Europeans Won't Pick Sides as War Remains a Luxury
San Francisco correspondent notes Europe bears heavy scars from the last war. He cites Britain housing losses, French and Dutch destruction, Italian shelter shortages, and the faltering pace of reconstruction across Germany, Poland, Greece, and Ukraine. A Berlin hotel doorman calls war a luxury unaffordable.
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London
Europe
England
Britain
Caen Street
Paris
France
Monsieur
Antwerp
Russia
Ukraina
Berlin
Ants Follow Party Banner In Communist Festival Tale
A vivid, satirical account describes ants marching in a black column at a village festival, their blind hostiles terrorizing other insects as they devour prey. The piece also sketches ant ingenuity with nest agronomy and clever parasites, ending with a theft by a silverfish beetle during an ant feeding episode.
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Moscow
Italy
Kremlin
Madonna of the Mountain of the Ants
Mexico
Mental Health Becomes Focus in Industry
Christian Smith of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene Canada argues in Health that absenteeism signals broader mental ill health in workers. He cautions against only targeting psychotic conditions and urges attention to hidden personality disorders in supervisors to protect morale, productivity, and labor relations.
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Christian Smith
National Committee For Mental Hygiene (Canada
Health
The
Health League of Canada
Mr. Smith
Gems on Independence from Thoughtful Minds
A collection of quotations on independence and liberty from Bentham Junius Mary Baker Eddy Calderwood Emerson Tyron Edwards. The passages advocate inner dignity, moral purpose, and self directed thinking as essential to happiness and true understanding of others.
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Jeremy Bentham
Mary Baker Eddy
Calderwood
Thieves Loot Syracuse Home Nabbing Only 50 Cents
Buffalo burglars ransacked Anthony Syracuse’s house but left with just 50 cents. The intruders forced a back kitchen window, a window Syracuse says he could not open for years, calling the 50 cents their only value.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Anthony Syracuse
Syracuse
Chimney Backdraft Fix Proposes Revolving Cowl Top
The reader asks how to extend a lean-to chimney seven feet to peak level. If the lower chimney is sound and well founded, build higher with bricks and add a revolving cowl to steer wind away. If weak, install a metal five-foot stack with a double wall and mineral wool insulation to prevent creosote from condensation.
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T. W
Teenagers Drive Safer Roads Through Caution
The piece cites Inter-Industry Highway Safety Committee figures showing 16 to 20 year olds cause five times as many accidents as 45 to 50 year olds. It urges teen drivers to take high school driving courses, model safe behavior, and promote traffic rules to reduce winter hazards and save lives.
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Inter- Industry Highway Safety Committee
Gas Turbine Cars Predicted For 1959 By Packard President
Detroit report cites George T. Christopher president of Packard predicting 1959 automobiles will feature small gas turbine engines. He notes current cars are best yet but tomorrow's will surpass them with simple economical gas turbines under the hood.
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Detroit
George T. Christopher
Packard Motor Car Company
Christopher
Handy Kitchen and Home Repair Tips
Helpful hints describe safe ring hanger in a kitchen cabinet door, rolling nuts in cloth, butter or olive oil to stop chocolate sticking, and applying thin coats of wax with intervals to prevent moisture and wear on floors.
Room to Let Offer Ends In Harsh Choice
A new Ottawa civil servant faced a bizarre rooming offer as she sought housing. The occupant blurted a grim choice: she could be roomed and fed for $50 or roomed for $20 and feed herself. The blunt option highlights a troubling living arrangement in the capital.
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Ottawa
Civil Service
BC Tests Two New Spring Bulbs from Victoria Area
J H Crossley of the Dominion Experimental Station at Saanichton reports anemone and ranunculus show winter hardiness and potential value for British Columbia. Anemone St Brigid proves hardy in Victoria, ranunculus may need fall rotation. Spring bulbs could bolster provincial revenue beyond current daffodil and tulip crops. ranunculus is highly valued by Europeans and grows from tubers or seed.
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J. H. Crossley
Dominion Experimental Station
Saanichton
B.C
Vancouver Island
St. Brigid
Victoria
British Columbia
Massive cucumber fails to market in Michigan
Litchfield Mich Harry Anderson faced a market glut as his cucumbers swelled to 30 inches and four and a half pounds each. Seeds from Syria produced about 100 cucumbers that looked more like watermelons, hindering sale of the oversized crop.
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Litchfield
Mich
Harry Anderson
Syria
Anderson
The Obi River Dominates Siberia’s West
The Obi or Ob stands as the westernmost great Siberian river. It runs about 2,500 miles in length and reaches nearly two miles in width at its mouth.
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Great Siberian
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