Education And The Teacher In A Period Of Low Mood
The article argues that periods of national low mood spur productive scrutiny of education in the Prairie provinces. It stresses the teacher's character and ability as central to educational aims, praises rising teaching standards, and calls for unified opinion on systems, methods, and trends while noting economic and curricular criticisms. The piece ends with a lighter note on home economics and social letters.
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Western
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Replicas of Crown Jewels Collection in London
A collection of about 2000 full scale replicas of Crown jewels, regalia, insignia, and royal emblems will be shown in London. Valued at nearly £30,000, this forty year hobby by one man showcases pieces representing Alfred the Great’s crown through 36 monarchs. Each piece mirrors size, shape, cutting, and setting with substitutes for diamonds and gems, after extensive study in Tower and London museums.
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London
Europe
Alfred the Great
Tower
London Museums
King of Dowsers Arrives in London From Vienna
Dr Emerich Herzog 76 famed as the King of Dowsers arrives in London from Vienna to search for gold and oil in England. He demonstrates his silver divining rod and 27 other devices, claims 49 years dowsing experience, and announces a lecture tour including an address to the British Society of Dowsers. He says he owns mines and has located copper gold beryllium and platinum deposits in Austria. He flew to England and noted a possible deposit between the coast and Croydon.
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Ing of
Herzog
England
Croydon
Japan Buys Canadian Ship in Complex Merger of Operators
The Canadian Leader, formerly part of Canada’s merchant fleet, has changed hands multiple times since last winter. It was sold from Anzac line to British Tower Steamship, then to Rethymnis and Kulukis, a Greek firm, and finally acquired by Japanese interests for about 82500 dollars. Reports also link Japanese buyers to the Canadian Victor and the Canadian British at Montreal.
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Government
Halifax
West Indies
Japan
Anzac Line
British Tower Steamship Company
Rethymnis and Kulakeuidis
Revising Their Manners for Tokyo 1940 Visitors
Police circulate guidance on proper Japanese greeting for future Olympic guests. Foreigners should avoid the phrase How old I are you and learn respectful welcome customs as Tokyo prepares for the 1940 Olympiad. English study surges among clerks and officials while concerns about girls’ morals wane. A perpetual-edge razor blade costs about 25 dollars.
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Tokyo
Elderly woman learns to swim at Enfield Lido
Susannan Wheelwright of Norton-Close Enfield, England, began swimming at age 72 after buying a season ticket at Enfield Lido. She started with a basic dip and now can swim a quarter of a mile, demonstrating determination to stay active in later life.
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Airs
Susannan Wheelwright
Norton-Close
Enfield Highway
England
Enfield Lido
State coach reconditioned for coronation ceremony
The state coach of the speaker of the House of Commons is being refurbished for the coronation. It last appeared at King George’s jubilee and at the 1911 coronation it carried the speaker a short distance. The coach weighs about 8½ tons and has no brakes, while the speaker must secure horses himself at Whitebread’s Brewery’s long-standing privilege. In Beacon New York an 18 year old with an iron lung shows good spirits and near-normal growth after infantile paralysis. The world’s equator distance has shrunk by 1½ miles in a century.
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House of Commons
St. Paul
Abbey
Whitebread
Speaker Shaw-Lefevre
Birdsall Sweet
Beacon
N.Y
Selected Recipes Sand Tarts For Delicate Brown Fancy
Cream butter, add sugar gradually, beat in egg, then flour sifted with baking powder. Chill dough. Roll half on a floured board to one eighth inch. Cut with doughnut cutter. Brush with white of egg, sprinkle with a sugar cinnamon mix. Split almonds and place three halves evenly on top. Bake on a buttered sheet 8 to 10 minutes until delicately brown.
Thousands Change Swedish Surnames To Finnish Sound
A wave of patriotism prompts about thirty thousand families to alter Swedish surnames to Finnish forms, following a 25,000 family precedent at the national epic centenary. Postmen face delivery hurdles and correspondents adjust addresses as confusion spreads.
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Hel Singfors
Elk calling becomes Banff photographers’ new industry
Les Saunders of Bowden near Calgary invented a summer trail guiding job in Banff calling elk to attract photographers at Banff Springs Hotel. Guests watched as bull elk answered and approached, creating steady work for him. Also notes a tailor encounter and a remark on age distribution in Switzerland.
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Banff
Les Saunders
Bowden
Calgary
Banff Springs
Greyhound Leaps 2000 Feet to Death On Flight
A racing greyhound died after leaping 2000 feet from an airliner traveling from Brisbane to Sydney. The dog, kept in a wicker crate in the baggage compartment, escaped the crate and tore through the fabric of the cabin, vanishing before the plane landed at Sydney.
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Brisbane
Sydney
Marie Antoinette Imprisoned Before Execution
Marie Antoinette was confined for over a year prior to her execution, reflecting the lengthy imprisonment during the revolutionary trial period.
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Marie Antoinette
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