Canada Introduces George VI Coin Series Across Nation
Canada unveils a new coinage program with George VI portraits on all obverses and updated reverses showing national symbols. The silver dollar retains canoe and voyageur imagery, while the 50 cent, 25 cent, 10 cent, nickel and copper cent feature revised designs and edge detailing. Specimen sets may be offered through the Bank of Canada after full circulation begins.
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Ireland Turns Potatoes To Alcohol In Distilleries
Industrial alcohol factories convert surplus potatoes and beets into alcohol for heating lighting and scientific uses. Potatoes are washed crushed and steamed then mashed with minimal malt. Wort is fermented with yeast to wash, yielding 26 gallons of alcohol per ton of potatoes and 72 gallons per ton of barley.
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Barilty
Shortage of saplings hits western Ontario plantings
Demand for saplings is so high in western Ontario that the supply is nearly exhausted. In Middlesex County thousands of young trees have been planted in recent weeks, with many trees placed through private coronation projects.
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Ontario
Middlesex County
Department of Agriculture
Bull charges car in West of England market town incident
A bull in a market town charged a car driven by an auctioneer after the animal had been knocked down by the same auctioneer earlier in the day. No injuries are reported and the incident underscores tensions at the market.
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West of England
Jujutsu Training for German Postal Workers and Queen Mary Sister Ship Weight Reductions
German postal authorities plan compulsory jujutsu training for railway postmen with money handling duties. Six trainers in Cologne will run a nine week course of 30 one hour lessons, with certificates for proficiency. Separately, the Queen Mary sister ship will gain speed by cutting stokeholds and fuel bunkers, using one generating station, four boilers, and electric welding, plus freshwater ballast to stabilize the liner.
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Cologne
Clydebank
Largest world music festival features 150 grand pianos in Indianapolis
About 1,500 pianists from 40 Indiana communities joined 275 musicians in a two performance festival at Butler University Fieldhouse drawing 28,000 attendees. Conducted by Frank Wilking, the event included a massive organ and culminated in sections where 125 pianos hosted 250 players.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Butler University
Frank Wilking
Box Car Studio of George C Thompson in Port Arthur
Artist George C Thompson who had praise at the Coronation exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum London operates a studio in Canada that is a box-car on a siding in the Port Arthur railway yards and also serves as his home.
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George C. Thompson
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
Canada
Port Arthur
Gift for King George delights Alert Bay totems
Indians of the Alert Bay colony on Vancouver Island demonstrate loyalty to King George VI by sending a fine Pacific coast totem pole to Ottawa aboard the Canadian Pacific's Dominion. Indian Agent M. H. Tood calls it the finest totem he has seen with barbaric hues and particularly fine carving.
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Alert Bay
Vancouver Island
George VI
Pacific
Ottawa
Dominion
M. H. Tood
Alaska
Mother crafts witty note to excuse snowbound son
A Washington mother wrote a playful written excuse to a teacher after a snowstorm kept her son absent. She claimed Eddie's legs measured 14 inches, and the snow was 18 inches deep, signing the note Very truly yours Mrs Johnson.
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Washington
Kitty
Eddie
Mrs. Johnson
Transient 17 Year Old Seeks Steady Work Across Canada
A Cape Breton youth narrates his two year trek from home seeking work. He has done farm and factory labor in various regions, refusing charity and hoping to find a niche despite tough odds. The writer notes thousands face similar hardship as a great problem.
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Cape Breton
Calgary
Cochrane
Boen
Nova
Prediction of a New Bearded Age by Prof Nystrom
Columbia University professor Paul Nystrom predicts a full return of beards among American men within twenty years. He argues beards cycle with history and will become as common as beavers in the House of David, describing a practical streamlined look that is cleaner and more stylish than past styles.
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Paul Nystrom
Columbia University
Nystrom
House of David
Fortune Magaz Ne
Schools Fail Pupils On Current Events Test
Editor Harrison M Sayre reports test results from over 300000 pupils in 303 cities show many students lack knowledge of current events and good citizenship. Students misidentify figures such as Charles Hughes J Edgar Hoover and Stalin while naming Einstein Goering Baldwin and Borah. Alfred Landon is noted for a presidential medal and Rome NY appears in a stray line.
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Harrison M. Sayre
Current Events
Charles Evans Hughes
Einstein
Herman Goering
Stanley Baldwin
William Lemke
J. Edgar Hoover
William E. Borah
United States
Eugene O'Neil
Joseph Stalin
American Federation of Labor
Alfred Landen
Roooseveltt
Romeo N.Y . Sentinel
Explorer Sir Aurel Stein suffers fall in slippery hotel
The News of the World recalls Sir Aurel Stein injuring himself after a lifetime of exploration. A Moor notes a similar accident befalling Edward Whymper, famed mountaineer, who while giving a lantern lecture slipped from a platform and broke his leg during the description of his exploits.
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Aurel Stein
Edward Whymper
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