Mansion For Sale Cheap But Initial Cost Of Five Dollars
A London West End mansion at No 23 Hyde Park Square offers ten bedrooms and five reception rooms for £17 with a round rent around £280 per year. The listing warns of high ongoing costs including £100 to paint the front and potential £200 to £500 yearly upkeep, mentioning a 36 year unrequired lease for another property and noting former resident Frederick RH Millar.
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London
West End
Hyde Park
No. 29
Frederick RH. Millar
Lord Halifax
Washington
Overseas Daily Mal
Glass road mirrors urged to cut hill accident toll
A six year study proposes glass safety mirrors on hill crests to guide cars and prevent head on collisions. Officials say the device could reduce deaths and injuries, but real benefit awaits long term testing and cost considerations.
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Aame
Greater New York Safety Council
Safety First
New Type Cafe Milk Cheese Sandwiches In Essex
A quaint wayside inn, the Muk Jug, serves cold milk on tap with cheese sandwiches and buttered toast to go. Cows milked in a sanitized parlor produce butter and cheese on site. Now near two years in business, sales reach 300 dollars. Essex history notes a 40 year ago sea flood killed earthworms, only returning two years later.
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Essex
England
Aid From Dominions 517 Candidates From Overseas Join RAF
Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Woot tells the House of Commons 517 candidates from overseas Dominions and colonies were accepted for appointment as commissioned pilots in the Royal Air Force in the past year. This, he says, is a very helpful contribution.
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Royal Air Force Service
Kingsley Woot
House of Comn
Royal Air Force
Snow display draws Florida shoppers in St Petersburg window
In St Petersburg Florida locals marveled at a shipment of snow shown in a store window. An air express package from Cannon Mountain New Hampshire carried the white fluff used for Christmas scenes. The New Hampshire Tourist Society arranged the display for a party, drawing curious residents.
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St. Petersburg
St Petersburg
Florida
Air Express
Cannon Mountain
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Tourist Society
Airborne traffic up as passengers and mail revenue rise
George G Wakeman, traffic manager of Trans Canada Airlines, told Westmount Rotary Club that last year 1,500,000 passengers were carried in the United States, a 200 percent rise in five years. Canada shows air mail weight increasing from 625,040 pounds in 1934 to 1,397,221 in 1938, with air mail postage around 509,593 dollars. Britain reports 3,000 disabled Great War soldiers still treated and 4,000 artificial limbs supplied to pensioners yearly.
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Teccanon
George G. Wakeman
Newerl
Trans-Canada Airlines
Westmount
Canada
Great Britain
Selected Recipes From An Old Domestic Collection
Group of vintage dessert and bake recipes including Shredded Wheat Biscuits with pineapple and bananas, a Fruit Shortcake variant, and De's First Cake with Quick Fudge Frosting. Instructions cover biscuit prep, fruit fillings, and frosting, noting oven temps around 375 to 379 degrees F and mixing steps. Contains multiple named dishes and measure details with variations.
Fellowships Awarded Announce Eight Recipients in Canada
The Royal Society of Canada and Carnegie Corporation endowment announce eight successful applicants for international one year fellowships. Notables include Luc Lacourciere George Vickers Francis Priestley George Volkoff Florence Patterson Mackenzie Keith William Fishman Frederick Thatcher and others. Fellowships worth one hundred dollars each fund research under the society's supervision with projects spanning biochemistry medical chemistry and European geography studies.
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Royal Society of Canada
Carnegie Corporation
Ottawa
Arthur Beauchesne
House of Commons
Society
Luc Lacourciere
Rugaud
Que
George Stephen Vickers
St. Catharines
Ont
Francis E. L. Priestley
Toronto
George M. Volkoff
University of British Columbia
Berkeley
Cal
Florence Shirley Patterson
Newmarket
Mackenzie L. Keith
Edmonton
William Harold Fishman
Winnipeg
Frederick Stanley Thatcher
Montreal
Fishman
University of Saskatchewan
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Ramsay
Bank
Shaws
Cannes
Appleford Paper Products Limited
Para-Sani
Appleford Paper Products Ltd
Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Lipton’s
Lipton
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