Cost of Living and War Time Price Trends Across Nations
Canadians faced wartime price controls yet saw living costs rise since 1939. International Labor Office data show Canada up 56 percent in general prices and 42 percent for food since 1937, with wide global contrasts including the United States up 48 percent and food up 75 percent. Despite higher costs, Canadians are deemed fortunate as production pace and demand balance are expected to restore normal levels.
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Canada
International Labor Office
United States
Japan
France
Italy
Netherlands
British Empire
Australia
South Africa
Britain
Singing Mouse Delights South Lancaster Home
Mrs. Ruel Edmister of South Lancaster Mass reports a singing mouse that sits on her kitchen radiator and trills merrily. The animal, found last fall in a box of popcorn, eats peanut butter from a knife and often appears at night to perform, its favorite perch the radiator.
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South Lancaster
Mass
Ruel Edmister
Edison Memo Refutes Atom Energy Claim at Auction
Thomas Alva Edison wrote a penciled memorandum denying internal energy in the atom. The document, part of a public auction of letters and signatures gathered by Frederick Stanhope Peck, fetched 230 dollars in Philadelphia. Edison answered the question whether atom energy could be harnessed with skepticism, saying he did not believe in internal energy.
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Thomas Alva Edison
Philadelphia
Frederick Stanhope Peck Edison
Custom Shapes Thought Across Ages and Beliefs
A compact survey of quotes on custom and conformity by Fielding Bacon Bovee Mill Dumas and others. It notes custom as a driver of error and tyranny while suggesting the need to question what ought to be. The passage ends with a remark on Australia as an ancient landmass.
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John Stuart Mill
Spring fever real says psychologist from Boston University
A Boston University psychologist, Prof. W. K. Pinard, argues spring fever is real and a beneficial creative urge. He says mild repression harms individuals and society and urges more opportunities to express it within decency.
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Boston University
W. K. Pinard
Pinard
Selected Recipes Easy Italian Spaghetti and Chocolate Kisses
A readable OCR mix presents a spaghetti recipe using ground beef or sausage with vegetables and broth, plus a chocolate kiss cookie recipe from a home kitchen. It includes a joke about an efficiency expert and a wife. The items share a domestic cooking tone and concise steps.
Humorous Archives of Oddball Moments and Misreadings
A collage of light jokes and miscommunications from a bygone era. A drunk claims to attend a lecture while a policeman questions him. An asylum inmate jokes about bricks in a wheelbarrow. A reporter notes on a convict and a schoolyard family humor. A six year old asks for a clean collar. Weatherstripping jelly and a dinner whistle incident add to the whimsy.
Sea uncover ruins of ancient church at Eccles
On England's East Coast at Eccles the sea has revealed remains of an old church long buried by sand. Winds and waves have washed away the covering sand, exposing pottery fragments and skeletal remains from the ancient burial ground, bodies once lost to time.
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Eccles
England
Sun May Get Hotter Before It Heats
J Dainty a member of the British Atomic Energy project told 100 members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Ottawa Centre that the sun tends to get hotter and when it reaches a peak the heat will gradually lessen, though this will occur in the very distant future. He discussed stellar evolution following theories of H Norris Russell of Princeton University.
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Ottawa
J. Dainty
British Atomic Energy Project
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Ottawa Centre
Must Be Good Food Mushrooms High Water Content
Mushrooms contain about 90 percent water and 4 percent protein with minerals iron copper calcium phosphorus and potassium. They also provide riboflavin pantothenic acid vitamins B1 C and K including trace amounts of nicotine.
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H. L. Mackinnon CO. Lyd
Winnipeg
de Melrose
Singing Mouse
Regina
Calgary
Edmonton
Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Bacon
Bovee
Dumas
Mary Baker Eddy
Dr. Chase
Paris
Francoise Foucault
Francoise
Roland
Sonny
Bill
Shanghats
New York
George Viachos-Wei
Madeleine
Sophie
George
Shanghai
Mr. Dainty
H. Norris Russell
Princeton University
Princeton, N_J
Burgess Battery CO
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