Ingenious Refugee Money Smuggling Across Europe
A long, documented account describes refugees and smugglers devising methods to move money and jewels from Nazi countries into safer hands. Techniques include carrots with hollowed centers, snowball drops across borders, hidden compartments in bread and bottles, and a Milan banker evading racial laws by disguising his fortune as Swiss deposits.
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Europe
Rumania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Slovakia
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Alsace
France
Desmore
Vienna
Munich
Paris
Berlin
Frankfort
M. Giordani Giordano
Milan
Lugano
Switzerland
Clovelly Town A Cliffside Street With No Wheeled Traffic
A Los Angeles Times correspondent describes Clovelly in North Devonshire as a single street town perched on a 400 foot cliff. Vehicles never arrive here as the slope is too steep provisions are hauled on sledges and donkeys bear loads. Each stone house is unique built from beach stone brought by ancestors centuries ago.
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Clovelly
North
Devonshire
Los Angeles Times
Vegetarian Car Claims From Japanese Inventor Matsumoto
Japanese inventor Amishige Matsumoto announces a vegetarian automobile that runs on botanic fuel. He says the car grazes on fruits and vegetables and digests wood chips, claiming it could cross open country faster than a donkey after ten years of invention with no major successes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amishige Matsumoto
Matsumoto
Copper map of Canada dominates New York pavilion wall
A burnished copper map of the Dominion of Canada spans the full rear wall of the Canadian pavilion in New York, extending across the entire display.
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Dominion of Canada
New York
Fluffy minded youths described as too amused
A writer labels young people who overindulge in amusements as Fluffy minded saying the term is not wholly pejorative. This comment frames a critique of excessive leisure among youth.
Moon Blamed For Poor Trout Catches In August
A Cornell entomology study of 27 000 rainbow trout from 1932 to 1936 finds fewer fish caught after full moons. The August full moon shows the sharpest drop, with average August daily catch about six fish for two fishermen, falling to four during the full moon period on Canadian lakes.
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C. M. Mottley
Cornell University Department of Entomology
Young British conscripts to join anti aircraft service
Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha told the House of Commons that new conscripts will be called up in batches of 22 000 and attached to the anti air craft defence services. For the first three months they will be stationed permanently along the anti aircraft defences. A Chicago inventor introduced a large fish lure designed to attract big fish by depicting a larger fish swallowing a smaller one.
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Leslie Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Chicago
Fisheries of the bleak north attract colonization efforts
The Atlantic coast fisheries drew attention as a key lure in early North American colonization, shaping settlement patterns and economic goals for explorers and nations.
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North Atlantic
North America
Mice Age Rapidly Study Reveals Rapid Lifespan Growth
Research shows mice age quickly with a two year old mouse resembling a 70 year old human in aging progress. The findings contrast typical mammal aging and could inform aging science and medicine.
Prestige Of Speed Drives British Air Progress Across Europe
The London Times notes faster aircraft cut Paris by five minutes, Berlin and Frankfurt by fifteen, and Budapest by 55. Government inquiry backed speed, subsidies rose, and Britain now claims three blue riband routes, restoring prestige as passengers gain minutes.
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London Times
Paris
Berlin
Frankfurt
Budapest
Times
Great Britain
Britain
the Times
Europe
Ottawa Journal
Moon Mountains Appear Loftier Than Earth Peaks
An article notes lunar mountains rise up to 19 000 feet above surrounding plains, giving an impression of greater height than Earth peaks, which stand in regions already well above sea level.
Smallpox Cure Report Highlights Sulfanilamide Success
Walter O. McCammon of Springfield Kentucky reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that four patients treated with sulfanilamide showed rapid fever subsidence and minimal skin effects. Three had only transient eruptions and the fourth three pock marks, while three treated traditionally developed full eruptions and longer recovery. The drug derives from a dye with prior infection-disease value.
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Walter O. McCammon
Springfield
Real Optimist Foresees Postwar Prosperity for Industry
William Will former director of Allied Newspapers argues long term optimism for industry and business, predicting rapid advancement and a unique period of prosperity once Europe settles with current bombs and bombast within measurable distance of achievement.
