Ingenious Refugee Money Tricks Across Borders
The article details refugee ingenuity in moving money and valuables from Nazi-occupied countries. It describes methods using carrots with hollowed cores, snowball transfers, bread and beer bottling, bicycle inner tubes, and fake valuables to evade frontier guards. It highlights an Italian banker who secretly ferried 10 million lire to Lugano and then tricked police by requesting to open a Swiss bank account, exposing borders, guards, and clever ruses.
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Europe
Kumana
Bulgar
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Slovakia
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Alsace
Moses
France
Berlin
Frankfort
Munich
Vienna
M. Giordani Giordano
Milan
Lugano
Switzerland
Hallan
M. Giordano
An Interesting Town Clovelly on the English Coast
A Los Angeles Times correspondent visits Clovelly in North Devonshire describing a steep, quaint street town with no wheeled vehicles. Provisions are carried on sledges and donkeys are used for transport. Stone houses stand varied along a multigenerational cliffside lane.
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Clovelly
North
Devonshire
Los Angeles Times
Cloverly
Inventor Matsumoto Claims Vegetarian Autoobile Breakthrough
Japanese inventor Ahsaipe Afatsumoto asserts a new Vegetarian automobile powered by botanic fuel. He says his vehicle grazes on fruits and vegetables and digests wool chips, claiming it could travel across open country faster than a donkey.
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Ahsaipe Afatsumoto
Matsumoto
Gsay
Copper map of Canada dominates New York pavilion rear wall
A burnished copper map of the Dominion of Canada fills the rear wall of the Canadian pavilion in New York, extending its full width. A game writer quips that youths overly absorbed in amusements are “Fluffy minded,” a light characterization of the era’s youth.
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Dominion of Canada
New York
Moon Blamed For Poor Trout Catches In August
A Cornell entomology survey of 27 000 rainbow trout from 1932 to 1936 shows fewer fish caught after full moons. The largest drop occurred during August full moon periods at the 1.6 acre Canadian Lake, where August daily boat catches fell from six to four fish per boat per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Profco Bf Mottley
Cornell University Department of Entomology
British Air Speed Boosts on European Routes
The Times notes new aircraft cut Paris time by five minutes, Berlin and Frankfurt by 15, Budapest by 55, framing air speed as national prestige. Britain shifts policy to favor speed over pay load, boosting passenger appeal and restoring prestige.
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London Times
Paris
Berlin
Frankfurt
Budapest
Times
Great Britain
Britain
the Times
Europe
Paria
Ottawa Journal
Mountains On The Moon Rise Higher Than Earth
The article notes lunar mountains reach up to 19 000 feet above lunar plains, appearing loftier than Earth peaks since Earth ranges lie in regions already over 1 000 feet above sea level.
Smallpox Treatment Shows Sulfanilamide Success
Dr. Walter McCammon of Springfield Kentucky reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that four smallpox patients received sulfanilamide with rapid fever subsidence. Three had minor skin eruptions that faded quickly. one left three pock marks. Two other patients treated with ortho-tolootoxin alongside showed the typical eruption and longer work absence.
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Journal of the
American Medical Association
Walter ©. McCammon
SpringHeld
A Real Optimist Foresees Long Term Industry Prosperity
William Wl former Allied M News papers director envisions a period of unprecedented global prosperity after Europe settles from current bombardment. He predicts rapid industry growth as a major shift in the world economy unfolds. England's Forestry Commission stands as the largest landowner with over 516 thousand acres of tree planted land. A new coin in a slot machine sells travel accident insurance policies to travelers.
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William Wl
Allied M Newspapers
Europe
England
Forestry Commission
Pattern 6346 Embroidered Kittens for a Gay Panel
Pattern 6346 offers a transfer of a panel 15 by 20 inches with a color chart key and stitch illustrations. Readers can obtain the pattern by sending 20 cents to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermott Ave. E. Winnipeg.
