Mayo Doctors Demonstrate Echo Method Against Cancer
Mayo foundation researchers Dr. J. F. Herrick and Dr. E. F. Baides test a German echo technique on highly malignant animal cancers. The method uses a focused sound beam delivered through water or oil between a vibrator and the skin to echo from tissues and supposedly destroy cancer cells. all experiments so far have been on animals.
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Dra. J. F. Herrick
EF. J. Baides
Mayo Foundation Institute For Experimental Medicine
Germany
Mayo Institution
Travellers’ Aid Inquiries At Freight Yard Gate
A traveler asks a railway helper if she represents the Travellers' Aid Society. He then inquires about the location of the freight yards. The exchange shows the Society assisting travelers near transit hubs.
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Travellers’ Aid Society
Irrigation System in India Outsizes Major Nations
India maintains the largest irrigation network, surpassing the combined irrigated areas of the United States Russia Mexico Japan Egypt Italy Spain France Chile and Java, the next nine countries with sizable systems.
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India
United States
Russia
Mexico
Japan
Egypt
Italy
Spain
France
Chile
Java
Tax imposition by Pitt in 1799 sparks parliamentary debate
General income tax was first imposed by William Pitt in 1799. The reform marked a major shift in British fiscal policy and shaped wartime finance and public taxation debates for years.
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William Pitt
Forage Harvesters Expand Grain Harvesting Options
Forage harvesters cut labor by about half versus traditional methods and come in three types for grass silage, chopped hay and grass silage, and chopped hay with corn silage. A full outfit includes harvester, barn blower, wagons, and tractors with power take off.
Austria issues semi postal flower stamp set with charity surtax
Austria unveils a ten stamp semi postal collection showing crocus violet wild rose edelweiss and cyclamen with full color illustrations and artist engraver names. Other nations feature flower themes and charity sets while the US introduces a three cent stamp for the centennial of the First Woman’s Rights Convention.
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Austria
United States
Elizabeth Stanton
Carrie CC
Catt
Lucretia Mott
Churchill’s Wit Shines Amid Shinwell Exchange
The story recalls Winston Churchill meeting Emanuel Shinwell at a public telephone booth incident. Shinwell, famed for a sharp temper, asks for pennies to phone a friend. Churchill, quick with a retort, pulls a sixpence from his pocket and says, Go phone them all.
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Churchill
Emanuel Shinwell
British Labor Party
Shinwell
Zealand to issueHealth stamps with surtax in Oct
The 1948 Health stamps with surtax will go on sale October 1. Tokelau issues this month include 1 2 and pennies with island views. Ed Note old Canadian Newfoundland or British North American stamps mentioned.
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Zealand
Tokelau
Newfoundland
Mennonites Build Home in Paraguayan Wilderness Colony
The U S Mennonite Committee sponsors a new migration to Paraguay as about 4000 believers from Canada Russia Holland and Germany prepare to settle in the Chaco 150 miles east of Asuncion. An advance guard sails from Quebec City to Buenos Aires with arrival expected by September.
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Paraguay
Canada
Chaco
Caagaru Foress
Prairie Provinces
Quebec City
Buenos Aires
Germany
Bolivia
U.S. Mennonite Committee
Akron
Russia
Holland
Quebec
McTavish Refuses Theatre Prices In London Pantomime
Donald McTavish visiting London attended the pantomime Forty Thieves and balked at high prices asking if stalls cost a guinea. He quips that after seeing the box office, he does not want to see the other thirty nine, keeping his seat and the title.
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Donald McTavish
London
McTavish
White-Throat Sings Of Canada
Canadians know the White-Throated Sparrow by its real song not the American Peabody nickname. In June woods readers are urged to hear native sparrows the song sparrow vesper sparrow and other calls while museum visitors note Ontario birds are diverse in plumage and song.
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United States
Sam Peabody
Peabody, Peabody
Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology
Ontario
Beginning Of Wisdom In World Outlook
The article notes a shift in global kindness and wisdom as shown by rising Bible demand in 1947. It cites 4,902,091 German Scriptures since 1941 and 120,015 Japanese Bibles plus over two million Gospel parts shipped after V J Day. For 1948 allocations focus on Germany 1,875,000 Bibles, Japan 1,725,000, and Russia 1,712,000.
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American Bible Society
Germany
Russia
Japan
Wedding gifts and civic wit in a mid century jape
A collage of light satire covers weddings, traffic woes, science jokes, and sports quips. Aunt Agatha’s hand painted atrocity is praised as a shared burden for spouses while Hoyt King muses on doing tomorrow what should have been done yesterday.
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Agatha
Hoyt King
Permanent Mothproofing Promises Woollen Cloth Security
London researchers from the International Wool Secretariat announce a permanent mothproofing method for wool fabrics after years studying moth grub resistance. The new process far surpasses surface chemical treatments that wash away with time.
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London
International Wool Secretariat
Rivers in Persia Shift Courses Amid Fierce Winds
Persia has many sizable rivers that are largely non navigable. Constant shifting sands driven by strong wind storms cause river courses to alter each year.
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Persia
Matrimony Musings and Mild Anecdotes From an Old Column
A dated, fragmentary chatter piece surveys marriage wisdom from Beecher to Juvenal, with hazy notes on authors and a few biographical asides. It drifts through quotes on married life, then shifts to jumbled snippets about performers and a barber tale, ending with a casual boast by a railroad man about a 45 year barbering relationship.
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H. W. Beecher
Pubilius Syrus
Aristotle
Caldefort
R. L. Stevenson
Pee
Chilal
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