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William Will
Allied Newspapers
Europe
England's Forestry Commission Largest Landowner in Britain
The Forestry Commission holds 516 390 acres of land planted with trees, making it the nation’s biggest landowner.
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England
Forestry Commission
Accident insurance pitched as traveller protection in new slot
A novel coin in a slot machine promotes accident travel insurance for travelers. The device markets coverage for unexpected injuries during trips, aiming to reach a broad audience of adventurous customers.
Pattern 6346 Embroidered Kittens Panel Instructions
Pattern 6346 includes a transfer panel 15 by 20 inches a color chart and stitch key with illustrations of stitches. To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in coin stamps to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Houehold Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Special Practice Needed to Land on Aircraft Carrier Deck
A London copy recounts pilot training on HMS Courageous in the Firth of Forth. Freshly training teams completed eight consecutive Swordfish landings per session. The process uses arrester wires, signals, and a deck crew to secure the aircraft after each approach.
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H.M
Firth of Forth
T.S.R
Manchester Guardian
End of Blaschka Glass Flower Making at Harvard Museum
Rudolph Blaschka aged 82 died at his home in Hosterwitz Germany ending the two man family firm that produced the precise glass flowers for Harvard University. Since 1887 the brothers created 840 species and over 3500 detailed parts viewed by about 250000 visitors annually.
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Harvard University
Rudolph Blaschka
Hosterwitz
Germany
Harvard
One Name For All An Defining Police Dog Breed Confusion
Our Dumb Animals argues any dog trained for police work becomes a police dog. It notes the German shepherd is the typical police dog, despite Labrador retrievers testing as superior for police work. The piece discusses mislabeling black German shepherds as Belgian shepherds and clarifies the Belgian sheep dog is rare in the United States and can be black or other colors.
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London
Zola
Delft
Alexander Pope
Gladstone
Leeds
Dr. Lu
Great Britain
Macao
South China
Sung
Christie's
Staffordshire
Bow
Chelsea
Derby
Royal Worcester
Coalport
Spode
Dresden
M. Ellen Douglass
Seaman Fined For Attempting To Bring Hemp To Scotland
Hans Laumann, a seaman, was fined 20 dollars in Dundee after pleading ignorance about the one ounce of Indian hemp he tried to carry into Scotland. He claimed he did not know what the hemp really was. Testimony noted that a minute quantity in a cigarette could render a man unfit for days.
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Scotland
Hans Laumann
Dundee
Laumann
Veteran postwoman Tramps Nine Miles Daily for Mail
Miss Fanny King of Edge Gloucestershire at 65 is one of the few remaining post women in England. She tramps nine miles every morning delivering mail to isolated farmsteads and has done this task for 20 years.
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England
Fanny King
Edge
Gloucestershire
Endangered Wood Buffle Buffaloes in Canadian Park
The Wood Buffalo Park hosts about 1,500 of the endangered wood buffaloes, believed to be the last of their race. Meanwhile in Japan, the silkworm supports the livelihoods of about 18 million people, highlighting unique economic dependence on silkworm farming.
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Canadas Wood
Japan
Spontaneous bursts of song praised for home harmony
Dr Miles Creasskell of Columbia University urges spontaneous singing at home as a source of emotional outlet and family kindness. He warns against forced singing, saying it loses charm even if voices are not strong.
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Miles Creasskell
Music Department
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Florida Juice Bar Bets Big Orange Output
Advertising copy describes a Florida juice bar projecting 387000 oranges daily and 63660000 before a major fair ends. Fifteen talking birds including macaws cockatoos and parrots will perch on the patio to greet visitors with Come to Florida.
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Florida
New York Fair
Clever Crow Jacky Demonstrates Tricks in Burridge England
Mrs. C. H. Bulbeck of Burridge England trains a talking crow named Jacky to perform tasks. The bird shakes hands retrieves paper balls opens crackers and extracts one for visitors and removes clothespins from the line on wash days.
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Jacky
C. H. Bulbeck
Burridge
England
Presbyterian Faithful Meet at Fenwick Church
A congregation of 15 families with an average age of 65 attends the Presbyterian church at Fenwick Ontario.
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Presbyterian Church
Fenwick, Ont
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M. Giordano
English
Adolf
Adolf Hitler
Journal of the American Medical Associat
China
Artists
Glass
Postie
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