British Museum opens new archive for old newspapers
The British Museum creates a Colindale branch housing every paper since 1800 with 275000 bound volumes weighing 20000 tons and 14 miles of shelves. Public access requires an admission ticket and forms. The collection preserves current thought and historic events from Trafalgar to Napoleon’s era and beyond.
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British Museum
Ethel M. Dell
Elinor Glyn
Colindale
Hendon
Trafalgar
Napoleon
Elba
Waterloo
George the Fourth
William
Victoria the Good
Edward VII
Atlantic
Franklin
Arctic
France
Cleopatra
Egypt
Anthony
Gladstone
French Collectors Offer Million for First Air Mail Envelope
A French stamp collector group offers one million francs for the first envelope ever carried by air mail if its authenticity can be proven. The 1793 flight by Jean-Pierre Blanchard carried a Washington signed letter from a Philadelphia prison yard to Woodbury New Jersey after 45 minutes.
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Philadelphia
Washington
Woodbury
N.J
Washington Air-Mail
Air Mat
Prairie Wheat Harvest Reaches Record Volume in Season
Prairie wheat yields dominate with an estimated 415 million bushels to 446 million per Dominion Bureau projections, marking the largest crop since 1928. Oat and barley crops rise to 274 million and 70 million bushels, respectively, with high protein content anticipated. despite regional weather setbacks, overall quality remains high.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prairie Provinces
The Canning Season Appeal From Dominion Fruit Branch
The Dominion Fruit Branch at Ottawa urges Canadian housewives to can more fruits and vegetables while prices are low and supplies ample. It stresses a ready response to the appeal and asks Canadians to help when they can by preserving surplus produce and using available sugar and containers.
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Dominion Fruit Branch
Ottawa
Canada
Six Internal Parasites Named by Ontario Official
Provincial Zoologist Dr Lionel Stevenson lists the principal internal parasites affecting livestock in Ontario. He identifies six in sheep two in swine two in cattle three in horses two in poultry and five in fur bearing animals. Simple control measures can curb most of these parasite ravages.
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Lionel Stevenson
Ontario
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Eight Points Every Driver Must Observe to Cut Accidents
Massachusetts motor vehicle officials identify eight key driving factors behind safe operation. They urge drivers to learn and adhere to these to reduce crashes, stressing speed control as the primary element and highlighting careful behavior at intersections, pedestrians, and signals.
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Massachsetts
Massachusetts
Lost Driver Seeks Imagined Parking Spot
A drunken man stumbles into a street encounter with a policeman claiming he has a car and is searching for the rightful parking place. The officer notes the man has no vehicle and questions his assertion.
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Offisher
Record sugar beet crop in Alberta province
The province of Alberta in Canada reports the sugar beet crop this year as the largest on record with an estimated yield of nearly 130000 tons generating about 36000000 pounds of sugar and several hundred tons of molasses. Mountain goats are noted as the rarest and wildest Rocky Mountain game.
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Alberta
Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
New York
Helen Williams
Bank of Montreal
Fur Auction
Winnipeg
Dominion Fur Auction Company
Mackenzie River
Chesterfield Inlet
Marten
Manitoba Free Press
McDermot Ave
Canadian
Northland
Leipzig
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!