The Mountain Named for a World War Nurse
The Rivers Gazette describes Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park as a memorial to Nurse Edith Cavell. It notes two adjacent peaks named Sorrow and Throne Mountain, a Glacier of the Angels, and a Lake of Forgiveness reflecting Cavell’s fate and words as she faced execution.
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Athabaska Valley
Jasper National Park
Edith Cavell
Mount Sorrow
Mount Edith Cavell
Forgiveness
Margret Ann Lawson remembered by Minnedosa hospital
A long serving teacher who educated generations died after a brief illness. Her will left the estate to a new community hospital, which used nearly 4000 to equip the operating room. The hospital board also planned a plaque honoring her thirty years of service reading Margaret Anne Lawson.
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Minnedosa Tribune
Margaret Anne Lawson
British Moorlands Given New Forests As Planting Expands
Leeds reports that Yorkshire moors are converted into tree farms with pine spruce and larch rotation. Thinnings supply fencing and pit props while mature trees yield timber or pulp. The forestry commission has 500000 acres planted across the British Isles and aims to expand tenfold in five decades.
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Leeds
England
Yorkshire
Forestry Commission
British Isles
Heavy Catch From Dragger Unveils Horn Mine
A Tem dragger hauled up a horn-type mine, an old device, during a heavy catch near here. Naval authorities were alerted to the mine's location.
Voice of the Geese CBC Sport Segment in Northwest Territories
Four CBC radio men return with recordings of thousands of Canada geese honking from a northland trip for a Montreal A program on sport in the northwest territories, promising authentic background.
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Montreal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Northwest Territories
CBC Radio
Northland
Legend of the Seven Wonders statue by Phidias
A 500 B C Greek sculptor Phidias began a statue of gold silver ivory and precious stones on a 20 by 30 foot platform. The 40 foot statue stood in a vast temple drawing crowds. The wooden frame supported metal coverings finished in eight years before the temple burned and the statue disappeared, later found to have left a buried platform marked by ruins.
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Phidias
Zeus
Jupiter
Farm Pest Control Lab Leads Canada Insect Research
A new Dominion science service facility in Lethbridge opens as Canada’s first livestock insect laboratory. The lab will study warble flies, lice, nose bats and other pests harming cattle, sheep, swine, and horses, aiming to develop practical control methods and educate farmers to cut losses.
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Lethbridge
Dominion
Dominion Science Service Laboratories
Canada
Sunflower Oil Aids Britain Fat Shortage In Monmouthshire
Sunflower oil production plans emerge as a pilot factory opens in Monmouthshire to supply breakfast foods margarine salad oils cooking fats and other fats for Britain. The firm aims to expand into confectionery sunflower kernel almonds substitute and possibly sunflower honey while a separate Sask ranch incident ends with a steer injuring a butcher.
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Great Britain
Britain
Monmouthshire
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McKenzie
Eaton’s
Eaton's
Eaton Cio
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