Hepworth Village Name Origins and Dr Nichol’s Slipped Disc
John Plows founded the Bateric village Hepworth intending Ep Worth after John Wesley’s birthplace Emgi. The Cockney pronunciation became Hepworth. Orthopaedic surgeon E. A. Nichol of Sheffield helped find a cure for slipped discs and is now hospitalized in Sheffield.
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John Plows
Bateric
Hepworth
John Wesley
Plows
E. A.nichol
Sheffield
Eng
Sheffield Hospital
First Experimental Farm at Ottawa and Canadian household tech
The first federal experimental farm was founded in Ottawa in 1486 by William Saunders and later linked with his son Sir Charles Saunders in Marquis wheat development. Among Canada’s 4,303,000 households, 97 percent have electricity, 9 percent have mechanical refrigerators, and 87 percent own powered washing machines.
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Lrst
Ottawa
William Saunders
Sir Charles Saunders
Canada
Van Gogh Exhibition Tour Draws North American Visitors
A group linked with the National Gallery Association, with more than 1700 members, gathers to discuss a touring Van Gogh exhibition. The show features the largest collection of the Dutch master's paintings to arrive in North America.
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National Gallery Association
North America
Strictly Fresh The Biggest Room In The A Men
A compilation of wry aphorisms about money, enemies, and sensible choices. It jests at gullibility and vanity while offering compact, quotable wisdom on perception and decision making.
Whirly Dress Pattern 7092 for Girls Sizes 2 4 6 8 10
A cheerful pattern catalog note invites girls to enjoy a fashionable soft dress with optional embroidery. Pattern 7092 includes transfer directions and sizes 2 through 10 and costs thirty five cents. Send name, address, and pattern number to Household Arts Department PLPN at 60 Front Street West Toronto.
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Household Arts
Department Plpn
Front Street W
Toronto
Fifth Wonder of the Middle Ages Pisa Tower Visited on Caronia Cruise
The Pisa tower, begun in 1174 as a Pisa cathedral bell tower, leans after flawed foundations ands was counted among the Seven Warders of the World. During a Cunard Caronia Mediterranean cruise, passengers visit Pisa Florence Rome and Naples locations before rejoining in Naples. The ship sails May 8 from New York.
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Pisa
Mediterranean
Cunard
Caronia
Colosseum
Rome
Alexandria
China
Nanking
San Sofia
Constantinople
Stonehenge
Venice
Italy
Naples
Florence
New York
Canadian migration and early newspapers noted
The text cites 1946 to 1959 migration trends with about 437000 Canadians leaving for work abroad and over 1100000 immigrants joining the Canadian labor force. It also mentions Canada’s first daily papers the Montreal Advertiser in 1833 and the Toronto Royal Standard in 1863, both short lived.
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Canada
United States
Europe
Montreal
M. Ruggles
Technica
Indonesia
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National Gallery
J. R. Harper
Paul-Emile Borduas
Paris
Yugoslavia
West Germany
Brazil
Mexico
Fingland
Robert Hume
National Film Board of Canada
Gar Lunney
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