Year of Queer Fires and Odd Blazes Across 1946
Read like a string of quirky fire anecdotes from 1946. Sparks from a sparrow to shrapnel from Civil War days sparked blazes in Mississippi Oklahoma and New Jersey. A Holland Tunnel spill in 70 gallons of gasoline caused a 34 hour traffic tie up.
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New York
Mississippi
Tre
New Jersey
Marietta
Tennessee Fire Department
Oklahoma
Freeport
N.Y
Texas
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Hudson River
Holland Tunnel
Jersey City
London Store Has Unusual Service
Selfridge's in London fields two questions every three minutes via four answering girls at telephones. They handle forty to sixty queries daily including quirky inquiries about penguins eyebrows and the Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Knowledge questions peak in winter while building and history topics rise in summer. allergic is a commonly misspelled word despite long usage.
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London
Selfridge’s
Trafalgar Square
Singapore
Timbuctoo
Intonation Shapes Meaning in Chinese Language
An Englishman in China notes how tone alters meaning in Chinese with examples. He explains that words like GOW can mean glue or biscuits depending on intonation and cites SHI with 62 meanings from lion to corpse. The article links symbols for home wife lawsui t to household images and mental faculties.
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China
Hobbies Help Fill Long Winter Evenings
Health authorities urge absorbing interests to ward off idleness and boredom during long winter evenings. National Health Men at Ottawa warn inactivity can lead to unhealthy states and suggest hobbies for constructive leisure.
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Ottawa
Catherine II Rules for Parties Asks Guests to Behave
The article recalls Catherine II of Russia and her party rules. It details ten guidelines such as leaving rank outside the hat, avoiding pride, being gay without damaging anything, sitting or walking calmly, speaking softly, joining games, eating well but drinking moderately, and not spreading tales. Penalties included water and poetry lines, with exile for breaking the final rule.
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Catherine II
Russia
Tretiakofsky
Catherine
Violinist Feigns Diet When Invited to Diplomat Dinner
The first violinist of a renowned orchestra receives a dinner invitation from a hostess who insists the musician bring his instrument. He replies that the instrument never eats, leaving the hostess surprised and amused by the quip.
When Work Is Harmful And Fitting Job Advice
Health experts say no one will be killed by hard work if it matches a person’s interests and abilities. Harmful work stems from misfit tasks or constant strain and worry, so people should seek employment that is both interesting and profitable.
Wands Of Office Start The King’s New Committal Roles
London correspondent reports Mr Col lindridge MP Barnsley and Michael Stewart MP Fulham received Wands Of Office as Comptroller and Vice Chamberlain. The three to four foot white staves are used at state events including Parliament opening and Buckingham Palace ceremonies. They lead the King and Queen in debutante receptions with Lord Chamberlain Earl Clarendon. outfits cost 30 to 50 pounds with gold braid, and morning dress suffices for palace occasions.
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Mr. Collindridge
M.P
Barnsley
Michael Stewart
Fulham
London
Buckingham Palace
Earl Clarendon
Poet Laureate Is Very Recent Title
A London correspondent in the Ottawa Journal notes the Poet Laureate office began with James I who appointed Ben Johnson in 1617. Official status came in 1670 for John Dryden with a large pension and a Canary wine butt. The last five holders declined the wine, taking £27 instead. The worst poet was Robert Baston captured at Bannockburn.
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James I
Ben Johnson
London
Ottawa Journal
John Dryden
Robert Baston
Bannockburn
Clever escape tale shows British officer aids German prisoner
Lieut. David James recounts an escape at a German prison camp where Lieut. Instone sought refuge in a railway station waiting room that proved to be full of German officers. James notes Instone freed himself by disassembling and reassembling an electric light switch, feigning an electrician’s presence to escape through another door.
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David James
Blackwoods
Lieut
Instone
James
World’s Largest Door Installed at Filton for Brabazon Hall
The new Filton Bristol aircraft hall will receive the world’s largest door, 1 045 feet wide and 65 feet 9 inches high, weighing 200 tons and operable in two minutes. The Brabazon Mark I, the world’s biggest airliner, is due to enter service in 1951, with a piston engine prototype to fly next summer and a second turbo propeller prototype thereafter.
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Filton
Bristol
Canadian Army Discharges 250000 and Repatriates 100000 in 1946
The Canadian Army discharged 250000 personnel and repatriated over 100000 after World War II while laying groundwork for a peacetime force of 25000 regulars and 180000 reserves. All but about 1000 have returned. Also noted is a fact about horses being allergic to saddle soap per the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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The
American Veterinary Medical Association
Bearded Pipe Fire Claims Centenarian in Toronto
William Johnson, age 100, known for declaring smoking harmless on his birthday, died in a Toronto hospital from fourth degree burns after his pipe ignited his beard. His granddaughter found him in flames. father smothered the blaze with a blanket before emergency crews arrived.
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Peard
William Johnson
Toronto
Veteran Overcomes Handicap Masters Roller Skating
A 22 year old Hamilton veteran Edward McAndrew, left leg amputated above the knee, has learned to dance on roller skates. Wounded at Caen in June 1944, he learned to ride a bicycle soon after, then took up roller skating under instructor Jack Jackson. He skates without special attachments using standard artificial limb and regulation skates.
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Veterans Affairs
Hamilton
Edward McAndrew
McAndrew
Caen
Jack Jackson
Heart Disease Tops Death Causes Among Doctors
Chicago report shows heart disease as the leading cause of death among physicians in 1946 per the Journal of the American Medical Association. Cancer ranked second in the general population but third among doctors behind cerebral hemorrhage thrombosis and embolism.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal
Ottawa health bulletin warns against overexertion at work
National Health experts advise care in lifting and moving heavy objects and warn that stressing the body beyond safe limits is ill advised with a vivid analogy about a row-boat towing a battleship and tasks only a horse should perform.
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Ottawa
Hailstorm injures hundreds on Sydney beaches
A severe ten minute hail storm battered Sydney injuring hundreds. Hail stones larger than a man's fist smashed windows and ripped roofs. Bondi Beach alone sent 50 people to hospital by ambulance.
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Sydney
Australia
Bondi Beach
Serum Aims To Prolong Lifespan To 150 Years In Brooklyn Lab
A Russian scientist’s serum said to extend life to 150 years is being manufactured in a Brooklyn laboratory for animal testing. Dr. William Malisoff, head of the Longevity Research Foundation, questions its value for humans but notes Russian tests show bone healing benefits. Bogomolets, who died at 65, advocated immediate post cancer surgery use to prevent recurrence and reported wartime wound healing.
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New York
Alexander A. Bogomelets
Brooklyn
William Malisoff
The
Longevity Research Foundation, Inc
Foundation
Malisoff
Bogomolets
United States
Medical Society
Fined For Killing Bighorn Sheep In Jasper Park
A Jasper National Park report states two men were fined 200 dollars each plus costs for illegally killing a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep near the Jasper Edmonton Highway. The largest Bighorn flock, about 3,000, is in Jasper Park with sheep roaming alpine meadows in summer and sheltered valleys in winter.
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Jasper National Park
Alberta
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
Jasper-Edmonton
Jasper Park
Canadian Rockies
Banff National Park
Kootenay
Waterton Lakes
Alaska
California
Family Runs One Room Indiana School
In a rural Mt. Vernon area school near Illinois the Bodine family arrives late each day. Four children aged seven to fourteen constitute the entire student body of the one room schoolhouse.
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Drivers
Mt. Vernon
Bodine
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Alexander Bogomelets
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