World Happenings Briefly Told
Canada launches the greatest tuberculosis case finding program in its history. Hon Paul Martin and Thomas Hoelmes, youngest to win the Victoria Cross in WWI, have died in Sunnybrook Hospital Toronto. Russian Tass reports a grangerine fruit hybrid. A Berlin tailor is run over by an ambulance after a night out. A Hampshire farmer ranks cows daily with a Braille dial churn. A Vancouver celebrant loses $100 in a truck steering column. Yugoslavs train 500000 for anti aircraft defences. 170000 more volunteers expected. Europe builds the largest clock in Strasbourg for Norway, 28 foot dial, 500 pound hands.
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Canada
Paul Martin
Thomas Hoelmes
Sunnybrook Military Hospital
Toronto
Europe
Strasbourg
Germany
Norway
Community Laying Nest for Poultry Houses
An article describes a community laying nest used by the Poultry Department at Macdonald College. The nest suits about forty hens, with six nests for 250 hens, mounted 22 inches high, end frame construction, and bolted to walls or partitions. Benefits include reduced crowding, fewer broken or dirty eggs, and easier collection, with ample nesting litter to prevent thinning.
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Macdonald College
Kitchen Meditations Mending Overalls
A cold February scene in a kitchen as a mother mends a worn pair of denim overalls. The warm red range and kettle humming contrast with the biting wind outside while memories of generations of sewing drift through her thoughts.
Pasadena Editor Stricken By Allergic Asthma
Frederick G. Runyon of the Pasadena Independent is hospitalized for asthma treatment. Doctors say the allergy is to blue grass cats dogs printer s ink and newsprint, a rare reaction noted in a Pasadena medical note.
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Pasadena
Calif
Frederick G. Runyon
The
Pasadena Independent
Regina Gyro Ensemble Singers to Broadcast Four Times
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will air four Gyro Ensemble Singers broadcasts in Regina on Wednesdays February 1 8 15 and 22 at 7 p.m. MST under Jean Graham Bradley. The piece urges Saskatchewan listeners to request more CBC air time for local talent and to support Saskatchewan performers.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Regina Gyro Ensemble
Gyro Ensemble
Jean Graham Bradley
Saskatchewan
CBC
Winnipeg
Calgary
Jean Bradley
Regina Gyro Club
Meat-Eaters Blamed For Wars in Toronto Talk
A. B. Davies of Hamilton, a self proclaimed naturopath, told the Toronto unit of the Canadian Vegetarian Union that meat eating is the basic cause of war. He described meat eaters as born fighters and argued there can be no peace without vegetarianism.
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Toronto
A. B. Davies
Hamilton
Davies
Canadian Vegetarian Union
Lighted handbag made in Berlin promises new fashion
A Berlin firm introduces a women’s handbag with an internal electric light that activates when opened. The article notes the electron as the fastest-moving known thing in the universe.
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Berlin
Biggest Melbourne cat contest winner Montgomery measures 41.5 inches
In Melbourne a largest cat contest crowned Montgomery as the longest at forty one and a half inches. Tiger placed second at thirty five pounds with a thirty two inch girth. Also noted are biographical oddities about Jimmy Faulkner and amusing social dinner musings.
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Melbourne
Australia
Montgomery
Tiger
Jimmy Faulkner
Jimmy
Pappy
Alberta Extends R C M P Contract For Six Years
The Edmonton Journal reports Alberta renewed with the Federal Government to employ the R C M P for six years at 357 000 dollars yearly, 102 000 more than the prior five year period. Similar pacts have benefited towns across the province since the war, with no opposition voiced by officials. A bushel of wheat at 60 pounds holds about one million kernels.
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Alberta
R.C.M.P
Edmonton Journal
Mothers Hope For Separation Of Canadian Siamese Twins
Alta. Mrs. E. A. Townsend, mother of Canada s only Siamese twins, says doctors are confident the separation operation planned for when they are six months old will be completely successful. The two month old babies recently came home on the mother s birthday. Medical exams show no vital organs joined. The twins are conjoined at the abdomen front.
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Field
Alta
E. A. Townsend
Canada
Crossword Puzzle From A Historic Page
A scrambled crossword excerpt lists numbered clues across and down, mixing wordplay like Neuter pronoun and Large oven with city and language hints. Several entries reference animals, colors, metals, and objects such as a fish eggs clue and a compass point, all in a vintage puzzle format.
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G.ri
Guido
Sun Rays Tied to Health Cycles, Alberta Scientist Claims
University of Alberta professor William Rowan links wildlife and human disease cycles to sun ultraviolet vitamin D rays. He argues cycles of mumps measles and whooping cough may reflect a global solar influence across Canada Scandinavia and northern Russia according to The Edmonton Bulletin.
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Edmonton
Alta
University of Alberta
William Rowan
Edmonton Bulletin
Canada
Rowan
Scandinavia
Russia
Breakfast and Pendragon: claim of ancient British leadership
The text states that breakfast is an important meal providing fuel foods and one-third of daily calories. It also defines Pendragon as a supreme head or chief title granted in ancient Britain during crises.
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Britain
Dolcin Limited Granted Patent
Dolcin Limited received a Canadian patent for a treatment combining acetylsalicylic acid with calcium succinate. The resulting compound renders acetylsalicylic acid non toxic, enabling large prolonged doses with no harmful side effects, and has become widely used for rheumatism and arthritis. Dobin Limited of Toronto noted the patent grant.
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Dobin Limited
Toronto
Canada
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Tass
London
E. L. Parry
Binley
Hampshire
England
Vancouver
Tanjug
By Jane Dale
Gyro Ensemble Singers
E. FI
Bride
California
William
Ferguson
Earth
LANDO
Kurz Korner
Limtl
Thehie
U. S. Pat
Ib.s
Elmer
Mount McKinley
Alaska
Patagonian
Deity Bucket Tavern
Nee
Peacher Tay Head
Delega
Tion
U.N
Pickering College
Newmarket
Ont
John Holmes
United Nations
A. G. L. McNaughton
S.N.S
Dolcin Limited
By Len Kleis
Virgil
Ugh
Priscilla
al Vermeer
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