Campaign to reduce highway deaths gains momentum in Canada
Federal campaign targets reckless driving after 36 000 U S deaths and rising Canadian auto casualties. Emphasizes speed, passes, braking defects and alcohol as key factors. Posters warn: If you must drink, don't drive. if you must drive, don't drink.
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Ceral Department of ‘Mattol
Caower
United States
U.S.A
Canada
Cerean Loos
Unites
Nni
Messia
International Barners
Sks
Board of Railway
Ahead
Canadian buffalo to Europe aid European bison
Interior Minister Crerar announces twenty Canadian buffalo cows from Wainwright Alberta’s national park will depart for Germany. Luis Heck, director of Berlin zoological gardens, leads the effort to preserve Europe’s bison in cooperation with Canadian authorities.
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Wainwright Buffalo
Germany
Europe
Crerar
Wainwright, Alta, Buffalo Naional Park
Luis Heck
Berlin
How To Become Efficient by Eating More Often
Prof. Howard W. Hag gard of Yale University says daily meals should be five or six instead of two or three. Tests show workers are more efficient in the first three hours after eating. The article notes the earth’s annual orbit around the sun covers about 584,600,000 miles.
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Howard W. Haggard
Yale University
Paris launches paid query service for all questions
A new service in Paris offers answers from M Mandel's encyclopaedists via the phone. Ordinary questions cost 6 to 15 cents, harder queries 20 to 30 cents, with higher rates for difficult posers. An errand delivery by a post office cyclist is available day or night.
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France
America
S.P
George Posts
Tele- Mandel
Paris
M. Mandel
Encyclopaedians
Beggar Training Institute Reported in Skornany Barn
An empty barn near Skornany housed an institution with two adult instructors and twenty six boys trained to beg. Teachers taught pupils to appear miserable and disabled and to write begging letters. Crutches bandages and other devices were bought for the lessons and the collected booty was split between teachers and students.
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Ams
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia
Vile Tage
Skornany
Protection coastal aero planes join Canadian air force fleet
The Canadian government will strengthen air defences this spring by ordering four Blackburn Shark coast defense aircraft from England. Similar to British naval planes, they can carry 1,500 pound torpedoes or equal bombs, conduct aerial survey and photography, artillery spotting, and reconnaissance. They feature a supplementary fuel tank for a 1,000 mile cruising radius and will be operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Air Force Defence of
Canada
Blackburn Aviation Company
England
Naval Air Service
Royal Canadian Air Force
Cornell Builds Machine To Produce Synthetic Radium
Cornell University announced completion of gelotron, a $5000 device capable of producing artificial radium as a substitute for the real substance costing $40,000 per gram. The second such machine in existence, it joins the already operating cyclotron at Ithaca. The original high energy cyclotron was built by Dr. E. O. Lawrence at UC.
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Cornell University
Ithaca NY
Cornell
EA. Lawrence
University of California
Farm flock timing and ancestor hens in poultry profit
The article argues keepers should end hen housing after two laying years unless flock ancestors have produced many large eggs for three or more years. It compares hen stocking to a camel needing water, stressing sustained laying performance for profits.
Nazir, Indian Research Student, Develops Air Torpedo System
A London lab at Queen Marys College hosts Phiroze P Nazir, a young aeronautical student for the Government of India, who claims a jet propelled air torpedo could travel up to 200 miles at 300 mph. He envisions weapons hidden in plane tails and a pilotless attack capable of overwhelming squadrons. Inventions alarm officials as nations seek his technical secrets.
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Queen Mary's College
London
England
Marconi
Phiroze P. Nazir
Nazir
Selected Recipes Temperature 400 Degrees F Cookies
Melt chocolate with shortening and sugar in a double boiler. Beat in corn syrup sour Benson's Corn Starch vanilla and eggs one by one. Spread on oiled sheets, sprinkle chopped nuts, bake hot and cut while warm for crisp cookies. Corn Syrup
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Crown Brand
3M Publishing Firm Celebrates 490 Years of Family Ownership
Faber & Co of Madgeburg marks nearly five centuries under the same family. Their first publication, Psalms of David, appeared in 1485, highlighting a long lineage in publishing.
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Faber & Co
Madgeburg
Germany
Builder seeks tonic advice from Mrs. Francis Abcott
An unclear local fragment mentions Mrs. Francis Abcott of 242 Trickville St Ont advising a tonic or medicine. The text is garbled but references a medical loss and a product priced at $35 in tablet or liquid form. Ownership and location details are partial and uncertain.
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Francis ‘Abcott
Ickville St
Ont
Aiden Medical
Normandy Pedestrians Ordered to Carry Lanterns at Night
Normandy county council requires walkers on unlit highways to carry a lantern to avoid being run over. The rule aims to improve safety for pedestrians during nighttime hours.
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Normandy
France
Ust
County Council
Phosferine touted as a quick energy tonic
Advertisement touts PHOSFERINE as a British energy tonic for nervous fatigue sleeplessness and general debility. It claims immediate and lasting effects sleep improvement appetite relief and renewed vigor available in liquid or tablet forms with prices listed for three sizes.
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Institution For Beggars
Beg Academy
Ogden’s
Ogden
Chantecler
Vogue
Mrr. Nazir
Annie Mae
3M Publishing Firm
Money Beck
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