Tasty Goldeye Back On Menu
In 1947 Manitoba catch reached 78 800 pounds while 1936 saw 541 000 pounds. Saskatchewan yields ranged 4 000 to 19 300 pounds between 1938 and 1943 as Lake Claire in Wood Buffalo National Park opens to commercial goldeye fishing under National Parks Board rule with a 250 000 pound June 1 to July 15 quota and potential adjustments after study.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Lake Claire
Wood Buffalo National Park
Alberta
Edmonton
National Parks Board
Reason Women Have Discarded Umbrellas From The Guardian
The Manchester Guardian presents a woman's view on umbrellas as fashion shifts. Hairdos are simpler and hats less ornate, leading women to carry umbrellas less often and even forego hats or scarves in rain.
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Manchester Guardian
Rattus rattus: The Black Rat's Formal Scientific Name
Medical reports refer to the black rat with the Latin binomial Rattus rattus. This official designation distinguishes it from other rodent species.
First white man to find Lake Superior named Brule
A child asks if people turn to dust after death and the mother confirms. A sharp line follows about Etienne Brule being the first European to discover Lake Superior, tying a historical note to a humorous exchange.
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Lake Superior
Etienne Brule
Emma
Emma Eames
Manhattan
Pike
Minnesota
Get Rich Quick Ponzi Now a Charity Patient in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro report profiles Charles Ponzi, the 1920s swindler who looted millions, now a paraplegic patient in a Brazilian hospital. At about 70, he teaches English in a Rio suburb, receives unemployment benefits, and recalls his empire built on promising 50 percent in 45 days. He once lived at 27 School Street Boston next to city hall and operated the Airline Lati before his deportation in 1934.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Charles
Ponzi
Italy
Brazil
Rio
Lati
Linha Aerea Transcontinentale Italiana
United States
al Capone
School Street
Boston
City Hall
Peter
Paul
Plymouth
Atlanta
Belgian Congo stamps highlight native art and safaris in pictorial issues
A review of Belgian Congo philatelic history notes pictorial sets from 1894 to 1942 featuring natives, animals, and landscapes. It lists major issues including explorer Henry Stanley, King Albert memorial stamps, park scenery, and later semi postal sets and airmail issues. It also mentions Axel Heiberg on Norwegian and Canadian stamps and recent U S air mail and local commemoratives.
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Belgian Congo
Equatorial
Leopold III of
Belgium
Henry Stanley
King Albert
Congo
Leopoldville
Charities
Red Cross
Coaro
India
International Air Service
Cuba
Havana
Printing As An Industry In Canada
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada's printing industry valued at 186.95 million dollars with over 2,300 establishments. Ontario leads with 976 plants representing more than half of production and 22,648 employees. Quebec follows with 546 plants and 11,139 workers. payrolls total 39.38 million and 18.88 million respectively.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario
Quebec
Eea
Bureau of Statistics
Ottawa Evening Citizen
Burma to issue set for May Day leaders
A Burma government set will honor political leaders for the May Day parade. Belgium issued a stamp set for socialist Edouard Anseele who died a decade ago. An editor notes readers with old Canadian Newfoundland or British North American stamps to exchange should contact rector Pratt Kuhn in Toronto.
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Burma
Belgium
Edouard Anseele
Newfoundland
Pratt Kuhn
St. W
Toronto
Three Reasons Were Exceptionally Good
A Scottish village exchange after a church service features Mrs. Gilfillan asking Mrs. Macleod about a young man’s sermon. Mrs. Macleod lists three faults: it was read, it was not well read, and it was not worth reading.
Crocodile Leads Reptile Circulatory Development
The crocodile possesses the most highly developed circulatory system among reptiles, featuring advanced heart structure and efficient blood flow that supports its large size and active lifestyle.
GEMS OF THOUGHT on motive and virtue
A collection of quotations on motive and action from Rochefoucauld to Seneca. The excerpts urge that great actions require righteous motive, warn that good deeds without proper motive lose value, and emphasize sincerity, devotion, and inner integrity in moral behavior.
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Rochefou
Odd Bits From A Curious World
A collage of brief quips and trivia from various regions. Notes on weather, animals, humor, and oddities include a tough season for lawns, a female voice and radio contests, a hail storm, a cat raising three mice, a Chicago holdup thwarted by a blowtorch, the hawkbill turtle and its shell, haunted house taxes, and hippos diving and walking underwater.
Business Good But Showed No Profit
A rustic tale shows Sam praising thriving trade though all trades were swaps and no cash profits. He narrates exchanging a mule for ten dollars a bicycle a mangle a bedstead and finally selling the bedstead for ten dollars. The friend questions profits while Sam emphasizes the volume of swaps as business success.
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Lawdy
Sam
Love and Life Notes and Lightweight Q&A
A column mixes reflections on love and marriage with humorous vignettes. It weighs happiness in loving versus being loved, jokes about wives and housework, and social quirks such as bird-loving cats, football manager Jimmy Dykes reducing cigar use, and playful asides on astrology and names. The tone is breezy and opinionated.
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New York
Paris
Axel Heiberg
Norwegian Forestry Society
Heiberg
Far North
Arctic Islands
Otto Sverdrup
Canadian Arctic Islands
Ottawa
O.h.mls
Greater New York
Fort Kearney
Neb
William
Alien White
Foundling
Girl Scouts
King Gustav
Austria
Feaslovakia
William Jay
Kreeshna
William Penn
Mary Baker Eddy
Seneca
Central Press
Kins
Yesteryear
U.S
New Britain
Conn
Memphis
Chicago
la Rochefoucauld
New York City
Ida Bobula
Husbands’ Protective Association
Dr. Caligari
Jimmy Dykes
Jimmy
Nesty
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