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Houehold Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott
Young British conscripts attached to anti aircraft service
Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha told Commons conscripts will be attached to anti air defence in batches of 22 000. In their first three months they will be stationed permanently at posts along defences. A Chicago man invented a lure drawing large crowds to fish swallowing a smaller one. Fisheries of the bleak north Atlantic coast noted as a key factor in early North American colonization.
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Leslie Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Chicago
Mice Age Accelerates Rapidly Across Time
A fragment notes that a two year old mouse ages quickly, drawing a comparison to nine men of TO 2308. The source text is unclear and difficult to parse but suggests accelerated aging in a rodent.
Special Practice for Aviators to Land on Carrier Decks
A British carrier training detail uses the Fairey Swordfish TS R to teach pilots eight consecutive landings. The Courageous carrier in the Firth of Forth supports the exercise with arrester wires, deck signals, and a rescue destroyer nearby.
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Hom
Firth of Forth
T.S.R
Manchester Guardian
Death ends secret of Harvard glass flowers
Rudolph Blaschka aged 82 died at his Hosterwitz home ending the exclusive knowledge of making the glass flowers used by Harvard. He and his father produced the precise botanical replicas for half a century, with 840 species and 8 500 magnified sections in the Museum collection. They sent the first shipment in 1887 and the display attracts about 250 000 visitors yearly.
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Harvard University
Rudolph Blaschka
Hosterwitz
Germany
Harvard
One Name For All Police Dogs
An Our Dumb Annals note states any dog trained for police work becomes a police dog regardless of breed. It says the German shepherd is the common police dog, though labs prove superior in tests. It mentions black German shepherds misnamed as Belgian shepherds, while the Belgian sheep dog is rare in the U S and varies in coat color.
Seaman Fined for Carrying Indian Hemp into Scotland
Hans Litpmann, a seaman, pleaded guilty to attempting to import one ounce of Indian hemp into Scotland and was fined $20 in Dundee. Laureann claimed ignorance of the hemp. A witness said a minute quantity in a cigarette could render a man unfit for days.
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Scotland
Hans Litpmann
Seaman
Dundee
Laureann
Veteran Postwoman Tramps Nine Miles Each Morning
Ming Fancy King of Edge Gloucestershire a 65 year old veteran postwoman remains among the few female carriers. For twenty years she has delivered mail to isolated farmsteads on a daily nine mile route.
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England
Ming Fancy King of
Wood Buffalo Park Hosts Last of Its Race Population
In Canada's Wood Buffalo Park about 1,500 wood buffalo remain, the last of their race, while in Japan the silkworm sustains the livelihoods of 18 million people, underscoring fragile natural and agricultural lineages worldwide.
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Canada
Wood Buffalo Park
Japan
Spontaneous Song Uplifts Family Life Says Dr Miles Dresskell
Dr Miles Dresskell of Teachers College Columbia University says bursts of song at home are beneficial even for those with weak voices. He notes singing provides emotional outlet and can increase kindness among spouses and family, but it must be spontaneous and not forced.
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Miles Dresskell
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Dr. Dresskell
Florida frit juice bar aims for orange output at fair
Advertising copy claims the State of Florids's frit juice bar will process 287000 oranges daily, totaling 64660000 before the New York Fair ends. Fifteen talking birds including macaws cockatoos and parrots will perch on the patio to chant Come to Florida, trained for a year with southern accents.
Clever Crow Jacky Taught Tricks by English Owner
A talking crow named Jacky owned by Mrs. C. H. Bulbeck of Burridge England performs tricks such as shaking hands retrieving a paper ball opening a cracker gag and pulling clothespins from the wash line on days when wash is out.
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Jacky
C. H. Bulbeck
Burridge
England
Congregation of M1 Families Attends Fenwick Church
A congregation of M1 families with an average age of 65 attends the Presbyterian church at Fenwick Ontario, reflecting a steady local worship pattern and community ties.
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Presbyterian Church
Fenwick, Ont
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