Motoring You Must Drive With Judgment and Safety
A warning on highway safety urges careful driving to prevent the nearly one million U S and Canadian crashes yearly. It cites the dangers of speed and recklessness, referencing a Reader's Digest article and stressing the duty to protect passengers and others on the road.
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North America
United States
Canada
Ontario
Reader's Digest
Niagara Falls
Cara
Death
Rebuilt by a New Method Reworks Machine Parts
A Popular Mechanics article describes a repair method that uses heat from rifle bullet spec to reconstitute worn components. Screw heads are formed into surfaces, metal is sprayed into grooves at 2700 feet per second to fuse with the base, then polished for long wear. Parts such as piston rods, cylinder walls, shafts, bearings, and turbines are treated successfully.
Jubilee Week Was Easy King’s Secretaries Replied
During May 3 to 9 the King received 10 264 tele grams from every part of the world. Every sender in the British Isles received a reply from His Majesty or a secretary. Overseas messages were six, answered mainly by cable or personal letter. A new metal, lighter than aluminum, stronger than cast iron, cheaper than brass, impervious to seawater, and bendable when cold, is in use by the admiralty.
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British Isles
Mereagea
Mlarly
Bby
Dominions
Admiralty
Nyarax Described as Small Relative of the Elephant
The nyarax is the nearest living relative of the elephant, a small creature no bigger than a rabbit. It is whimsically linked to a biblical term coney in the King James Bible. In Istanbul, all main street houses are red by municipal decree and draped in Turkish colors on feast days.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Ethiopia
Italy
Imperial Guard
Construction challenges in local installation work
Work under difficulties covered windows doors glass china linen and furniture electrical installation and other equipment for the local bote. Foremen were scarce and a French army engineer unit aided blending in with the region to supervise and pave the project amid harsh conditions.
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Tanya Chan
Bowere
Lighthouse Heroine Dead Matelot Overnight Fame Heroine
The Belle Isle legend Mme. Matelot died recently at Lorient France. In 1910 she earned the Carnegie Medal and the Legion of Honor for saving a lighthouse keeper husband and guiding the Kerdonis Light crew. She kept the light turning through a dangerous night until dawn.
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Matelot
Belle Isle
Lorient
France
Mme
Kerdonis
Belle Inle
Sollapeed
Dominion Drama Festival finals regulate regional contests
Regulations outline 11 regional Canadian contests for a final week in Ottawa starting April 20. English regions hold events in Vancouver Calgary Saskatoon and Winnipeg on late Jan to Feb dates. French plays to be staged in Quebec City Montreal and Ottawa on later dates. Finalists from past Ottawa events are barred in 1986. The festival limits performances to one act or self contained scenes 20 to 45 minutes long. Col H C Osborne directs with regional committees. A Texas government lab reports helium 99.96 percent purity.
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Canada
Ottawa
J. A. Aylen
British Columbia
Vancouver
Alberta
Calgary
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Quebec City
Montreal
Col. H. C. Osborne
Sonorary
Sir Herbert Robson Dies Suddenly in England at 61
Sir Herbert Robson, prominent grain merchant and Baltic Exchange chairman, died suddenly in London at 61. An opponent of wheat production restrictions, he was born in Northampton in 1874 and once chaired Karachi's chamber of commerce. He died at Maldon, Essex, and served as director of several major companies.
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Tinent
England
Herbert Robson
Baltic Exchange
London
Herbert
Maldon
Essex
Northampton
Chamber of Commerce
Karachi
India
Bombay
Engraving Tool Uses Like a Pencil for Metals and Bakelite
A plug in engraving tool writes like a pencil with no pressure required. It cuts rapidly with a chisel stroke and runs on 110 volt AC mains. The tool fits the hand and is suitable for metal on gold silver brass copper aluminum and other materials including ivory and hardwoods.
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A.c
Wrap-Around Apron Frock Promises Smart Home Wear
A simple inexpensive home frock style featuring a paneled bodice and flared sleeves, designed as a cover-all to wear over a best frock for dinner. Pattern No. 310 suits sizes 14 to 42 bust, requires yards of 35 inch material, with pattern and pattern department contact in Winnipeg. Autumn Fashion book offers more vacation clothes at 15 cents.
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Mau
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Soviet Plane Non Stop Flight to San Francisco Delayed
A Soviet attempt to fly non stop to San Francisco via the north pole has been postponed until summer 1936. Official word cites the polar night vetting as the reason for the delay.
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San Francisco
North Pole
Paid Union Rates for Daughters of Officers in Aurora Ceremony
Trade union rates of a penny per diver were paid to Lady Kelly wife of Admiral Sir John Kelly and other officers wives when they drove the first rivets into the plates of the new cruiser Aurora at Portsmouth. A five million dollar steel plant will be built at South Durham England.
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Lady Kelly
John Kelly
Aurora
Portsmouth
South Durham
England
London to end horse traffic with mechanized system
The Ministry of Transport forecasts a Horseless London within five years with horse-drawn traffic largely replaced. Regulations will close busy streets to carts, an Oxford Street device operates now, and a future edict bans horse vehicles after three to five years. Minister Hore Belisha has power to end tram by horse but will warn owners first.
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London
Ministry of Transport
Oxford Street
L. Hore- Belisha
Eastern Excursions bargain Fares Offered By C P R and C N R
Western secretary Joseph B Parke of the Canadian Passenger Association announces fall bargain fares by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National for September. Ticket sales run Sept 21 to Oct 4 with a 45 day final return limit from sale. Stop overs allowed at Port Arthur Armstrong and east. Tickets valid in coach tourist or standard sleepers at fare for chosen accommodation. Sales from Port Arthur Armstrong and west to all stations including Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Cochrane and east.
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C.P.R
Cn.r
Canada
Canadian Pacific
Canadian National Railways
Joseph B. Parke
Western
Canadian Passenger Association
Sumer
Port Arthur
Armstrong
East
West
Pacific Coast
Sault Ste. Marie
Sudbury
Cochrane
Amsterdam restaurant dispute sparks abrupt exile to army
Aanaca Amitalo-Anyanmian dispute surfaces in Amsterdam as a commissionaire at an Italian restaurant announces plans to join the army. On departure an Italian proprietor spots a large bundle. When asked, he replies revolver yet police find silverware instead.
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Amsterdam
Cleaning Railway Coaches for Disinfection Gas Chamber Method
A German Federal Railways car carriage is cleaned by driving it into a large airtight cylinder. A strong disinfectant gas is pumped in and the carriage stays inside long enough for the gas to penetrate every crack and surface.
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