World Happenings Briefly Told
The Netherlands considered a seven power naval conference this year. Ernest W. Appleby is re-elected president of the Canadian Club of New York for a second term. Ceylon reports 15 833 malaria deaths in April and 2 637 since November. Quebec liquor chief allows beer and wine with meals on holidays and Sundays. James W. Blake, author of the Sidewalks of New York, dies at 72 in St Vincent's Hospital. A Japanese newspaper monoplane heads to Osaka as its empire beat for news gathering. Alberta to spend 225000 on Jasper Lake Louise highway within a 33000000 construction program. Canadian Pacific orders 7000 tons of sails for a South African project at Sydney plant.
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Netherlands
Canadian Club of
New York
Ernest W. Appleby
Ceylon
L. R. Cordeau
Quebec Liquor Commission
James W. Blake
St. Vincent's Hospital
Blake
Osaka
Japan
T. G. Murphy
House of Commons
Jasper-Lake Louise
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
Sydney
Three English Quaker Firms Rise in Cocoa Trade
From the Port o' London Monthly report comes a study of three Quaker cocoa founders. The Frys of the West, the Cadburys in the Midlands, and the Rowntrees of York began in modest shops and grew to global chocolate fame as export and import networks expanded.
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Port O' London
British Empire
Frys
England
Cadburys
Midlands
Rowntrees
York
Society of Friends
Colorful Memorial Man Builds Tulip Garden Tribute
Price of Lattimore North Carolina known as the tulip king created a vast garden of tens of thousands of tulips as a memorial to his son who died overseas in World War I. He planted about 95 000 tulips this year after leaving 5 000 in the ground last year. He also set out 15 000 gladias and planted many amaryllis bulbs.
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San Gideon Price
Lattimore
N.C
Price
Soap making uses air ducts to speed curing
Popular Mechanics explains a process that presses tiny air ducts into soap bars to accelerate drying from the outside and trap air to prevent water ingress. The old method beat air into soap, creating a porous texture. The Quebec Tourist Bureau urges floral displays to attract guests to rural hotels.
Stenographer Won't Quit $25 Job to Wash Dishes Free
A male stenographer refused to abandon a $25 assignment to wash dishes without pay, arguing the work did not justify the extra effort. The incident highlights wage expectations and labor ethics in a small-town setting.
Supremacy Of The Law Duke Sentenced For Fraud
A London court sentence frames the Duke of Manchester to nine months in jail for fraud in Jubilee Week comments on law over crown and caste. The piece notes that even the King must enter court, recalling George V sueing in a London case against a man who believes he is the monarch’s eldest son.
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England
Duke of Manchester
Burke
George V
London
New York Times
Cook Wins Strange Duel At Fortress Goulash Ends Hunger Strike
A group of German Communist agitators interned at Honswijk fortress near Utrecht endured a three day hunger strike. The cook created tempting dishes culminating in a beautiful goulash. After a brief moment of hesitation the Communists ceased their strike and ate. They later became great friends with the cook.
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Honswijk
Holland
Utrecht
Sein
Ants show heredity as they mimic traditional roles
The London Daily Express quotes Professor Dymond of the Ontario Royal Museum arguing ants lack individuality. He contends ants perform fixed, inherited occupations such as soldiers or servants, with no social reform or new ideas, living out ancestral roles in their mounds.
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Dymond
Ontario Royal Museum
London Daily Express
Man Finds $750 in Peanuts Then Returns It
North Attleboro reader Louis De Costerio, a roadhouse waiter, bought 25 cents of peanuts at a candy store. He found a bag containing the day's receipts totaling $750. He returned the money and kept the purchase.
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Louis de Costerio
North Attleboro
Mass
Weag
de Costerio
Real Benefactors Order Radium from Belgian Congo
The Autsut family, among Japan's rich elite, orders five grammes of radium from Belgium Congo for 1,000,000 yen. Four grammes are reserved for the Cancer Institute while one gramme goes to the Physical Research Institute.
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Autsut
Japan
Bel Fian Congo
Cancer Institute
Physical Research Institute
Direct Air Mail First Over The Top Flight Completed
Grant McConachie landed his tri motor plane at Calgary after flying from Kelowna about 300 miles through rain squalls securing the first over the mountain commercial flight from Calgary to Vancouver. The trip carried five passengers and the first aerial mail and express between Vancouver and Calgary via the mountains. The youthful pilot believes daily air service could be operated with ease.
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Grant McConachie
Calgary
Vancouver
United Air Transport
Kelowna
B.C
Conservatively Smart for Summer Days Dress Feature
A fashion note by Ellen Worth describes a light blue beer crepe dress with white organdie collar and raglan sleeves. Pattern No. 532 fits sizes 14 to 40 inches bust, requires specific fabric amounts, and patterns cost 20 cents. Mail orders go to Winnipeg Pattern Department at 175 McDermot Ave. E. The Spring Fashion Magazine offers color fashion pages for cruisers and homebodies alike with items for younger and smaller family members.
