World Happenings Briefly Told
A grab bag of items from shipping to politics. A bi motor plane crash in the Mediterranean halts four flyers. Advocates press Secretary Denn for immediate action on Wilcox air bases. Ottawa’s Mrs. Donald M. Grant aged 102 celebrated birthday. Salvation Army figure Robert Hogard dies in London aged 73. Western beef exports to Britain show signs of resuming through Calgary’s Jack Byers. Soviet ice-breaker Sadko reports land near Greenland northeast area. Countess Bubna dies in Montreux at about 70. Rice trinkets and a stage trick headline wrap local culture. L. Hauptmann trial figure Jassie Condon hits stage with Crime Does Not Pay lecture.
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US. Army ‘Air Corps
Roosevelt
Wilcox Air Bases
Denn
Donald ‘M. Grant
Ottawa
Robert Hoggard
Salvation Army
London
Canada
Great Britain
Jack Byers
Calgary
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Sadko Wi
Greenland
Pole
Switzerland
I. ‘M. Bubna
British Columbia
Alberta
Montreuse
Toronto
Jassie” Condon
Bruno Hauptmanns
Bronx
Lindbergh
England's Letter Post System Shown At British Museum
A 17th century proclamation by Charles I authorized Thomas Witherings to run a London post between England's principal towns. Messengers must deliver letters, return within five days, and collect mail at post-houses. Rates varied by distance from two to five pence, eightpence to Scotland.
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Charles I
Thomas Witherings
London
Witherings
Scotland
Swimmer Defies Law At Rockaway Beach
Aaron Greenspan of New York City, a swimmer and lawyer, defies an ordinance by bathing beyond safety lines at Rockaway Beach. He undertakes his own defense, arguing the Atlantic Ocean does not belong to anyone, as magistrate Hokstra orders lifeguards to monitor him until the case is disposed of.
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Aaron Greenspan
New York City
Rockaway Beach
Atlantic Ocean
Hokstra
Greenspan
New York Times
Definition Of A Chef In A Farmer's Tale
After another season Farmer Corntonsel muses on hiring a chef for the summer board. Mrs Corntonsel questions what a chef is as a man with a large vocabulary supposedly gives the soup a different name each day.
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Farmer Corntonsel
Mra
Corntonsel
Leicester lenses drive 80 percent of sim row photography
English Lenses About notes that roughly eighty percent of sims produced in the United Kingdom and United States are photographed with Leicester made lenses. It adds that Technicolor relies heavily on Leicester manufactured lenses for its color processes.
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United Kingdom
United States
Leicester
Wrigley's Silver Jubilee in Canada
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co of Canada Ltd marks twenty-five years of steady progress with Allan Ross at the helm. The Toronto origin, rapid growth, and broad contributions to industry and employment are highlighted, along with Ross’s belief in hands on experience and capable helpers.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of Canada Ltd
Allan Rows
Wrigley's
Canada
Wrig-ley Company
United States
Toronto
Allan Ross
Mr. Ross
Invention Detects Gases in Treasure Hunt Tale
Luceil Tupper, a Custer country farmer, unveils a gas detecting device designed to sense faint emanations from precious metals. The portable instrument converts odors into audible buzzes via earphones for a treasure hunt toward Weatherford and landmarks like Ghost Mound and Devil's Canyon, linked to Spanish conquistadores.
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Weatherford
Oklo
Luceil ‘Tupper
Custer
Leon Tupper
Ghost Mound
Devil's Canyon
Kipling Addresses Canadian Graduates in England Visit
Kipling, Britain’s shy celebrity, broke a vow on speechmaking to tell 84 Canadian secondary school graduates at St. Winitten’s, Eastbourne, that England and Canada share each other’s possessions. He consented to speak briefly to the group touring England for six weeks under the Overseas Educational League.
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Rudyard Kipling
England
Britain
Canada
Kipling
St. Winitten's School
Eastbourne
Conch- Sea Ee
Overseas Educational League
Doctor Mueller-Guttenbrunn Sentenced in Austria
Announcement cards circulated among friends in Austria and abroad revealed that Dr. Herbert Mueller-Guttenbrunn received a three and a half month prison term for attempting publicly to degrade the Austrian regime. The doctor treated jail as a public notice like weddings or births.
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Herbert Mueller-Guttenbrunn
Austria
Scottish Co op Wholesale Society top wheat buyer in Scotland
The Scottish Co operative Wholesale Society is the largest four mil ler in Scotland and has used in one year 29,000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat. Its bakeries produce bread in which No 1 Northern wheat is fused to the extent of 83 percent. Mr McCormick, the Society accountant, says most buying occurs at Winnipeg through pools and line companies.
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Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
Scotland
McCormick
Winnipeg
Fiat builds world's largest diesel engine for Vulcan
The Italian Fiat company completed the world’s largest diesel marine motor for installation on the transatlantic steamship Vulcan. The engine is rated for 16,000 horsepower and during trials has exceeded 18,000 horsepower.
