Nature’s stubborn streak in extinct sabre toothed cats
The Smithsonian reports nature often fails in grand schemes like giving Earth a sabre tooth cat. The first species ma chaeroides eathen vanished about 5 million years after its 40 million year start. A larger sabre tooth tiger followed in the Ice Age but also went extinct with unclear reasons.
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Earth
Smithsonian Institution
Machaeroides Eothen
Smithsonian
C. Lewis Gazin
Gazin
Doctor Admits Taking Life Of Incurables
London physician Dr E A Barton publicly confessed at a Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society event that he had ended the life of an incurably suffering patient. He urged shared responsibility among doctors and supported a Right-to-Die Bill to ease pain for those with terminal illness. Barton cited painful cases from his forty years practice and noted many educated patients begged him to end their misery.
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London
E. A. Barton
Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society
A. Percy Groves
Barton
Royal Academy
Handball Seen As Ancient Tailtin Irish Game
Handball, a Celtic sport, is suspected to be among the old Tailtin games played in Ireland. The article notes its claimed origins and cultural ties to early Irish sports.
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Ireland
Girl Born Blind Receives Corneal Transplant in Georgetown
Mary Mayers, 14, blind since birth, at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary underwent a corneal transplant to her left eye. The operation on March 30 left her dazzled by light, and her hometown Georgetown district renamed its auditorium in her honor to The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Auditorium.
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New York
Georgetown
British Guiana
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Mary Mayers
Mary
Harry Mayers
New York Eye and
Downing Street Named for American Diplomat George Downing
A street in London honors George Downing born in Salem Massachusetts who graduated from Harvard in 1642. He served as Ambassador to the Netherlands for Charles I Cromwell and Charles II. The king rewarded him with land in Westminster where Downing Street now stands.
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Downing Street
London
George Downing
Salem
Massachusetts
Harvard
England
Netherlands
Charles I
Cromwell
Charles II
Westminster
Pessimism Over Peace Settlement
Ottawa Journal quotes Field Marshal Montgomery noting excessive pessimism about a peace settlement. He argues patience for a lasting peace over a quick but flawed one and cautions that postwar expectations were unrealistic given the war's devastation.
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Montgomery
Monty
Resurrection claimed by Gallipoli veteran at Quinns Post
Former Australian lieutenant Leo Casey, thought dead after 51 wounds at Quinns Post in 1916, was later moved from a grave when padres saw movement. A doctor then treated him and after 108 major operations and 78 anesthetics he recovered fully in England.
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Leo Casey
Quinn
Gallipoli
Casey
England
Detroit dogs barred from biting mailmen under federal rule
Postmaster Roscoe B. Huston says dogs in Detroit may not bite mail carriers more than once. Homes with dogs that bite again will face suspension of mail delivery service according to a new federal edict.
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Detroit
Roscoe B. Huston
New Digest of Inventions Receives Global Entries
Alfred Babcock of the National Foundation for Science and Industry reports broad submissions from all states Canada the Panama Canal Zone and Guam for the Digest of New Inventions. Ida Price of Arkansas proposes an ashtray cuspidor combo for homes while F W Torrance of Hamilton Canada showcases a grain stocker for binders. Babcock notes most ideas are viable with a small share dismissed as impractical.
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National Foundation For Science and Industry
Alfred Babcock
Foundation
Canada
Panama Canal Zone
Guam
Pacific
Ida Price
Tree
Ark
F. W. Torrance
Hamilton
Babcock
Many Taboos at Ascot Race Meet
The article notes strict social taboos at Ascot England including no acknowledgment when royals leave the box and prohibitions on ostentatious jewellery and cameras. It highlights divorcees barred from the Royal Enclosure as a dated custom, with Duke of Norfolk seen as arbiter of admission rules.
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England
The
London Star
Royal Enclosure
Duke of Norfolk
Food Outlook Shows Hard Times Looming After War
The Ottawa Citizen notes that displaced persons have fallen from 12 million to 3 million since the war but 834,000 still need relief. Germans publicly protest Allied food policy, blaming shortages on authorities while overstating hunger. The piece argues global food plenty awaits harvests not before 1949 outside Canada and the United States.
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China
Atlantic
Europe
Ottawa Citizen
Germany
Canada
United States
Sight saving tips from National Health authorities in Ottawa
Rest your eyes at frequent intervals during close work. Look at a blank wall or distant objects. Use eyes sparingly when ill or convalescent and read with steady light. Avoid reading in bed or in moving vehicles.
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Ottawa
Color vision development in early childhood
A statement notes that color blindness is present in all children at birth and that color vision becomes fully developed by about two and a half years old.
Pearl-Stringing Sisters Run Leading London Shop
Ethel and Constance Austen of Hatton Garden London run a pearl-stringing business now in its fifteenth year. They describe handling about a million pounds worth of jewellery annually and note clients such as wealthy Indians.
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Ethel
Constance Austen
England
BBC
Hatton Garden
London
The
Gemmological Association
Constance
Austen
Ottawa Librarians Curious About Marked 700 Page Novel
A patient reader underlined every preposition in a 700 page book, scoring 2,384 241, puzzling Ottawa librarians. Another patron left a liquor ration book inside a copy of The Lost Week End, adding to the odd library incidents.
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Ottawa
No Rainy Season in Puerto Rico Claimed
A report states there is no distinct rainy season in Puerto Rico, noting a tropical climate with year round showers and variable rainfall. Local meteorologists explain wet periods can occur in any month, influenced by trade winds and passing tropical waves.
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Puerto Rico
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