Fields For Exploration Work Narrowing Down As Earth Reveals Secrets
The article surveys Arctic and subarctic exploration prospects including Iceland banana plans, Siberian meteorite finds, the pole of cold, Samoyede origins, and potential Arctic North American puzzles. It notes Soviet efforts to breed crops for Siberian winters and brief Arctic summers as explorers eye new frontiers.
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Earth
Africa
West
Afiea
Arctic Asia
Arctic North America
Islands
Siberian
Kulik
Moscow
Siberia
Samoyedes
Alaska
Canada
Greenland
Hughes
New York
Iceland
Russia
New York Herald Tribune
Thrift Cuts Mortgage At St Hilda’s Fairbank
Rev A J Jackson rector of St Hilda's Anglican church in Fairbank Toronto suburb lived in a church camp cot and basement kitchen to save funds. He refused a salary until debts were paid and the church halved its mortgage from 25000 to 16000 while adding a 1000 extension.
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A. J. Jackson
St. Hilda's Anglican Church
Fairbank
Toronto
Jackson
St. Hilda’s
Why hot drinks cool the body more than cold drinks
McGill researchers explain the body as a combustion engine where a hot drink pushes blood to the skin and triggers sweat. Evaporation of sweat removes heat far more effectively than the slight cooling from cold water, roughly twenty times as much.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine
McGill University
Statue of Liberty Undergoes Restoration Costs $1,700,000
Workmen remove the seven giant spikes from the Statue of Liberty crown as part of a broad reconditioning of the 80 year old monument. The statue, a gift from France, originally cost $700,000 and has stood at New York harbor since October 28, 1866.
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New York Harbor
France
Speaks From Experience Mrs Violet McNaughton OBE
Mrs Violet McNaughton OBE vice president of the Women's Press Club for Saskatchewan recalls 16 years in a sod house on the prairie. She began newspaper work in 1916 on the Saturday Press of Saskatoon and advanced through Grain Growers medical aid for farms to hospital systems in the province. She later led the United Farm Workers and now edits the women's section of the Western Producer.
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Violet McNaughton
O.B.E
Women's Press Club For
Saskatchewan
Kent
Prairie
United Farmers of Saskatchewan
McNaughton
United Farm Workers’ Organization
Western Producer
Canada to broadcast world concert from Oct. 23
Gladstone Murray of the CBC announced that the International Broadcasters Union invites CBC to provide a world concert on October 23. Forty countries will receive and distribute the concert originated in Canada. Nearly all of the 54 member nations are expected to participate. This marks a first recognition of Canada’s high program standards. The CBC’s past year of acclaimed entertainment is cited.
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Gladstone Murray
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
International Broadcasters’ Union
Geneva
C.B.C
Canada
International Union
Hughes urges moral disarmament to end world war drive
In a New York welcome after his four day flight around the world, Hughes calls radio operators from many nations colleagues and argues if people see the other as flesh and blood and moral disarmament is achieved, the world would progress more rapidly and war would cease.
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Hughes
New York
Ottawa Journal
Ontario minister says postmen top pedestrians in practice
Ontario Highways Minister T B McQuesten says postmen walk streets more than any group and few accidents involve them. He cites crossing between intersections as the main cause of pedestrian accidents.
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Ontario
T B McQuesten
Are Those Eggs Fresh
A brief exchange about freshness prompts the question of country origin. The dialogue ends with a query on which country supplies the eggs, highlighting ambiguity in sourcing.
Eire Named for Emerald Isle Two Millennia Ago
The article notes that Eire, the adopted name for Ireland, origin dates back about 2,000 years. It states the pronunciation Air a with emphasis on the gir syllable and references the Emerald Isle.
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Eire
Ireland
Emerald Isle
Scientists explore bone amid great ice age finds in Minnesota
Researchers examine a sharp-edged bone found with two giant beaver skeletons by Works Progress Administration workers along a Mississippi cliff. If validated as a weapon, it supports theories that a skeleton found near Pelican Rapids in 1931 belonged to a primitive woman living with receding glaciers about 20 000 years ago, extending evidence of early humans here beyond the previously known Minnesota man.
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Minnesota
Works Progress Administration
Pelican Rapids
Fires Of Freedom Quote And Arctic Tern Migration Fact
The text quotes Franklin D Roosevelt urging stronger civil liberties and freedom of thought in all nations. It also notes the Arctic tern as the world’s champion migrant, nesting near 70 degrees north and reaching Antarctic waters about 11,900 miles away around August 25 when the young are mature.
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Hughes
Iceland
Mapa
Arctic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
North Pole
Antarctic
Mono Lake Outlets Remain Nonexistent in California
Mono Lake in California, nicknamed the Dead Sea of America, is noted for having no noticeable outlet. The feature highlights its unique endorheic basin and implications for salinity and ecosystem conditions.
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Mono Lake
Calif
Dead Sea of America
Crochet Squares and Heirloom Spread Pattern 6187
Instructions for crocheting a square with illustration and stitches, photo of the square, materials list. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 6187. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Rapid Commercial Airplanes to Transform Trans-Atlantic Flight
Windsor Star reports forward-looking claims on 100 passenger airliners with 5 million dollar price tags and three year development. Detroit engineer William B. Stout cites Ford as inspiration. Howard Hughes showcases Atlantic flight feasibility by cutting time to France.
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William B. Stout
Detroit
Windsor
Europe
America
Howard Hughes
Atlantic
France
Lindbergh
Ont
Star
Drama Staged By Mormons At Palmyra Pageant
Five thousand spectators watched 150 Mormon missionaries perform a three stage pageant in a natural amphitheatre at Palmyra New York birthplace of the faith. A 100-voice choir, a trumpets prelude, and a loud speaker system enhanced the production. Visitors included hundreds from Canada and many from Utah and other western states.
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Mormon Church
America
Palmyra
N.Y
Hill
Cemorah
Joseph Smith
Moroni
Utah
Western States
Canada
Russian Thistle: A Valuable Aid Against Soil Drift
A. F. E. Palmer of the Dominion Experimental Station at Lethbridge states that Russian thistle ranks as the Wests second most valuable plant for limiting soil drift. He notes soil drifting damage would be far worse without it and compares topsoil loss to the value of wheat, citing 1.25 inches drift in the Regina district in a single season.
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A. F E. Palmer
Dominion Experimental Station
Lethbridge
Palmer
Regina
Three Qualities Keep Elderly Popular and Engaging
A writer notes three enduring traits enthusiasm, new friendships, and humor. In a survey of older people the most loved are those who maintain these qualities. The piece then contrasts Glasgow as Empire Exhibition host with Sydney as a growing second city. A light joke follows about a bride and groom expressing affection and money.
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Glasgow
Great Britain
Sydney
N.S.W
Royal Entertainment at London Reception with King George
Leonard Lyons reports Harry Richman entertained British royalty in London at Lord and Lady Stanley’s home last month. The King asked for Birth of the Blues and revealed he kept Richman’s records. Queen Elizabeth thanked Mrs Richman for persuading her husband to attend.
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London
Harry Richman
England
Lord
Lady Stanley
Lord Stanley
Richman
King George
Harry
King
Hazel Forbes
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Simple Social Pressure Guides Toronto Chinese to Fund War Effort
In Toronto the Chinese community uses public shaming to enforce donations to the Chinese National War Fund. Those who fail to contribute are exposed as traitors with a sandwich board. The Patriotic League has started a Court of Patriots to handle such cases. A bystander remark about tram seating is noted, concluding with a caution not to be led astray.
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Toronto
Chinese National War Fund
The
Patriotic League
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