Leaders and Critics in a Time of Postwar Strife
Leaders across nations endure heavy strain after the Great War as they strive to restore order and progress. Ramsay MacDonald, R. B. Bennett, Hoover, Roosevelt and others shoulder vast duties, face health risks, and confront harsh criticism from demagogues, while a recent piece mocks leaders by citing Moses, Christ, and Lincoln as failures yet ignores history.
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Europe
Ramsay MacDonald
Canada
Hon
R. B. Bennett
Hoover
Roosevelt
Ndt
Moses
Christ
Pym
Abraham Lincoln
Ottawa
Bennett
King
Hog grading totals in Canada 1935 15 weeks end May 2
The report shows 383,604 hogs graded alive at stock yards, 700,726 at packing plants, and 21,652 by car cans, totaling 1,115,082 for 15 weeks of 1935. The 1934 period counted 1,160,223 hogs. In Europe during Aurignacian Old Stone Age about 60,000 years ago, men averaged a little over six feet.
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Canada
Europe
Dominion government seeks to set aside Canadian incubator patent
In a case in the exchequer court the Dominion of Canada acts through Sule Swepping for Canadian poultry farmers to cancel the Smith Incubator Company of Cleveland patent granting exclusive Canadian manufacture rights. Gowling Ottawa barrister filed a writ for the government challenging the patent's validity.
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Dominion
Exchequer
Smith Incubator Company
Cleveland
Canada
G. C. Gowling
Ottawa
Roughly Handled Toads That Play Dead In Silent Breath
A fragment notes toads that feign death with such stillness their breathing movements appear entirely suspended. The observation highlights the duration and mechanism of this survival behavior in amphibians.
Global periodical print volumes rise from four thousand to ninety thousand
A century ago only about 4,000 newspapers and magazines were published worldwide, but today the figure has swelled to roughly 90,000 titles. This shows a dramatic expansion of print media across markets and languages.
Silver Jubilee Gift Houses Royal Household Members Build For King
A house near Burnhill Surrey on Lord Ten estate is gifted as a Silver Jubilee present to King George. Architect C Beresford Marshall, a 36 year old designer, and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott consulted on a design blending American Colonial style. Warrant Holders Association members, serving the royal household with goods, display the royal coat of arms at their stores.
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George
Royal
C. Beresford Marshall
London
Marshall
Burnhil
Surrey
Lord Ten
Ing
Giles Gilbert Scott
Royal Institute of British Architects
Theing
Indigestion Relief Reported With Kruschen Salts
A reader shares relief from years of indigestion after using Kruschen Salts. He describes misery after meals, loss of appetite, and back pain, then notes quick improvement and a renewed, lighter feeling. The ad claims Kruschen stimulates gastric juices and promotes daily waste elimination.
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Kruschen
W. B
Saskatchewan Drama League votes in Saskatoon officers
W. T. Keag of Regina Theatre En Thusiast was elected president of the Saskatchewan Drama League for the coming season. Mrs. Stanley Edwards of Saskatoon becomes first vice president and J. M. Sinclair of Regina named second vice president. Doris W. Hopkins and William Reid of Regina are secretary and treasurer. Retiring president Mrs. R. Myers of Saskatoon joins the advisory board.
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W. T. Keag
Regina
Saskatchewan Drama League
Saskatoon
Stanley Edwards
J. M. Sinlair
Doris W. Hopkins
William Reid
R. Myers
League
Health screening for air travelers proposed by Hull official
Mr M Cadman of Hull England urged in a conference that future air passengers be treated like livestock at port of departure. He said people would not be allowed to travel unless they carried a clean bill of health in documentary form to prevent diseases spreading globally by airplanes.
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M. Cadman
Hull
England
Fruit-a-tives Relief Claim By Veteran Isaac Booth
Isaac P. Booth of 70 Wayiana Ave reports quick relief from constipation after using Fruit-a-tives. He notes the product stopped bothering him unless he takes Pantene pretinamencaden revues.
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Isaac P. Booth
Wayiana Ave
Scheme To Bring Rain By A French Meteorologist
Bernard J. Dubos of the Meteorological Society of France proposes a tall steel and concrete funnel to force water vapor into the upper air, creating a vacuum core to induce rains over a wide area. The plan requires 10 million dollars for materials and construction, a sum hard to raise, but researchers pursue rain from clouds despite skepticism.
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Renchman
Bernard J. Dubos
Meteorological Society of France
Dubos
Handicraft Show Opens Aboard Cunard Liner Ascania
The Hon. William J P McMillan will open a Canadian Handicrafts Guild exhibition aboard the Cunard White Star liner Ascania in port beside Shed No 2. Colonel Wilfred A Bovey announces the event showcasing textiles to wrought iron pieces and old Canadian furniture from Montreal.
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William Joseph Parnell McMillan
FACS
Prince Edward Island
Canadian Handicrafts Guild
Cunard
Wilfred A. Bovey
McMillan
Guild
Montreal
McGill University
Asania
Shed No. 2
Four Dollar Bill Shown as Rare Exhibit in Port Arthur Shop
In a Cumberland street shop window a Canadian four dollar bill is displayed as a rarity. The bill’s origin traceable to an error showing the Michigan Soo Locks picture, later corrected after Ottawa was alerted. The note’s rarity stems from this historical mismatch and limited circulation.
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Port Arthur
Ottawa
Timed Heritage Faces Loss of Tokyo Clock Collection
Japan fears the Takatayashi collection of ancient clocks and related books at the Tokyo Museum of Science may soon leave the country. An American bidder reached 15000 dollars, boosted by a British resident in Kobe, though no sale is believed to have occurred. European and American collectors could drive up prices if the sale becomes widely known.
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Thisuc Seame
Europe
America
Ethiopia Abolishes Serfdom Under New Decree
Emperor Haile Selassie issued a decree abolishing serfdom across Ethiopia and equalizing land taxation. The announcement quoted crowds praising the move and calling it advancing Ethiopia a thousand years in civilization. Slavery had persisted as forced labor and debt peonage despite international moves against the trade.
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Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
League of Nations
Scouts From Many Lands Visit Poland For Scout Jubilee
Five thousand Boy Scouts from various nations will converge on Apala Poland this summer to mark the 25th anniversary of the Polish Scout movement. Delegations from the United States Great Britain France Belgium Holland and Scandinavian and Slavonic countries will attend. General Baden Powell's deputy will represent the founder.
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Poland
Apala
Boy Scout Movement
United States
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Baden-Powell
Scout
Open Golf Tournament at Moots in Fonthill Ontario
Lookout Point Golf Club president Alan Brooks announces the General Brock Hotel Open Tournament at Moots in Fonthill on July 11 12 and 13. The event aims for large international participation with course and clubhouse improvements including longer tees aproned greens reinforced bridge and roped off greens. Catering under Vernon G Cardy and extensive preparations mark the lead up to the championship.
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Alan Brooks
K.C
Lookout Point Golf Club
Moots
America
Fam
B. L. Anderson
Vernon G. Cardy
General Brock Hotel
The Jackpine: Michigan’s Reforestation Ally
The lowly jackpine thrives where other conifers fail and aids reforestation after fires. Cheerfulness is contagious. Ex pose people to it and they will con tract it.
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Michigan
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Abe
Ksectea Rresaent
English Air Lines
Ascania
China
Smiths
Joneses
Chens
Shanghai
Woo
Koo
Ding
Dong
Big Ben
Japan
Fonthill, Ont
Faculty of Dentistry
Nathan Frank Gropper
Hird
neUalue
Donaldson
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