Century of Progress Car Crash Near Murphy Farm
Old Man Murphy buys a new car for seven hundred dollars as farmers chase the century of progress. He tests it with a wild ride through fields, crashes the rail fence, and leaves Maggie Murphy briefly unconscious before she recovers with a jab at a cousin.
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Murphy
George Murphy
Dad
Rick
George
Murphy Place
Maggie Murphy
Tom
Old George
Gabriel
Maggie
Saved by Dogs From Bear Attack Near Calais
Joe Joice of Calais Alta escaped a mauling by a wounded bear after his two dogs leaped in to defend him. The hunter tripped in snowshoes, allowing the bear to bite his right leg and left thigh before the dogs chased the bear away and Joice staggered a mile to a friend's camp for help.
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Calais
Alta
Joie
Bis
Jose
Jowe
Joice
Jaice
Turning the Corner on Progress a Car Bought
The narrator and family persuade Old George to buy a car despite fear and warnings. After a tense scene with heart trouble and doubt, the purchase goes through for three hundred dollars less than a rival paid. Dad relishes the sly outcome as they return to the turnip patch.
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George
Maggie
Tom
Old George
Murphy
Father
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Pattern 4650 Bow Tie Dress Pattern Ad
Summer fashion pattern 4650 features a bow tie dress with easy ironing and dressing. Sizes 14 through 42 offered. size 16 requires 2 1/4 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man for orders.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Cocoa Syrup and Chocolate Frosting Recipe Notes
A compact set of kitchen instructions for cocoa syrup and chocolate frosting. Includes ingredients and steps for making syrup, coffee flavored drinks, frosting for layered cakes, and variations such as substituting milk for coffee and scaling sugar.
Tulips Come to Europe via Turkey in 16th Century Boom
The tulip was first introduced into Europe from Turkey in the sixteenth century. After 1634 an outburst of tulip growing in Holland, known as tulipomania, made Dutch exporters famous. Some bulbs sold for as much as $5,000. Now better blooms can be grown with little effort and cost.
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Turkey
Holland
China Size and Extent Measured Across Regions
The country spans about 1,860 miles north to south and more than 2,000 miles east to west, indicating a substantial geographic footprint. The nation is described as roughly a third larger than continental United States in this context.
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China
Continental
United States
Prospects Of New War Is Remote
Ottawa reports a defence analyst estimates the odds against a devastating air assault on North America within ten years at 100 to 1. Col. W. W. Goforth, retiring deputy director of defence research, cites a timeline from 1847 to 1962 with tensions easing after 1962 as he returns to private life in Toronto.
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Canada
W. W. Goforth
Defence Research
Col
Goforth
Toronto
M. Solandt
Invasion Wire to Canada Surmounts Obstacles
56000 tons of rusting barbed wire once prepared for the invasion of Europe are shipped to Canada from Taplow. Victor Hardwood bought the wire from the British Government and faced conversion and transport hurdles, including demands for extra handling payments, before overcoming the problems.
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England
Europe
Canada
Victor Hardwood
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