Open Sesame To Sales Advertising Power in Industry
Advertising acts as the open sesame to sales by creating demand and lowering costs. The piece cites Walter Chrysler's early car as proof, describing how advertising spurred employment and purchasing power, fueling a growth chain from demand to production. It argues advertising benefits manufacturers and merchants, reducing prices for consumers and expanding markets.
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Walter Chrysler
Chrysler
Wright A. Patterson
Courtesy in Everyday Life
Leamington Post and News presents a compact tribute to Courtesy as a universal aid to humanity. The piece lauds its power to unlock doors, dispel prejudice, foster friendship and goodwill, and inspire respect. It notes courtesy costs nothing and pleases all, from high to low degree, at every moment of the day.
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Leamington Post and News
Indian Medicine Knowledge and Astronomical Claim
The piece notes Dr J J Heagerty praising Indigenous Canadian medical knowledge as unwritten yet comprehensive despite superstitions and generation to generation transmission. It also mentions an astronomer asserting the earth speeds through space at 180 miles per second, needing 207 million years to orbit, plus a note on bendable glass and toothpaste tube principles applied to ketchup bottles.
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J. J. Heagerty
Public Health Services of Canada
Canada
Health
Ottawa Authority
Crown Symbolism Endures at Columbia University Visit
During a June 10 visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth, Columbia University in New York displayed its gold crown crest atop the flag and as a watermark. The crown mirrors the original iron crown from King's College era and ties to the 1754 royal charter granting education in liberal arts and sciences.
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King George
Queen Elizabeth
Columbia University
Morningside Heights
New York
Stars and Stripes
Great Britain
King’s College
Columbia
King's College
Park Place
Woolworth
Nicholas Murray Butler
George II
Not His First Visit King George VI on American Soil Earlier Than Believed
A Brantford Ontario minister produced a 1913 photo showing Prince Albert Duke of York later King George VI with British naval cadets at Lewiston New York. The image, dated when he was seventeen aboard H M S Cumberland, is claimed as the earliest on American soil and possibly unique.
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George VI
United States
J. W Whillaps
Knox Presbyterian Church
Brantford
Ont
Prince Albert, Duke of York
Lewiston
Williams
Prince Albert
H.M.S. Cumberland
Halifax
A Polish Immigrants Naturalization Tale in Ontario Farming
Ferdynand Mary and Emil Matys testified in Kingston naturalization court about emigrating from Poland eight years earlier with 10 cents. Mary now owns a 500 acre Ontario farm stocked with stock and cash, while Matys, who settled near him in Ompah township, has rebuilt his finances and praises Canadian farming methods as hardworking citizens.
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Frontenac County
Ontario
Kingston
Ferdynand Mary
Canada
Poland
Emil Matys
Ompah Township
Maty
Marys
Mary
Prairie Pasture Management Shows Cultivated Grasses Best
A Canadian prairie study finds cultivated grasses greatly increase carrying capacity versus native pasture. Over 1937 and 1938, 46 acres of mixed cultivated grasses supported roughly 50 cow days per acre yearly, triple the 16.8 cow days per acre from 150 acres of native grass in 1934–35. Supplementary pasture and oats are advised for hot prairie summers.
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F. M. MacIsaac
Dominion Experimental Station
Scott Sask
Scott Experimental Station
Royal visit shifts Kingston stadium crowd mood
The Kingston crowd at Richardson Stadium reacted dramatically to King and Queen's appearance. Children’s cheers dropped in pitch and shifted to a deep, musical tone as the royal party arrived, while adults observed with trained attention. A separate note mentions noon at the south pole and a Norwegian crew discovering an old harpoon in a whale.
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Richardson Stadium
Kingston
Stadium
How to Tell a Cake Is Done and Proper Mixing Steps
A cake is done when the top is a delicate brown, it shrinks slightly from the edge, and pressing the surface with fingertips leaves no imprint. For best results use room temperature ingredients and cream shortening and sugar thoroughly for a tender moist cake. Properly beaten egg whites should hold their shape and appear glossy and moist.
New Zealand Line liner Essex built in record time at Clydebank
An 11,000-ton, 530 foot motor passenger liner named Essex for the New Zealand Line was completed in 28 weeks at Clydebank to speed naval tonnage. Special apparatus will draw in 13,000 cubic feet of sea air each minute to cool and preserve fruit en route, trapping and venting aromas to prevent tainting.
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Clydebank
New Zealand Line
Essex
Anthrax cases in the U.S. recently cited as rare
A public health assessment notes anthrax remains uncommon with fewer than 200 cases per year in the United States, indicating it is not a major ongoing public health problem.
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U.S
Special Coal Fueled Royal Train Locomotive
Railroad officials said the giant royal train locomotive pulled by King George and Queen Elizabeth used a carefully selected coal grade to assure absolute efficiency. The 102 foot long locomotive carried a tender with 32 tons of coal for the trip across the United States.
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King George
Queen Elizabth
United States
Western Ontario rail line closure blamed on lack of patronage
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes residents in a Western Ontario district felt a tug at the heart strings as their branch railway line closed. The paper argues the closure might have been prevented if locals had shown more foresight by giving the line decent patronage.
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Brockville
England’s strangest annual auction at Chard’s Old Poppe Inn
A single tallow candle lit an annual sale in Old Poppe Inn’s secret chamber in Chard England. The unusual auction disposes of a valuable water cress field and has run for two centuries.
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England
Chard
Old Poppe Inn
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