Human Parcel Post Abolished In Britain
AP Newsfeatures reports Britain ends a long quirky service allowing a person to mail themselves via parcel post. The practice dated to 1907 with former cases including a baby, travelers, and a political agitator. The last known sender in 1940 used mail priority to reach home amid troop boat limits.
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Britain
Alvin Steinkope
AP Newsfeatures
London
Iite
United Kingdom
David Gammans
Parliamen
Guernsey
English Channel
Neville Chamberlain
Ja Laddin's Lamp World Rights Reserved
This is a metrological puzzle note listing date ranges and a daily message. It instructs readers to find a number for their birth date and circle letters in a chart, using a secret formula. The text references multiple zodiac-like spans and a method tied to dates.
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JA Laddin
LAMP
Diamonds and weather science featured in Mississippi exhibit
A 1982 exhibit at a Mississippi jewelers fair will showcase diamond designs and teach buyers how cost depends on weight cut color and clarity. Meteorologists with the Weather Bureau and highway patrol plan a statewide tornado and thunderstorm warning relay using radio stations. Biologists oversee a deer crop damage test on two acres, aimed at protecting soybeans in the Cedar Falls area.
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Josh Higeine
Leto
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George Fish
Jackson Bureau
SSS
Mississippi
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Tes
Il Acres
Inwa Conservation Commission
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