World Happenings Briefly Told In Canada and Ireland
A collage of brief notes from across the world. Field Marshal Allenby marks his 74th birthday. an Edmonton cheque pays a long odd amount. a Edmonton driver dies en route to hospital. RCMP in MacLeod shows no saddle horses. a Stratford boy recovers after a severe buggy accident. two men receive five years for firing on Orangemen in Belfast. Belfast riots claim lives and injuries. Vancouver aims for strongest finances among Canadian cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borbay High Court
Lord Allenby
St. George's Day
Edmonton
Mra
John Louis Stacey
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
MacLeod
Alta
Alberta
Joseph Eckert
Stratford
Ont
Belfast
Tomas Connolly
Joseph McDonald
Vancouver
Canada
Ald
C. E. Tisal
Civic Finance Committee
Retail Credit Grantors’ ‘Association
Woman refuses inheritance over ancestral Indian curse
Mrs J Schofield of Heswall near Liverpool says she will donate her portion of an inherited sum to a religious cause to break a purported ancestral curse. She cites a 1844 land dispute with an Indian maharajah and a temple murder tied to dates December 13 and 15, noting multiple family tragedies on those days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Schofield
Heswall
Liverpool
England
Buck deer halts ocean liner on Vancouver waterfront
A buck deer swam near the Vancouver harbor forcing ships to stop including the Empress of Japan and the S S Princess Marguerite. Police launched a rescue with a launch and the deer was hauled aboard briefly before being released to the north shore. Navigation resumed after the animal was saved.
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Buck Deer
Vancouver
Erisary
Empress of Japan
Hartor
Yragusinea
Tangedaloes
LMS
Danae
Victoria
S.S. Princess
Marguerie
Picture of King Edward VII Revealed in Coal Mine Wall
A coal wall portrait of King Edward VII, carved over 25 years ago by Engine-driver John Campbell of Westville, Nova Scotia, was found in remarkably good preservation during mine dewatering by the Greenwood 1 Coal Company as they dewatered the colliery to access new coal areas.
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Edward VII
Marsh
John Campbell
Westville
Nova Scotia
Greenwood 1 Coal Company
Cane sugar growers face uncertain fate under imperial policy
In Grenada and related colonies large tracts of land rely on cane with 100000 acres under cultivation and 180000 residents. Bank debt grips planters as they hope for better times, fearing ruin if sugar collapses. Some islands seek diversification, Bananas under contract helping Grenada's position.
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Dole
Grenada
Edmonton man who taught Chevalier English in German prison
William King of Edmonton, interned in Alten Grabow during the war, became a close ally of Maurice Chevalier. He coached the French star to speak and sing in English and even staged a musical show for camp inmates. King recalls celebrating his 17th birthday at Ypres.
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Maurice Chevalier
Alten Grabow
Germany
Edmonton
William King
Ypres Salient
King
Chevalier
Cece Aetage
Stratosphere flight not practical says Col Roscoe Turner
America’s air cavalier Col Roscoe Turner visiting Toronto dismissed stratosphere flying as a practical impossibility. He warned that supercharged engines and airtight cabins would make costs prohibitive. He predicted a mid altitude route could economically support commercial flight instead.
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Col
Roscoe Turner
America
Toronto
Turner
Grain Crop Value Forecast For 1935 From Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press estimates the 1935 grain crop will gross 241,381,000 dollars based on present prices, with a 274,764,000 bushel projection. Wheat alone is valued at 156,150,000 dollars, using 4 cents per bushel. The report notes 1935 would be the highest crop value since 1931, and compares figures to prior years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Free Press
Fort William
Highway Project Advances After Fifteen Year Fight
The Edmonton Jasper highway plan moves forward following a long dispute. Premier announces a ban on some arrangements while work on the abandoned railway grade is nearing completion. Funding secured to widen the route and create a safer, modern road. Traffic already affects about 11.9 million words?
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Edmonton
Constoston
Manly
Women Sailors in Victorian Solent Regattas and Indies Races
A retelling notes that Victorian era Solent hosted women racing their own yachts, with six female sailors during Queen Victoria's reign and the Indies races beginning in 1889. Despite setbacks in 1890, early 1900s saw Solent sailoresses back in metre boat racing, often bold in long skirts and veiled headwear.
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Victoria
Overseas
Queen Victoria
Solent
Indies
Prince of Wales
No Ance Brooks Pattern Book Published
A shorter notice notes that no pattern book by Ance Brooks has been published. The item reports absence of the planned work and mentions no further details about dates or related projects.
