World Happenings Briefly Told
A compilation of global notes including Canterbury gifting stone tokens to South Africa cathedrals and allied friendship symbolism. US commission probes pulpwood trade balance with Canada identified as top seller. British Lewis gun being phased out for the Bren from Czechoslovakia. Montrealers demo a batteryless phone harnessing voice energy. A road accident near Venice Tarvisio, Italy killed four and wounded four from an unexploded WWI shell. Duke of Sutherland estate near Brooks sold, irrigation potential grows. Mount Steele ascent by Walter Wood marks first, highest Yukon feat. Japan may seek emigration talks with Britain and others. 70 to 80 Canadians to join the Royal Canadian Air Force from a waiting list. Monthly air mail route announced between Fort Chipewyan and a new Goldfields post on Lake Athabasca.
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South Africa
Canterbury
England
United States
Tartet Commission
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Armand Parent
Pierre Dufresne
Carmen Norasco
Venice
Tarvisio
Italy
Alberta
Duke of Sutherland
Brooks
Eastern Irrigation District
American Geographical Society
Mount Steele
Walter Wood
Yukon Territory
Daily Herald
Great Britain
Holland
Far East
Royal Canadian Air Force
Def¢Rence Department
Canning Industry Highlights Ontario BC and Quebec
The canning sector is strongest in Ontario British Columbia and Quebec with apples pears peaches cherries currants loganberry and other fruits canned beside tomatoes peas corn beans beets carrots pumpkin squash spinach and asparagus. The 1993 pack reached 1 201 275 fruit cases and 4 531 542 vegetable cases with values of 2 804 961 and 0 257 206 respectively. Tomatoes led vegetables. pears led fruits. Other items include soups and tomato juice.
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Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Sioux Chief’s Medal Portrait In Winnipeg Noted
A Sioux chief, Sitting Bugle of the Pipe rstove Sioux, posed in Winnipeg for a recent picture. The chief refused to consider ceding land if offered, arguing Indians led this country before pale faces. His rare medal, one of seven struck after the American Revolution, bears a royal likeness and a lion and wolf on the reverse.
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Prouary Au
Sitting Bugle
Winnipeg
T ‘Biet
Pipestone
Western Canada
United States
Cana
Ian Todiana
Birthday Of Panama Canal Aging Through The Years
The Panama Canal marked its 21st anniversary on August 15, 1935, since opening to traffic in 1914. Tolls total about 304,566,620 for 82,673 ship passages between the Atlantic and Pacific, with current capacity near 348 ships daily though actual average transits in the year to June 30 were about 15 per day, peaking under 18 in 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
New York
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Pacific
Alliance forms non-permanent Canadian Light Horse unit
The 14th Canadian Light Horse, a non permanent active militia of Canada with headquarters at Climax Saskatchewan, was approved by the king and announced in Ottawa by the department of national defence. Organized in 1910, the unit is commanded by Lt Colonel W Van Allen.
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Aliance Ve
Canada
Climax
Sask
Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles
New Zealand
Ottawa
Department of National Defence
14Th
Canadian Light Horse
W. van Allen
U S Government Probes Profit From Chain Letter Scam
In Denver the dime chain letters are said to promise large returns and attract large volumes. Postmaster J C Stevie estimates 100000 letters seized, totaling about 3000 to 4000 dollars, to be turned over to the treasury after a year. The article frames the scheme as a notable financial curiosity with potential national impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Treasury
Denver
Treasury
J. C. Stevie
Anecdote on ignorance and a bishop's wit in West conference
A late bishop parries a tirade against universities by noting a member thanks God for ignorance. The remark prompts the bishop to say the brother has a good ear. The piece also cites the 1927 Tokyo earthquake with massive destruction and a statistician’s claim of over a million US cancer deaths in the last decade.
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Mues
West
Interfering with Nature in Farming and Domestication
A speaker argues that human interference has shaped animal breeds and crops, from cattle and horses to poultry and wheat. He cites mules, turkeys, roses, and wheat Saunders to show that man’s management creates value, while cautioning against denying control over pests and predators. The piece ends praising the partnership with God in cultivating the land.
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Iano
Sol
Canada
Charles Saunders
Swordfish and Whale Legends Stir Marine Curiosities
Reports describe swordfish striking wood and evading whalers, with swords found in hulls and even a bow fragment impaled in a museum. A London insurer dispute cited a swordfish as the likely cause, while a Liverpool lecturer recounts a swordfish attacking a calf guarded by a whale, a clash witnessed by ship crews.
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Ceylon
London
Insurance Company
R. J. Daniel
Liverpool University
Auckland
Stratford boy wins prizes at Canadian National Exhibition
Allan Heagy of Stratford won first prize with red currant jelly in handicraft exhibits at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. He also earned second place for mixed pickles and first prizes for raspberries and strawberries and for canned peaches and vegetables, proving feminine hands mean little in preserving.
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Allan Heagy
Stratford
Toronto
Magnetic Sweeper Clears Highway Nails and Debris
Texas highway department crews operate magnetic sweepers on South Texas routes removing nails scrap iron cans wires bolts and other material. In the 18 mile Pharr to Mercedes stretch the machine gathered 291.5 pounds of metal and on highway 66 in Brooks county it picked up 111 pounds.
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Texas
Pharr
Mercedes
Highway 66
Brooks County
Texas Highway Department
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators expand facilities in province
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators Limited announces sixteen new or purchased elevators raising provincial facilities to 1,081 units with total capacity about 36 percent of a million bushels. Neville plant rebuilt into 45,000 bushel capacity at cost about 159,000 dollars. Canada now has 128 landing fields and airports.
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Atchewan
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators, Limited
Neville
Little Journeys In Science Aluminum uses and history
Aluminum is a recent industrial metal lighter than iron and highly resistant to corrosion. It forms useful alloys and enables a wide range of applications from kitchen utensils to large engine bases and building components. Its production powers automotive and aircraft sectors, washing machines, paints, radio foils, and thermite welding for repair without disassembly.
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Sve Ory
Sait Sheeran
Ee Ao Porcine Sa
SeSee Ee
Mae Sear Sraendee
Senge
Peer Bae
Raan
England Builds New Houses at Liverpool Garden Complex
Sir Kingsley Wood, minister of health, opened St Andrews Gardens in Liverpool noting over 300 flats on a former abattoir site with balconies and increased window area. He cited 2,670,500 new English houses since the armistice, costing about 9 billion dollars from state local authorities and private capital, and defended housing standards against claims of cheapness.
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Kingsteywood
St. Andrews Gardens
Liverpool
England
Kingsley
Sir Kingsley
Ministry of Health
Ziegfeld’s Superstition Shaped Monte Carlo Bank Event
At Saratoga a tale recounts Florenz Ziegfeld, famed as superstitious, taking over a Monte Carlo bank. King Edward entered, placed a foot on Ziegfeld’s chair, and watched as Flo dropped 400000 without asking the sovereign to move the chair. The act defied gamblers’ bad luck beliefs.
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Ziegfeld
North Dakota scientists back poisoned bran bait claim
A statements from North Dakota scientists assert that poisoned bran bait used in grasshopper control leaves poultry and game birds unharmed after reports of unexpected impacts at farms.
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North Dakota
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fort Chipewyan
Alta
Goldfields, Sask
Post Office Department
Goldfields
Lake Atha- Dbaska
Mexico
Alliance of Lath
U. S
Tokyo
Nature
America
North America
Ida M. Thoma
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Alice Brooks
Crochet
Haiti
U.S
France
Aluminum
Gordon H. Guest
ALA
Sonny
Jack
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