Fresh California eggs cost a dollar in 1849 gold rush days
A New York historical exhibit contrasts 1849 Ward House hotel prices in San Francisco with earlier Maryland tavern rates and later 19th century menus. It highlights a dollar per egg in 1849, lodging costs, and varied dinner prices, illustrating shifting American eating habits across 150 years.
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America
United Press
New York
San Francisco
Ward House
California
Maryland
New York Historical Society
Arnold Shircliff
Harold Shircliff
Chicago
Bucklin’s
Merchants Hotel
Hennessey
Merit River
IOU
Smashers
Franklin
Veto's
Olympics
Maxwell House
Nashville
Tenn
Cumberland Mountain
Tennessee
Booklet Details Gully Control For Saskatchewan Farms
Regina Saskatchewan department of Agriculture issues an illustrated booklet on preventing and reclaiming gullies from water erosion. Hon L C Nollet announces guidance on keeping trashy surfaces, cross-cultivation, seeding water runways, filling gullies with graders, and grassing to protect soil.
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Regina
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
L C. Nollet
Christmas mail deadlines for Canadian forces overseas
Postal authorities set deadlines for Christmas mail to Canadian Armed Forces overseas. Surface items for Japan and Korea must reach San Francisco by November 15, air mail by December 7. For the UK and continental Europe, surface items must reach Montreal by November 25, air parcel by December 14 and air mail by December 16. Citizens should check local post offices for rules, rates, and customs forms.
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Japan
Korea
San Francisco
Cal
San Francico
United Kingdom
Europe
Montreal
Air Parcel Post
Smile Of The Week Father jokes about rare new fatherhood
The father of five jokes to his boss that becoming a new father happens only once a year, while the boss offers a drink in the private office. The exchange captures lighthearted humor in workplace banter.
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Paul
FAO outlines peacetime atomic energy uses in agriculture
Dr Cardon of FAO says practical atomic energy in farming could arrive sooner than expected, aiding food preservation, plant breeding, and insect control. FAO reports about 250 extension workers trained, new regional centers in Latin America, Near East program in Egypt, and 1000th technical expert joining irrigation work in Iran. A poultry production meeting in Poona is planned with India and Bombay State delegations. An FAO sponsored Chestnut Commission studies disease resistant chestnut varieties and preservation.
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Geneva
World Food and Agriculture Organization
Cardon
FAO
Latin America
Nicaragua
el Salvador
Cyprus
Ecuador
Near East
Egypt
Iran
Poona
India
Bombay State
Navy Arctic Mules: Helicopters Build Beacon Station
Navy helicopters nicknamed Arctic Mules aided the Cape Enanolik EPI beacon project on Baffin Island. Lt. Irvine from HMCS Labrador describes a rapid, ice filled ascent to install gear and establish navigational aids despite eight mile water shoals and heavy ice.
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Navy
T. A. Irvine
Ottawa
Halifax
RCN
Arctic
Hmcs
Labrador
Cape Enanolik
Baffin Island
Cape Fisher
Southampton Island
Recco
Walter Schatzberg
U.S. Naval Electronic Laboratory
San Diego
E.P.I
W. D. Forrester
Geodetic Survey Branch
Department of Mines and Technical Surveys
Piasecki
Pale pink license plates alarm Pasadena driver
A Pasadena woman asked to repaint her license plate numerals to match a pale pink car. Police Sgt. Keith McKay warned that pink numerals violate the law, despite her claim that other colored plates appear on other vehicles.
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Pasadena
Calif
Keith McKay
McKay
Lights Keep Burning for Soldier Missing in Korea
Mrs. Luella Miller keeps a Christmas tree lit at the Decatur Illinois station to honor her son PFC Clifford Sapp who went missing in Korea in 1951. A casket with his remains arrived by train, ending years of waiting and hope.
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Luella Miller
Decatur
Ill
Butterfly tracking reveals long distance flight
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto reported that a butterfly flew at least 560 miles from Meaford Ontario to a zinnia in Crisfield aiding Emma Coulbourne. The distance assumes a straight line, though butterfly paths are usually erratic.
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Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto
Emma Coulbourne
Crisfield
Meaford
Ont
Canadian profits and births rise in 1954 overview
The weekly review reports 1954 profits before income taxes up 22.6 percent year over year with half-year gains of 156 percent, led by mining and oil. August cheques cashed rose 20 percent from last year, eight months up 9 percent. Births reached 435,142, a 44 percent rise, birth rate 28.7 per 1000, deaths fell to 124,520 with low infant and maternal mortality. Prices mostly rose in August across regions. food and shelter led gains.
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Canada
Michigan researchers build cheaper needle rockets for upper air study
University of Michigan engineers unveil eight foot tall, 220 pound rockets designed to reach 120 miles up at one seventh the cost of current surveys. Each rocket carries a bowling-ball sized brain that sends data back as it descends, aiding studies of weather, solar activity and atmospheric density during the 1957 58 International Geophysical Year efforts.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Outer Space
Leslie M. Jones
University of Michigan Engineering Research Institute
Jones
North American
Vari
Ous
Earth
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics’ Proving Ground
Wallop’s Island
Fort Churchill
Man
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