Queen Mary Sport of Speed Myth Debunked by Times
The Times challenges fan belief that the Queen Mary will reclaim North Atlantic speed supremacy in the May 21 Canaed-White Star voyage. It notes the liner prioritizes safety, size, and advanced devices over sheer speed, stressing luxury as a secondary option and highlighting innovations like radio searchlights, infrared detectors, echo sounders, and automated fire suppression.
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Atlantic
Cunard Steamship Company
Mauretania
Italy
North Atlantic
Great Britain
Clyde
Bank
London Times
Times
the Times
Peareecin
Southampton
New York
Pearson's Weekly
New Uniform Calendar Plan Proposes 13-Month Year
A Rev. Wilhelm backed scheme seeks a 13 month year with 28 day months and 965 days yearly. It keeps weekdays fixed to calendar dates, adds a leap day every four years, and designates January 1 as an international bea with January 2 a Sunday. Five business holidays would occur yearly on January 1 and other quarter-start dates. Good Friday would fall on April 7 and Easter Monday on April 9 if adopted.
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Wilhelm
Bea
Revival After Near-Death on Operating Table
The British Medical Journal describes Ernest Hinsley, about 15, of Waterloo Ashton, who briefly died on the operating table. Dr Fiddlan performed chest massage and injected intra-cardial adrenaline, which produced an immediate, dramatic return of heart activity. Hinsley recovered his heartbeat though memory loss remained.
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British Medical Journal
Ernest Hinsley
Waterloo
Asthon
Hiney
Ecole Sedison
Willy
World's Smallest Book Sells in London Published in 1992
A copper plate produced verses edition measuring a quarter inch by three eighths inch weighs a grain and a quarter. Bound in leather in London, the text by EF Thompson prints from antique plates, readable only with magnification. Printing faced vibration challenges in Worcester during 1992 production.
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Beck
London
Thompson
Worster
Massachusetts
Distribution of Jews Population by Region and Countries
World Jewish population stands at 16,240,000 with 5,000,000 in the Americas. The United States holds 4,450,000, Poland 3,150,000, and Soviet Russia 3,080,000. Jewish numbers have risen by 1,300,000 in the past decade. Argentina is noted for its vast forest area of 200,000 square miles.
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Americas
Jewish Scientific Institute
United States
Poland
Soviet Russia
Argentina
Fragmented Cry for Help in Jumbled Wake Up Text
A garbled message presents as a chaotic jumble about waking the liver bile and spouting phrases. It includes disjointed names and terms, lacking clear events, entities, or a coherent news context. The readable content is too fragmented to extract a concrete news item or identifiable subjects.
Deaf University Graduate Completes Murals and Teaches
Born deaf and mute Hillis Arnold, a University of Minnesota engineering student turned muralist, has learned speech through lip reading and completed a three year mural project. His mother taught him to imitate lips and tones, enabling clear communication. He now works as a muralist instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Fouth
Hillis Arnold
University of Minnesota
A. L. Arnold
Hillis
University
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Building Flying Boats Denial Airways Plan Glimpse
More than 1,000 skilled workers in Rochester England build giant flying boats for world wide service under Imperial Airways. Two decks plus crew and passenger spaces, four 740 hp engines, top speed near 200 mph, cruising 155 mph, with room for 24 day passengers and 10 sleeping berths.
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Denial Airways
Rochester
England
Iimperial Alyways
Jana
Lering
Cherry Filled Jelly Roll Bake with Cinnamon Glaze
A recipe instructs draining cherries and making a hot syrup with Crown Brand Corn Syrup sugar and water, then rolling tea biscuit dough with cherries, cinnamon, and butter, baking in a hot oven. A limburger cheese sniffing contest occurred in Monroe Wisconsin in 1985.
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Monroe
Wis
Canadians Should Seek Artful New Coin Designs
The Montreal Star argues that with King Edward VIIIs coronation Canada should invite artists to submit coin designs to replace the current unattractive mint issue. It criticizes the maple wreath and warns that newer nations prize beauty in coinage. It urges competent Dominion artists to compete for a more representative and proud Canadian coinage.
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Edward Viti
Canada
Empire
United States
Dominion
Montreal
Star
London's First Film Show Forty Years Ago Return
London's first moving pictures were shown again at the Polytechnic Cinema to mark the 40th anniversary of cinema in the country. The original Lumiere projector was used and audiences viewed iconic scenes from the era including Trewey on the vereen and Louis Lumiere’s family. Features ranged from St James's Palace guard changes to beach scenes, a wall collapse, and a French Carabiniers charge, with a quaint motor car comedy and newsreel progress. Cecil Hepworth’s funerals of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII were shown, recalling past camera anxieties and a king halting a procession for filming. A humorous exchange about ethics and a Hudson car was noted, alongside seedless watermelons from horticultural experiments.
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London
Polytechnic Cinema
M. Lumiere
Trewey
Louis Lumiere
St. James’ Palace
Queen Victoria
King Edward VII
Cecil Hepworth
Victoria
Edward
Safe use of aspirin health warning from Bayer
Read to consult your doctor before taking any pain remedy. The warning notes aspirin’s historic safety record for headaches and general pain, stresses medical guidance, and urges checking the Bayer Bayer logo tablet form. It emphasizes aspirin as a fast relief option but advises medical confirmation.
Three Dimensional Animated Car Toons Announced
Max Fleischer, pioneer of animated cartoons, says three dimensional car toons will be shown with regular projectors without gadgets. The project, claimed to be past experiments, will release full length animated car toons in six months using foreshortened camera perspective and a special lens.
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Max Fleischer
Fleischer
Floods Linked to Sun Spots Says Planetarium Director
Dr Clyde Fisher of the Hayden planetarium argues floods in eastern North America reflect sun spot activity and predicts several years of damp weather as sun spots near maximum intensity. A fragment mentions a Cockney woman charged with assault on her husband and a quoted remark about love.
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Planetarium
Eastorn
North America
Clyde Fisher
Hayden Planetarium
Royal Astronomical Society
Providence
Rhode Island
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