New Instrument Aids Flight In Bad Weather
Sperry official Bassett describes a cathode ray tube instrument called Mightray that presents three lines and a circle to show direction level flight and speed. It guides blind landings via a centred tiny aircraft symbol and radio signals, reducing cockpit clutter and mental strain.
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Calteg
Pretton & Bansert
Sperry Gyroreape Co
Brooklyn
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences
Bassett
Cornhill Magazine Suspends Publication Amid War Pressures
The Cornhill Magazine halts issues due to wartime paper costs advertising declines and overseas delivery challenges. Pledges to retain copyright and resume after the conflict, with Thackeray’s era cited for high circulation and later editors noted including Leonard Huxley and Lord Gorell.
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Cornhill Magazine
William Makepeace Thackeray
Water- Joo Place
Qnhl
John Murray Company
Hiller
Cornhill
Thackeray
Smith and Elder
Waterloo Place
the Cornhill
Leonard Huxley
Aldous
Julian
London
Lord Gorell
Huxley
Magistrate Probes Murky Case Of Cruelty To Wife
The defence portrays the husband as maligned while the wife nags him. The magistrate shows sudden interest asking in how many strokes during the incident. The exchange highlights a court scene in a domestic violence case.
Engine trouble unlikely from carburetor in sudden fault
The text notes that sudden engine trouble is unlikely caused by the carburetor since fuel mixture changes occur slowly. It then mentions Buddha statues are crafted to exact proportions, believed by devout Buddhists to be set by divine revelation.
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Buddha
Canadian Army Education Plan Expands With Front Line Courses
Ottawa reports show the Canadian Adhoc Service Force embracing a joint plan by the Canadian Legion and the Canadian Association for Adult Education. Lectures and reading are popular, with 20 percent of some troops signing up for French and German courses. A credit-card system aids study continuity across training sites as universities and YMCAs back a matriculation program.
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Canada
Ottawa
Canadian Adhoc Service Force
Canadian Legion
Canadian Association For Adult Education
Presence Of Mind Story Of A Mother Cat Rescue
True tale from Our Dumb Animals recounts a Fredericton New Brunswick incident where a mother cat shielded a kitten in the street by lying down as an approaching automobile neared. The driver avoided the protective body and saved the kitten from danger.
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Ethel Crossley
Fredericton
New Brunswick
World’s First Typist Lillian Sholes Highlighted
The fragment notes Lillian Sholes, daughter of Christopher Latham Sholes, as the world’s first typist. It mentions her father’s invention of the first successful typewriter and contrasts braille reading speed with sighted typing speeds.
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Lillian Sholes
Chris‘topher Latham Sholes
Reward For Kindness Red Cap Gets Generous Tip
In Grand Central Terminal a small, neat woman was helped by a red cap amid crowds. The porter guided her to a day coach and stored her bags. On returning he received a five dollar bill and two homemade cookies as a unexpected thanks from the grateful traveler.
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Red Cap
Grand Central Terminal
Vanishing Canadian Carriage Industry 1918 to 1928
In 1918 Canada's carriage wagon and sleigh sector employed 4 057 men on wages with product value near 14 000 000 dollars including parts. By 1928 wage workers fell to 218 and product value to 676 576 dollars with only a small sideline output in other industries.
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Canada
Arizona Bill Hatfield Gardner A Legendary Frontiersman
The 98 year old former Army veteran known as Arizona Bill died in a bed he hated to use. His life spanned lives from Comanche captivity to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show he rode with Wells Fargo pony express and served as a scout in the Arizona Indian campaign. He preferred sleeping outdoors and spent his final years in border Army camps. A stray note on traffic safety cites driver error and signals as a major cause of accidents. A bundle of 250 year old unsoiled white gloves found in Deal England is linked to smugglers.
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Arizona Bill
Rio Grande
Rockies
Raymond Hatfield Gardner
Logansport
Ind
Texas
United States Army
Wells Fargo
Pony Express
St. Joseph
Buffalo Bill
Arizona
Bill
Border Army
Deal
England
London School Script Lesson Eases Boy With Ark Question
A London teacher notes a pupil struggling in Scripture. She offers a simpler prompt asking what he knows about the ark. Jimmy responds after moments of thought that it is “what the herald angels sings.”
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London
Jimmy
Erald Angels
Prairie Apples on the Canadian Prairies Growers Aim for Thriving Orchards
Prairie farmers on the Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta plains push toward profitable apple orchards. Since the 1890s Morden’s A P Stevenson sparked national expansion with many farm plantings. Winter drought and heat challenge orchards, but crab stocks and new varieties show promise for hardier trees and larger yields.
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A. P. Stevenson
Merden
Manitoba
Canadian
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Les
Dominion Ex- Perimental
Morden
Man
Ontario
Rocky Mountains
Prairie Home Gardens
Beauly
Osman
Anuros
Olga
Florenzi
Colinton
Haralson
Minnesota
Swan River Vallley
Scrap Week In Acton Boosts War Metal Collection
Britain launched an experimental scrap week near London at Acton to gather old metal for armaments. The Ministry of Supply reported 160,010 firms contributed, equaling loads of 12 ships, with more scrap weeks planned in dense areas and an urgent need for metal.
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London
Britain
Acton
Ministry of Supply
Tailors under wartime rule cut pockets to one
The head of Brentau's local tailors' guild says wartime restrictions require trousers to have a single hip pocket instead of the usual two.
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Tailors’ Guild
Brentau
Germany
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Thackery
Simpends Publication
Selliery
Tex
Army
Y.mc.a
Frontier Colleges
Frontier
Jack Tar
North
Irish
English Channel
Arzona Bill
Sydney
Australia
George Snook
Botany Bay
G. 8. Coleman
Paddy
Snook
Paris
Penny Singleton
Brenda Joyce
Hildeggarde
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