Gadgets and the gadget club captivate Los Angeles readers
Don L. Devis chairs a Hollywood gadget club that screens inventions from across the world. The Consumers' Testing league vets the ideas. successful items go to mass production and retail. Notable members include Red Skelton and Joan Crawford. about 90 percent of members are women.
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Cross Stitch Pattern 7127 For Linen Decor
Twelve motifs for cloths towels napkins and scarfs suit beginners add color to linen. Pattern 7127 transfers 12 motifs on 144 to 344 inch canvases with easy visual charts photos and complete directions. Send twenty five cents to Household Arts Depart Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number.
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Smile of the Week prompts pointed joke on upbringing
An interviewer asks where the subject learned his fine principles. The reply jokes that wisdom came not from his mother but from his father. The exchange frames a light quip on parental influence and personal ethics.
Woman Scientist Rebuilds Bodies of B C Fossils
Vancouver report describes Mrs. E C von Engel Baiersdorf a Hungary born anthropologist sculptor reconstructing ancient Fraser Midden specimens. She Clothing bones to recreate skulls birds and humans including Salish and Kwakiutl figures and fossils like homo Neanderthal and homo Rhodesian held in European museums.
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Practical Household Hints From An Antiquated Page
The guide suggests storing bread crumbs in a glass jar with a cotton cover and warns air tight containers may cause mustiness. It also advises fashion tips for the short neck and lists methods to remove hardened paint stains using oil or turpentine and ammonia solutions.
Gems of Thought and Faith Reflections on Cheerfulness
A brief collection of quotations on cheerfulness and faith from Addison Horace Watson Campbell and Eddy. The sayings praise smiles as minor yet powerful boosts to humanity and spiritual life, urging hope and trust in God.
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Thomas Watson
Garden Notes 3: Canada Friendly Garden Advice
Save money by choosing flowers shrubs and vegetables tested and recommended for Canadian conditions. Favor informal curved beds with clumps of plants and varied heights. Improve heavy soils with drainage organic matter and compost to add humus and moisture retention.
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Europe
Canada
Surgery gives woman new life in 16 month operation
In Erie Pennsylvania Mrs Jennie Reiger age 50 underwent a rare skull scalp removal followed by intricate skin grafts to remove a disfiguring head condition. Dr Benjamin Goldman led the procedures including eyebrow replacement and neck hair grafts. A final toupee completed her rehabilitation and she now leaves hospital with improved appearance.
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Jennie Reiger
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Benjamin Goldman
Canada urged to open seeing-eye dog school
Mrs Lorna Barclay former home teacher of the Canadian Institute for the Blind urged in Vancouver a Canadian seeing-eye dog school. She noted Canadians pay 550 for an American trained dog while Americans pay 150 and 50 for replacements. Training costs in Morristown N J and German Shepherds nine weeks. She cited independence granted by such dogs and urged action.
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Lorna Barclay
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Worst Winter to Cost British Columbia
New Westminster officials estimate costs exceed one million dollars for repairs to lower mainland roads caused by the season’s severe weather. Inadequate drainage and freezing water reportedly opened large gaps in the road surface across the region.
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Druggest Ern est Evans Wins Divorce In Cardiff
In Cardiff Wales Druggest Ern est Evans won a divorce after testifying that his wife weighed 224 pounds and sat on him amid cruelty charges.
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Cardiff
Wales
Ernest Evans
Could You Become an Alcoholic Health Warning
Dr. R. G. Bell of Toronto argues in Health that about 5 percent of Canada’s adult population who drink develop alcoholism. He contrasts tuberculosis with alcoholism, noting alcoholism harms physical, mental, and social health and that total abstinence is the only medical solution. The piece asks could you become an alcoholic.
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Stony Indians to settle near High River
About 150 Stony Indians will settle on a rehabilitation project west of High River Alberta. The Alberta government sold 2000 acres to the Dominion government for the program. Last year the federal government bought the 3000 acre Eden ranch to provide a sub reserve for the Indians.
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Alberta superintendents protest tracing absent children
About 50 Alberta school superintendents told the provincial government they spend excessive time tracing absent pupils. Families whose children miss 85 percent of classes risk removal from family allowance lists.
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