Britain to host 1951 Great Exhibition and arts festival
Britain plans a 1951 centenary Great Exhibition and national arts festival to showcase culture science and industry. The event will run May to October 1951 with displays across London and other locations including painting sculpture architecture books photography film and consumer goods.
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Canada
Britain
Morrison
United Kingdom
House of Commons
London
Hyde Park
Crystal Palace
Prince Albert
Queen Victoria
Council of Industrial Design
Has Unusual Job For Women
TORONTO. Marie Sanderson, one of the few female climatologists in North America, plans spring experiments to test whether climate conditions govern evaporation more than vegetation. Last summer she ran tests on four plots near Mount Pleasant, using timothy and crested wheat grass with underground water pipes. evaporation rates were the same. The Ontario researcher works on climate moisture factors for Ontario and a Canada-wide study of moisture deficiency and surplus.
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Toronto
North America
Marie Sanderson
Ontario Research Foundation
Mount Pleasant
Ontario
Trips To Canada Prize For Empire Plowing Contest
Cockermouth Cumberland. Trips for two to Canada with ship and railway fares will be the principal prizes in an empire plowing contest by the Workington and District Agricultural Society. Winners will compete in international plowing matches in Toronto next October.
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Cockermouth
Cumberland
Eng
Canada
Workington and District Agricultural Society
Toronto
Banana Layer Cake with Seven Minute Frosting
A recipe for a banana layer cake using cake flour, bananas, eggs, milk, and vanilla, with a Seven Minute Frosting between layers and on the exterior. The method covers creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs, folding in flour and milk, and baking in two 9 inch pans at 375 F for about 25 minutes, finished with chopped nuts.
Chocolate milk froth recipe with substitutions
A simple chocolate milk recipe instructs heating 2 cups milk with 1 cup chopped chocolate until melted, then whisking until light and frothy and serving immediately. A note allows substituting 1 cup water for 1 cup milk. Makes 2 cups.
Gems Of Thought On Brevity In Speech
A concise collection of quotations on telling truth briefly and choosing words carefully. Notable lines from Fenelon Tryon Edwards Steele and others extol brevity as a mark of wit and wisdom.
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Fenelon
Real Person Mother Goose in Boston Family Tale
A historical note identifies Mother Goose as a real Boston woman married to Isaac Goose. Her songs were taught to her grandchildren and a son in law published them in 1716, tying the Mother Goose name to a concrete family and publication.
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Mother Goose
Boston
Isaac Goose
Prairieites Defend Winter Weather On Prairies
Winnipeg officials and tourism bodies defend prairie climate as healthy and practical amid criticisms from Detroit observers. Mayors and travel bureau directors from Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta praise mild winters and outdoor activity despite the so called icebox label.
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Winnipeg
Prairies
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
West
Detroit
Prairie
Gernet Coulter
Dominion
Saskatchewan Tourist Bureau
Regina
Dan Campbell
Edmonton
Canadian Rockies
Humorous Snippets and Wordplay From Everyday Life
A collection of light anecdotes and quips. A man brags of eternal love yet doubts sincerity and jokes about deception. A weasel named Herman debates coats and vermin status. Women aging five years younger prompts a counting joke. A waiter and lunch, Canadian back and buck, heirloom pants, and a long rhubarb pie gag round out the set with quick punchlines.
Edmonton Schools Plan Automobile Driving Courses for Teens
Edmonton officials discuss a voluntary high school program to teach driving using in classroom simulators with steering wheels and projection screens. If approved, the first course could run in 1948 and aims to reduce accidents and property damage by teaching safe driving before licensing ages.
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Epmonton
Canada
Edmonton
J. C. Macdonald
Frm
United States
R. S. Sheppard
Alberta
Macdonald
Alberta centenarian still active farmer
Jans Ram, farmer from the Edberg district in central Alberta, marked his 100th birthday. He is described as the coldest farmer in Alberta and the oldest member of the Alberta Wheat Pool, having arrived in 1900 and still farming three-quarters of a section in Edberg.
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Calgary
Jans Ram
Edberg
Alberta
Alberta Wheat Pool
Volcanic Eruption Emission Estimated Greater Than Lava
Scientists estimate that the gases released during a volcanic eruption outweigh the lava and ash emitted. The statement highlights the significant atmospheric impact of volcanic gas emissions in comparison to molten rock and solid ejecta.
May Build Game Sanctuary Near Canora
The Canora Fish and Game league formed a committee at its annual meeting to study a second sanctuary site near Fulton Flats seven miles north of Canora on Highway No 9. The Patterson Lake sanctuary already exists west of Canora. Since Patterson Lake's creation two years ago the fall bird counts have risen sharply.
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Canora, Sask
Canora
N. Perry
Patterson Lake Sanctuary
Package Bees Demand Urges Canadian Beekeepers to Order
Beekeepers in Canada urged to place orders for package bees with U S dealers immediately to avoid delay or non delivery. Dominion Apiarist C B Gooderham at Ottawa says demand is high and Southern States are near their spring delivery limit. Restrictions on some U S imports do not apply to package bees.
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Canada
United States
C. B. Gooderham
Dominion Apiarist
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Mr. Gooderham
Empress Carlotta Keeps Hens in Belgian Hotel Suite
Poor chances she feared death after returning to Belgium and only ate eggs laid in her presence. She kept a flock of hens in her hotel suite.
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Carlotta
Mexico
Belgium
Prairie chicken comeback and pickerel fry release near Crystal Lake
A report notes prairie chickens near Canora were nearly extirpated two years ago but are gradually returning. The observer also mentions a large release of 500,000 pickerel fry into Crystal Lake, about 17 miles north of Canora, and suggests maintaining a closed season on the birds.
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Crystal Lake
Canora
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