Costa Rica monkey trade fuels U S pet demand
A lengthy report details a thriving business moving white face monkeys from Costa Rica to the United States. Hunters, exporters, and natives cooperate to capture and ship infants for pet markets, with prices and routes through San Jose and Santa Barbara cited. The piece notes high profits, capture methods, and ethical concerns among collectors.
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Costa Rica
Armorcan
Nicaragua
Air Force
Charles Hudson
Santa Barbara
Cahil
San Jose
U.S
Clyde Lowe
Lowe
United States
Animal Headquarters
Pan American Hotel
Fatality toll higher among boys in school-age accidents
A Metropolitan Information Service report to the Health League of Canada finds about 6 000 U S. deaths yearly among children from accidents. Boys aged 5 to 14 show far higher mortality than girls, with motor vehicle mishaps and drowning major causes.
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United States
Metropolitan Information Service
The
Health League of Canada
Grauballe Man Exhibit At Aarhus Museum
The 2 000 year old Grauballe man from Kedelmere in Jutland is shown in Aarhus with a new preservation method to endure indefinitely. The display places him on peat soil as found, suggesting a nobleman sacrificed to the fertility goddess Nerthsu, with fingerprintable hands and a deliberate flesh preservation.
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Aarhus Museum
Denmark
Kedelmere
Jutland
Tolland
Nerthsu
Santa Claus roof panel pattern and toy designs
An ad describes Home Workshop Pattern Service offering a Santa Claus on the roof pattern with a large Merry Christmas lettering, plus two life like toy designs, a short tailed puppy, and a 1 yard 54 inch fabric skirt pattern. Prices include 35 cents to 1 dollar fifty with mail options and order details. The items are mailed from Vancouver and Toronto addresses with instructions to trace, cut, assemble, and paint for realistic effects.
Big 32 Inch Bunny Pattern Instruction
A pattern guide by WEice Crooks describes a large 32 inch bunny toy. It highlights a gift friendly, lovable toy and provides transfers and directions for crafting with heavy flannel and cotton batting. The text notes a 25 cent pattern price and mailing details.
Egypt to remodel schools after Canadian model
Dr Moustafa Fahmy Cairo education supervisor praises Canada’s school system as a happy medium between conservative Western European and progressive American models. He concludes it is among the best in the world after a six month tour of U S and Canadian schools to improve Egypt’s system.
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Egypt
Moustafa Fahmy
Cairo
United States
Banana filled Marine recruit weighs in at 105
Roy L. Gish a 17 year old from McCook Nebraska boarded a train to basic training after weighing 105 pounds at the naval personnel centre following a binge of bananas to meet the minimum weight. The report notes a claim that a gallon of gasoline contains explosive power equivalent to 43 pounds of dynamite.
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Marine Corps
Omaha
Neb
Roy L. Gish
McCook
Marines
Naval Personnel Centre
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue Offer
Department P P L Household Arts at 60 Front Street West Toronto advertises an Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue. The appeal lists knitting crochet embroidery iron-ons toys and novelties and requests 25 cents for a copy. Readers are urged to order designs from the book.
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Department P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Household Arts Department
P.P.L
Alice Brooks
Grayling Thrive In Lac La Ronge
Saskatchewan fisheries director George Couldwell reports success of a seven year stocking program with Arctic grayling in Lac la Ronge and tributaries. A 12 inch, 14 ounce three to four year old grayling was caught in a commercial net near Bow River outlet by Ivor McAuley. Future fishing and angling will monitor progress as Lac la Ronge seeks to add grayling to its famed trout pike and pickerel fishery.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
George Couldwell
Lac la Ronge
Bow River
Ivor McAuley
la Ronge
Couldwell
Fingernail Growth Facts for Healthier Nails
A healthy person’s fingernails grow about an inch and a half each year while ill or undernourished nails grow slower. The middle finger’s nail grows slightly faster than others and full length takes about four and a half months. By age seventy the average man has renewed his fingernails roughly 156 times.
Saskatchewan Hogs Shipped as Breeders to United States
Fifteen purebred Yorkshire hogs from top Saskatchewan herds were sent to the U S for use as foundation breeding stock by North Dakota buyer Howard Henry. Dr S L Curtis, provincial livestock specialist, notes selection emphasized AR testing and body type for bacon hog production.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
United States
S. L. Curtis
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Howard Henry
Westhope
North Dakota
Dr. Curtis
Archie Anderson
Alingly
Peter Sextheim
Sprite
Viggo Jensen
Fir Ridge
A. H Dyck
Borden
Paul Kernaleguen
Storieux
Charles Harlton
Belle Plaine
Kernaleguen
Curtis
Canada
OHA Junior A producing top hockey talent in Canada
The O H A Junior A League is fueling NHL rookies with several players transferring up after strong showings in junior play. Hank Ciesla and Hee Lalonde previously starred for St Catharines and Galt, while Larry Hillman moved from Hamilton Juniors to Detroit with six regular season games. Billy Harris and Dickie Duff boosted Toronto squads before moving on.
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O.H.A
Canada
N.H.L
Chicago Black Hawks
Hank Ciesla
St. Catharines Tee Pees
Hee Lalonde
Galt Black Hawks
Larry Hillman
Detroit
Hamilton Tigers
Red Wings
Toronto
Billy Harris
Toronto Marlboros
Dickie Duff
St. Michael's
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Norinwara
Okmulgee
Okay
George Willie Hall
Alcohol Tax Unit
John Stocking
Bull Gibson
Hall
MacDonald
the Pattern Shop
Santa Claus
Home Workshop Pattern Service
Department P.P.S
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
By Thane Helos
S.inch Bunny
By Weice Crooks
EPP
Notre Dame Cathedral
Paris
Farmers’ Rice Growers Co-operative
West Sacramento
Calif
Dodd
Queen City Curling Stone CO
Battleman Apts
Sask
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