Five buffalo arrive at Prince Albert park in Alberta
World items report a herd of five buffalo transported by train to Prince Albert National Park in Alberta with a pad dock prepared for the animals. Other notes include hospital naming changes in London, an automatic stocker invention from Toronto, Canadian fowl gifts to Leipzig Zoo, and various brief world happenings.
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Prince Alberta National Park
Island Park
Alberta
London County Council
Henry Smith
Toronto
Leipzig
Germany
Leipzig Zoological Gardens
Were Seeing Things Actresses Report Ghostly Incidents
Two Were Seeing Things actresses in Nawabshah India report a ghost hunt after a village performance. They say an old fakir beckoned them upstairs vanished replaced by two cats with sparks from their eyes and a man on a roof shouting he was being murdered before leaping away.
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India
Nawabshah
Purse Found and Claimed at British Columbia Museum
A lost purse was recovered by EA. Cook, a janitor at the British Columbia museum, who kept it safe until the owner returned. An hour later the frantic woman identified the item, opened the purse, counted the money, and thanked the helper. A local quip on seasonal work follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C
Cook
Columbia Museum
Gess
Sir Edward Beatty to Lead Pacific Competition Effort
An editorial in the London Daily Mail praises Sir Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, as best placed to organize a British response to American liner subsidies. It argues Britain needs strong government backing and subsidies to restore a first class British service in the Pacific trade.
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Edward Beatty
Pacific
Pacifi’ Railway
London Daily Mail
Canadian Pacific Railway
United States
Honolulu
Beatty
Seaside Nazi Workers Resort Proposed on Baltic Coast
A colossal seaside resort for the working class is planned by the Nazis between Binz and Sassnitz on Ruegen island. It would house about 20 000 workers and their families in 3 350 rooms with 10 day stays, serving 80 000 rolls daily from a private bakery and 16 000 pounds of laundry daily. The project includes ten food houses, three miles of promenades, cafes, and a 2 250 foot pier.
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Binz
Sasmitz
Ruegen
Baltic Sea
Cosmic Rays Mage Electrical Machine for Controlling Speeders
A description of a 12 ton magnet traffic cop devised at the University of Chicago by Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. It aims to slow high speed cosmic rays by strong electric currents, pulling them from line and fingerprinting them as they travel near light speed.
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Mage
University of Chicago
Arthur Holly Compton
King Edward's Vimy Speech Praised for Appropriateness
In a critique of public speaking, King Edward's Vimy Ridge address to 8000 Canadian pilgrims is lauded as fitting the occasion. The piece contrasts impromptu effectiveness with scripted secrecy and warns against rote imitation of great orators.
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Edward
Prince of Wales
Canada
Buckingham Palace
John Morley
Morley
Vimy Pilgrims Motel
Stalin
Marx
Hitler
Nietzsche
Mussolini
Napoleon
Burke
Plague
Ozawa Journal
Paris Sewers Draw Few Tourists Despite Fame
The famous Paris sewers drew 1 107 visitors in 1935 amid a summer tour from Place de la Concorde to the Madeleine church. Boats ferry tourists through underground passages once famed by Les Miserables. admission is 3 francs. The system runs 600 to 700 miles long, with only about a quarter mile open to visitors. Birds have the highest body temperature of any creature.
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Paris
Place de la Concorde
Madeleine Church
Victor Hugo
German Envoy Von Ribbentrop Appointed London Ambassador
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s trusted emissary, is named German ambassador to London. The former champagne usher rose through the Nazi ranks, receiving ambassador-at-large duties and active roles in Reich Britain negotiations. He faced mixed French veteran responses while pursuing wartime friendship.
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von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hitler
London
Chandler Hitler
Reich
Great Britain
Ottawa
President Butler warns nations on debt risk and collapse
Nicholas Murray Butler, back from Europe, warns that nations spending on unemployment relief at about 10 billion dollars yearly risk exhausting borrowing power within a year. He urges restoring world buying power and confidence in markets to avert a calamitous crisis and lift trade, incomes, and budgets.
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Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Butler
Detroit
Decorative Panel Pattern 15x20 Inches for Home Walls
Pattern 5633 offers a transfer panel 15 by 20 inches with color key and stitch illustrations. Includes material needs and a list of stitches. send 20 cents to Howsshold Arts Dept Winnipeg for the pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern work published.
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Howsshold Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Aver Wanipeg. T
Fear Serves If Kept Under Control Says Dr Monroe
Washington DC physician Dr Charles Bawerd Monroe 87 argues fear can be a prudent, life saving force. He recalls avoiding danger in his career by balancing fear with care and discipline, claiming courage often grows from cautious respect for risk.
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Charles
Bawerd Monroe
Monroe
Washington, D.C
Zot
Tsivaye
Tad Alwaye
Pioneer Captain John Irving Dies at 82 in Vancouver
Captain John Irving, 82, pioneer of Pacific steamship service between Victoria and the mainland, died after a month of illness in Vancouver. He operated ships from San Francisco to Portland with his father, later led the Irving Pioneer Line, helped form Canadian Pacific Navigation Co, and organized several other regional steamship ventures. He served as BC legislator for Cassiar, first elected 1894 and re elected 1897.
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John Irving
Victoria
Mainland
Vancouver
Irving
San Francisco
Portland
John
Irving Pioneer Line
Irving Line
Hudgon's Bay Company
Canadian Pacific Navigation Co
Canadian Pacific Railway Co
Columbia and Kootenay
Lost Opportunity Warns on Disarmament Talks
A Philadelphia Bulletin vignette notes the toll future tax burdens will take on nations amid tensions and possible war. It cautions that despite efforts, the disarmament conference may be remembered for missed chances and a lack of reason in world governance.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Safety First Bus Driver Sets Clean Record in Nation
Owen Meredith of Bay Oklahoma, veteran bus driver, logs 1 042 500 miles in 13 years without an accident or arrest. His record ranked second best in a national safety contest. The piece also notes unrelated curiosities about distance recognition and speculative snail behavior alongside South Africa’s tractor trains trial.
Famous People Superstitions Across History And Nations
The article surveys famed figures from Victoria to Lindbergh and Napoleon, noting shared beliefs in luck tokens and rituals. It cites Victoria avoiding Friday journeys and Friday the thirteenth table seating, airmen carrying mascots, Baer with a gollywox, Duse with a mongoose, Bernhardt sleeping in a coffin, and Kemal Pasha’s fear of bringing flowers indoors, among others.
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Queen Victoria
Scotland
Lindbergh
Morrisons
Napoleon
France
Palace of
Fontainebleau
Max Baer
Carpentier
Martin Harvey
Eleanora Duse
India
Sarah Bernhardt
Willie Clarkson
Kemal Pasha
Turkey
Colorful Stocking Festival Planned in Troyes France
Hospitable Troyes hosiers announce a September festival to honor the history of stockings. Historians note silk stockings emerged about four centuries ago, with King Henry VII first in England to wear silk, and Queen Elizabeth likely the first queen to prefer silk. Troyes, famed as stocking capital and Joan of Arc site, exports stockings nationwide. The rollout also mentions leather consumption in the U S auto industry since 1922.
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Hosiers
Troyes
France
Henry VII
Spain
Elizabeth
Joan of Arc
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Ontario Parole Board
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W. J. Jordan
James Parr
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Royal Household
H. Barratt
Red River
Farmer Corntessel
Ethiopia
Africa
AMBAS
Saron de Cartier de Marchienne
No. 10
Downing Street
Alice Brooks
Alice
Vattern
Pacific Coast
Garfield
South Africa
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