World Happenings Briefly Told From A Distant Era
Believed killed in the Battle of Jutland, Royal Navy stoker John Fivans, discharged 1919. Ramhopper plague spares farmers in Mimour. Women’s Road Records Association marks London to Portsmouth by Mrs Lillian Dredge. Norman Prior 46 bound over for theft of 12.50 from his daughter’s holiday money. Royal treasures exhibition next April and May for coronation year. British Columbians spent over 14 million on alcohol in the year to March. Philip Wills reportedly sets a new British gliding record around 110 miles. BC wheat may reach southern Alberta from a Creston farm. Tar sands discoveries near Lac la Nonne, Lac Ste. Anne, and west of Lacombe promise road hard-surfacing near numerous miles. Alberta minister W A Fallon announces the deposits.
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Jutland
John Fivans
Royal Navy
Mimour
Women's Road Records Association
London
Portsmouth
Lillian Dredge
Norman Prior
Battersea
Eng
Philip Wills
British Columbia
Alberta
Creston
B.C
Brouth
Lac la Nonne
Lac Ste. Anne
Lacombe
W. A. Fallon
Honor German War Dead by Canadian Olympians
Canadian Olympic team paid tribute to Germany's war dead by placing a wreath on the unknown soldier’s grave at Frederick the Great's palace site. The ceremony drew thousands along Unter Den Linden, with Dr. Ross Millar representing the government and 30 Dominion athletes joined by German foreign office and British embassy officials. Torch y Peden and Tom Allison led the parade carrying the wreaths.
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Germany
Frederick the Great
Unter den Linden
Ross Millar
Department of Pensions and National Health
William “Torchy” Peden
Victoria
Tom Allison
British TV money and plans for Alexandra Palace
The BBC says funds may be needed as official three hour daily TV programmes begin and a staff of 100 works at Alexandra Palace. The $900,000 grant has been exceeded and programme expenditure will be extra as preparations for the new service continue.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Alexandra Palace
B.bc
Remarkable Reform Worker Dame Henrietta Barnett Dies in London
Dame Henrietta Barnett founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb died at 85 in South Square London. A friend of Queen Mary she led a vast social reform drive with her husband Canon Barnett in Whitechapel inspiring Toynbee Hall and broad civic service.
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Tal
Fingland
London
Henrietta Barnett
Hampstead Garden Suburb
South Square
Queen Mary
Henrietta
8. A. Barnett
West End
Whitechapel
East End
Arnold Toynbee
Toynbee
Million Dollar Giving Contest Draws Midwest City
A middle western city of 100000 hosts an Atlantic Monthly contest offering 1000 dollars for the best plan to spend a million for the greatest public good. The anonymous donor wishes to leave a lasting benefit to all citizens and invites advertising slogans and testimonials for various products.
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U.S
Atlantic Monthly
Solomon
Pugwell
Detroit
Monuments planned to mark western settlement history
Two proposed monuments gain approval consideration by the Historic Monuments and Sites Board in Ottawa. One will honor the Dawson Road from Lake Superior to Winnipeg near St Anne des Chenes with a cairn, planned for dedication next year. The other memorializes Fort Maurepas at Winnipeg River’s mouth by La Verendrye, highlighting trading significance.
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West
Historic Monuments and Sites Board
Ottawa
F. W. Howay
New Westminster
B.C
Winnipeg
Dawson Road
Lake Superior
St. Anne Des Chenes
Fort Maurepas
Winnipeg River
la Verendrye
Howay
Winnipeg Free Press
Eye surgery under tree using makeshift tools in India
Sir Henry Tristram Holland described an eye operation performed on a woman in Baluchistan using hair pins, a crochet hook, embroidery scissors, thatched under a juniper tree. He and a native later treated a palm tree fall victim, with both patients achieving excellent recoveries.
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East India
India
East India Association
Sir Henry Tristram Holland
Baluchistan
Quetta
Henry
Publicity and Gratitude In Newspapers Across Topics
A miscellany highlights the value of publicity in newspapers while noting readers rarely acknowledge favors. Items mention a near completion sugar factory at Picture Butte Alberta and Hungarian duelist William Clair turning seventy after 68 duels. A quip about a father asking why steam vents from a kettle ends with a son’s punchline.
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Picture Butte
Alt 5
Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District
William Clair
Budapest
Simple Knitted Coat and Hat Pattern for Children
Quick knit coat and matching hat in stockinette with checkerboard yoke cuffs and hat band. Uses sport yarn for affordability and durability. Pattern 5678 provides 4, 6, 8 year sizes, illustrations, materials. request by 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Where is no Alice Broun pattern non published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Color Conferred on MIT by MacAdam Y of the Institute
The article notes a three year study to define color by science. David L Macadam of MIT discusses the quest for a perfect white at the color conference. New fallen snow and chalk are cited as closest true whites, with industry colors following.
