Anne and Green Gables Return to Prince Edward Island Park
The Prince Edward Island National Park preserves Green Gables and other Anne of Green Gables landmarks as part of Canada’s national parks. The coast 25 mile strip features beaches dunes cliffs and bays with familiar names from Lucy Maud Montgomery novels. The area offers pleasant summer warmth sea air and golf on Green Gables links reviving the beloved settings.
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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Prince Edward Island
Green Gables
Anne
Canada
Prince Edward Island National Park
Ada
Green Gathes
Lake of Shining Waters
P.E.I. National Park
British Navy Seizes Largest Share in Minesweeping Effort
The vast international minesweeping operation to secure European waters is nearing completion with Britain s Royal Navy taking the largest share. It is the largest mine clearance effort in history, aiming to free all European waters for unrestricted shipping by next year after two years of careful work amid ongoing danger.
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Britain
Royal Navy
Science Finds New Uses for Tree Bark
The Ottawa Citizen reports the Douglas fir bark can be transformed into ingredients for phonograph records explosives adhesives and plastics. Bark makes up 71 percent of fit logs and British Columbians foresee millions in added logging industry revenue with new secondary industries and thousands of jobs.
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Ottawa Citizen
Colummans
Fall Yellowstone Rangers Freeze Bread for Winter Rations
Park rangers in Yellowstone freeze their autumn bread supply to last through winter. They thaw loaves as needed, baking them to indistinguishable freshness.
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Yellowstone National, Park Rangers
Meringue Tips and Autumn Pocket Designs
Helpful hints discuss butter coated knives for sticky meringue and room temperature eggs for cake mixtures. A pastry chill improves flakiness, with ice cold fat and water and dough chilling before baking. Autumn fashion notes mention oversized coat pockets called violin pockets by a designer.
Smile of the Week: Fortune Joke Wins Girl
A salesman wooed his best girl with a line about laying his fortune at her feet. She notes it isn’t big, but he says it will look large beside her small feet. The piece ends with a note on the origin of the word anchor from Greek meaning crook.
Rabbit menace shifts to lucrative fur trade in Australia
Australia still battles the rabbit plague yet profits from its skins. Exports reached 13 million dollars last year with Canada demanding 80 000 pounds monthly. Trappers, schoolboys, and farmers kill by sticks, poison, and traps as officials count numbers in the hundreds of millions.
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Australia
Canada
Australian Rabbit Skin Board
Arthur Phillip
Sydney
England
Western Australia
Calliope First Used On River Boats
According to Collier's magazine the Calliope a steam whistle instrument was developed in Massachusetts in 1855 as an attraction on river boats. It enjoyed twenty years of popularity before being phased out as steamboats declined and later became linked with circuses fairs and carnivals.
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Collier's Magazine
Massachusetts
Capetown Police Enforce 1882 Umbrella Law
Rainy week in Capetown sees traffic police stop pedestrians and require umbrellas be closed along covered sidewalks to keep passage free. The 1882 statute once also targeted cumbersome dresses especially bustles, though enforcement now focuses on obstructions to foot traffic.
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Capetown
South Africa
Spinning For Prosperity: Sifton's Industrial Revolution From Wool
In 1930s Sifton Manitoba a Ukrainian blacksmith Weselowski turned wool into wealth by importing a spinning wheel and building a local industry. He created a village spinning wheel line that grew into mills producing wool, blankets, and custom knit goods shipped worldwide. The venture spurred multiple factories and jobs for the town’s 350 residents.
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Weselowski
Europe
West
Sifton
Canada
United States
Mexico
Newfoundland
Iceland
Jamaica
France
R. Forster
Metro Lozinski
Mary
Lozinski
To Sew Is To Save Sew Embroidery Pattern 7041
Embroidery blouse pattern 7041 with sizes 12 14 16 18 20 40 42. Includes visual charts photos and complete directions for easy needlework. Send 25 cents in coins to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Aid for Flood Relief Air Plan Drops Rice
ARPA RAF transport planes from the Far East Air Command based in Karachi left with an initial 80 000 pounds of rice to drop on the flood struck Chittagong area of Bengal in response to a governor's request.
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RAF
Far East Air Command
Karachi
Chittagong
Bengal
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Green Gables House
Pel. National Park
Temagami
Ont
H. T. Lloyd
Wilford Franks
Ontario
Capertown
London
Liften, Man
Western Canada
Cory Kilvert
Montreal
Manitoba
Dauphin
Shildee
John Weselowski
Mat Sache
Emay
New Zealand
Willard S. McPhedrain
Tock, Stock and Barrel
Brandon
Brandon Woolen Mills Limited
Hic Busia
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