Age And Mental Capacity Says Elders Are No Less Able
A psychologist and professors report tests showing mental power does not decline with age and learning ability remains strong into 50s and 55. Older individuals can learn as well as youths, given time, with experience and interest boosting output. The studies urge rethinking retirement and valifying elder statesmanship in society.
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Irving Lorge
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Albert Wiggam
Reader's Digest
Lorge
Edward L. ‘Thorndike
Not An Easy Job English Vicar Finds It Impassine To Please People
English vicar Rev. C Paul Gudgen of St James church Walthamstow faces complaints over his parish work. He is accused for devoutness or nosiness depending on his actions and beliefs. The piece notes that pleasant birthday cards from life insurers are sincere while quarrels should be spoken, not written.
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Parma
C. Paul Gud Gen
St. James’ Church
Walthamstow
London
Empire telegraphic communications to be studied by committee
Edward Wilshaw announces a committee of dominion and colonial representatives to examine empire telegraphic communications. Sir Campbell Stuart to chair, with focus on defence significance and economy amid rising external challenge to Britain’s traditionally dominant world communications position.
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England
Campbell Stuart
Imperial Communications Advisory Committee
Montreal
Royal Empire Society
Edward Wilshaw
Cables and Wireless, Limited
Wilshaw
Willing To Oblige at Transkei Trading Station Mixes Feathers
In a misread scene a young shopper in the Transkei asks for a cocktail shaker. The native assistant replies with a joke about feather dusters as the exchange unfolds. Separately explorers in the Yukon region of Canada in 1985 reported nineteen new peaks over ten thousand feet.
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Transkei
Miami
Yuxon Territory
Canada
BBC Plans Daventry Expansion To Global Short Wave Reach
The British Broadcasting Corp will spend 1,250,000 dollars to make Daventry the world’s largest short wave broadcasting station by year end. Six transmitters with 22 aerials aim for up to full 21 hour service, serving South Africa and Canada with one two-beam transmitter. Germany already runs 18 daily transmissions targeting English listeners abroad. BBC aims to strengthen worldwide broadcasts for a planned coronation season, competing with Germany’s empire service.
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British Broadcasting Corp
Daventry
Empire
Pombe
South Africa
Canada
BBC
England
Germany
Berlin
Challenge And Opportunity In The Co operative Movement
H E Babcock, manager of the Co operative League Federation Exchange, urges the youth to join the co operative movement as a life calling. He argues workers gain freedom and independence through cooperative effort, highlighting discipline as a threat to liberty and praising economic and spiritual freedom as farmer assets.
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Co-operative Movement
Amers
H. E. Babcock
Co-operative League Federation Exchange
Canadian Poultry At Leipzig Congress Draws Praise
The Department of Agriculture reports a Canadian delegation at the Leipzig World Poultry Congress received favorable comments on their exhibit of 69 birds. Five Canadian delegates attended from 60 nations, led by Ottawa poultry expert F. C. Elford and publicity and extension head F. C. Nunnick.
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Leipzig
Department of Agriculture
Germany
Canada
F. C. Elford
Ottawa
Dominion Poultry Husbandman
F.C. Nunnick
Paderewski Sets Cinema Debut for Moonlight Sonata
Renowned pianist Paderewski, famed Polish premier, has agreed to bring his art to a wide audience through a film produced at Dagenham studio in London. The project will feature his rendition of Beethoven Moonlight Sonata along with other concert selections from Chopin and his standard programs.
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Agnace
Jean Paderewski
Poland
Dagenham Studio
London
Paderewski
Chopin
Goose with two pair of wings amazes fairgoers
Emily the biplane goose wowed observers at Hermon New York farmyard as it used twin wing pairs to fly. Poultry experts at the New York State Fair noted the bird had two wings on each side, the upper larger and the lower shorter, marking a rare double set of wings in a fowl.
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Emily
Douglas Sawyer
Hermon
N.Y
Haig Memory Honored by Vimy Veterans at Dryburgh Abbey
The service at Dryburgh Abbey Scotland marked by government and Canadian tribute to Earl Haig of Bemersyde former commander in France. A wreath of poppies and Canadian maple leaves was laid on his soldier's cross. Rev. John Kelman spoke of “geurrilous attacks” and praised Lady Haig for her dignified response.
