Silk Hat Tradition Survives War Toll in Britain
The article recalls Britain's silk hat legacy led by Christy and master craftsmen. Only four pairs of hands remain to make toppers with three specialists plus 60 year old Miss Maud Pizzey handling crown sewing. Decline began with motor cars and World War II bombing. revival hinges on T. W. Sutton and a dwindling craft that faces extinction without effort.
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Eric Williams
Britain
Swin
Messrs Christy
Silk
Maud Pizzey
London
Piccadilly
Regent Street
France
Waterloo
United States
South America
Tokyo Bay
Eton College
Westminster School
Eton
Messrs. Christy
T. W. Sutton
Christy
U.K. Information Service
Problem In Reverse Camp Now Trying To Reduce
Australian News reports that more than a year after liberation ex POWs from the Eighth Division, once starved and emaciated, are now overfed in Sydney. Hundreds in physical culture houses are reducing after failing to resist food between meals.
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Siam
Malaya
Sumatra
Java
Japan
Sydney
Danish flag oldest untouched national symbol since 1218
The Danish flag, featuring a white cross on a red field, is the oldest unchanged national flag in existence dating back to around 1218.
Aluminum Houses Britain’s Quick Answer to Housing Shortage
Housing experts from 20 countries have asked about aluminum prefabricated homes in Britain. Factories operate at five shadow sites, producing one unit every 24 minutes from February, with Bristol setting a record of four hours twenty four minutes to complete a house with services. The structures are claimed as durable as brick and weather tested against freezing, steam, and 80 mph gales from Beaufighters.
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Britain
Bristol
Beaufighter
Curious Facts From History and Nature
A collection of curious notes: diamond cutters train on potatoes before handling gems, a railway cargoed juice concentrates to one fifth volume, the wild goose has around 12 000 muscles, Roman tiles circulate air to keep interiors dry, Romans jailed only for detention before trial or execution, 16th century merchants wore distinctive index rings, Pompeii murals show inhabitants in hats and bonnets, and one square foot of soil can harbor up to 40 000 weed seeds.
Aged Woman Flies Atlantic Home Sick to London
Mrs Clementine Powell aged 88 from Chorlton Cum Hardy Manchester flew the Atlantic to London Airport claiming she was homesick during a visit to her son a Montana rancher in the United States.
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Clementine Powell
Chorlton-Cum-Hardy
Manchester
London
Ring Drop Trial Ends Navy Veteran Loses License
Detroit reports 21 year old Edward R Swiderski used a sky drop to return his girlfriend s class ring to Marygrove College on a reckless flying charge. He aimed at a towel formed target and told the judge the ring was needed due to a planned parental campus visit. In Berkeley California Prof Ernest Lawrence announced completion of the world s largest cyclotron after six years of construction. The device, used in 1943 44 to produce uranium 235 for early atom bombs, now aims to advance energy research and potentially replicate nuclear feats.
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Detroit
Edward R. Swiderski
Exclusive Marygrove College
Swiderski
Gerald Groat
Berkeley
Calif
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California
First Canadian advertisement runs in 1952 paper
The first advertisement in a Canadian newspaper appeared on Monday March 23 1952. By 1987 advertisers spent 35 million dollars in Canadian newspapers.
Bermuda by election shows no campaigning as voters pick Pembroke seat
In Bermuda, Pembroke voters chose banker H D Butterfield over A E Nicholl, Gilbert Cooper, and Archie Mercer with 166 votes to 164, despite no campaign events. Only 884 of 5,000 residents were eligible, 448 ballots cast, amid universal franchise debate. Mercer lost his $200 deposit with 39 votes.
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Ford Baxter
Amilton
Bermuda
Lord Burghley
House of Assembly
Pembroke
H. D. Butterfield
A. E. Nicholl
Gilbert Cooper
Archie Mercer
Butterfield
Nicholl
Cooper
Times
Mercer
Rare Owl Captured at Vancouver City Zoo
A rare spotted strix owl was captured by Jack Sosnoski on Granville Street near Hastings and brought to the Vancouver city zoo. Zoo keeper Frank Beebe calls it the only known captive in Canada and notes its rarity among naturalists. The bird, with dark brown eyes and white-spotted plumage, ranges from California to British Columbia.
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Vancouver
North America
Stanley Park Zoo
Jack Sosnoski
Granville
Hastings
Sosnoski
City
Canada
Frank Beebe
California
British Columbia
A SENSIBLE IDEA ABOUT A BABY NAME
Joseph Corey and his wife Lucille in San Pedro California say their newborn son will choose his name in the future. They believe a child can be handicapped by a name chosen by dating parents and want the boy to decide when he is old enough.
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Joseph Corey
Corey
Lucille
San Pedro
Calif
United Kingdom Sets New Cloth Output Record
In August the UK cotton industry posted new highs in cloth production including cotton, rayon and mixtures. Weaving averaged 40,000,000 linear yards weekly, up 1 percent from May’s peak, with August 1945 output up 28 percent.
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United Kingdom
Distinctive cutwork pattern for linens in Winnipeg
Handiwork guide promotes a 14 motif transfer pattern number 7278 for 2x2 to 4x15 inch stitches. Improved charts and photos accompany complete directions. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Cement, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue East, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with name address and pattern number written clearly.
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Household Arts Cement
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Notable Sailor Opens Indian Tea Garden in 1883
A retired naval officer cleared jungle to establish India’s first tea garden and shipped the initial cargo to London in 1883.
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London
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Nancy P. Beach
New York
Charles E. Beach
Blasas River
Mexico City
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Pilot
George Humphrys
Rouge River
Ont
Assembly
Westminster
National Research Council
Ottawa
U.S
K. M. Baird
University of New Brunswick
Strix Owl
Stanley Park
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