Portable X Rays Aid To Soccer Players
A portable X ray outfit, created by Edward Barber, aids Tottenham Hotspur by quickly diagnosing injuries. He attends White Hart Lane with his mobile unit, returning photos within two hours for the club doctor. The time save has reduced player absence and drawn interest from other clubs.
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London
Ottenham Hotspur
Edward Barber
Spurs
White Hart Lane
George Hardy
Barber
New Zealand Names Trade Commissioners in Four Cities
New Zealand appoints trade commissioners in New York Montreal Sydney and Melbourne to focus solely on trade and industrial matters. The senior North American commissioner will be in New York with a Montreal colleague. J A Malcolm, formerly supply liaison officer at Melbourne, takes the Montreal post and is en route.
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Auckland
N.Z
New Zealand
New York
Montreal
Sydney
Melbourne
North America
J. A. Malcolm
Expensive Taste Becomes Odd Cow Case in Kentucky
Beattyville Ky Mrs Mary Dunigan reports her cow milks and spends cash from a tobacco sack claiming the animal chewed $130 from her pocket. She filed an affidavit after presenting a well chewed stack of bills at a Beattyville bank to exchange for usable notes. The cow allegedly grabbed the money bag while she milked it. The item ends with a note that sugar cane is a large grass.
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Beattyville
Mary Dunigan
Dunigan
Usabe
Health League promotes restaurant health education program
The Health League of Canada outlines a plan to educate restaurant staff on work habits and protection for workers and patrons. It details cooperative effort with the health department and restaurant management, enrollment in Health League, posters, films on sanitation and food protection, and advisory committees.
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Health Department
Health League
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H. C. Rhodes
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Community Health Service
Health News
Hopi Weaving Tradition Highlighted in Indian Arts
The Hopi in Arizona are described as the only North American tribe where weaving is a male craft. Noted are cotton garments such as white wedding robes for brides, women's ceremonial robes, and the dancing kilt and sash.
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Arizona
North America
Mince Meat Muffins With Hearty Beans Casserole
A noon meal idea features baked beans with spicy mince meat muffins. The recipe blends bran milk mincemeat sugar and egg then bakes muffins at 400 F for about 25 minutes yielding 12. This compact household menu aims for quick prep after breakfast chores.
Turk Named Bargemaster to King After Wartime Vacancy
BRIEFLY TOLD RH Turk appointed bargemaster to the King replacing a post vacant since 1942. The position costs Britain about £50,000,000 annually. A Winnipeg grain board report says western barley will meet quality standards.
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RH Turk
Britain
Board of Grain Commissioners
Winnipeg
Civilian Medal for Merit Awarded in New York
Sir William Stephen son a Winnipeg native who directed British security coordination in the western hemisphere from 1940 to 1945 received the Medal for Merit the United States highest civilian decoration in New York.
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New York
William Stephenson
Winnipeg
United States
Calorie Defined as Energy Measure for Lifting Weight
A calorie is defined as the energy needed to raise a 300 pound weight by 10 feet. This unit quantifies heat energy and work in mechanical terms.
Sugar Beet Growers Petition Higher Processing Bonus
Manitoba sugar beet growers join Alberta Ontario and Quebec in petitioning Finance Minister Ilsley for a bonus increase on home grown beets. They seek raising the price to beet growers from 11 to 12.50 dollars per ton in 1947 and boosting the bonus from 1.10 dollars to 1.85 dollars per ton delivered at plants.
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Manitoba
Alberta
Ontario
Quebec
Ilsley
Herbert Sulkers
Synthetic violet perfume replaces natural oil
A historic shift from 25 tons of violets per ounce to synthetic production ends reliance on natural aroma. The violet odor is now manufactured chemically, enabling large scale perfumery without harvesting vast flower quantities.
Newfoundland issues beaver hunting licenses after 23 years
The Newfoundland department will issue licenses to about 600 trappers for beaver hunting, allowing ten pelts per trapper. Pelts will be bought at 15 dollars each with a total estimated value around 40 dollars per pelt, and payment to trappers upon delivery of pelts.
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ST. John's
N&d
New washable nylon fibre eyed to resist fungi and moths
Rochelle New Jersey textiled specialist Dr L L Larsen told the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists a washable nylon fibre with resistance to mussing moths fungi mildew and alkali should reach the market next year The fibre is produced experimentally and combines dimensional stability with durability being light and warm The note ends with a remark that the first zoological garden was established in China about 1100 BC.
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Rochelle
N.J
American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
L. L. Larsen
Tremendous Job in China to Return Yellow River to Original Channel
Collier's says China will begin work to revert the Yellow River to its pre diversion course. It caused floods over 500 square miles and halted much of the Japanese army’s advance in 1938. More than 150,000 residents along the river must be moved before work starts.
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China
Yellow River
Collier's
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