World Circling in 30 Days Aims to See Much Doable Pace
A travel bureau expert outlines a mythical 30 day circumnavigation starting from Midway, with 19 airports in 15 countries and long stops in Hawaii Tokyo Hong Kong Bangkok Calcutta New Delhi Beirut Cairo Rome Paris London New York. The piece notes current records and the impracticality of breaking Pam Martin's 98 hour 59 minute mark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Sembower
CPC
Ed Hennessey
Cartan Travel Bureau
Chicago
Hennessey
Bureau
Pam Martin
Horace Boren
Dallas
Pam
Atlantic
London
Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg
Verne
Midway Airport
San Francisco
Honolulu
Hawaii
Hotel Royal Hawaiian
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Bangkok
Calcutta
New Delhi
Agra
Taj Mahal
Beirut
Cairo
Pyramids
Sphinx
Rome
Paris
New York City
New York
Halifax
Montreal
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Practical Household Hints From a Past Page
A collection of simple home tips covers growing pineapple greens in water until rooted, peppermint to ease corn pain, netting furnace registers to stop small items from rolling, castor oil to waterproof shoes, and using a copper tinsel cloth to rub thin potato skins and carrot skins while keeping cloth wet.
Answers to Quick Quiz 5 Fact Sheet
The three prairie provinces have 19 170 miles of railway track. 3 100 000 women and children 68 000 adult males. Two and one half hours. Taxes to all governments will take about one dollar in three. The average of excise and sales taxes paid at the factory to the federal government was 424 on every new car bought in 1953.
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Prairie Provinces
Quick Canadian Facts
Pocket Annual
Facts About
Canada
It's a Hard Life Like the Gilcrafter Excerpt
A compact reflective piece surveys the paradoxes of a man's life. It contrasts public virtue and private vice across wealth faith politics and affection, noting the double binds that shape judgment and fate from youth to old age.
Americans urged to curb litter on roads and beaches
June Reader's Digest notes that despite hygiene efforts, Americans litter highways, parks and lakesides with 35 billion one use containers in 1953. Keep America Beautiful Inc plans industry wide cleanup, anti litter reminders on containers and a proposed litterbag in cars to curb the problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest
Keep America Beautifu], Inc
Hypertension Often Mild and Not Always Critical
Dr Walter C. Alvarez of Mayo Foundation argues most hypertension cases are mild. An article in Family Doctor states high blood pressure does not usually have a local cause and treatment of minor local disease may not lower blood pressure. Many patients live for 25 to 30 more fruitful years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter C. Alvarez
Mayo Foundation
Alvarez
British Medical Association
First white Alberta baby recalled from Fort Macleod
Mrs. A. E. Cross, born Helen MacLeod, recounts life as the first white child born at Fort MacLeod, detailing pioneer days, her family ties to Col. J. P. MacLeod, and early Calgary life. She recalls wedding customs, her Grey gown misgivings, and a 1,000,000 profit note from a Hudson’s Bay Co. cashier stint before marriage.
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Calgary
A. E. Cross
Helen Macleod
Fort Macleod
Alberta
Pioneer West
Cross
J. P. MacLeod
North West Mounted Police
Toronto
Mrs. Cross
Quick Canadia Quiz Quick Canadia Quiz
A quiz column asks: what is the difference in standard time between St Johns Newfoundland and Winnipeg Manitoba How much average federal excise and sales taxes did the new car buyer pay last year In immigration grants were there more adult males or more women and children Net national income will be about 18 billion and how much of that will be paid in taxes Of Canada's 42956 miles of railway track how many miles are in the prairie provinces Answers in Another Column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
Prairie Provinces
First Gasoline Tax Pioneered by Alberta in 1922
Alberta became the first province to impose a gasoline tax of two cents per gallon in 1922. Since then all provinces have adopted fuel levies ranging from nine to fifteen cents per gallon. The note recalls how ancient tithes and taxes were commonly paid in wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Rock Picker Wally May Builds Crowned Stone Trade
Wallace May of Elkwater Lake Alberta hauls and hand-sorts rounded quartzite rocks for smelting industry. He employs four men plus two summer workers, pays ten dollars a day, and ships 800 to 900 tons in good years. Rock season runs May to October weather permitting.
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Walley May
Elkwater Lake
Cypress Hills
Alberta
Belgium
France
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Trail
B.C
Wallace May
Elkwater
Wally May
CPR
Irvine
Wally
Iran
Flin Flon
Buckingham
P.Q
Boy returns advanced calculus book with cheeky reply
A young reader brings back a worn edition of Advanced Calculus to the library. The librarian, noting the title, jokes about its complexity. The boy retorts that it was like that when he borrowed it. Europe supports more people per square mile than any other continent. Europe excepting Soviet Russia has an average 207 per acre.
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Europe
Soviet
Russia
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ICE
Smokey
By Len Kleis
Virgil
Tad
Irene Gilbert
Dublin
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