Tribute to a friend John Campbell Kirkwood noted leader in ad world
A tribute in Toronto honors John Campbell Kirkwood J C K famed Canadian advertising writer and editor of Marketing He is praised for kindness fairness and mentorship to young ad professionals The piece recalls his career from Brampton to the Daily Mail and back to Canada with enduring goodwill across the industry.
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John Campbell Kirkwood
Toronto
Canada
J.C.K
National Club
John Kirkwood
Brampton
Ont
U.S.A
England
Daily Mail
Dominion
Soft Tailored Dress Pattern 4134 by Anne Adams
New look features softly tailored line with front skirt panels sweeping into the bodice. Pattern 4134 offered in misses and women sizes 16 through 42 with a shapely collar and waist buttoning. Send 20 cents in coins for this Anne Adams pattern with name address and size to the listed order address.
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Anne Adams
What Is Life To You Poem Reflects Varied Views
Anonymous poem compares life as a sermon joke money rest trial song patient battle school trade artist fraud burden lover play and work to different roles. Included line suggests a broader note that life is what we make it. The text ends with a tag about Canada having forty railway companies.
Commercial Travellers To Spike Idle Rumors Campaign
About 40 000 commercial travellers across six Canadian associations will be enlisted to curb loose talk and silence rumor-mongers. Ottawa approved the plan which urges travelers to refrain from relaying rumors and to set an example by not spreading them. The campaign theme states You're never sorry for what you don't say.
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Canada
Ottawa
Oscar Wilde and Whistler wedding telegram joke
Wilde planned his wedding and invited Whistler to attend. At the ceremony the artist sent a telegram reading I am detained Dont wait signed Whistler causing the groom to pause. The note ends with a definition that Gethsemane means wine press.
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Oscar Wilde
James McNeil Whistler
Wilde
Whistler
Marriage as God’s perfect plan in Genesis
The lesson discusses Genesis 2 4 24 showing God’s creation of woman as a counterpart to man and the ideal of monogamy from the beginning. It notes equality, companionship, and the later accommodations of polygamy and divorce as human hardening.
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Eden
Matthew Henry
British pilot rescues German in Malta raid
A RAF pilot in a Malta raid over the island saved a German fighter crewman who bailout into the sea after his aircraft was shot down. The British flyer cast his rubber dinghy to the German, knowing it would likely cost him his own chance of survival if shot down.
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Malta
Cat survives crate flight amid sea spray and grease
An airplane crateed cat traveled from Britain to Australia as deck cargo. Two months after arrival, the cat remained alive but terrorized by light, grease covered, and too weak to stand. Rainwater soaked the fuselage through interstices, providing drink and leading to corrosion of exposed duralumin parts.
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Australia
Privileges Conscripted Reflections on Faith and War Tax
A British clergyman laments modern excesses as fuel oil shortages and higher prices strain church life. He says society preferred travel to worship, ignored bell tones, and now taxes fund war efforts while the nation’s service to God seems conscripted for the country.
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Britain
Carrot Derivative Claimed To Beat Common Colds
After seven years of study researchers report carotene a creamy white derivative of the carrot rubbed into the skin may overcome colds. The material developed by the Llewellyn Biological Institute in West Los Angeles.
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Llewellyn Biological Institute
West
Los Angeles
Greenland sparsity and Costa Rica sport noted
A terse fact snippet claims Greenland is the world's sparsest area with .04 persons per square mile and asserts soccer as the national sport of Costa Rica. The line ends with a numeric fragment 2487.
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Greenland
Costa Rica
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