Manitoba report urges wider high school to university articulation
A Manitoba Educational Association committee calls for broader high school curricula and more liberal university entrance standards to align schooling with modern economic and cultural needs. The 16 month study argues high schools should extend to prepare students for business life and lifelong study, with universities widening access to avoid declines in enrollment.
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Western
Canada
Manitoba Educational Association
Manitoba
Dominion
British Board of Education
Spens
Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute
Shed Skin Reveals Slipping Reptile Condition
The text describes how snakes shed their thin skin regularly when healthy. The eye, along with the rest, stretches a full length of skin that turns inside out as the snake emerges.
Beaverbrook reveals Gleaner funds funded top bomber
Lord Beaverbrook, British aircraft production minister, stated that £20,000 sent by The Gleaner of Kingston Jamaica had been used to buy the largest and finest bomber yet built.
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Lord Beaverbrook
Gleaner
Kingston
Jamaica
Record Rainfall in Assam Reaches Sixty-Seven Inches
A historical note records 67 inches of rainfall in Assam, India, during a single year highlighting extraordinary monsoon levels and regional climate variation.
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Assam
India
Australia Hosts Over 100 Million Sheep
Australia reports a sheep population surpassing 100 million head in recent estimates. Farmers, producers, and regional sheep industries note record flock growth across states, reflecting robust wool and meat markets.
Lord's Prayer Presented In Mystery Drama In New York
For the first time since the fifteenth century the Lord s Prayer was dramatized on stage at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in New York City. The Religious Drama Council of the Greater New York Federation of Churches sponsored the production with each petition staged in scenes from the Old and New Testaments.
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Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation
New York City
Religious Drama Council
Greater New York
Oxygen tents aid pneumonia patients by boosting oxygen intake
Oxygen tents help pneumonia patients by delivering air richer in oxygen. This reduces the effort needed to obtain adequate oxygen, alleviating fatigue as a major enemy to recovery.
Londoners Seek Correct Time By Toll Free Call
The text notes that over 200,000 London subscribers call weekly to hear the correct time. It also states that Little Port Walter in Alaska recorded 255.23 inches of rainfall in 1939.
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London
Alaska
Little Port Walter
Troubles Mount In Germany Shortages Hit War Effort
An editorial in the St Thomas Times Journal outlines shortages harming Germany’s war economy. Leather, fats, lubricants, and inventory strain the railway and industry as millions are conscripted, with even wooden shoes replacing footwear and farm labor expanding slowly.
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St. Thomas
Czecho-Slovakia
Berlin
Poland
Germany
Army huts of precast concrete and sawdust save timber
The new army hut uses precast concrete and treated sawdust to cut timber needs in half and reduce steel usage. It can be assembled in hours, is fireproof, and all materials are home produced. The inventor says 10,000 huts can be manufactured yearly, dramatically saving wood and timber.
Selected Recipes for Bee Hive Corn Syrup Bread
Lift flour blends with soda baking powder and salt. Stir in whole wheat flour brown sugar walnuts and dates. Add Bee Hive Golden Corn Syrup milk water egg and St Lawrence Maize Oil. Let stand 20 minutes in oiled leaf pan. Bake slowly one to one and a half hours.
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St. Lawrence
Celery and Carrot Salad in Jell O Molds
A vintage salad recipe uses orange Jell O dissolved in hot water with vinegar and salt. Fold some Jell O into mayonnaise then mix in celery and carrots, chill in molds, layer with remaining Jell O, and unmold onto lettuce with mayonnaise garnish. Serves six.
Fifth Column Warned Over German Radio Gossip
The office of the director of public information warned Canadians against repeating gossip from German broadcasts. It said repeating rumors worsens Goebbels' propaganda aims and risks labeling the sharer a fifth columnist.
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Hitler
Director of Public Information
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Goebbels
Atlantic
Canada
Canadian Active Service Force
Silver to become base for international currency says Pittman
Senator Key Pittman Nevada tells reporters that silver could become the base or a substantial part of a postwar international currency. He argues there is not enough gold worldwide to back the leading commercial nations.
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Key Pittman
Nevada
Negro musician completes oratorio in Butte post office lobby
Joseph Lee Turner a 35 year old Negro musician works at a public desk in the Butte Montana postoffice lobby finishing an oratorio centered on The Lord's Prayer. He has completed the piano score and is setting down notes with a rusty pen.
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Butte, Mont
Joseph Lee Turner
Turner
Atomic gun perfected at Carnnel University
A new atomic gun at Carnnel University Ithaca NY fires electrons as bullets that return if they miss and continue until they hit gas atoms turning them into positively charged ions. The device uses electric and magnetic fields to direct billions of bullets per second and claims applications in nuclear disintegration and isotope separation. The gun is compact with a barrel under an inch long.
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Carnnell University
Ithaca
Cornell
War loan oversubscribed in Australia lists closed early
The British Broadcasting Corporation reports a £20,000,000 war loan in Australia was over-subscribed and the lists closed a full week earlier than planned, signaling strong financial support for the war effort.
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Australia
British Broadcasting Corporation
First plant patented under plant patent act found among Van Fleet roses
The New Dawn rose, described as a freak of nature, was identified as the first plant patented under the plant patent act. It was discovered growing among a cluster of Van Fleet roses.
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van Fleet
Oil Reserve Estimates Grow by Thousands of Billions
Geologists and engineers over the past five years have found and developed more than 12 trillion barrels of new oil reserves, signaling a major expansion in global energy resources.
Battle echoes shape Regina Leader founder story
A WWI era account notes Montmedy fighting between French and German troops near the Franco Prussian war site. It recalls Nicholas Flood Davin, Irish journalist and founder of the Regina Leader, who later shaped Regina and Saskatchewan journalism after a fall in battle progress. The piece closes with a fact about Mercury’s 88 day orbit.
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Montmedy
Regina
London
Nicholas Flood Davin
Canada
Toronto
Saskatchewan
Leader
Regina Leader-Post
Old Chester Law Requires Hat Rise at Funerals
In Chester England an historic rule mandates men to raise their hats as a funeral procession passes. The custom reflects a bygone era of funeral etiquette and local law.
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Chester
England
Origin of Earth’s Size Through Nebulous Accretion
The earth formed when a smaller primordial globe drew in wandering nebulous matter, growing as the universe expanded. As cooling progressed, shrinkage occurred, shaping the planet to its present size.
Honshin Island Ranks Eighth Largest Worldwide
The Japanese group notes Honshin as the world’s eighth largest island covering about 87,500 square miles.
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Honshin
Island
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