Prospectors Eye Arctic Region Riches in Canada
Ernie Firth, a northern prospector, describes gold and radium aims near Gordon Lake and Eldorado as major firms expand into the High North. He notes smelters near Yellowknife and the growing mining towns around Goldfields, viewing northern fields as new fortune fronts for Consolidated Mining and Smelting and Athena Mines.
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Wrights
Hargreaves
Oakes
Hammells
Prince Albert
Ernie
Northwest Territories
Gordon Lake
Goldfields
Yelowknife
Yellowknife
Canada
Eldorado
Arctic Circle
Fldorado
Firth
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Consolidated Mining
Athena Mines Limited
Organ Plays Cheerful Holiday Selections At Chicago Terminal
The Chicago passenger terminal stalls an organ to entertain shoppers travelers and suburbanites during the holidays. Suggestions include Shufflin' Off to Buffalo I Want to Go to Morrow and I want to Go Today I m A-Workin on the Railroad Casey Jones Delaware Lackawanna Sleepytown Express and Get On Board Li Chillun There s Room for Many More.
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Chicago
Shufflin
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Morrow
Casey Jones
Delaware Lackawan
Sleepytown
Cotton Belt
Li Chillun
Christian Science Monitor
Will of Alfred M. Heston filed for probate in Atlantic City
The 14 year old Atlantic City newspaperman and local official Alfred M. Heston died in November. His will named no executor, consisted of twelve words, and left all to Jessie, an unmarried daughter who runs a small Ossining New York store. Estate valued at $800.
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Alfred M. Heston
Atlant
South Jersey
Jessie
Ossining
N.Y
Loretto’s Rosaries: A Shrine Town Transforms to Craft Hub
In the Apennines town of Loretto once famed as a pilgrimage magnet, 5000 residents now sustain themselves by hand making rosaries, medals, and religious images. Families employ multiple members crafting beads, strings, and intricate ivory pieces for orders worldwide. Local factories have emerged but demand remains high as exports keep the town notable for its religious goods.
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Loretto
Europe
Our Lady of Loretto
Lourdes
Waterway Route Forecast Halts Deep Canal Plan
The international joint commission forecast against the Montreal to New York deep waterway via Lake Champlain under existing conditions. It urged further study only if the St. Lawrence Seaway is completed, and filed its report with U S and Canadian governments.
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International Joint Commission
Montreal
New York
Lake Champlain
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
Tide Reveals 100 Square Miles at Mont Saint Michel
A vast stretch of ocean bed becomes visible at Mont Saint Michel as the tide recedes leaving about a hundred square miles exposed. When the tide returns, it floods back in with notable speed and force.
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Mont Saint Michel
France
No Lasting Gulf Stream Shift Found
A study by officials at St Andrews New Brunswick and Halifax Atlantic stations finds the Gulf Stream’s northward shift is not supported by facts. The report by H B Hachey notes the current moves east then northeast from latitude 40, with shifts of up to 100 miles being temporary and cyclic rather than permanent.
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Canadas
Atlantic
Atlantic Biological Station
St. Andrews
N.B
Atlantic Fisheries Experimental Station
Halifax
H. B. Hachey
Gulf of Mexico
Straits of Florida
Little Bahama Bank
Philadelphia
Azores
African
Arctic
Nova Scotia
Two songwriters debate title for new soprano song
The two writers discuss a song titled Would That I Were Young Again. A separate note describes the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Station in England where researchers endure a 100 degree frost in the coldest room, with workers limited to ten minutes inside.
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Cambridge
England
Drake’s Drum Fire Destroys Buckland Abbey Relics
Fire at Buckland Abbey destroys Drake era paintings and china. The abbey once housed Drake’s drum which was said to warn England of invasion. Sailors reported the drum’s rumble during tense waits, a copy now sits in the Royal Naval barracks chapel.
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England
Buckland Abbey
Francis Drake
China
Drake
Royal Oak
Scapa Flow
Devonshire
Royal Naval Barracks
New Gates and Tablet Dedication at St James Piccadilly
Handsome gates replace those removed last May at the churchyard entrance of St James Piccadilly to accommodate a viewing stand for the Coronation procession funded by stand profits. A tablet inside the church, set by the Fly Fishers Club, honors Charles Cotton, friend of Izaak Walton, buried there in 1687.
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St. Jamess
Piccadilly
St. James's
Christopher Wren
London
Fly Fishers’ Club
Charles Cotten
Izaak Walton
Potatoes and Sugar Beets Drive German Food Strategy
Berlin correspondent notes Germany relies on potatoes and sugar beets for feed and fodder as silos rise under Four Year Plan pressure. Beet harvest up 45 percent above five-year average. potato crop among largest ever, with quality concerns in milk butter and cheese countered by reports that potato-fed pork is good.
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Reich
Color Chemistry Behind Apple Skin Tones
U S Department of Agriculture tests show three galactosidyl cyanidin, not rouge, gives red skins in apples. Yellow Grimes Golden apples contain the same substance, but color changes to red idacin in red varieties. Color signals maturity and flavor, guiding growers and consumers toward well colored fruit and higher prices.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Grimes
Ancient Razor Used by Reich Barbers' Guild Chief
3000 year old bronze razor was used by Herr Franz Renz head of the Reich Barbers' Guild to shave Heinrich George, a Berlin actor, in an experiment on the cultural level of early Germans. The blade was unearthed at a Germanic site and the test aimed to prove high ancient German culture.
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Franz Renz
Reich Barbers’ Guild
Heinrich George
Berlin
Kipling Recessional: From Drawer to Imperial Hymn
The Times published Kipling’s After as Recessional after Sara Norton found it in his desk. Kipling later acknowledged authorship. Elgar set it to music and it became a major hymnal piece for the British Empire and beyond.
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British Empire
Kiplings
Lord Rakiwin
British Museum
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Charles Fliot
Sara Norton
The
Times
Sally
the Times
Edward Elgar
St. Thomas
Not Usually Kept New Year Resolutions Questioned by Psychologists
Psychologists led by Dr. Robert N. McMurray and Dr. George W. Crane weighed New Year resolutions. McMurray argues resolutions are often self deception and a conscience quieting compromise, while Crane endorses resolutions as the first step toward progress.
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Robert N. McMurray
Chicago
The
Psychological Corporation
MacMurray
George W. Crane
Northwestern University
Deal Island lighthouse to gain one million candle power light
The Deal Island Tasmania lighthouse, 957 feet above sea level and claimed the highest, will switch from a 3000 candle power acetylene lamp to a one million candle power electric system. A separate note recalls Alfred the Great allegedly inventing toast cheese by dropping cheese bread into a fire and tasting melted bread.
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Deal Island
Tasmania
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