Nerve specialists urge funding for brain research in London
National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System at Queen’s Square appeals for £180,000 to fund a rebuilding scheme. The film The Missing Record will show modern life stress and a brain operation to raise funds. Rockefeller Foundation has pledged £60,000 plus £60,000 endowment, if the remainder is raised.
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News of the World
Rockefeller Foundation
Blicking Hall How the Norfolk Jacobean mansion endures costs and lore
Blicking Hall in Norfolk, lent to Mr. Baldwin by Lord Lothian, remains a famed Jacobean mansion whose upkeep is costly and often empty. Its galleries hold works by renowned English artists. treasures once in its 127 foot library were sold in America for over £100,000. The estate features a Peter the Great gift tapestry, a blood stained attic tale, and a drunken brawl wounded ancestor portrait, with Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn linked to the site’s earlier history.
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Blicking Hall
Norfolk
Lord Lothian
Baldwin
England
America
Peter the Great
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
Harolds
Name This Child Alfred Pugh of Pershore
A brief anecdote from Pershore Abbey records the christening of Alfred Sir Pugh the elder 86 years ago. Clergy asked for the name and Mrs. Pugh confirmed Alfred, which was entered in the parish register.
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Alfred Sir
Alfred Sir Pugh
Headstreet
Pershore
Worcs
Pershore Abbey
Alfred
Mrs. Pugh
Register
London Sunday Pictorial
Why anglers wait hours for a bite and haste for dinner
A reader asks why an angler endures long waits at the water side for a bite while a dinner wait provokes impatience. The question ponders patience, appetite, and differing expectations in leisure time.
Invasion of Squirrels Sparks Town Advice and Tales
An American town receives advice from Mrs. B Roberts of Buffalo urging humane control of a squirrel problem. The piece traces diving for coins in Honolulu Bay, a revived interest in resurrection era lore, and the annual tomb inspection tied to St. Nicholas churchyard in Sutton England.
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B. Roberts
Buffalo
N.Y
Belleville
N.J
Honolulu Bay
Burke and Hare
St. Nicholas
Sutton
England
James Gibson
London
Elizabeth Gibson
Elusive Burglar Flannel Foot Returns To Town
London police chase a long-acting suburban burglar nicknamed Flannel Foot. The elusive thief leaves flannel strips at each scene and has operated for about 25 years with occasional vacations. During World War I he was reported to be somewhere in France aiding Britain.
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London
Ingland
Foot
France
Great Britain
Folly Of Cutting In Airplanes On Sound Track
Government statistics show that more accidents result from cutting in than from any other cause. Drivers take chances to gain a minute sidestepping slower vehicles and often crash. British studios tried to quiet aircraft noise on talkies with signs and flags but pilots misunderstood and investigated. Italy returned 400 guns captured in World War I from Austria.
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Owen Sound Sun-Times
Italy
Austria
Baluchitherium Restoration Nears Completion at Museum
The life size Baluchitherium, the largest land mammal ever known, is nearly finished for display at the American Museum. Curators Dr. Walter Granger and Dr. William Gregory spent years sorting about 200 bones to reconstruct the hornless Asian giant, taller than a giraffe and weighing around two elephants, with two large incisors and no tusks or horns. Fossils were first found in Baluchistan, hence the name Baluchitherium.
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Asia
American Museum of Natural History
Walter Granger
William K. Gregory
Gobi Desert
Baluchitherium
Baluchistan
Mirror-Boy in West Virginia Writes Backward
An eleven year old West Virginia boy, Har old Elliott, writes with reversed letters and figures due to a mind condition. Teacher Miss Eleanor Mengert observed the reversal when copying words from a mirror, while Dr. D. L. Gallagher suggested faulty eye brain coordination as the cause.
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West Virginia
Harold Elliott
Eleanor Mengert
Cattle Shipments Rise to Britain and United States
Cattle shipments to Great Britain and the United States for the year to date totaled 229,479 head, up from 109,769 in the same period of 1935. Britain received 31,417 head vs 5,213 last year, while 195,062 were sent to the United States, up from 104,556. In the recent week 3,512 head were shipped to the United States, including 1,917 beef cattle, 315 dairy cattle, and 1,280 calves, with 1,229 hogs exported across the line.
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Great Britain
United States
Department of Agriculture
Earth Poles Not Directly Opposite Each Other
A line from one magnetic pole to the other would pass about 750 miles from the Earth's center, indicating the poles are not exactly opposite. The note highlights how true geophysical alignment differs from a straight through-center connection.
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Earth
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Faces Extinction Threat
The ivory-billed woodpecker is rapidly approaching extinction in the United States, while the pileated woodpecker is close behind in population decline.
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United States
In wooded land rainfall rises above open space levels
The text notes that rainfall in wooded land is typically 25 percent greater than in open spaces, illustrating how tree cover affects precipitation patterns.
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