Canada joins plan to span Atlantic by air with UK and Pan Am
Hon C D Howe announced Canada will join a joint company with the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State to conduct experimental flights over the North Atlantic and later a scheduled service. Preliminary surveys, financed by Britain, will precede a potential Bermuda winter operation with Pan American participation and exclusive landing rights for 15 years.
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Im & Matement
London
Philip Sasoon
Air
Howe
Canada
United Kingdom
Irish Free State
North Atlantic
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Britain
Imperial Airways
Pan-American Airways
Pan‘American
United States
Pan- American
Dominion
Ireland
Bermuda
Railway union seeks comfort upgrades for engine cabs
The US Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has petitioned for softer seats foot warmers and padded arm rests for train crews. A London man is noted for keeping the same umbrella since 1920 after dining at the same restaurant.
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US Brotherhood of Railway Trainment
London
No Motor Boats In Venice Faces Backlash From Gondola Motors
Venice authorities ordered withdrawal of motorized gondolas after villagers ridiculed the sight. Officers argued the motors clash with the esthetics of the floating city, despite prior trials and tax efforts to modernize canal transport.
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Venice
Australia Expands Civil Aviation Network for Defence and Commerce
A defence ministry survey shows Australia has 411 government aerodromes, 225 commercial pilots, and 262 civil aircraft for defence. There are 17,000 miles of regular air routes and 3,160,000 annual air miles. Plans include nine new aerodromes between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne with night illumination and two way radio air terminals amid a potential pilot shortage.
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Australia
Defence
Commonwealth
Brisbane
Sidney
Melbourne
To Protect Jungle Game Campaignes for Empire Fauna
A campaign to safeguard jungle big game by British Comyn Platt after tours in Ceylon and Malaya on behalf of the Society for the Preservation of Empire Fauna aims to regulate elephant and tiger activity.
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Comyn-Platt
Ceylon
Malaya
Society For the Preservation of Empire
Not Taking Chances Rotarians Of Vicksburg Stop At Railroad Crossing
Vicksburg Michigan Rotary clubs pledge to stop their cars before every railroad crossing. The move follows a record of five local deaths at crossings in the past 16 months and echoes calls for stronger safety devices at crossings.
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Rotarians
Vicksburg
Mich
Michigan
Vicksburg Rotarians
Detroit Free Press
Floating survivor saved after ten hours at sea
A German passenger aboard the Wangens was washed overboard during intense heat and slept on deck. The ship searched with a lighted circle and warned nearby vessels by wireless. After ten hours adrift in the Red Sea the man was found alive by a Dutch steamer and rescued near Southampton en route from Cape Town to Hamburg.
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Red Sea
Wangens
Southampton
Cape Town
Hamburg
Wangoni
Menace To Wild Life In Raner Lake Area Ontario Fire
A witness near Raner Lake describes the fire’s threat to wildlife in Ontario's district. He saw six deer three moose several foxes porcupines and wolves attempting to cross a bottlenecked fire zone by swimming a lake. Many others likely perished and small game habitats suffer alongside timber losses.
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Raner Lake
Ontario
Drought Strains Ducks At Wood Buffalo Park In 1925 Low Count
Fort Smith district agent A L Cummings reports western droughts reduce duck flocks across prairie summer grounds. Wood Buffalo park on the Alberta Northwest Territories boundary records the smallest duck numbers since 1925. Four Gusman workers endure ten days in gas masks, wearing them constantly with brief breaks for meals and washing, and one worker gives a daily speech.
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Prairies
A. L. Cummings
Fort Smith
Northwest Territories
Department of the Interior
Wood Buffalo Park
Alberta
Gusman
Candlewicking Pattern 5402 Teaches Easy French Knots
A Winnipeg newspaper ad promotes candlewicking with a heavy cotton spread design. It mentions transfers and directions for candlewicking and Preach kool, inviting readers to mail 20 cents or coin to a stated address for the pattern. The note references Sept Sa Paioum and Nenny indediey Tapatarn with scattered garbled phrases.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermoot Ave
Erosion Threat to Western Canada's Agriculture
A long feature notes wind erosion in Western Canada, comparing soil loss to the United States and urging immediate action. It cites American and Alberta studies, quantified losses of phosphorus and nitrogen, and warns of billions in future damages if practices don't change. The piece links past droughts, plow-up sod, and calls for standardized farming methods and rainfall improvement as the main remedies.
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Great Western Plains
United States
Canadian Pacific Railway
Prairie Provinces
Rockies
Selkirk Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Western Plains
Canada
Drouth
Western North America
Torouth
Plains
Wyatt
University of Alberta
Sub-Stratosphere Plane Aimed at High Altitude Travel
Transcontinental and Western Air Lines near completion tests a passenger plane for 20 000 to 30 000 feet in rarified air. It would fly faster, with reduced weather interference, claiming speeds up to 250 miles per hour at higher altitudes.
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Transcontinental and Western Air Line
Wiley Post
Will Rogers
Alaska
Sign at Sydenham Hill Station Joins Prankster Tradition
A quirky sign at Sydenham Hill station near the Crystal Palace reads For Door Handles with towels beneath. Regular travelers pull a sheet to wipe grime from door handles as trains enter through a smoky tunnel, keeping their hands clean.
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Sydenham Hill
Crystal Palace
London
St Thomas Times- Journal
Painting of Ramsay MacDonald sold after five years in Sunderland
A painting of Ramsay MacDonald, once stowed away as unwanted, sold for $125 in Sunderland England. The remark about incompetence being blamed on bad luck appears amid a jumble of unrelated quotations and local humor from a news snippet.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Sunderland
Eng
Giraffes Blocked by Bridges on Kenya Uganda Railway
The Kenya Uganda Railway in South Africa faces a new problem as bridges are too low for giraffes in crates bound for export. Six giraffes were shipped but could not pass a bridge. crates were carried around and reloaded on the next train.
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Kenya-Uganda
South Africa
Mombasa
Turkey imposes exemption tax on women for road work
A new Turkish tax law would require women aged 18 to 60 to work as navvies on roads for a week yearly unless they pay six Turkish pounds about five dollars as exemption tax. Previously the levy applied only to men.
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Grasse
Riviera
Tearina
Russia
Paria
France
Great Britain
England
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Danzig
Germany
Geneva
Free City of Danzig
Karl Greiser
Poland
Mere Is
Alice Brooks
Pat
McDonald Charles Miller
Dayton
Donald H. Miller
Miller
Sunshine Mac
American Medical Association
The
Millers
Atary
Turkey
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