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Copenhagen
Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDernot Ave
Winnipeg
Pmaller
Walking Postal Worker Bets on Long Hike Challenge
A Westarner walker nicknamed a walking postal service begins a trek from Waldeck Saskatchewan to win a bet with Mayor H. E. Jenkins. After 7,000 miles he contemplates another 3,000 miles hitching, delivering letters along the way. He last picked up mail in Halifax on the way to Prince Edward Island and back to Waldeck.
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H. E. Jenkins
Waldeck
Sask
Halifax
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Antarctic Once Tropical Says Gould Evidence From Fossils
Prof L M Gould of Carleton College Northfeld Mina told the Royal Society of Canada in Hamilton that fossils show the Antarctic region was tropical in the distant past. He noted the ice loss on mountain peaks and the region’s mineral wealth, including coal, and recalled leading a dogsled expedition from Little America to the Queen Maud mountains in 1928 30.
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Gould
Antarctic
L. M. Gould
Carteton College
Northfeld
Mina
Richard E. Byrd
Royal Society of Canada
Hamilton
Ont
South Pole
Little America
Queen Maud Mountains
Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
A week recipe notes dry mix with 2 cups near four percent salt 2 tablespoons sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons shortening half cup milk and 1 quart berries. Sift dry ingredients mix in shortening add milk to make soft dough bake in a deep cake tin at 475 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Split bake and spread sweetened crushed berries between layers.
Kedgeree Breakfast Dish From Cookery Note
Free the fish from skin and bone. Melt butter in a saucepan add the fish and stir gently. Add rice whites of hard cooked eggs and season to taste with salt and pepper. Move gently over the fire until hot and serve on a flat dish with pressed yolk of eggs over the top.
Retains Its Freshness In Frozen Sweet Corn
Government agricultural experts report that sweet corn frozen within four hours of picking stays fresh for six months to a year. Rapid gathering, grading, busking, scalding and cooling precede freezing to preserve flavor and texture for future serving. Paris announces a plan for an International City of Thought and the Arts.
British WWI Soldiers Buried in Fort Worth Cemetery
A tribute honored the only British Great War soldiers buried in the United States at Greenwood cemetery Fort Worth Texas. Several score people gathered as flags of the British Empire and United States draped the central monument marking the graves of 11 men and the infant daughters of a British soldier. The soldiers were Canadians from the Royal Flying Corps in training at Benbrook field when they died.
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United States
Greenwood
Fort Worth
Texas
British Empire
Royal Flying Corps
Benbrook Feld
Balcyon Gaye and the Quiet Sea During Solstice
Ancient accounts describe the Balcyon bird of the kingfisher family nesting on waves near the winter solstice. The sea is said to remain calm and peaceful in this period, giving rise to the term Balcyon Gaye meaning times of peace and tranquility.
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Venerea
Fluorine: a tale of discovery and use in glass etching
The text explains fluorine’s name from sea water compounds, its active chemistry, and discovery by a French scientist. It notes its pale yellow gas form and explosive reaction with hydrogen, its presence in bones teeth blood and animals, and its industrial use in etching glass with hydrofluoric acid kept in resistant bottles. wax masking surfaces guides etched designs.
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Ars
Moiagon
Giamonda
Charcoettte
Cectias Iyais
Brantford Man Claims Holy Grail Found In Vessel
May end search after George B. Bremner shows an olive wood vessel he says is the original Holy Grail. He cites a Christian Jew in Jerusalem who claims the Grail passed through Pontius Pilate to a Roman officer, then to his own family. The tale links to Joseph of Arimathea and Glastonbury and Arthurian legends.
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Brantford
Ont
George B. Bremner
Bremner
Jerusalem
Pontius Pilate
Joseph of
Arithemea
Christ
Joseph
Glastonbury Abbey
England
Arthur
Knights of the Round Table
Greenwich Clock Overhauled After Eight Year Run
Greenwich Observatory will overhaul its clock that provides Greenwich Mean Time after eight and a half years without stopping. The device, recording 268 million ticks at one per second, may have minor wear. Officials will rely on three other master clocks to supply time signals during the maintenance period.
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Greenwich
Greenwich Observatory
Observatory
Amelia Earhart Aims to Match All Men’s Aviation Records
Amelia Earhart addressed hundreds of listeners declaring she will keep flying until she has matched every aviation record set by men. She emphasized her ambition to equal male achievements and continue advancing beyond them.
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Amelia Earhart
Ocean
Hunred
Miss Earhart
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Quebec Tourist Bureau
Cook
Italy
Arabia
Suez Canal
Avion
Danio
Mount
St Eloi
Jimmy
40Th
Villers Au Bois
Canada
Vieh
Pierde
Somme
Old Vinny
Betty Barclay
Paris
International City of Thought and the Arts
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