World Happenings Briefly Told
Globally, six month Ontario fatal accidents reached 201 the highest since 1981. Hugh Walpole arrived in New York en route to Hollywood for a Oliver Twist adaptation. Shantung reports 3,000,000 homeless from recent floods. RAF officers Nimmo and Marbut died after Nimmo refused a forced landing near a crowd. A new fast light bomber plans 276 mph for the RAF per the London Daily Telegraph. US Marshal Murphy demonstrated prison bars flooding with water or tear gas. Italian soldiers’ demand in Ethiopia causes lemon shortage at Liverpool Fruit Exchange. Plane wreck near Bonnieres kills pilot M Cogno 28 during final testing.
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Ontario
Hugh Walpole
New York
Shantung
Royal Air Force
R. L. Nimmo
J. Marbut
Nimmo
London
Teleraph
John J. Murphy
Ethiopia
Liverpool
Liverpool Fruit Exchange
M. Cogno
Fabio
Bonnieres
Art Of Early Indians Showed Advanced Knowledge
The article notes claims by Mr Gregory Mason that Native Americans in Central America possessed anesthetics, mathematics, astronomy, and calendar systems long before European contact. It cites Toltecs building a vast pyramid, Peruvians weaving finer tapestries, Mayans inventing zero, and capabilities rivaling or surpassing Columbus era and later European methods.
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Central America
Columbus
Gregory Mason
Xasca
Egypt
Peru
Europe
Yucatan
Cortz
Intense 100 Below Zero Used To Make Synthetic Rubber
Du Pont announces a record 100 below zero temperature at its Wilmington plant to base process for synthetic rubber. The extreme cold, colder than Siberia, enables industrial steps thought dangerous for people, aiming to simplify production of monovinyl acetylene gas derivatives.
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du Pont Company
Wilington
Delaware
Earth
Siberia
du Pont
Tax relief figures for Port Elgin’s 1985 levy
The prosperity rate in Port Elgin Ontario shows the tax core turned, with no one on relief. Of the 28416 dollars on the 1985 tax roll, 14102.86 was paid to village treasurer J J Chapman. Only half of the total taxes were actually due.
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Port Elgin
Ontario
J. J. Chapman
Aviator Encounters Hoppers High Above Billing Montana
Pilot R. O. Bain reports flying 9 500 feet over Billings Montana when he encountered a flock of grasshoppers. A novelist claims he coined a new word while shaving noting his razor’s similarity to ours.
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Air Mail
Bain
Winnipeg
Ventures Into Hidden Northern Valleys by Mines Official
Dr Charles Camsell deputy minister of mines will survey tropical valley pockets in northern British Columbia once covered by Klondike lore. He travels by air with pilot H Punch Dickins and photographer W H Sutherland to scout a 25 000 square mile blind zone previously unexplored by white settlers.
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British Columbia
Charles Camel
Northwest Territory
Klonike
Camsell
N. J. Henry
Philadel
H. “Punch” Dickins
W. H. Sutherland
Recipes For This Week By Betty Barclay
Busy home canning guide outlines tomato based preserves with crushed tomatoes lemon juice and fruit pectin. Steps include scalding peeling rinsing and crushing tomatoes then boiling with sugar until a full rolling boil before adding pectin and sealing in jars yields about nine 6 ounce glasses.
Jam Making From Dried Figs and Lemons
Prepare fruit from pound stemmed figs with water and lemon juice. Boil sugar in a kettle, add fruit, fill with water, then boil hard three minutes. Remove from heat, stir in pectin, pour quickly, and seal with hot paraffin. Yields about nine glasses of jam.
City Of Trees In the King's English Addis Ababa
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, newly elected director of the New York botanical garden, says Addis Ababa means the new flower and that the city is a place of trees and gardens with excellent spots for flower growing.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Marshall A. Howe
New York Botanical Garden
Queen Mary to serve meals by 700 staff on voyage
A staff of about 700 cooks and wait assistants will be required to serve meals on the Queen Mary. Some 840,000 meals will be served during the Atlantic crossing. Melons grow best in slightly acidic soil.
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Atlantic
Youngest Girl Stowaway Joins Normandie Crew
12-year-old Joan Dalley of New York secretly boarded the French liner Normandie in New York to visit the ship and could not bear to leave. Her mother wired funds for passage as Joan claimed she would remain aboard with her brother who refused to share the adventure.
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Norman
France
Normandie
Joan Dalley
New York
Joan
Mystery Ocean Noise Hampers U S Geodetic Survey
Experts chase a daily offshore hum described as the haunted ocean interfering with delicate instruments and map making. Lieutenant Commander Swainson sails the Pioneer sixty miles from Long Beach to anchor and study the sound rising toward night then fading.
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US. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Long Beach
California
Swainson
Pioneer
Oceanside
Subzero swimmers sleep under ice after brief breath hold
Arctic divers pause breathing for about twelve minutes while submerged. Their blood becomes aerated, enabling them to sleep under the ice for several hours without breathing.
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Acae
Arctic
Giant Cobras Aid Science Venom For Pain Serum
Venom from an eleven foot king cobra, extracted in a Staten Island squash court by four men led by Carol Stryker, is slated for use in a serum to alleviate severe pain. Dr Samuel Peck of Mount Sinai Hospital will convert the venom into a usable serum, stating 140 lives could be threatened by the poison and that 1,500 treatments are possible from the current yield.
