Peril On The Highways A Canadian Road Fatalities Analysis
An analysis of 1938 highway deaths and injuries shows motorists cause the vast majority of accidents. Most fatalities occurred on dry roads. weather, vehicle defects, and road conditions contributed far less. Reckless driving, speeding, improper passing, and drunkenness are prominent causes. the piece calls for stricter self discipline and enforcement to reduce tolls.
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Coremonsence
Dr Francis Jeadme Barton Pneumatic Pioneer Dies
Dr Francis Jeadme Barton, designer of Britain's first airship and the world’s first hydroplane, has died. In 1902 Barton crossed the English Channel in a balloon to commemorate King Edward VI’s coronation. About one third of the world’s glass, valued at $80,000,000 annually, is produced in the United States.
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Barton
Britain
Dr. Barton
English Channel
Edward VI
United States
Bandit flees after Rochester operator hands over cash
A Rochester filling station operator, Arthur Peters, handed over a roll of $50 in small bills when a bandit produced a bulge in his coat. The thief took $50, gave back $1, and fled, leaving Peters shaken by the robbery attempt. Carrot seeds are minute. 257,000 weigh one pound.
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Arthur Peters
Rochester
Clipper Passengers Grow Vegies In Wake Island Tanks
Passengers and crew on a trans Pacific clipper dine on vegetables produced in ten days from trays filled with no soil in Wake Island. The hydroponic harvest yielded 33 pounds of tomatoes 20 pounds of lettuce 20 pounds of string beans 15 pounds of squash and 44 pounds of corn. The diners praised the taste as good as soil grown produce and an experimental station will establish farming in tanks at Wake Island to advance soilless methods.
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Wake Island
London
Outdated Car Map Fuels Post Office Office Map Debate
A damaged Washington post article notes a world map carved in stone in the Post Office Department is out of date. The piece discusses color coding and political boundaries, mentioning Austria Ethiopia Czechoslovakia and Slovakia and the impracticality of correcting the map. The piece hints at a future invention replacing the map with a movable stone door map.
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Post Ofice
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Imap
Austia
Ethiopia
Ceech
Slovakia
Albania
Post Ofice Department
New York
Pan fried tomatoes with sauce served over toasted biscuits
Selected recipe narrates pan fried tomatoes with Shredded Wheat biscuits. Tomatoes are peeled halved dipped in seasoned flour then sautéed in butter until tender. Biscuits are heated in a moderate oven and served topped with tomato halves and sauce for six.
Canadian Chief Justice Duff’s England Pilgrimage
A Canadian judge, Chief Justice Duff, is described as deeply attached to England not for war songs but for a just, merciful England that spawned Milton and Shakespeare. He makes regular pilgrimages to historic sites in Britain, reflecting his respect for the country’s justice and freedom.
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Duff
England
Mr. Kipling
Jelly Cream Layers Cake Recipe Fragments
We present a fragmented recipe for a jelly cream layered cake including ingredients such as egg whites butter sugar milk and vanila with steps to cream butter beat in sugar fold in egg whites and bake in layer pans at 375 degrees. The text ends with a reference to a bitter taste from magnesium sulfate in Ottawa Journal.
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Niger
King’s Justice Ottawa Journal
Eighty Years Since Engineers Arrival in British Columbia
New Westminster marks the S6th anniversary of the Royal Engineers detachment arrival from Thames City. Six members of the original party, now grown, remain alive. The engineers helped develop the province by surveying, road building, and construction, while serving defence and police roles and fostering early settlement that shaped Vancouver's history.
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British Columbia
New Westminster
Royal Egineers
Thames City
Royal Engineers
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
Vancouver
Mystery Man of the Bank of England Speaks to Empire
Norman governor of the Bank of England, once elusive to reporters, has become more public. He recently delivered a wireless talk to the Empire about the bank’s work. On travels he sometimes hides his identity as Professor Clarence Skinner and rarely gives interviews.
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Stontagu Norman
Bank of England
Empire
Norman
Clarence Skinner
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