World Happenings Briefly Told
Fifteen village children drowned or went missing in a flood during a recent storm in Southern Slovakia. Britain’s bread rationing has reduced flour use by about ten percent over a year. Barbara Sadowska Beatiful, 26, a Warsaw spy group leader, was sentenced to nine years. The Polperro showplace House of the Props will be converted to flats due to housing shortages. A ten ton plow on a Texas farm, 60 feet wide, with 88 furrows, tills 17 acres per hour. Selina Blunt received her house back after a 24 hour squat on her doorstep over requisition protests.
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Slovakia
Barbara Sadowska
Poland
Warsaw
Texas
Alcoholics Among Mental Hospital Admissions
A census bureau report shows about one in twenty five hospital admissions are alcoholics. Victims of general paresis or other syphilis induced insanity account for about one in eighteen, and about one in fifty are drug addicts.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Princess Pats Nutty Bran Bars Bake At High Heat
Beat eggs with brown sugar and melted butter until light. Sift flour baking powder and salt. Crumble bran with flour then fold into egg mixture. Stir in nutrients. Bake in greased shallow pan at 425 degrees F for about minutes. Yield 32 bars in a small pan.
Crossword Puzzle Clues From Fragmented Page
A noisy damaged crossword snippet lists many horizontal and vertical clues across varied topics including geography, language, and science. The text fragments reference places like India and Burma, chemical symbols, and generic puzzle terms, all jumbled in a partial grid.
Editorial urges brucellosis awareness and pasteurization
A Journal of the American Medical Association editorial warns brucellosis from dairy animals poses significant U S health risk. It estimates 40 000 to 100 000 infections yearly in the United States and 19 000 to 50 000 in Canada, stressing pasteurization as the primary defense and calling for improved diagnosis treatment and prevention in animals and humans.
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Malta
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Canada
Dominion
Leprosy Patients in Canada Shrink to Ten
Estimated global leprosy population at 3,000,000 with only ten in Canada. Dominion houses three in British Columbia at 11,000 dollars this year and seven in New Brunswick at a century-old leper station.
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Canada
Dominion
British Columbia
New Brunswick
Death of Stowaway on Maria G Investigated
Quebec provincial police boarded the Maria G to investigate a suspected murder after a stowaway was found dead in a utility locker amid tins of food. Bernard Mountain of Saint John is confined to his bunk from injuries suffered at sea. The ship, from Saint John months ago, had voyages to China Honolulu and India and is now in Montreal harbor. The unidentified body was buried at sea off India.
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Maria G
Bernard Mountain
Saint John
N.B
Montreal
China
Honolulu
India
Quebec
Gems of Thought Quotes and Reflections
A collection of aphorisms from Spenser Plato Epictetus Lowell Polk and others on self restraint temper and character. Compiled as a brief inspirational card with concise maxims and a closing number 2735.
Prices to fall say Sears chief Gen Robert Wood
General Wood, head of Sears Roebuck, testifies before the Senate committee that prices are headed downward. He notes radios already dropped from 30 to 20 dollars, predicting inching reductions to 15 dollars and beyond as demand falters.
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Washington
Senate
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sear
Robert E. Wood
Congress
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wye
Gen. Wood
Sears
Wood
World languages and English reach across regions
The piece notes nearly 3500 languages spoken worldwide with Africa hosting 100 speech modes, India 130, the Philippines 87, Europe 46, and Jerusalem cited at 42. It praises English as widely used by 250 million speakers, with an additional 6 million able to use it for business.
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Africa
India
Philippine Islands
Europe
Jerusalem
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Scotland
Princess Pats
Tellurium
Burma
Faroe Island
Ceriain
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Printer's Measure S
Faroe Islands
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Edmund Spenser
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Epictetus
Frank E. Polk
Lowell
Mary Baker Eddy
BY William Ferguson
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Selmer
NEA Service, Inc
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General Wood
Little Reggie
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Reggie
Georgia
Peggy
Mont Forset
By Chuck Thurston
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