Study on Weed Control and Germination Dormancy
The article reports on a long term study at Swift Current Saskatchewan led by W S Chepil examining weed seed dormancy and germination. Seeds show varied dormancy periods from under a year to many years with species specific traits. clean fallow helps only some weeds while others persist and threaten crops.
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Soil Research Laboratory
Swift Current
Saskatchewan
W. S. Chepil
Canada
Whistle Operates Supersonic Garage Door Opener
A new garage door opener uses a dashboard whistle to alert a microphone above the door. The signal is amplified and drives a motor to lift the door, eliminating manual shoving or lifting for motorists.
Early Copper Alloy Found Before Written Records
Archaeologists uncover evidence of copper alloy use prior to written history and note ongoing discoveries of new alloys beyond ancient contexts.
Tiny But Vicious Hummingbird Most Destructive To Its Own Kind
August P. Abendroth of the St. Louis zoo says hummingbirds are the most destructive to their own species. They fight to death at feeding grounds, fly about 250 miles per hour, and beat at times six hundred wing strokes per minute. Zoos buy birds for 20 to 30 dollars, and wild species exceed 100 varieties.
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August P. Abendroth
St. Louis Zoo
Abendroth
Growing Up Princess Margaret Quietly Alters Childhood Barriers
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said Princess Margaret, now 16, will see gradual easing of her childhood restrictions. The royal friend notes she resembles an American girl in many ways, enjoying dance, radio tunes, gadgets, and candy rationing of Britain's 12 ounces monthly.
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Margaret
Britain
Buckingham Palace
Margaret Rose
King’s paintings loaned to Canada and United States
Oil paintings valued at £500000 including Constable Hogarth and Turner are on their way to Canada and the United States. They will be shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum the Tate and National Galleries in Toronto Chicago and New York.
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John Constable
William Hogarth
Joseph Turner
Canada
United States
Victoria and Albert Museum
Tate and
National Galleries
Toronto
Chicago
New York
City lad visits Vermont farm calf growth
A city boy spending summer with grandparents on a Vermont farm writes home about a new calf. He notes the calf is growing every day and sometimes twice daily, expressing simple wonder at the sight.
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Vermont
A Snappy Reply to Churchill Over First Night Tickets
A conceited young playwright sent two tickets for his new revue to Mr. Churchill with a note saying one ticket was for him and the other for a friend if he had one. Churchill replied he could not attend the first night but would try for the second if there was one.
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Mr. Churchill
Ancient Chinese superstition on eyeball swallowing for sight
A historic superstition claimed that eating the eyeballs of night-dwelling animals could improve vision. The belief reflects traditional folk practices and mythic explanations of eyesight enhancement.
Viscount Montgomery A Complex WWII Figure
The profile portrays Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery as a meticulous, publicity conscious leader famed for his "I" rhetoric and pain taking art. His austere habits, bromidic uniform, and rivalries with Rommel highlight a deliberate, showman-like command style. Ecuador derives its name from the equator crossing near Quito.
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Viscount Montgomery of
Alamein
Bernard Law Montgomery
Montgomery
Rommel
Childhood Days and Burdens Through Youth
The piece argues that childhood brings outsized disappointments injuries and fears. Minor misdeeds court harsher shame and rain wrecks a planned picnic in a symbol of youth’s anxiety. It contends grown life brings different weights but not lighter pain.
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Windsor Star
Ocean depths cluster around continental shelf edges
The National Geographic Society notes that ocean depth does not simply increase with distance from shore. Deepest points typically occur along the edges of continental shelves and are not uniform across the ocean.
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National Geographic Society
Public Archives in Ottawa a mine of Canadian history
The Public Archives in Ottawa offers extensive resources for Canadian history research. Its museum displays items from Wolfe’s baby boots to Queen Elizabeth’s 1939 dress, while the library holds 50 000 volumes and a 2 250 000 card index. A reading room operates day and night and copies are provided free from the photostatic room.
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Voltaire
Canada
Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Public Archives
General Wolfe
Col
John McCrae
Flanders’ Fields
Grover
Queen Elizabeth
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto
Public
France
Arthur G. Doughty
Dominion
Notable feat as Russia returns farm animals to liberated areas
Collier's reports the Soviet government distributed 1,000,000 cows sheep and goats to families returning to liberated regions. The move required six months to deliver after mapping 23 routes totaling 25,000 miles and establishing camps dispatchers stations and care networks with 7,500 herdsmen to manage food water and veterinary services.
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Russia
Collier's
Peace Tower Plan Proposed by Japanese Diet Members
Japanese Diet members propose a 487 foot Peace Tower in Tokyo to be built within three years. The tower would feature a great bell a light and a statue of the goddess of peace funded by popular subscriptions. Leader Kiyo Takeda hails from Hiroshima.
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Diet
Tokyo
Kiyo Takeda
Hiroshima
Lisbon Falls woman’s night blooming cereus blooms nine inches
After 714 years the cereus flagelliformis finally opened in Lisbon Falls Maine. Mrs. Fred Foote tended the plant patiently and on her vacation, while away, the bloom unfolded to exceed nine inches within three hours, marking a remarkable event in her garden.
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Fred Foote
Lisbon Falls
Maine
Queen Elizabeth undergoes exhaustive sea trials before maiden voyage
The Queen Elizabeth, world’s largest passenger liner, was tested in a Clydebank tank with 83 673 ton weight. Cunard White Star officials in New York describe 7 000 experiments on scale models to perfect hull form amid simulated ocean conditions before keel laying.
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Southampton
Cunard
White Star
New York
Clydebank
Items Of Interest Fl Azhar Cairo and Other Curiosities
The oldest university in the world is in Cairo founded in 972 A D. The taipan is an Australian snake so deadly horses die within four minutes from its bite. Bats emit calls at 50 000 cycles per second beyond human hearing. Pompeii hides a soap factory from Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD. Some butterflies have taste organs in their legs. Ancient cosmographers deemed the sun baked zone too hot for life below it.
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Fl Azhar At
Cairo
Pompeii
Italy
Mount Vesuvius
Crochet Doilies Pattern 7247 From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Three sizes of doilies in a luncheon buffet set with the largest at 16 inches. Pattern 7247 includes directions and charts for all three pieces. Send twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg to receive it, including name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Shortage of pocket material slows suit production
Some manufacturers argue the brief life of pocket material is delaying suit manufacture. After paying for a suit, buyers may find pockets unnecessary, a view reported by the Winnipeg Tribune.
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The
Winnipeg Tribune
Coronets Named for Hairy Tails of Comets
The term coronet comes from Greek and Latin roots meaning hair, inspired by the imagined resemblance of comet tails to flowing hair in the wind.
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Viscount Montgomery
Ecuador
Equator
Quito
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Westminster
King
Meteor
Peace Tower
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