The Mono Schoolmaster and the Dog in Ontario Feud
In Mono, Nathaniel Carson the schoolmaster clashes with Bob O New Pitsligo and a farmer over Bettys school discipline. The dog helps topple Carsons desk, a trial ensues, and Carson is publicly rebuked. Bob bearing a lasting grudge, and the tale hints at ongoing rural justice and local tensions.
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Bob
Queen Victoria
Mr. Carson
Jack Robinson
Nathanial Carson
Mono Mills
Ontario
Old Hickory Mick
Canada
Hays Forms Panel to Pick Educational Film Shorts
Educational Films Will Hays appoints a committee of educationists to review 15 000 sound film shorts in Hollywood vaults. Dr Mark A May of Yale heads the panel to select material for school use and advise future educational film production. About 2000 shorts may be used as is and another 2000 after alteration, with travelogues and American history episodes cited as especially useful for geography history and civics in lower grades.
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Will H. Hays
Mark A. May
Institute of Human Relations
Yale University
Hays Office
Dr. May
Trek Through Palestine Guides Five Britons Westward
Five young Britons four Cambridge undergraduates plan a 10 000 mile trek from Wolverhampton through the Balkans to visit a buried Byzantine city. Their lorry will carry archaeology medicine and architecture aims including ruins at Eski Adalia leper colony photographs for Cambridge Pathological Institute river life samples and Byzantine monastery architecture across the Balkans and Turkey.
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Cambridge
Wolverhampton
Balkans
St. Paul
Palestine
Eski-Adalia
Cambridge Pathological Institute
Turkey
Tendency To Stutter and the Gender Gap in Speech
Indiana University's Dr. Robert Milisen notes women’s traditionally greater linguistic flexibility protects against stuttering. He states men stutter two to ten times more often, cites a neuro physiological basis with limited data, and notes more men are color blind while women excel in reading and spelling.
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Robert Milisen
Indiana University
United States
Dr. Milisen
Puzzle Master Lewis C Trent Dies at 70
Schoolmaster and longtime solver known as C Law who led the National Puzzlers League and authored many brain teasers passes away. He kept a diary of word lists and wrote cryptograms and charades, earning a national reputation alongside his wife who was also a puzzler.
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Lewis C. Trent
Wose Hobby
National
Trent
Tribute to Ben Jonson Marks His Death Centenary
England pays tribute to Ben Jonson on the third centenary of his death. The poet born in London in 1573 wrote Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes and Every Man in His Humor. A Stratford on Avon presentation and a Westminster Abbey grave tribute were held with flowers placed on his grave.
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England
Ben Jonson
Shakespeare
Jonson
London
Stratford-on-Avon
Westminster Abbey
Milk Bars Expand In Britain Amid Beer Decline
Milk campaigns spread across Great Britain with signs inside pubs offering milk by the glass. Milk bars report rising patronage and a drop in beer sales, one Manchester venue serving 800 to 1,000 daily. A milk drunk man is less prone to domestic violence, the Niagara Falls Review notes.
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Great Britain
Manchester
Niagara Falls Review
Soviet Polar Campers Sight Unexpected Animal Life
The Soviet Polar campers report wildlife near their ice floe camp including a seal peeking from the water and a she bear with two cubs. Seagulls and guillemots fly overhead while jellyfish are pulled from a depth of 9,840 feet near a noted biological spring.
Definition of One Horsepower
The phrase one horse power equals the amount of power needed to lift 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute. This unit links work and time for historical engine and mechanical power discussions.
Rainfall Measure: One Inch Equals 100 Tons Per Acre
A line explains that an inch of rainfall delivers about 100 tons of water per acre. The note highlights how small rain amounts translate into large water weights across fields.
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Acre
Milk-wool cloth from casein fails in strength tests
At a London function staff from the Italian Embassy wore garments made from new artificial wool derived from casein, a by-product of milk. Tests show milk-wool has about half the dry strength and one third the wet strength of natural wool, with poor stretch and weak foundation fibers in its fabric.
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London
England
Italy
Oldest Rancher William Cheeseman Nears 90th Birthday
William Cheeseman a Maple Creek district rancher about 100 miles west of Regina is believed to be the oldest active rancher in the west. Born in 1848 in Quebec City he served during the Fenian Raids and moved to Austin Nevada in 1879. He drove 100 horses overland to the area four years later and has farmed here since with a brief spell as special constable with the North West Mounted Police during the Northwest Rebellion.
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William Cheeseman
Maple Creek
Regina
Quebec City
Austin
Nevada
North West Mounted Police
Saving Grace in Prime Ministers Joined to Mark Twain Society
The Prime Minister of Great Britain and Canada are now members of the Mark Twain Society. If membership requires humor the Lethbridge Herald notes that Britain's and Canada's leading statesmen possess a saving grace. This quality is valuable in public life.
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Great Britain
Canada
Mark Twain Society
Lethbridge Herald
Americans Consume Over a Ton of Food Each Year
A study notes that the average American consumes more than a ton of food annually. The finding highlights broad dietary patterns and waste concerns across households nationwide.
Little Helps For This Week
A devotional meditation on bearing daily duties with steadfast faith. It cites Mark 10 38 and urges accepting God’s will with cheer, modeling martyrdom through weariness but steady, cheerful service and finishing one’s tasks. It emphasizes resolve to find pleasure in duties and to drink Christ’s cup.
Walls Within Walls Peiping City of the North and its Legation Quarter
The piece describes Peiping facing an inner city layout with the Imperial and Forbidden Cities, and the walled Legation Quarter adjacent to the Forbidden City. It notes a population of about 1300, including 675 civilians, 93 embassy staff, and 515 U.S. Marines armed with rifles and mortars. Japanese troops guard a section of the Quarter, and foreign garrisons date to the 1900 Boxer siege of the diplomats.
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Peiping
Baybing
Imperial City
Forbidden City
Legation
U.S
New York Post
Centenarian birthday wish sparks long life tale
Abraham Wishkovsky of New York, a centenarian, blew out 121 candles and wished for a young, pretty wife with yellow hair. A Polish born retired grocer with a long history including three wives buried and two divorces. Alaska coal deposits are estimated at 19 billion tons.
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Abraham Wishkovsky
New York
Alaska
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