circular route around Berlin. Foreign experts rate the project as highly significant for military and southern traffic, noting Germany’s wartime lessons on communication facilities.
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Germany
Berlin
Sight Restored Woman Regains Sight After Toronto Quake
Sixty three year old Mrs Kate Mitchell regained full sight after a Toronto earthquake shook her King street home. For three years she had seen only shadows and needed assistance to leave her house. She described the tremor as a message from heaven and thanked God for restoring her vision.
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Toronto
Kate Mitchell
Ashe ‘Tereed
King Street
Utica Woman’s British Guiana Stamp Fails at Auction
The Wor sarcer ann most valuable stamp, a British Guiana one cent owned by Mrs Costa Scala of Utica New York, drew no bidders at a £7500 opening price about $37500. It carried £10000 insurance.
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British Guiana
Costa Scala
Utica
Fashion Fancies Patterns for Children Fall Wardrobe
Don’t you think this is ad dress for little school-age daughter. It won’t catch on her nose or muss her hair up. One pattern uses wine-red ground cotton with white pique collar and cuffs. Also wool jersey in pottery rust with white collar. Style No. 756 fits ages 4 to 10 requiring yardage. Patterns 15¢ each. Mail orders to Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Send for Fall and Winter Fashion Magazine to assemble family outfits.
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Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Palm Reader Quip and Water Use Note in Dairy Context
A playful exchange questions mind readers versus palm readers with a pun about palms. The text notes dairy com uses about eleven and a half tons of water annually, followed by a terse line about gratitude and an odd number 2128.
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Dairy Com
German camera promises near real time Olympic race film
The device can shoot 100 exposures per second and record time to the finish with a clock mechanism marking every one hundredth of a second. Film reaches display ten minutes after capture, aiding officials at Berlin 1936 and Los Angeles. Dual stereoscopic lenses in red and green render more vivid images, improving judging accuracy and fairness.
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Los Angeles
Devic
Terrifying Death Ray Claimed by Danish Engineer
Copenhagen reports that M. Ravn, a Danish engineer, says he received a private invitation to test an electric death ray in England. He claims the device can cause aircraft to explode up to 60 miles away, with tests contingent on high electric potential and risk. He believes an effective apparatus could be produced in six months and cites use against aircraft in the early World War. Kwangtung, China, is expanding its railway system.
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England
Copenhagen
M. Ravn
M. Rava
Why at 40 You Think You're Growing Old
At about age 40, many people feel tired with headaches stomach upsets dizziness and nausea. Scientists say excess stomach acidity causes many cases. Neutralize it with Phillips Milk of Magnesia after meals and before bed. Try Phillips Milk of Magnesia tablets or liquid for relief.
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Kwangtung
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