French girl uses wool to paint Paris in new art form
Mile. Marie Lemaistre, Paris interior decorator, creates delicate wool on canvas pictures using tiny wool particles. Her works depict Paris landmarks like the De Saint Louis and Palais de Justice and are exhibited in London by the International Wool Secretariat. Some pieces were commissioned for the French state.
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Worl
Europe
Mile
Marie Lemaistre
Paris
Milo
Lemaistre
de Saint Louis
iPalais de Justice
Pasiion
International Wool Secretariat
Dorland House
Regent Street
London
Unclear OCR Fragments Prompt Aids Wordplay
This item presents a jumble of partial words and numbers from an OCR source. It includes fragments such as Concerning 23 Bird public, Disturbing 13 Freight, and Whinnies 29 Quadruped, plus scattered digits and misplaced letters. The text resembles a puzzle or corrupted page segment rather than a coherent news item.
RAAF survey ahead of schedule in Australia photo mapping
The RAAF survey detachment in north west Australia has completed 136000 square miles of aerial photography, almost six weeks early, aided by good weather and top maintenance. A second detachment will extend coverage by about 60 miles to reach roughly 200000 square miles by late September.
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RAAF
Raaf Survey
Australia
Britain
Unauthorised Air Flights Probed by Scotland Yard and MOCA
Scotland Yard and the Ministry of Civil Aviation fight unauthorised flights used for smuggling and currency crimes. Detectives, led by Detective Inspector Baker, investigate weekly plots as planes fly to the Continent without clearance or customs checks.
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Scotland Yard
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Eee
Britain
Ones Baker
Aerial Survey Expedition Targets Central Australia
The detachment returns to its parent squadron at RAAF Station Canberra after completing work, then moves to begin photographing 350000 square miles of Central Australia and South Western Queensland. Plans for a new commitment place a base at Alice Springs with surveys supporting development programs soil erosion control soldier settlement and irrigation projects set to start in October.
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Raaf Station
Canberra
Austral
Queensland
Alice Springs
Wool Holder Showpiece Draws Attention at Exhibition
A mechanical wool holder with four adjustable arms, patented by an engineer from Daventry, Warwickshire, was showcased at an industrial exhibition. The inventor, irritated by winding wool by hand for his wife knitting baby clothes, presented his device as a boon to expectant fathers.
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Daventry
Warwickshire
Wordplay quiz on history and literature clues
A set of quirky multiple choice style prompts blends history literature and language quirks. Questions cover hyenas versus pigs in biology, medieval titles in Germany, spirits of Scotch, Irish terms, maize porridge, Masefield poems, Wakefield character names, P C Wren terms, megalomania traits, and related trivia with playful distractors.
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Germany
Glenlivet
Ireland
John Masefield
Egypt
Wakefield
Dr. Hewlett
Primrose
P. C. Wren
Thief Loots Five Daventry Homes Fleeing With £5
At Daventry in Northampton shire a thief raided five houses and stole £5 in cash. He ate a meal in each house during the visits before escaping.
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Daventry
Northamptonshire
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Beecham
Air Pirates
Hearne
Thaers
National Library of Australia
Howard Correspondence College
Darling
Franklin Street
Adelaide
South Australia
Miami
Western Australia
Pearse Bros
Pearse Bros. Ltd
North Fremantle
Fordson
Lynas Motors Pty. Limited
Hay Street
Perth
State Distributors
Nla.gov
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