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Earth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David L. Macadamy
Bennett and McGeer Reminisce Over Vancouver Jubilee Photo
Rt Hon Bennett described as fides Achates for a week by Mayor McGeer after a Port Moody photo with the engineer and conductor of the first transcontinental train. He notes the historic snapshot and the chance to be photographed with the Vancouver mayor and his faithful friend.
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RB Bennett
McGeer
Vancouver
G. G. McGeer
Achates
Aeneas
Becomes Advisory Editor Allan Dafoe Joins Stat Ot Parents
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe physician to the Dionne quintuplets becomes an advisory editor of Parents Magazine. He joins other editors such as Katharine Lenroot head of the US Children's Bureau Angela Patri on child education and Dorothy Canfield Fisher of the American Association for Adult Education.
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Allan Dafoe
Stat Ot
Allan Roy Dafoe
Parents’ Magazine
Katharine Lenroot
United States Children's Bureau
Angela Patri
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American Association For Adult Education
Aden to become British colony on April 1
The Toronto Mail and Empire reports that Aden at the southern Red Sea end of British India will, when self government begins in British India on April 1, be separated from India and governed as a British colony with a governor and commander in chief. Aden is a key fortress on Britain's route to the Far East and Australia.
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Britain
Far East
Toronto Mail
Wat’ Aden
Red Sea
British India
London
Aden
India
Australia
Alpine Club elects Sibbald president at Jasper meeting
A. S. Sibbald of Saskatoon was re elected president of the Alpine Club of Canada at the annual meeting held in the Fryatt valley camp near Jasper Alberta Ferris Neave of Winnipeg was chosen eastern vice president and G G Wates of Edmonton western vice president Other officers named included Secretary H Mitchell of Victoria and Treasurer Major W R Tweedy of Vancouver
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S. Sibbald
Saskatoon
A. S. Sibbald
Alpine Club of Canada
Fryatt Valley
Jasper
Alta
RAF Reserve to Recruit Civilians as Volunteer Pilots
In the House of Lords Royal Air Force Reserve Viscoury Comunin announced a civilian only volunteer reserve to supply pilots for the expanded force. The program aims to train eight hundred pilots annually versus sixty previously, with entrants aged 1 to 25 and a yearly retaining fee of 25 dollars.
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Viscoury Comunin, Eccssary
Air
House of Lords
Royal Air Force
Shot for flattening Earth, old man jokes arrest
An information fiend pranks a crossing man chatting about a flattened earth. Separately, Manchester education committee plans special classes in schools for children with impaired vision.
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Manchester
England
Fokker's two storey airliner aims to carry 66 passengers
From Holland comes news that Anthony Fokker designed a two storey sleeper plane the F-56 capable of 66 passengers with sleeping accommodations dressing rooms and more. The design enlarges the F-36 already on the London Amsterdam Berlin route which carries 32. The F-86 is described as ready for regular service with a speed of 225 mph a high service ceiling of 24 700 feet and a potential for long trans oceanic flights.
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Zeppelins
Holland
Anthony Fokker
London
Amsterdam
Berlin
Brandon Sun
Germany buys back scapa flow scrap for re smelting
Germany has begun reclaiming scrap steel from the scapa flow wrecks to re smelt into new ship plates. Germany is the largest buyer, with rising demands for scrap. The process reshapes salvaged plates into modern warship components, linking history to current naval production.
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Scapa Flow
Germany
Staging Unique Race Nova Scotia Ox Teams Will Show Their Speed
Nova Scotia ox teams labeled slow mobiles will compete in the race of the century on Labor Day Sept 1 in Halifax district. Officials have not set course length or time limit. Preston’s "Gee-Haw" has entered as racing pride, with others possible. The event allows walk run trot gallop or pace.
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Nova Scotia
Halifax
Bluenose Engines Test Marks A New Power Phase
The international champion fishing schooner Bluenose completed its first trial under power with 300 aboard, reaching nine miles per hour off Cross Island buoy. Captain Angus Walters said performance improved after engine installation and the boat can revert to sail gear when needed.
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Cross Island
Angus Walters
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Liquor Control Board
Putney
St. Dunstan's
Sir Ian Fraser
Captain Baker
Poultry Judges Association
Department of Agriculture
George Robertson
Dominion Poultry Husbandman
American Poultry Judges’ Association
Topeka
Kas
Robertson
New Zealand
Auckland
Milk Council
Empire
Ars Alice Stocks
Alice Broun
Fure Waite
Fortress of
Alpine Club
Madus
Madge
Ted
National Institute For the Blind
United Kingdom
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