Pensioned Man Reflects On Youthful Strength And Kruschen
A former police officer, now pensioned at age unknown, proclaims he remains as fit as active officers after five years off the force. He credits Kruschen Salt, used for 13 years, with sustaining youthful health and vitality. The narrative hints at a small-town taxidermist and a tense personal plot involving the Bingley family and an Earl, with reminders of danger and exposure.
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Police
Bingleys
Hero
Rosa
Ernest Bingley
Earl
Ernest
Earl and Ernest Debate Stage Ambitions At Castle
The Earl of Bingley and Rosa discuss Cousin Ernest's finances and possible stage ambitions while Crump alerts them to Punder the batcatcher visiting. A bullish intruder arrives, asserting Punder’s determination as the scene ends.
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Rosa
Ernest
Dukes Peddie
House of Lords
Charley
Crump
Earl
Madame Tussaud
Versatile Uses For Stale Bread Revealed In Everyday Tips
A variety of practical uses for stale bread is shared, from cleaning picture mounts and wallpaper to preparing coatings for fish and savory dishes. It also notes methods to absorb odors from water used with cabbage and onions and to improve gravy and cakes. The piece mentions a U.S. Bureau of Standards finding on reducing sugar costs related to a rare sugar called d ribose.
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Willie
Rosa
Ernest
Earl
Crump
U.S. Bureau of Standards
Pioneer Journalist Major Laur ie Dies At Battleford
Major R C Laurie son of Battleford founder of Saskatchewan Herald dies in Battleford near 79th birthday surrounded by three sisters. He edited the pioneer weekly from 1903 to 1919 and steered it into its sixtieth year despite ill health. He served in the Boer War and World War I with Strathcona Horse and Middleton's column.
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Br. C. Laurie
First
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Free Press
Frank Oliver
Major R. C. Laurie
Battleford
West
Major Laurie
J. H. Storer
J. A. Reid
J. C. DeGear
The
Prairies
Redmen
P. G. Laurie
Red River
Saskatchewan Herald
Strathcona Horse
South Africa
Enteric
Royal Military College of Kingston
Royal Military College Club
Diphtheria Deaths in Canadian Cities Cited by Kingston Paper
The Kingston Whig Standard reports that among fourteen Canadian cities with populations over 50 000 in 1936, four had no deaths, four had one death, one had two, two had three, one had four, and the remaining two had 18 and 25 deaths. Smaller cities show multiple years with no deaths, suggesting the toxoid campaign could eradicate diphtheria with broader reach.
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Canada
Kingtson
Whig- Standard
Defence Minister Announces Extraordinary South African Measures
South Africa moves to build a heavy arms factory at Pretoria and equip a desert bush veld brigade in the northern deserts. Pirow outlines plans for protective aircraft and air transports to sustain the mechanized force and warns Lourenco Marques in Portuguese Mozambique must not fall to an enemy.
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Oswald Pirow
Pretoria
Piron
Lourenco Marquez
Mozambique
Hermit thrush Marco returns to New York florist shop tale
A Miami wintering hermit thrush named Marco C. returns to the Sixty third street florist shop of the Christatos brothers in Manhattan. Ornithologists plan to band him to track future winters. A Detroit Free Press account also notes Ruben Castang’s apes claim a 100 word vocabulary and chatter about visitors and food.
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Hermit Thrush
New York
Florida
Marco
Marco Polo
Marco C
Marco Christatos
Morris Christatos
Sixty-third Street
Christatos Brothers
Mr. Poe
Roger Tory Peterson
National Association of Audubon Societies
Parrot Watches Magician Onboard Ship Disaster
A parrot in a liner salon watches a magician announce a new trick. The boilers explode suddenly, leaving the parrot clinging to driftwood and remarking with a wry, “Damn clever, damn clever.”
Man Finds 22 Year Old Film Negatives in Arkansas
In Helena Arkansas a man discovered forgotten camera films dated 1915. Dr. B D Schrantz originally had the negatives developed and set aside to print later. After cleaning house he located the prints and they surfaced well.
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Helena
Arkansas
B. D. Schrantz
Japanese Population Leads BC Demographics
The British Columbia government study shows the Japanese in BC are the province’s largest minority, growing about 65 percent in 15 years. The Chinese population declined roughly five percent while Japanese numbers rose about 700 annually, totaling 25,878 with 11,214 women. BC houses 90.9 percent of Canada’s Japanese population.
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British Columbia
Dominion
W. A. Carrothers
Canada
Lord Hewart Delivers Blunt View On Film World
The Glasgow Bulletin recalls Lord Hewart England's Lord Chief Justice who says he knows little about film and does not want to. He once clashed with a taxi driver who declared Courts of Justice are not the same as law courts.
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Lord Hewart
England
Courts of Justice
Law Courts
Glasgow Bulletin
Stairs Run Up and Down in Court Story
An examining lawyer questions an Irishwoman about her house stairs with a comical reply. The tale remarks that when up stairs the stairs run down and when downstairs they run up. The piece also explains that steam appears as fine water droplets formed by cooling.
Calico Origin Traced to Calicut in Madras Presidency
The term calico derives its name from Calicut, a port city in the Madras Presidency, indicating the textile’s origin and historical trade route. The phrase connects Calicut’s dyeing and weaving traditions to early European use of printed cottons.
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Calico
Calicut
Madras
Great Britain Builds 200 Foot Aerial Signpost in Hertfordshire
More than 150 tons of concrete were used to construct Britain's largest signpost. A circular aerial structure, 200 feet wide, sits in the Ovaline Dairy Farm meadows at King's Langley. The sign reads To Croydon, 27 miles.
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Great Britain
King’s Langley
Herts
Croydon
Exiled Siam King Prajadhipok Seeks Towanda Estate
Prajadhipok the exiled former king of Siam reportedly has a country estate at Towanda Pennsylvania 2246. The note mentions his residence location in Towanda with the estate designation.
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Prajadhipok
Siam
Towanda
Penn
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M'Lud
Montague Fripps
Batcatchers
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Hubert Punder
M Lud
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Earl of Bingley
Raymer
Ason Remedies Limited
Anebe
South African Defence
Vicks VaPpoRus
VICKS
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Manhattan
Ruben Castang
Mr. Castang
Detroit Free Press
Parrot
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