Salt Haunts British Farms After Floods In Britain And Netherlands
Thousands of farmers face long term land ruin as sea water floods inland in Britain and the Netherlands. Salt contamination endangers crops with some areas like Lincolnshire Suffolk Norfolk and Essex reporting tens of thousands of acres underwater. Recovery may take years up to decades with topsoil damaged and fertility slow to return.
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London
Britain
Netherlands
England
Agriculture Ministry
Lincolnshire
Suffolk
Norfolk
Essex
Oddities in the News Highlight Odd Legal, City Nuisance
William G Crowley of Bonners Ferry Idaho serves a three year term for stealing a truck to reach a trial where he was acquitted on car theft. Maballe Starr of Yorkton Saskatchewan fled court over a 500 dollar bench warrant and was later jailed on vagrancy charges. In Marseilles France residents clash with a city order mandating patented garbage cans triggering a “garbage can war” as officials consider buying out canships with tax funds.
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William G. Crowley
Bonners Ferry
Ida
Maballe Starr
Yorkton
Sask
Winnipeg
Marseilles
France
Patrolman Spars With Bride and Groom Over Time
Patrolman Frank Baker spots a note on a windshield asking for 20 minutes before a wedding. David Jackier and his bride Gloria Olson emerge from the municipal building. Baker lets them go without a ticket. Baker quips the man faces a life sentence and questions the meaning of 20 minutes.
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New York
Frank Baker
David Jackier
Gloria Olson
Baker
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers from Canada Facts
Listing multiple facts about a Canadian facts booklet. Mentions Ottawa tax bill, dates in 1923 6, and names Earl of Bess borough Lord Tweedsmuir Athlone Viscount Alexander Vincent Massey Sir William Osler. Notes ore shipment 10 000 tons per day and iron ore used as ballast in ocean vessels.
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Ottawa
Marconi
British Post Office
Canada
U.K
Earl of Bessborough
Lord Tweedsmuir
Earl of Athione
Alexander
Vincent Massey
Sir ‘Wm, Osler
Quick Canadian Facts
Handbook of Facts About
Mounties Ride Again in Royal Coronation Procession
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announce a full mounted troop of 35 officers will ride in the London Coro nation procession in June with a four officer escort for the Canadian Prime Minister. The unit, led by assistant commissioner D L McGibbon, includes members from all 10 provinces and the Yukon.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
R.C.M.P
London
George VI
D. L. McGibbon
Regina
R. J. Belec
C” Division
Montreal
Yukon
Northwest Mounted Police
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
R.cm.p
Queen Victoria
Edward VII
George V
Practical Kitchen and Household Remedies From a bygone Page
A set of old fashioned tips describes poached eggs in milk for nourishment and flavor, opening a cocoa nut with oven heat, curing glassware by controlled heating, and renovating leather items with an egg yolk white, alcohol, sugar, ivory black paste.
Smile Of The Week Louis Mountbatten Meets GI At Outpost
During an inspection in the China Burma India theatre Lord Louis Mountbatten pauses at a distant outpost to chat with a soldier. The exchange reveals the GI is from Alabama and not Indo Chinese, highlighting casual cross cultural humor amid war.
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Louis Mountbatten
China-Burma-India
Louis
Totem Meaning Guardian Spirit From Algonquin Roots
The word totem derives from the Algonquin language and denotes a guardian spirit. The term reflects Indigenous cultural concepts tied to family clans and protective symbols in tribal societies.
First Coal Use in America at Starved Rock
The Illinois region near Starved Rock marks the first use of coal in America for home heating. Explorers Joliet and Marquette, with Father Hennepin, noted coal near Kaskaskia during 1670s explorations, while La Salle’s fort at Crevecoeur used a forge fueled by coal after its recovery at Starved Rock.
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New France
Canada
Louis Joliet
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Arkansas
Joliet
James Marquette
Illinois River
Kaskaskia
Ottawa
Marquette
Hennepin
la Salle
Fort Crevecoeur
Peoria
Tonty
Starved Rock
America
Benjamin Franklin Invented Bifocals
Inventor Benjamin Franklin developed bifocal glasses to avoid switching spectacles when viewing near and far objects. The design combined lens sections for both distances, easing daily use.
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Benjamin Franklin
Appetizing Recipes for Rice and Tomato Sauce
Melt fat and sauté onion and green pepper with rice then brown. Stir in water and tomato sauce with salt pepper and mustard if desired. Bring to a boil cover simmer ten minutes. Makes four servings.
Early treatment urged for crossed eyes in children
Dr. Lloyd Morgan of the Hospital for Sick Children Toronto says treat crossed eyes as soon as noticed. Delays increase risk of a crossed-eye complex and partial blindness. Early surgery after age one, before school age, with glasses if needed, yields better bilateral vision.
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Lloyd Morgan
Hospital For
Toronto
Morgan
Health
The
Health League of Canada
Testing Protective Value Of Vaccine
Canada launches hospital and plant trials of a four strain flu vaccine produced in Toronto. The study aims to measure protection in elderly patients with tests to end in April, following encouraging earlier results in Ottawa institutions. No large flu outbreaks in Canada yet, though officials fear Eurasian spread.
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Ottawa
Canada
Toronto
Health Department
Europe
United States
Five Canadian Governors General since 1931 and industrial figures
The column poses questions about Canada’s Governors General since 1931, daily iron ore usage, early wireless telegraphy, a Canadian who led Johns Hopkins Medical School, and a rising annual bill. It notes answers are in another column.
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Canada
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
Alaska May Get Sawmill Financed by Japanese Investors
A Japanese mission totaling eight executives toured Alaska and Greater Vancouver mills. They said Alaska offered the best chance for a financed sawmill staffed by Americans, despite higher labor costs. They noted imports of Japanese loggers to Alaska are currently prohibited and could reduce costs.
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Vancouver
Alaska
Tongass
Japan
British Columbia
Greater
Takuji Oshima
Canada
Oshima
U.S
Alberta experiments aim to breed trout fit for mountain streams
Alber ta Fish and Game officials report trials at Gorge Creek with hatchery trout showing poor stream survival. A joint program by Lands and Forests and the University of Alberta will re create stream conditions in rearing pools. Higher initial mortality expected, but survivors will be better suited for turbulent mountain streams.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Fish and Game
E. S. Huestis
Huestis
Alberta Fish and Game Association
Department of Lands and Forests
University of Alberta
Gorge Creek
Sheep River
Nothing Much Magistrate Could Do About It
In Philadelphia Magistrate Keller H. Gilbert sent a vagrant to the House of Correction for six months after a humorous exchange in court. The defendant refused to state his name, leading the judge to note the absence of a home and the odd case in eleven years of police court service.
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Philadelphia
Keller H. Gilbert
House of Correction
Gilbert
Mr. I
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
A sick bed poem lines a childlike mood of illness and longing to rest with playful imagery of wind and boredom. A stray note explains ship construction at launch as only part of the work finished above the main deck.
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Britain and
Women's Wear Bureau
Acme
Dolman
Cape Breton
Flamborough Head
H.M.C.S. Cape Breton
Halifax
R.C.N
E. W. Clarke
Navy
W. W. Porteous
H.M.C
Central Press Canadian
Emanuel Hahn
John Crosby
National Museum
Quick
Alta
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