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Fiat” Company
Vulcan
Uncanny Powers Belief in Beetles From Air Attracts Wonder
Lajos Pap a Hungarian carpenter claims trance powered ability to conjure beetles birds flowers snakes and liquids from the air. Experiments at the International Institute for Physical Research London Budapest observers report 32 live beetles produced in a trance and insist there was no trickery.
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Lajos Pap
Europe
International Institute For Physical Research
South Kensington
England
Budapest
Nandor Fodor
Institute
Seek Radium Substitute Scientists Hope For Discovery
Two scientists carried common table salt to Mount Evans to induce radio activity, hoping to replace costly radium in medical treatments. Dr. J. C. Stearns of Denver University and Dr. J. K. Froman of McGill University aim to make salt radioactive. If successful, salt treated this way could substitute radium in medicine.
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Mount Evans
J. C. Stearns
Denver University
J. K. Froman
McGill University
Recipes For This Week By Betty Barclay
Instructions for making berry juice jelly from ripe berries and lemon, with sugar and fruit pectin. Steps include crushing berries, squeezing juice, combining with sugar, boiling rapidly, adding pectin, boiling hard for a short time, skimming, and canning about 12 glasses.
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Nce
Cocoanut Apricot Jam Recipe From Old Notes
A jam making recipe describes preparing dried apricots with water, grinding, and mixing with sugar and coconut, then boiling hard with pectin, skimming, and sealing with paraffin. It yields about eleven 6 ounce glasses. The text oddly includes a stray note about birds changing eye focus and a car ahead.
Cute cuddle toys pattern from Winnipeg newspaper union
A brief description extols easy to sew cuddle toys for children. Each toy needs two identical fabric pieces plus optional wing or jacket details. Patterns, yardage, and instructions are in pattern 011, available for 20 cents from the Household Arts Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winniper.
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Household Arts
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
E. Winniper
Stratosphere Flight Seen Near Reality for Transcontinental Route
The article reports engineers studying 40,000 foot transcontinental flight as nearly feasible, highlighting reduced weather delays, safety from mountain collisions, and the option to glide 120 miles for repairs. It notes monotony versus spectacular views, with sightseeing at low altitudes.
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W. Bailey Oswald
Old Superstitions Debunked By Hair Specialist Paul Tuomas
Paul A. Tuomas, scalp expert, challenges common hair myths in a recent address to Chicago beauty school graduates. He states that singeing, shaving, or cutting does not spur growth, worry cannot turn hair white, and pulling one white hair does not trigger two new ones. He debunks heredity baldness, brain work as a cause, and other folklore, emphasizing scalp health as key.
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Chicago
Paul A. Tuomas
Pitchblende Shipments From Eldorado Lead Northward
Eighty tons of pitchblende ore from Eldorado Gold Mine at Sabine Point Great Bear Lake arrived Fort Fitzgerald Alta by portage. Valued at 750000 dollars the cargo was moved to Northern Prospector steamer, then to Mabel D C and carried by train to Port Hope refinery. Further winter shipments will be sent by aeroplane Gilbert Labine revealed in Edmonton.
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Eldorado
Sabine Point
Great Bear Lake
Fort Fitzgerald
Alta
Northern Prospector
Mabel D & C
Port Hope
Ont
Eldorado Company
Aeroplane
Gilbert Labine
Edmonton
Nigerian native applies for military service quote
A Nigerian applicant to a railway unit writes in bold terms that he is a ready, healthy 25 year old man eager to serve. He declares his intent to perform duties bravely and loyally and jokes about passing medical exams easily as he begs for enlistment.
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Nigeria
Tam
Wedding Feast At Border Fence Near Samegen
Polish wedding guests gathered at a boundary line to toast the couple as guards watched from the frontier. German friends proposed hosting the feast at the border, while guests sat at a table straddling Poland and the frontier zone under close surveillance.
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Nan
Samegen
Poland
Little Journeys In Science Wood Flour Uses
This article outlines the expanding roles of wood flour in modern industry. From linoleum and cork blends to dynamite and phenol resins, wood flour enhances plastics, fillers, and finished goods like frames, bowling balls, furniture parts, records, and dolls. It notes Dr. Leo Baekeland’s early work and lists diverse applications including insulation bricks and household products.
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Gorton H. Guest
Leo Baekeland
Wool imports reveal New Zealand as top wool source for Canada
Canada relies heavily on wool imports from New Zealand and the United Kingdom, with Australia a distant third. Last year Canada imported 15 million pounds of raw wool, about seven million from New Zealand and nearly six million from Britain, plus over three million from Australia. Canada sheep numbers are modest at roughly 3.3 million, while New Zealand's flocks exceed 30 million.
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Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Antipodes
United Kingdom
Great Britain
India
British South Africa
Irish Free State
Parasite Help Ends Prickly Pear In Australia
Australia shows the value of biological control as Cactoblastis cactorum moths spread to prune prickly pear. Before 1930 the pest covered 58 million acres. within four to five years after introduction, eight and a half million acres were reclaimed. Canada also operates entomological labs for parasite pest control.
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Australia
Canada
Sometme
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Mediterranean
Charles
British Museum
Wrigley
Ross
Pany
Dominion
Adam
Betty Barclay
Alice Brooks
North
Border
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