4 500 Feet Straight Down By Barton in Benthoscope Dive
Otis Barton, marine explorer and former partner of Dr. William Beebe, descended 4 500 feet in a steel benthoscope off Santa Cruz, aiming to film life at extreme depths. The dive, funded by the Allan Hancock Foundation with 15 000 dollars, faced complete darkness and equipment failures, but produced eyewitness observations of luminescent shrimp, jellylike organisms, and glowing jaws of gulper eels.
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Tamara and
Rerefva
Central Press
Santa Cruz
Cal
Otis Barton
William Beebe
Barton
Ocean
Allan Hancock Foundation
Santa Cruz Basin
Hell
Crochet Pattern 7112 Offers Triangular Textured Set
A vintage crochet notice promotes Pattern 7112 with a triangle texture set ideal for chairs or buffet pieces. It highlights easy charts and directions plus a needlework book by Alice Brooks with 109 illustrated designs and a free pattern. Requests include twenty five cents per item and clear name and address for mailing.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Front Street
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Household Repairs For Laundry Tubs And Towels
Use ordinary house paint on rough laundry tubs after thorough drying to extend life. Salvage worn Turkish towels by cutting into washcloths and finishing edges with a plain crochet stitch to prevent fraying.
Sugar gift from an old lady in restaurant
A man asked for a second lump of sugar in a crowded restaurant and was declined by his waitress. An older woman at the next table secretly handed him a lump she kept in her handbag saying she carries sugar in case she meets a horse. Richard means stern king.
Health article urges seeing adolescence as growth not conflict
Dr Mary L Northway in Health magazine argues adults should frame teen change as challenges. She says adolescents are reasonable and their tumultuous period can foster learning, with maturation seen through defined expectations and supportive initiation traditions.
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Mary L. Northway
Health
Canada
National Health Magazine
The
Health League of Canada
Dr. Northway
University of Toronto
Institute of Child Study
Northway
Unknown Soldier Tomb Idea Credited to London Editor
The notion of creating a tomb for the Unknown Soldier is commonly attributed to J. B. Wilson, a London newspaper editor. The concept gained attention as a tribute to unidentified war dead and influenced later memorial practices.
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London
J. B. Wilson
Make Your Own Furnace With a Jacketed Pipe Less Stove
A home heating unit using a camp stove with a radiating drum, sheet metal jackets, and a double wall design is described. It details constructing a safe fireproof jacket, dampers, registers, and insulating layers to improve efficiency while preventing wood exposed to heat.
Gems on Independence and Thought from Classic Voices
A collection of quotations discusses independence and dependence linking dignity virtue and happiness. Bentham Junius Eddy Calderwood Emerson emphasize direct life views independent thinking guides study of others and preserves inner freedom amid public opinion and social pressures.
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Jeremy Bentham
Junius
Mary Baker Eddy
Calderwood
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la Jolla
San Diego
Mindanao
Philippines
Hudson Canyon
Atlantic
Mic Aroha
Richard
Trench
Teuton
India
Pandit Nehru
Malton
Ont
Niagara Falls
S.N.S
Eno
Emerson
King Bruce
Ott
Walloea
Witatt
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