Life Begins At Forty and the Quest for Longer Life
An editorial note in Toronto Saturday Night cites Dr. Clark Noble on a leap in life expectancy across the 1930s. It discusses medical progress potentially extending lifespan and ponders whether life could be increased year by year, with notable gains in male and female longevity and a trend toward aging populations.
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Toronto
E& Clark Noble
SLA
MLB
MRCP
National Life Insurance Company
Clark Noble
Noble
Priceless Anglo-Saxon King’s Grave Yields Riches Near Ipswich
The Daily Mail reports gold and silver treasures unearthed from an Anglo-Saxon king’s burial near Ipswich Suffolk after a year of digging. Archaeologists preserved the artifacts by hand including a jewelled scabbard a gold bar g ham?er carved bangle a massive gem encrusted helmet a solid silver bowl 80 inches in diameter and several rubies bracelets. The artifacts will be sent to the British Museum for expert examination.
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Daily Mail
Ipswich
Suffolk
British Museum
New Hortite Mineral Found in Wyoming
A new mineral named hortite is officially identified in Wyoming. The discovery highlights mineral diversity in the region and may spur further geological study and exploration opportunities for local labs and mining interests.
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Wyoming
New England Air Base Site Favored in New Hampshire
The U S Army Air Base plan points to a southern New Hampshire location near Portsmouth, with a focus on defending eastern Canada. The site awaits final approval by Secretary Woodring as Congress debates air corps expansion funding. The move would station several thousand personnel and bolster defense with New England bomber and pursuit units.
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General Staff of
United States
Amy
Washington
Army Air Base
New England
Woodring
New Hampshire
Portsmouth
Navy Yard
Canada
Congress
Air Corps
Synthetic Age and Science Ever Lengthening Life Spans
The piece discusses how what appears luxurious or miraculous from chemistry and modern science now seems ordinary. It notes that substitutes and enhanced foods are common, and cites Drs Sherman and Camp of Columbia University drawing on rat experiments to suggest diet can slow aging and extend vitality.
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Ocean
Henry W. Longfellow
Shakespeare
Longfellow
Ottawa Journal
Gremsin
Hoc Sherman
HL Camp
Columbia Universitys Chem
Ics
Pacific Science Congress
Air routes shrink world as Atlantic travel becomes routine
The New York Times notes Pan American Airways rapid cross Atlantic service turning the world smaller. Clippers like Yankee and Dixie carry passengers 4 000 miles in little over a day, linking New York, Florence, Paris, Cannes and Calcutta in record speed. Travelers range from 14 to 90, with many journeys completed in days. The era of near-instant global reach unfolds as business, emergencies, and leisure travel accelerate.
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North Auland
Pan American Airways
Atlantic
Florence
New York
Great Britain
America
Paris
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Europe
Cannes
Cairo
Calcutta
New York Times
Selected Recipes Peerless Angel Food With Icing
A detailed angel food cake and a pineapple icing recipe with egg whites sugar flour and flavorings. Instructions cover beating peaks folding in flour, baking at 325 degrees for an hour and inverting to cool plus transforming crushed pineapple into a light glaze. Includes tips on egg temperature and grating for fine crumb.
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Peerless Angel
Prairie Province Soil Surveys Under Cooperative Program
Soil surveys advance the inventory of soil resources in the Prairie Provinces. The work determines the nature location and extent of soil types. It has progressed for years under a cooperative arrangement between the Dominion Experimental Farms and provincial agricultural colleges.
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Prairie Provinces
Dominion Experimental Farms
Provincial Agricultural Colleges
Novelty Canadian cent draw for Ohio tourist in Hastings
A visitor from Ohio collected a large batch of Canadian cents in Hastings Ontario. The coins attracted attention as a novelty to Ohio children accustomed to the smaller Lincoln cent.
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Ohio
Hastings
Ont
Lincoln
Peterborough Club Seeks Towels for Boys Camp
A service club in Peterborough Ont asked for towels for an underprivileged boys camp and received plentiful supplies. The donations listed come from hotels, railways and steamship lines.
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Peterborough
Ont
Prairie tree plantings and wheat import controls noted
Since 1901 at Indian Head and 1914 at Sutherland, Dominion Forestry Nursery Stations supplied about 160 million trees to 65,000 farmers across the Prairies. Since 1935 the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation program distributed over 6 million trees in drought areas. Brazil authorizes a government board to control wheat and flour imports. A cutworm is the caterpillar stage of a night flying moth.
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Dominion Forestry
Indian Head
Saskatchewan
Sutherland
Prairie Provinces
Prairie Farm
New Zealand Government War Book outlines emergency plan
Prime Minister Savage announced a New Zealand Government War Book after 400 committee meetings with 40 departments. It lists main chapters on emergency legislation mobilization medical examinations guards traffic navigation coast watching aliens trading broadcasting and more with phased actions for threat during precautionary and wartime periods and a 24 department supply framework.
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New Zealand
Savage
Land area and drought impact in prairie provinces
The three prairie provinces cover 452,158,720 acres with 103,300,000 acres under drought, about 22.8 percent. Rural population in the drought area totals 815,166 and 702,696 live on 171,622 farms. Early veneered furniture traces to ancient Egypt for kings.
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Three Prairie Provinces
Refugee Troops May Strengthen Amy Of France
France weighs its potential army from refugees and exiles as thousands of Spaniards, anti fascist veterans, and other Europeans in French camps may join the foreign legion or vow to fight for France. Canada rises in imports to South Africa alongside UK US Germany. Goering’s nine titles are paired with dinner plates and a novel uniform. A rubber firm chemists develop a water oil and acid resistant paper coating.
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Amy
France
Spain
Foreign Legion
Canada
Union of South Africa
Japan
United Kingdom
United States
Germany
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New England States
Charles Dickens
Brazil
Egypt
Wilson
Wilson Fly Pad CO
Hamilton
Herr Goering
Aete
Eer
Ras
Eavy Wave
Papre Para
Appleford Paper Warehous
Winnipeg - Regina - Saskato
Para-Sani
Appleford Paper Products Limited
Iducts Ltd
Calgary
Edmonton
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