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Ance Brooks
Pigeon Returns Home After Wings Clipped En Route
A Montreal owner retrieves a homing pigeon returned by the Exista Company with leg band details. The pigeon, released at Medonte Ontario about 300 miles away, had its wings clipped and later flew to Huntingdon Quebec where Mrs. Elizabeth Bruce aided the return to M Dela lorme Jr of Montreal. The bird’s flight demonstrates a homing instinct despite captivity.
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Montreal
Canadian National Express
Elizabeth Bruce
Huntingdon
Que
C. E. Bellerose
Express Company
Bellerose
M. Delalorme, Jr
Manson Street
Frogs With No Tadpole Stage On Display In New York
At the American Museum of Natural History three small frogs, Eleutherodactylus johnsoni, joined hundreds of amphibians and other species at the Aquarium Society show. Curator Dr G Kingsley Noble notes these frogs lack a tadpole stage having moved directly from egg to land eggs, a change likely occurred over millennia.
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New York
American Museum of Natural History
Aquarium Society
Johnsoni
G. Kingsley Noble
Museum
Nobie
Turn Trains Into Arsenals Japan Takes Extra Precautions
To cope with bandits attacking trains on the Hsing king Tumen line the Mukden Railway Administrative Bureau plans surge protection. Japanese and Manchukuo railway police will be armed with machine guns grenades and wireless gear. A rear engine carrier pigeons and police dogs will aid station communication.
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Japan
Hsingking
Tumen
Mukden
Manchuuuo
Wasps Catcher at Fry's Chocolate Makers Headline Odd Job
A London paper reports a man employed by Fry's chocolate makers to catch wasps as one of the queerest jobs. He destroys queen wasps in May and June to halt breeding, then scans nearby fields from July. An incident led to his shirt being torn and insects infesting it.
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Fim
News of the World
London
Fry's
Chocolate Makers
Feds
Canada Flour in Haiti Trade Shift Stirs Questions
A fragment notes that most flour imported into Haiti comes from Canada but much is shipped via U S ports under a U8 designation. It also references France's possessions, highlighting scattered Atlantic Pacific Indian Ocean islands and continental territories in Africa South America and Asia.
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Sue
Haiti
United States
France
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Africa
South America
Asia
New Place To Go It Is Almost Sure To Prophesy
Colonel E B Mackintosh spoke at the South Kensington Science Museum while receiving Bondola balloon used by Professor Piccard on his second stratosphere ascent. The craft left Dubendorf near Zurich and after 12 hours landed on Lake Garda. Maximum height reached was about ten and a half miles.
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E. B. Mackintosh
South Kensington
England
Science Museum
Piccard
Dubendorf
Zurich
Lake Garda
Africa's Oldest Empire Fascinating Abyssinia Portrait
A European writer surveys Abyssinia modern and ancient, noting Emperor Halle Selassie, long imperial lineage, isolation from the world, Addis Ababa’s rail link to Djibouti, Danakil resistance to rails, traditional dress, impromptu courts, Mosaic justice, and widespread illiteracy. The piece highlights Amharic script with 231 letters and 20 compounds in a vivid historical frame.
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Harold 4S. Osmepstone
F.rgs
Eiinburgh Scotsman
Abyssin’a
Italy
Halle Selassie
Solomon
Sheba
Jenelik
Ling
Addis Ababa
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Germany
Addis ‘Ababa
Monument to Horse Soldier Unveiled in Buda Pest Barracks
A horse statue honoring the Unknown War Horse was unveiled in the courtyard of the Francis Joseph Cavalry Barracks in Budapest Hungary. General Stephen Horthy led the initiative and the Hussars parade past the statue led by riders. A wreath of bananas marked the grave of Samuel Davenport banana king of Walworth London at Nunhead England.
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Francis Joseph Cavalry
Buda Vest
Hungary
Stephen Horthy
Regiment of Hussars
Samuel Davenport
Walworth
London
Nunhead
England
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Deer
T Historic Catrn
Sir Edward Beatty
G.B.E
Canadian Pacific Railway
Joyce Austin
W. T. Austin
Craigellachie
Sir Edward
Lord Strathona
Ocean
Craigeliachie
Miss Austin
C.P.R
C P.R
Lord Strathcona
Jasper-Edmonton
Wey
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Sphere
Shanghai
Rome
Sargon
Nineveh
Abyssinia
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