Old Salem Embraces Christmas with Moravian Putz and Candles
Old Salem displays the Moravian putz with miniature buildings and figures as candles are handcrafted for the Christmas Love Feast. Moravian stars and illuminated hollow stars brighten doorways and porches, replacing candles with electric lights in a 150 year old tradition.
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Old Salem
Winston-Salem
N.C
Old Town
Salem
Saxony
Winston- Salem
Central Press
Beautiful needlework pattern for transfer and stitches
Promote pattern 7162 for line or frame pictures using single and running stitches. Improved pattern-visual with charts and photos, complete directions. Send twenty five cents in coins to Household Arts Depart ment Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Smile of the Week car mishap scene
Near a bend the driver skidded and the car overturned. Both occupants survived unhurt beside the smashed vehicle. He wrapped an arm around her but she drew away and mused it would have been easier to run out of gas.
Alberta Rose Grower Bugnet Becomes Canadian Fame
Albertan homesteader Georges Bugnet gained fame as a rose breeder and a celebrated French-language author. He cross-bred the Theresa Bugnet, a six foot fragrant double rose, using Kamchika seeds from Siberia and other varieties. He came to Canada in 1905 and later wrote six novels and poems.
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Alberta
Canada
Bugnet
M. Georges Bugnet
Kamchika
Siberia
Petrograd
France
Sorbonne University
Paris
University of Lyons
Ha M
Crafting Tips From Worn Hints And Coats
Helpful hints sheets worn in spots can be used to make pillowcases. Clever place cards can be made by gluing alphabet macaroni on small cards. For coat hems such as fleecy polo coats, remove the hem, brush, and steam. If crease remains, rub with very fine sand paper to lift nap and cover crease. Then face with lightweight penny and steam press the hem.
New Rescue Buoys Promise Sub Rescue From Depths
Rear Admiral Charles B. Momsen announced a releasable buoy system to rescue crews from sunken submarines at any depth not crushable by the ship. Buoys attach to both ends, rise to the surface, pulling down a rescue chamber via strong wires. This replaces diver-attached lines that limited depth rescues.
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New York
Charles B. Momsen
Naval Operations
Momsen
The
Naval Order of the United States
Veins Of Fire At Sturgis School Damages Minor
In Sturgis Saskatchewan a boy warned a teacher his shoe lace was on fire. The lace hung from a hot air register and flames reached the basement heating system. The school, 14 miles east, was saved with little damage after a two year old rebuild following a larger fire. Taconite is a rock formation containing iron.
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Sturgis
Andrew Cholod
Australia May Get Very Nice Present
In Sydney a $22,400 government fund remains unclaimed as a dead letter office holds the cash. The sender is missing and the addressee appears nonexistent. Ten claimants have appeared but none persuaded officials.
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Sydney
Australia
Newfoundland to gain top fish status for Canada
Ottawa reports that after Newfoundland joins Canada the dominion will rank among the world’s leading fish producers with an annual output of 150 million dollars. Federal fisheries services will extend to the province soon while Newfoundland’s salted fish exports stay under the Newfoundland Fisheries Board, operating as a federal agency under the Governor General in Council. The Newfoundland Fisheries Department will report to the board’s chairman or a board member named by the Governor General in Council.
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Ottawa
Newfoundland
Canada
Dominion
Fisheries Department
Union
Federal Fisheries Services
Federal Fisheries Department
Newfoundland Fisheries Board
Newfoundland Fisheries Department
Governor-General-in-Council
Inbreeding Fowls Has Possibilities
A study from the Dominion Experimental Station Fredericton N B reports potential inbreeding for poultry. Despite general deterioration with inbreeding, some lines show feasible advancement through selection. Two matings discarded for mortality, others tested for egg production and hatchability as breeding continues.
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Dominion Experimental Station
Fredericton
N.B
Leonard Griesbach
Work for Yourself Not Your Employer Says Steinmetz
A fellow worker tells Charles Steinmetz not to overwork since payroll is immaterial. Steinmetz responds that regardless of whose payroll you are on you are always working for yourself, a truth worth rediscovering.
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Charles Steinmetz
General Electric Company
J.l-R
Andree Balloon Expedition to the North Pole
Salomon August Andrée and two companions launched the Ornen balloon from Spitzbergen on July 11 1897 seeking the pole. Their bodies were recovered on White Island August 6 1931 and interred in Norway.
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Salomon August Andree
North Pole
Ornen
Virgo
Spitzbergen
Andree
White Island
Norway
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J. F. Shaffner
Thomas
Mamie Thomas
Taconite
Trumans
Uzakag
Hartford Courant
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