British subsidies debate on wheat sugar and diet
Sir Daniel, former chief scientific adviser, urged Britain to favor home food production over imports for wheat and sugar while promoting livestock and vegetables. Sir John Orr warned half the population lacks adequate diet with milk and fresh produce, citing a weekly cost of nine to ten shillings and a need for higher egg and fruit intake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bali
Daniel
Ministry of Agriculture
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Great Britain
John Orr
Britain
International Committee of Physologists
Sir John
Oldest life evidence found in Michigan Menominee range
Geologist Oscar H. Reinholt credits picketeers at Iron Mountain quarry with uncovering life forms 1.5 billion years old. He says the Menominee range discovery places upper Michigan as the oldest region for such fossils, surpassing Saratoga Springs and rivaling dinosaur-era finds in scope.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
Oscar H. Reinholt
Reinholt
Upper Michigan Peninsula
Secion
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Menominee Range
Mongolia
Bavaria
Rancho
Brea
Los Angeles
Wisconsin
Canada
Memorial for Lawrence planned near Dorchester grave
Mrs Lawrence chooses a Portland stone memorial for her son at the Moreton Dorchester area graveyard where Lawrence was killed last year. Eric Kennington designs the piece and Dorchester mason B Grasby cuts it. The note on baseball distance refers to 127 feet 3 inches to second base and a 130-foot throw. Some radio artists are described as well off.
Plants That Taint Milk And Economic Progress Views
The article notes plants in pastures can taint milk with onion, buttercup, horsetail and other species, warning digestion by cows is needed for milk contamination. It also quotes David Sarnoff predicting science progress will unlock untapped resources, expanding industrial civilization and global wealth through aviation, radio, and future technologies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
Modem Mechanix
Mr. Sarnoff
Planes and police mix in odd town chatter
British aircraft maker H B Petter reports Britain ordered more production and a new bombing plane with secret gear. Petter recounts a Nova Scotia stop after England trip as Britain guards against war. A quirky town exchange has a police chief and fire chief meeting amid quirky questions about a milkman song.
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H. B. Petter
Vancouver
Ernocat Willoughby Petter
Nova Scotia
England
The Lesser Evil Coupled Silence as Burglar’s Wife Testifies
In cross examination a burglar’s wife admits knowledge of her husband’s crimes. The witness responds sharply when asked how she married him, saying she chose between a burglar and a lawyer as she grew older.
British post office to signal long distance callers
The British post office is introducing an automatic warning signal for long distance telephone callers as their time nears end. A railway connection is planned between Canton and Swatow in China, linking the two cities about 300 miles apart.
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British Post Office
Canton
Swatow
China
Longfellow Receives Humble Praise At Palace Gate
A workman at the palace gate asked Henry Wadsworth Longfellow if he wrote the Psalm of Life. Upon confirmation the poet extended his hand, saying he valued the gesture highly. The anecdote comes from the Christian Science Monitor.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Queen Victoria
Palace
Mr. Longfellow
Longfellow
Christian Science Monitor
Problem Of Over Production Solved By Social System
Prof J Hendrick president of the agriculture section tells the British Association that the overproduction problem lies in social organization statesmanship and economic system not in farmers. Sable Island off Newfoundland is nicknamed the Isle of Lost Ships and Graveyard of the Atlantic.
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J. Hendrick
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Sable Island
Newfoundland
The
Church Funds in Honest Collection Quip
A humorous exchange between Bradder Jackson and a church partner notes their collections have never paused for emptying the box, reflecting steady offerings and good humor in parish giving.
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Bradder Jackson
Neiber
Columbus would have sailed 5000 miles off course unseen
A historical note claims Columbus would have needed to sail over 5,000 miles off his route to fail discovering the New World, while another fact asserts life expectancy in Great Britain has risen by 17 years since 1876.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Columbus
Great Britain
Coronation Regalia of King Edward at Westminster Abbey
The coronation regalia for King Edward's Westminster Abbey ceremony on May 12, 1037, is priceless in value due to age and historic jewels. Items include the Ampulla, the silver gilt spoon, the orb, the wedding ring, two scepters with and without a dove, the Staff of St Edward, and two crowns St Edward's and the Imperial State Crown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Westminster Abbey
England
Queen Victoria
St. Edward
St. Edward's
Paper Orchestra Featured in Toronto Exhibition
An entire paper figure orchestra, from drummer to maestro, wowed crowds at the Women's building in the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto as part of the Paperwork section. The display showcased over 30 paper players, including a pianist, harpist, and a baton-wielding conductor, drawing many women exhibitors and visitors.
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Toronto
Jace
M. A. Thomas
Oriole Parkway
Toronto Quilting Circle
Engineers and moral obligations in science use
At the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Prof William Cramp argued that science bears no inherent ethics, and engineers are neither better nor worse than others. He noted dual uses of science for utility and destruction, stressing responsibility lies with humans and consumers rather than pure science itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Association For the Advancement of Science
William Cramp
Association
Cramp
York
Reading tastes of Jackson prison inmates revealed by librarian
H A Stillson, librarian at the Southern Michigan prison in Jackson, notes inmates favor biography, history and travel after crime detection fiction. Detectives and westerns top magazines, fiction outnumbers nonfiction two to one. a 16,890 volume business practice set supports a correspondence course. Prison monthly news delivery reaches 25,386 papers. Stillson says reading transforms inmates into better educated men while preserving reading privileges.
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Southern Michigan
Jackson
H. A. Stillson
Lbrary
Stillson
Detroit
Stinlson
Canada praised as cleanest place by English traveler
Mrs. Robert Bazley of London wife of a noted traveller and big game hunter sails for England with husband and two children after a Gatineau River fishing trip. She declares Canada ranks tops and calls its streets shops and railway stations the cleanest in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Bazley
London
Eng
Canada
Troopers quarrel over space in chow line
Two colored troopers lined up outside the mess hall argue over seating space. One warns the other to move or be knocked out of his house. The other retorts he has no home to lose. The piece then shifts to a geography interlude noting the Nile at about four thousand three hundred miles, the Niger two thousand five hundred, and the Zambezi one thousand six hundred miles.
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Nile
Niger
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