Government aids airports as Trans Canada airway expands
Hon. C. D. Howe announces an order enabling financial help to municipalities for upgrading airports on the Trans Canada airway, to meet faster planes. Officials say speeds of 300 mph are needed. five years ago the average was 100 mph, now around 180 mph or more. The program covers more than one third of prior airport improvements, with hangars and buildings excluded.
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trans-Canada Airways
C. D. Howe
trans-Canada Airway
Simner
Dominion
United States
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Washington
More Game Birds Foundation
Ducks Unlimited
Alberts
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
King George Sets 11 Week Coronation Program in Britain
Britain to mark King George VI coronation with an 11 week sequence of dinners, levees, balls, and reviews. May 5 reception to July 22 garden party schedule approved. includes a May 12 empire broadcast, May 20 fleet review, and July visits to Scotland and Wales. June 9 trooping colors ceremony.
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Britain
Edward VII
Buckingham Palace
Duke of Norfolk
George
Empire
Scotland
Wales
Westminster Abbey
Duke of Gloucester
Prince of Wales
George VI
China
Inland of St Michael and Ponta Delgada Harbor Note
The Inland of St Michael called Lake of Seven Cities spans 237 square miles and lies 830 miles west of Portugal. Ponta Delgada, a harbor city near 250000 residents, blends Phoenician Carthaginian descendants with Portuguese navigators aristocracy. Belgian linen factories run to supply tents and uniforms for European armies. She: Why do you always eat with your knife He: Because my fork leaks.
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St. Michael
Lake of Seven Cities
Portugal
Ponta Delgada
Has Its Drawbacks Women Should Avoid Regional Cooking
A British Medical Journal note argues regional cooking eases the burden on working-class housewives but warns against a Soviet Russia style shift to kitchen factories. The piece contrasts ready prepared dishes with traditional home cooking and laments loss of personal contribution to meals.
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Soviet
Russia
London Sunday Pictorial
Tubtable stove invention aims to save homes with no tubs
Alfred Castanien, 82, in Columbus proposes a tubtable stove that folds into a tub. He claims 6 to 15 million homes lack regular tubs and says eight years of work produced a flexible unit. The device includes a stove at one end for heating water and rises from the floor to ease cleaning.
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Alfred Castanien
Columbus
Castanien
Patient Sailor Seaside Visit Ends With Lighthouse Joke
An elderly woman visiting her daughter by the sea watches the lighthouse at dusk and praises sailors patient work. She notes the wind has blown the light out 33 times since she began watching, and each time it’s relit.
Woman Finds 283 Needles in Old Cushion at Dundalk Station
A Dundalk Ontario woman at the Proton station opened an old pim cushions to check its contents. She discovered 283 needles inside the cushion and now has a lifetime supply.
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Proton Station
Dundalk
Ontario
Vitamin sources and lifestyle for health
A brief note highlights sunshine, fresh food, and clean air as the best vitamins for most people. It emphasizes natural living as a key to well being and mentions 2187 as a stray detail.
Take Care of the Pennies and the Dollars Follow
Detroit News praises a Cleveland merchant who kept paying his mortgage during hard times. He saved small payments others ignored and decisively settled his debt, proving the proverb in practice. The tale emphasizes honesty, self-respect, and financial discipline as valuable outcomes.
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Cleveland
Detroit
News
Geed Packers Hendrik Willem van Loon proposal debated
The Toronto Star questions van Loon's claim that the world population could fit into a half mile box. It suggests if such an experiment is possible a street rail way manager could conduct it, implying the box size could be greatly reduced.
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
The
Toronto Star
Has Balanced Budget by West Vancouver Leader
West Vancouver reports a balanced budget with a cash surplus and provincial government credits totaling 6,280 dollars. Reeve J B Leyland addressed residents of the Burrard Inlet district, noting the achievement at a stewardship meeting on the north shore.
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West Vancouver
British Columbia
J. B. Leyland
Burrard Inlet
Employers urged to hire men over forty for experience
President Roosevelt urges industry to employ men over 40, arguing their experience and family responsibilities merit equal opportunity. The piece notes bias in ads toward younger workers and cites Henry Ford's plant in Ypsilanti selecting workers aged 40 to 70. It emphasizes practical know how over mere youth.
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Roosevelt
Big City
Henry Ford
Ypsilant
Michigan
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Thrifty Aberdonian on Movie Refund Philosophy
A frugal Aberdonian tells Mrs Gordon he has never been to the pictures. He explains his rule that he would not get a refund if he disliked a film and would want to see it again if he liked it.
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Thrifty Aberdonian
Even A Beginner Can Knit This Pattern 5557
Simple square instructions for beginners with a plan to make bedspread, scarf, or pillow. Describes light durable squares from string, outlines stitches and materials, and instructs sending 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 5557.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot
Winnipeg
Midnight the Bucking Bronco Honored on Colorado Grave
A cowboy tribute marks Midnight, the black bucking horse, buried on McCarthy and Elliott’s ranch in Colorado after three years retirement. Cowhands recall his fearless, untamable ride and help inscribe a rhymed epitaph praising the horse who never trampled a rider.
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Colorado
Plains
Midnight
Fife
Coast
McCarthy
Elliott
Cow Sense Shown By Trials At Cornell University
Miss Gardner of Cornell Agricultural School reports five years of tests with 72 horses 49 cows and 11 sheep proving cows are smarter than horses and sheep. Cows catch on quicker remember better and can be taught tricks like horses. The horse gains trust in man while cows show sharper problem solving according to the Detroit Saturday Night summary.
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Peart Gardner
Cornell University
Agricultural School
Miss Gardner
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Five Narcotics Peddlers Executed in Peiping Crusade
About 50 000 onlookers witnessed the second anti narcotics execution on the steps of the Temple of Heaven in Peiping China. A bonfire of 10 000 ounces of narcotics was burned before the prisoners were brought out to pose for photographs for the authorities.
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Temple of Heaven
Peiping
China
No Number Thirteen In Train Sleepers
Conversationists discuss superstition about the number 13 and berth labeling in railway sleepers. The Prandon Sun notes rooms are limited to 12 compartments with upper and lower berths, not fourteen or fifteen, explaining why a No 13 berth is not used.
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Prandon Sun
Correct glasses misused after exam can harm eyes
An editorial note claims proper glasses do not weaken vision but warn against wearing them when not needed after examination. It also states a solar year lasts 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 468 seconds.
Of Interest To Canadians The 1937 Almanac
The 1937 Canadian Almanacs issue expands to 680 pages of government data education church and other organizations plus legal commercial financial and astronomical facts. Now in its nineteenth year the volume is praised as the best yet with up to date Royal Family coverage following Edward VIII's abdication.
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Canada
Edward
Reading joke about phrenologist visit and witty husband
A husband narrates a visit to a phrenologist to his wife. He jokes that the examiner praised his head’s sharp wit and clean-cut reasoning while the wife quips that, if he knew him, the head would be seen as hollow ground.
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Bottle
Best Of Argument From Mrs Hanley on Seeming Rights
Mrs Barbara Hanley Canada’s only woman mayor at Webwood says bachelors lack qualification to judge women’s public value. Stratford Beacon Herald notes the mayoress cannot stop bachelors from voicing views on women’s private lives by staying single.
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Barbara Hanley
Canada
Webwood
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Soy bean varieties surge from eight to over sixty
In the United States, 30 years ago there were eight varieties of soy beans grown. Now seed catalogues list more than sixty varieties, reflecting a dramatic diversification of crops and seed offerings.
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United States
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