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France
Dryburgh
Scotland
Tweed
Canada
Earl Haig
Bemersyde
Haig
John Kelman
Fairbank Presbyterian Church
Toronto
Canadian Legion
Lady Haig
Notes in Braille Aid Speech by War Blind MP Sir Ian Fraser
The London Daily Telegraph notes Sir Ian Fraser, a war-blinded MP who championed free wireless licenses for the blind, used embossed Braille cue cards with one to two word headings to guide his broadcast debate speech. Major Tryon contrasted with a largely inaudible manuscript reading.
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Sir Ian Fraser
Sir Ian
M.p.'s
Tryon
London Daily Telegraph
Anglo-Russian Credit Pact Expands Soviet Orders
In London Walter Runciman announced a £10,000,000 credit for British exports to the Soviet Union with orders to be placed by Sept 30 1937. Russia Intends to place orders up to the limit but not for munitions. He also suspended Anglo-Italian trade talks as Italy limits UK imports and rejects trade-debt arrangements.
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London
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
Runciman
Russia
Italy
United Kingdom
Ancient Casinum found theatre reveals Caesars era relics
An Augustan age theatre at Casinum, Italy, unearthed with preserved remnants of curtain machinery and inscriptions, statues, coins, and stagecraft from the time of the Caesars. The site ties to the ancient town where Mark Antony reputedly held orgies and where a Roman amphitheatre remains.
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Italy
McHinery
Casinum
Mark Antony
Theatres In Russia To Operate Eleven Thousand Palaces By 1936
The Soviet Union plans to have eleven thousand sound equipped motion picture theatres in operation by end of 1936, with total theatres and circuses rising to 44,800, up 8,000 from 1935. New theatres will rise in Moscow, Leningrad, Alma Ata, Kazan, and many other cities, including the completed largest theatre in Leningrad with 1,500 seats and marble interiors.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
Leningrad
Alma-Ata
Kazan
Simferopol
Ulan-Ude
Chelyabinsk Batum
Karkov
Ashkhabad
Selected Recipes From a Historic Baking Page
A vintage recipe set lists ingredients for a rich cake batter including butter eggs cocoa and sour milk plus water. Steps describe creaming butter and sugar then mixing in eggs dissolving soda and cocoa, folding in flour with baking powder and salt, adding milk, and baking slowly at three hundred degrees for about thirty five minutes.
BBC expected to offer presidency to May Get Radio
The BBC likely offers the presidency to May Get Radio or Marquess of Willingdon and he probably will accept. The corporation’s five year charter starts January 1 1937. Ronald Collett Norman, Montagu Norman’s brother and governor of the Bank of England, is the current BBC president.
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Marquess of Willingdon
British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC
Ronald Collett Norman
Montagu Norman
Bank of England
B.bc. At
Deer Nuisance Draws Farmer’s Complaint in Ontario
A. Fletcher of Glenmorris asks the Ontario Department of Agriculture for protection from deer. He reports a herd of about 20 deer raided his garden twice, destroying crops including cauliflowers and late cabbage. He estimates losses around 5,000 cauliflowers and 3,000 heads of cabbage.
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A. Fletcher
Glenmorris
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Fletcher
Viewpoint on Gloria Hollister Adventure Returns
Gloria Hollister, famed as a yellow haired scientist who spent time at the ocean floor, reports the British Guiana expedition yielded little excitement. The twenty member zoological party faced a boat sinking on a swollen river but later resumed travel. Hollister, in her twenties and a New York Zoological Society member, relishes jungle travel and a one motor plane over uncharted lands.
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Gloria Hollister
British Guiana
South America
Miss Hollister
New York Zoological Society
Peace Garden Revered As World Peace Symbol In Ceremony
Boissevain Manitoba hosted ceremony at the International Peace Garden where Hon. T A Crerar federal minister of the interior called the park a monument of peace. Governor Walter Welford and Senator Nye of North Dakota spoke before more than 3000 attendees. The Interior Ministry ordered steel helmets for German police as part of an air protection drill.
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Canada
United States
Boissevain
Man
T. A. Crerar
International Peace Garden
Walter Welford
North Dakota
Nye
Ministry of the Interior
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Peace Garden
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Uae
Eriony
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