Green Gables and Anne Inspire Prince Edward Island Park
The article praises Prince Edward Island National Park established in 1987. It highlights Green Gables and other Anne of Green Gables spots, its 25 mile coast, warm Atlantic waters, beaches, dunes, red cliffs, and flora. It notes golf on Green Gables links and naming of spots like The Haunted Wood and Lake of Shining Waters.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Prince Oéward Island
Anne
Anne Revesine Cox
Canada
Prince Edward Island National Park
Green Gables
Lake of Shining Waters
Green Gables House
Prince Edward Island
National Park
British Navy Has Largest Share in Minesweeping Effort
The vast operation to clear mines at sea is near completion with 13 nations cooperating. Britain’s Royal Navy leads the effort, the largest mine clearance in history, aiming to free European waters for unrestricted shipping by next year. About 140,000 square miles are now clear after two years of labor under constant risk.
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Britain
Royal Navy
Science Finds Uses for Tree Bark in Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen reports the Douglas fir bark, constituting 21 percent of logs, can be turned into ingredients for phonograph records, explosives, adhesives, plastics and many other products. British Columbians see potential billions for the logging sector, with new secondary industries and thousands of jobs.
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Ottawa Citizen
Good as New Bread in Yellowstone Rangers Thaw Supply
In the fall park rangers freeze their winter bread stock and thaw loaves as needed. The bread remains indistinguishable from fresh when baked.
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Yellowstone National Park Rangers
Meringue Tips and Pie Crust Chill Hints
Tips for cutting sticky meringue with a buttered knife and bringing eggs to room temperature. For flaky pie crust give pastry dough the chill treatment and keep shortening and water very cold before baking. Autumn fashion notes mention oversized coat pockets called violin pockets in one designer’s line.
Tornado Surprise Strikes Temagami Ontario Residents Safe
In Temagami Ontario residents recount a brief tornado that caused light damage and no injuries. Postmaster HB Lloyd reports damage under 100 dollars with some trees down and seaplanes moored on the lake affected. Ontario police inspector Wilford Franks notes wind lasted seven to eight minutes with pea sized hail and no fatalities. A damaged seaplane sits ashore with pontoons lost.
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Temagami
Ont
HB. T. Lloyd
Wilford Franks
Ontario Provincial Police
Rabbit skins turn menace into money for Australia
Australia sees rabbits shift from pest to profit as skin exports reach 13 million dollars last year with Canada ordering 50 000 pounds monthly. Trappers, boys, and farmers kill rabbits by sticks grim methods, poison, and traps while fences 1139 miles long aim to curb the population. Rabbits, not native since 1788, caused vast agricultural damage but now supply furriers and hatmakers amid ongoing eradication efforts.
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Sydney
Australia
Canada
Australian Rabbit Skin Board
Arthur Phillip
England
Western Australia
Calliope First Used On River Boats
According to Collier's magazine the Calliope the musical instrument consisting of steam whistles played by means of a keyboard was developed in Massachusetts in 1855 as an added attraction on river boats. The popularity of these floating music boxes lasted 20 years before steamboats discarded them and the calliope moved to land becoming associated with the circus fairs and carnivals.
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Collier's Magazine
Massachusetts
Police Enforce 1852 Capetown Sidewalk Law
During a rainy week in Capetown South Africa pedestrians were halted by traffic police who asked them to close umbrellas along covered sidewalks. They were enforcing a 1852 law that forbids obstructing passage on a sidewalk and originally covered cumbersome dresses.
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Capetown
South Africa
Gatesman proposes with fortune at her feet humor
A gatesman wooing a pest girl ends with a playful vow to lay his fortune at her feet. She replies it's not big, he notes it will look large beside her feet. The piece weaves a joke with nautical references and a Greek origin note for anchor.
Spinning Wheel Transforms Sifton Into Industrial Hub
In 1930s Manitoba town Sifton rises from farming to industry led by blacksmith John Weselowski. He imports a spinning wheel, pioneers simple designs, and builds a wool textiles cluster. The venture expands to a wool mill, carding plant, and Custom Woollen Mills, exporting wheels, socks, blankets, and wool products worldwide.
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Weselowski
Europe
Prairie
West
Sifton
Canada
United States
Mexico
Newfoundland
Iceland
Jamaica
France
Ontario
Willard S. McPhedrain
Lock
Brandon
Brandon Woolen Mills Limited
R. Forster
Metro Lozinski
Mary
Lozinski
To Sew Is To Save Sew Embroidery Blouse Pattern
Embroidery transfer blouse pattern 7041 offered with enlarged charts and photos. Sizes 12 14 16 18 20 40 42 include complete directions. Send 25 cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg at 175 McDermot Ave with name address and pattern number.
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Docarent
Winnipeg
Uni
McDermot Avenue
Winni Man
Aid for flood areas by RAF transport planes
In response to a governor's request, Far East Air Command transport aircraft based in Karachi depart with an initial 80 000 pounds of rice to be dropped on the flood struck Chittagong area of Bengal.
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RAF
Far East Air Command
Karachi
Chittagong
Bengal
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North Country
New Zealand
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