Such drivers should be driven off the highways
An opinion piece urges action to curb reckless driving on Canadian highways. It condemns speeding, calls for police patrols and license suspensions, and praises a safety council in Montreal for promoting public awareness. It advocates citizen reporting to remove dangerous drivers.
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Rafe
Prairie Provinces
Vsaw
Tne Cats
Dominion Automobile Safety Council Inc
Montreal
Canada
Anna Sewell’s Book Earnings Spark Royalty Debate
The note suggests Anna Sewell earned a small sum for Black Beauty with a royalty besting $300,000 on a straight basis, highlighting a gap between literary success and author earnings in a historical context.
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Anna Sewell
Foo
Britain Faces Traffic Boom and Road Plan Details
London reports Britain is rapidly vehicled with 2.58 million vehicles last year, 178000 miles of roads, and 43000 classified routes. One in 19 owns a car while cyclists exceed 10 million. Minister Hore Belisha cites 23 vehicles per square mile, plans for 150 million dollars on roads, 230 miles of cycle tracks, and 750 miles of dual carriageways, though cyclists resist limits on main arteries.
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Great Britain
Hore-Belisha
Britain
United States
Cyclista
Japan Eyes Trans Pacific Zeppelin Service
Japanese rooumre Jae Tei Sei weighs ambitious trans Pacific airship schemes. Three routes proposed Tokyo to Hsingking Manchukuo. Tokyo to Singapore or Batavia via Shanghai and Hong Kong. Tokyo to San Francisco or Los Angeles via Homatub. Plans call for two or more German Zeppelins and a German expert was unable to commit long term.
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Rooumre
Tokyo
Hsingking
Manchukuo
Singapore
Batavia
Shanghai
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Homatub
Germany
Japan
Rural mail carrier ends 16 years on 28 mile route
Henry Gingerich of Baden Ontario retires after 16 years as rural mail carrier covering a daily 28 mile route. He completed his rounds with only two bad weather delays in storms, and traveled with about 140000 mules following a slow plodding horse during his last trip.
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Henry Gingerich
Baden
Ont
Skeena River Floods Church Yet Bible Remains Intact
Floodwaters from the Skeena river wrecked the Interior of the March Memorial church at Usk with the organ overturned and chairs scattered. A Bible on a small table stayed undamaged under muddy linen. Stories from the area recount hens taking refuge in trees and a pest issue after the waters subsided.
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Skeena
March Memorial
Usk
Selected Bran Drop Cookies From Old Recipe Card
A vintage recipe lists bran drop cookies with shortening sugar eggs sour milk nuts salt soda cinnamon and cloves. It instructs creaming butter then sugar, adding eggs and milk with dissolved soda, mixing in dry ingredients and nuts, dropping spoonfuls on buttered sheets, and baking at 350 degrees for a moderate oven.
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Egrees F
Star Explosion Reaches Earth After 2000 Year Journey
An ancient star explosion, occurring 2000 to 3000 years ago, finally became visible to Earth. Amateurs in Ohio noticed a new bright star on June 28, aligning near Cepheus and La Certa. Yerkes Observatory notes the star had appeared on maps since 1898 but brightened only recently.
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Shepherds
Beth
Earth
Milky Way
Holland
Delphos
Ohio
L. C. Peltier
la Certa
Britannia Yacht to Be Scuttled in English Channel
The royal racing cutter Britannia will be sunk in the English Channel to avoid shipbreakers yard. Ordered recently, the yacht closely linked to the late King George will join the sea after a storied 43-year racing career with 231 first prizes and 129 other awards in 625 races. Built in 1803 for the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, the Britannia has been a famed royal craft for over a century.
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Britannia
English Channel
George
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Legend of Devon pool and royal deaths linked to water
The North Tawton spring bath in Devonshire fulfilled an age old legend by filling with water when King George V died. The tale links the pool’s filling to royal family deaths, noting past coincidences with Albert, Queen Victoria, and the Duke of Clarence. Three days after George V died the water vanished and cattle returned to graze nearby.
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Devonsh
George
North Tawton
Devonshire
George V
Albert
Victoria
Duke of Clarence
Edward VII
Gulf Stream narrows to fifty miles near Florida Keys
The Gulf Stream varies in width from fifty miles at its narrowest near the Florida Keys to up to one hundred fifty miles farther north, indicating significant regional changes in oceanic flow.
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Florida Keys
Gulf Stream
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