Fire-Resistant Rescue Suit To Enter Human Tests
The US Air Force reveals a multi layer fire resistant suit designed to allow rescuers to enter burning aircraft. With 19 layers and a 25 pound weight, the suit has not yet been tested on humans though volunteers are ready. Trials are planned at Wright Field and may become standard at bases and civilian airports.
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New York. NY
US Air Force
Paul F. Eilis
Aero Medical Association
Aero Medical Laboratory
Wright Field
Ohio
February Safest Month Says February Safest Month
Chicago reports February 1948 as the safest month with 7,500 accidental deaths, 650 below last year’s 1,150 monthly average, citing the 1949 National Safety Council yearbook Accident Facts. The text notes August 1945 had the peak with 9,200 deaths, 1,050 above the average.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Goat Herd Moves to Victoria B C With Family and Herd
Mrs Stansby of Adderbury England travels to Victoria British Columbia with a two unit goat milker and her herd of 30 British White and Nubian goats. She left her 300 year old home after her husband’s 1946 death taking two daughters, a housekeeper, four dogs and furniture. The voyage costs over 6000 dollars, the herd’s valuation, and daughter Anne will accompany the goats, even sleeping with them, on the 6000 mile Atlantic and Prairie trek aboard the ship spent with the herd. Thirty blue trimmed woollen coats are provided to keep the herd warm. The party will have the ship to themselves.
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Stansby
Adderbury
Banbury
England
Victoria
B.C
Canada
Anne
Fire-Proof Suits to Aid Rescues in Plane Crashes
The article notes that rescuers could be hampered by heat and flames in wrecked aircraft, but fire proof suits would enable safe rescues. It recalls 1676 when an epidemical cold led to courts disbanding military forces for recovery.
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New England
Stamps as Educational Aids Expanded in Schools
With school opening, teachers increasingly use stamps to teach history and geography. Stamp clubs form among pupils, trading aids, and weekly lessons explore countries, maps, portraits, and notable figures. New issues include commemoratives from Australia and others marking anniversaries.
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Canada
Netherland
Fezzan
French North Africa
Egypt
Mohammed Aly
the Jordan
Universal Postal Union
Netherlands Antilles
Caracas
Alonso de Oileda
Kitchen redecorating with wallpaper and color hints
Reader asks for a brightening scheme for a large kitchen with northern light. Advice favors wallpaper over paint to break wall space and suggests a yellow wallpaper with pale green pattern, pale green woodwork, and open shelves. Recommends repeated green accents and pale green ceiling paper. Also mentions a queen conch used for camoes.
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Francis James
Miss James
Mrs. O. M
Weath of odd notes and jokes from a bygone issue
A collection of quips and trivia with remarks on a Canadian pitcher injuring his arm during a windup, a bumper turkey cranberry and sweet potato harvest, two Thanksgiving Days or ill health from elderberry wine, Eskimos using fish for money, North Pole counterfeiters, dessert first diets, spinach last, beards returning, sea serpents and Norse legends.
Heartsick refugee fuels 7 inch doll project
Ten year old Juliana from Hungary found comfort with dolls crafted by Corinne Friedman. The milliner has created seventy five dolls in many country costumes after research in the library. The Swedish bride proved the most challenging with its intricate pearl details.
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New York
Juliana
Hungary
Friedman
Soap apology sent to Peterborough matron
A letter accompanies two bars of soap sent to the Peterborough Institution matron. The note admits a past act of taking soap without asking and expresses regret. The report also notes Juneau Alaska averages 105.7 inches of snowfall annually.
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Peterborough
England
Peterborough Institution
Juneau
Alaska
Plans To Double Value Of Canada's Forests
Montreal report outlines a Canadian Forestry Association push to boost timber industry to two billion dollars over five years. A forestry congress is planned for September 1950 in Ottawa to unite political and scientific leaders, while noting alarming rates of depletion, waste, and damage across Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Newfoundland.
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Montreal
Canada
Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
Newfoundland
Canadian Forestry Association
Ottawa
Sub
Arctic
Accion
Prime Minister's Claim Tested by Kingly Bachelor
A king, a bachelor, tests if men heed wives' opinions. Married men are asked to move left if guided by wives and right if not. All but one move left. latecomer stands right, saying his wife warned him to keep out of crowds showing self determination.
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Tommy
Charlie
William Friese-Greene
Hollywood
Friese-Greene
Terry Ramsaye
Lumiere
Edison
Bristol
England
Self defense tips and curiosities from an old column
A column reflects on parenting advice to "hit back" with boxing lessons, notes on boxing pioneer William Friese Greene, compares whippets and greyhounds, and ends with a quirky mosquito behavior observation. The tone blends anecdote, trivia, and light humor.
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Victoria, B.C
James Montagnes
Australia
Pakistan
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Eire
Lord Forrest
Austria
Anton Bruckner
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Dominican Republic
Carreras
Japan
Baden
Germany
Carl Schurz
United States
Greece
Iceland
Central Press
Camoes
North Pole
Junior
Thomas
The
Detroit News
Heartsick Refugee
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