Future Housekeeping Advances From New Home Devices
The article envisions a future where homes are equipped with automated dust collection, smart entry cleansers, water and stain resistant furnishings, self cleaning curtains, and electrostatic dust control. Electronic ovens use radio waves for fast cooking, deep freezers preserve food for months, and home entertainment includes big screens and remote monitoring via cameras. Telephones and portable transmitters enable calling from outdoors, while a high frequency device may electrocute entering pests.
Remarkable Elephant Length Versus Historic Facts
Facts span ancient to modern times including an 11 ft 5 1 2 in elephant task, Columbus expedition food costs at six pesetas per man monthly, color impact on school work, polio description in 1784, and a pinhead sized electric motor. Key West flagships Duval Street links Gulf and Atlantic, and the retina’s precise thickness noted along with Peter the Great’s literacy delay.
Forgery Presses Flood Travel Permits in Germany
London News Chronicle reports secret printing presses in Germany producing bogus travel permits and documents. Sold to soldiers seeking illegal leave, displaced persons wishing to move, and civilians posing as Allied nationals.
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Germany
London News Chronicle
Apples For Britain largest postwar British order for Canadian fruit
Canadian apple growers harvest bumper crops with a big British contract. The deal covers over two million boxes of British Columbia apples and 300000 barrels from Nova Scotia plus extra for the latter. the largest order since before the war. Final crop figures pending, described as a considerable percentage of the season's output.
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Britain
Gardiner
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Montreal Star
Eskimos Claim Grievance From White Visitors in Arctic
The RCMP patrol ship St. Roch returns to Vancouver after 18 months in Cambridge Bay. Eskimos reportedly grieved white visitors, and crews note a wave of colds began with civilizing contact during Operation Muskox. Sub Inspector Larsen praises the Arctic's call to return.
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Vancouver
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Roch
Larsen
Cambridge Bay
Arctic Circle
Arctic
St. Roch
A. C. Levens
Alberta
George Peters
Victoria
Royal Geographical Society
Northwest Passage
Man Routed From Butcher Counter In London Style Standoff
In Philadelphia a housewife vaulted over a leg of lamb to seize the only meat on display as a man tried to buy it. A brief struggle ended with the woman gaining exclusive possession and striking the man on the head with the leg. The crowd jeered as the hapless shopper departed empty handed.
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Philadelphia
Jar of White House labeled preserves fetch high bid
At the Woman's City Club harvest festival in Kansas City a jar of damson plum preserves with a White House label attracted a top bid of 2 dollars. The jar was donated by Mrs. Harry S. Truman.
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Kansas City
Woman's City Club
Harry S. Truman
White House
Dustpan care and cleaning tip for easy dust removal
A well waxed dustpan keeps it looking clean and ensures dust and dirt slip off easily. Regular waxing reduces sticking and makes sweeping quicker and neater.
Breeches Bible and King James prayer book to join BC Archives
John L. Ward of Kamloops places with the British Columbia Archives a 1615 Breeches Bible copy and a near contemporaneous King James prayer book for safe keeping. The Breeches Bible is highly valued by collectors for Genesis chapter three’s note on fig leaf coverings and unique usage of the term breeches.
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Holy Writ
Insect Conditions Reported in North West Territories Visit
Division of Entomology officer Alan G. Dustan surveyed Fort Smith Fort Resolution Hay River Yellowknife Port Radium Fort Norman Fort Good Hope Aklavik and Reindeer Settlement on the Mackenzie Delta then Fort Simpson Trout River Fort Providence and other points. He found insects scarce due to a wet season though grasshoppers and red turnip beetle appeared in Fort Simpson gardens.
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North West Territories
Alan G. Dustan
Division of Entomology
Science Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Fort Smith
Fort Resolution
Hay River
Yellowknife
Port Radium
Fort Norman
Fort Good Hope
Aklavik
Mackenzie Delta
Mac
Man Wells
Fort Simpson
Trout River
Fort Providence
R.C.M.P
Dustan
Key To Longevity Dieting May Counter Stress and Ailments
Dr. Hans Selye of Montreal urged dieting to counter modern stress linked ailments arthritis angina and ulcers. Dr. I M Rabinowitch noted organs are designed for longer life but require better nutrition knowledge for 110 to 115 years.
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Hans Selye
Institute of Experimental Medicine
University of Montreal
Council
The
Sugar Research Foundation
Montreal
I. M. Rabinowitch
Montreal General Hospital
Trip for Children to Switzerland From England
Two hundred children from England's industrial midlands left London for three months in Switzerland with Swiss families. Some aim to become expert skiers while a girl joked she would eat enough to be too fat to fit on the train home.
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England
London
Switzerland
Expert Tea Tasters Identify Region of Grown Tea
Tea tasters can distinguish hundreds of tea varieties and determine the growing region in moments. Their refined palate recognizes terroir cues from leaf aroma, flavor notes, and aftertaste, enabling quick geographic classification.
Idea of International Peace Garden Creator Dies at 67
Henry Jackson Moore of Islington Ontario died in Kingston at 67. He developed the International Peace Garden on the Manitoba North Dakota boundary and held honorary membership in the Royal Horticultural Society. Moore came to Canada in 1909 and helped found the garden funded by a 1930 national effort. The project set aside over 3,000 acres from Boissevan Manitoba to Dunseith North Dakota and opened in 1932.
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Henry Jackson Moore
Islington
Ont
Manitoba
North Dakota
Kingston
Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain
Royal Botanical Gardens
Kew
London
Canada
National Association of Gardeners
Moore
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Boissevan
Man
Dunseith
N.D
Peace Garden
Bobby-Sox Doll Pattern for Teen Wardrobe
Pattern 7116 offers a bobby-sox sweater girl doll with outfit transfers and directions. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue East, Winnipeg, Man. Include name address and pattern number clearly.
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Bobby-Sox
Bobby Sox
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Gold stolen by Nazis to be returned by US Britain France
American delegate Russell H. Dorr announced a tripartite commission of the United States Britain and France will return gold looted by the Nazis in allied countries during the war. He estimated the value at over 700 million dollars.
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United States
Britain
France
Russel H. Dorr
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