So You're Coming To Britain! By Lewis Cranston
Advice for Canadian travelers visiting Britain postwar. Warns of hardships and food shortages, urges bringing parcel gifts and cigarettes, notes hotel costs and dining formats, highlights travel ease, culture events like Shakespeare Festival and Edinburgh Festival, and recommends travel literature from the Travel Association.
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Britain
Central Press
London
Eng
Dover
Stratford-upon-Avon
Harrogate
Spa
Yorkshire
Edinburgh
Scotland
Canada
Tourist Board
Manitoba Industry Outlook Shifts From Prairie Image
Manitoba could join the industrial core of Canada says Hon. J. S. McDiarmid as a two-year bureau survey of the province's industrial potentialities reports more than 70 towns studied. Since 1940 new industries outside Winnipeg amount to 25 percent, and total Manitoba industry grew from 150 million dollars in 1929 to over 350 million in 1947 with 40,000 workers. The survey calls it a factual inventory of assets and liabilities guiding business.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
J. S. McDiarmid
McDiarmid
Greater Winni
Peg
Woodland needle panel pattern for wall decor
Pattern offers a 15 by 20 inch woodland scene stitched with single stitch. Framing optional, includes charts photos and directions for easy use. Send twenty five cents in coins to Household Arts Depart Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man to obtain pattern and write name address and pattern number clearly.
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Needework
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Country Boy Seeks Swindler After Auto- Motorcycle Swap
Howard J. Hackney traded his motorcycle to a smooth talking stranger for a car. The car was stolen and Hackney was arrested for possession. He and his wife traced the suspect, Gene R. Lester, 26, to a bus terminal in Atlanta and alerted police. Lester was charged with suspicion of larceny of the auto and motorcycle.
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Atlanta
Calcutta
Howard J. Hackney
Hackney
Jackson
Macon
Augusta
Gene R. Lester
Emeralds and rubies share color from chromium oxide
The article explains that both emeralds and rubies derive their color from chromium oxide contained in their mineral structure. It notes how trace chromium imparts the characteristic green to emerald and red to ruby hues.
Canada reports 372 million bushel wheat crop estimate
Ottawa reports Canada’s wheat crop this year at 372 million bushels per CBS. The prairie spring wheat is pegged at 340 million, up from 319 million last year, while overall yield is about 30 million above last year but roughly 35 million below the 1938-47 average.
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Canada
Ottawa
CBS
Guitar inducement fails to keep hired help on farm
Moose Jaw Sask Don Flett 32 Dauphin Man pleaded not guilty in RCMP court to theft of a guitar bought by F David Servoss Briercrest farmer as an inducement to keep him on the job. Servoss valued the instrument at 142 dollars. Flett said he planned to repay but quit after a week to work elsewhere.
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Moose Jaw
Don Flett
Dauphin
Man
R.C.M.P
Briercrest
F. David Servoss
Servoss
Flett
First Silk Wood Diadems Worn by Ancient Rulers
Ancient rulers wore silk wood diadems set with precious stones as head ornaments. The description notes these early diadems served in place of crowns.
Vitamin oil in mixed feeds has been checked for some years
The Dominion Department of Agriculture has long tested vitamin A and D guarantees in feeding oils used in commercial mixed feeds, especially poultry feeds. Early discrepancies showed some firms over or under guarantees due to blending and testing errors. With directed instruction, testing methods improved and recent years show few failures to meet guarantees.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Gold standard viewed as best system by Bank of England director
Sir Edward Peacock, Canadian-born knighted director of the Bank of England, argues gold remains the best medium for world exchange. He notes international trade is hampered by restrictions yet gold retains global confidence and will require years to build trust for new monetary theories.
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Vancouver
Bank of England
Edward Peacock
Hudson's Bay Co
Canadian Pacific
Natives Force French Silk Project to Fold After 20 Years
After 20 years of effort French promoters abandon silk farming in Ubangi district French Equatorial Africa. Mulberry trees were planted in 1928 and silk worms thrived until native workers began eating the worms as a delicacy. Threats and bribes failed to stop the practice.
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French Equatorial Africa
Ubangi
Buddy Word Saves Veteran From Death by Own Action
In Brooklyn a caller threatened self harm and used the word Buddy as a cue. Patrolman Joseph Cone, who served in the 65th Infantry, connected with the man who claimed army ties. Nathan Robbins, 26, was found in a drug store booth and taken to Kings County Hospital for observation.
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New York
Joseph Cone
Snyder Ave
Brooklyn
Buddy
Cone
65Th Infantry
Fourth Armored
Nathan Robbins
Kings County Hospital
Helpful Household Hints for Durable Cleaning and Laundry
Practical care tips cover dust mop technique to avoid scattering dust. Hang clothes with a pin bag to save steps. Heating citrus fruits before squeezing increases juice yield. Pillow care explains feather retention with slip openings, pinning, and gentle washing. Shake pillows to fluff feathers and air dry.
Witty car talk and antique gem remark from old text
Two men boast about aging cars with humor and a joke about speed. The fragment then shifts to a note on precious stones entering the western world via Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great
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