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Staten Island Club
St. Mark's Place
St. George
Carol Stryker
Staten Island Zoological Society
Samuel M. Peck
Mount Sinai Hospital
Fifth Avenue
100Th Street
New York
Peck
Resented Inspector's Remark Sparks Uproar in Commons
In London the House of Commons erupted with cries of shame after a Manchester schools inspector reproved 12 year old Maud Mason for praising England as the finest country. The inspector reprimanded Maud's teacher for teaching old fashioned imperialism during the Jubilee era.
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London
House of Commons
Manchester
England
Little Maud Mason
Georg
Maud
Oldest Jew in Ireland A Cork man turns 103
Joseph Levi of Cork is described as the world’s oldest Jew and an Irish Free State citizen. He recently celebrated his 103rd birthday, has spent most of his life in Ireland, and, though he moves little, remains cheerful with health he claims could let him live another 190 years.
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Joseph Levi
Cork
Ireland
Levi
Seed Potatoes For Cuba Market Report
Cuban seed potato trade shows imports dominating supply as local replanting yields non saleable crops. Reports note two potato harvests occur annually in Cuba, with seed stock largely imported to meet demand despite local farming.
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Cuba
Transfer pattern of flowers bowl with color marks
Pattern description lists 5153 and 3214 inches with color markings and material needs. It invites readers to obtain the pattern by sending 20 cents in stamps or coin to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Galen, a Secemrefe Tree address in Winnipeg, for pattern book publication.
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Household Arts
Winnipeg
Galen
Justice by 25-Cent Fines For All In Court
In a curbside style scene Recorder Plante fined eleven courtroom attendees including two newspapermen, two constables and Low's Lapointe at 25 cents each, with the money going to a homeless vagrant. Paul Cle Ton was charged with vagrancy after being picked up on Champ de Mars. He pleaded guilty and the recorder suspended the sentence, placing the coins in the old man’s pocket.
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Low
Lapointe
Paul Cle Ton
Champ de Mars
Plante
Recorder Plante
Salt and its salts in earths crust and uses
Gordon 1. Guest explains neutralization when acids and bases meet, forming salt and water. He highlights common salt abundance, Stassfurt deposits rich in potassium and sodium salts, Chile saltpetre as nitrate source for gunpowder and fertilizer, plus calcium carbonate and lime production from limestone.
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Gordon
Guest
Mla
Tatach
Stasefurt
Germany
Stam 1Furt
Orient
Chile
South America
Impossible To Answer Londoner Can Ask Embarrassing Questions
The Londoner in Toronto, a world service club, hosted Dr. Soper who mingled with crowds on Tower Hill. He faced a lightning conductor query about God and elements, and a temperance talk led to a critique of America from a man who had never visited. A question about heaven produced obvious results.
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Toronto
Soper
Tower Hil
America
Heaven
Not Great Fortune for Dionne Quintuplets Says Doctor
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe says the Dionne quintuplets are not as wealthy as believed with $45,000 in bonds and cash and contracts likely to add about $25,000 more. Estimated fortunes cited reach $200,000, but the doctor declines comment on the total. The babies have spent much of their money in 14 months, aided by endorsements and image contracts for milk juice and other products.
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Allan Roy Dafoe
Heaviest Elephant Tusks Displayed By British Museum
The National History Museum trustees announce the heaviest elephant tusks in the world, from an East Africa hunt near Kilimanjaro. One tusk dates to 1901, the other to a recent purchase, originally weighing 236 and 226 pounds before drying reduced each by about 10 pounds. The pair exceed ten feet in length, and the next heaviest tusk is 198 pounds.
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British National History Mus
London
National History Museum
Kilimanjaro
East Africa
Sweden police watch strange religious sect omen ark voyage
A Swedish sect awaiting an ark of gold and silver to convey members to a promised land is under police scrutiny. Leader A Korpela has set dates for the ark’s arrival multiple times. Eight members remain in custody as investigations continue.
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Promised Land
Sweden
A. Korpela
Wall Street Guards Guard Vaults With Futuristic Measures
New York City has a standing force of about 5000 highly armed guards to protect Wall Street vaults containing millions of pounds. They are trained marksmen equipped with six shooters and modern weapons. Guards live in underground bivouacs with restaurants and sleeping quarters. Vaults employ flooding, poison gas, and hot steam defenses to deter intruders.
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New York City
Wall Street
Montreal youths fly home built plane from city to Quebec
Rodolphe Page pilots Emile Pelletier and Bill Ritchie landed in Quebec after a four hour flight from Montreal in their home made aircraft. The government inspected craft carried a 30 gallon wing tank and held a government license. The youths built the plane in a private garage hoping to show affordable production.
British Legion Speaker Urges Friendship With Britain
Major Francis Fetherston Godley told 7000 members and friends of the British Legion in London that German people and the general population favor friendship with Great Britain. Godley heads a group of British veterans recently touring Germany.
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Great Britain
British Legion
London
Francis Fetherston Godley
Germany
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Betty Barclay
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Soirce
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