Canadian Research Institute Helps with Laundry Damage Issues
The Canadian Research Institute of Launderers and Cleaners reports 580 disputes settled in the past year. Its first annual report notes 20 percent of damage from manufacturing faults, 10 percent from laundry or cleaner error, and highlights findings on sunlight damage to rayon, frayed linen edges, and acid damage from silver polish on vases. It urges bleaches as directed, warns against overloading machines, and emphasizes testing mechanical action in home laundry.
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Nnadian Research Institute
Canadian Research Institute
National Research Council
Institute
Court of Appeal
Canadian Institute of Launferern and
Attaining Success by Living Within Your Income
The piece urges living within your income and saving a portion, citing James J. Hill on finanical independence. It contrasts proactive wealth with the idle towns of Yawn and Let-It-Slide, and notes San Francisco and Los Angeles having notable Chinese and Japanese populations.
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San Francisco
United States
Los Angeles
Fresh Air Denounced In Poultry Cruelty Editorial
The Our Dumb Animals periodical condemns confinement of domestic birds in glass or narrow quarters that deprive them of exercise and fresh air. It cites reports and European pictures, asserts humane societies will prosecute such practices, and argues poultrymen turn hens into unthinking fog-laying machines contrary to nature.
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Java
Europe
Queen Mary to occupy redecorated Marlborough suite
The Queen will return to Marlborough House and use the d suite first lived in, now being redecorated with woodwork and walls painted cream. No structural changes are planned. The Red Drawing room and the saloon remain furnished as in Queen Alexandra's era.
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Marlborough House
Marl
Borough House
Don Daily Telegraph
T Mall
Lon don's 1000-year tower sways with tides
The National Physical Laboratory notes that the ancient tower rises and falls with Thames tides, moving about four hundredths of an inch yearly. Since 1068 the stone foundation has seen gradual subsidence, but gravely supported subsoil suggests the structure remains safe for now.
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Tower of London
New Hobby Emerges From Yugoslavian Return
Joka Tersiteh, who built a fortune in America, returns to Yugoslavia and takes up a costly hobby of collecting mustaches. He pays up to $40 for finely curled specimens as locals frown. Elevators entered American hotels in 1859 with a swanky New York hostelry trying to lift guests to upper floors.
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Yugoslavia
Joka Tersiteh
America
Joka
Fifth Avenue
New York
World’s Biggest Eater Consumes 25 Times Its Weight Daily
Entomologists in South Germany report the spider as the world’s largest center, noting it eats four times its weight at breakfast nine times at lunch and thirteen times at dinner, totaling about 26 times its weight daily. Scientists say an average man would need about one and a half tons of food in 24 hours. Cold is the best conductor of heat and is second to copper as an electricity conductor.
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Germany
Munich
Postman Finishes 28-Year Crocheted Bedspread
Chicago postman Julian de Paepe, who delivers on Michigan Avenue, completes a bedspread he labored on for 28 years. He saved scraps for idle moments, progressing slowly as duties grew, and finally finished the piece despite a busy regular route. The tale contrasts long craft with modern time constraints.
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Chicago
Julian de Paepe
Michigan Avenue
de Paepe
Not Always A Success rats Birds And Snonets Some times Make Bad Immigrant
Port Rowan Ontario hears of a shipment of one hundred muskrats reaching northern Finland. The article warns that transplanting animals and insects across climates can cause disastrous unintended consequences, citing muskrats, English hares, starlings, and various pests as cautionary examples.
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Port Rowan
Finland
Department of Agriculture of
Pinland
Australia
Canada
England
lifeSarnia
Canadian Observer
Agnes Macphail Outlines Four Point Life Doctrine
Agnes Macphail, first woman MP and long-time member, presented a four point life philosophy to Ottawa Ladies College graduates. She urged cutting non essentials, staying natural, not overrelying on others, and living in the present, stressing life as a teacher and the need for a world beyond.
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Agnes Macphail
U.f.c-Lab
Srey-Bruce
House of Commons
Ottawa Ladies College
Keen Competition Between Liverpool Butchers Over Prices
The fragment describes two Liverpool shop rivals trading price signs for sausages and a boast about royal service. It mentions a physician to the Dionne quintuplets and claims about preventive medicine with diphtheria toxoid, yielding excellent results among the five sisters.
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Liverpool
A. R. Dafoe
Thoughtful remark about fashion and a new bat
A clipped line notes a woman’s thoughts rising above dress and quips she may be pondering a new bat while mentioning Saskatchewan as a leading wheat region.
Magpie Menace Dominates Moose Jaw Convention
At Moose Jaw stock growers debated government aid to curb a rising magpie threat described as surpassing the wolf menace. Ranchers reported birds injuring cattle and horses with eye and flesh wounds while 600 birds had been banded in a current campaign. Suggestions ranged from traps and live-bird releases to a bounty program to spur rapid extinction, with talks of school girl competitions for crow and magpie eggs and calls for broader trapping.
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Cron
Moose Jaw
Cypress Hills
Bluffs
Resolutions Committee
W. G. Ross
K.C. Mla
Mr. Ross
Wild Animal Park
Ross
Notion of Food Fads Ridiculed by Dr Morris Fishbein
Dr Morris Fishbein editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association told the Detroit Teachers Association that food fads are follies. He mocked vegetarian dishes and warned that humans need both animal and vegetable proteins for better health. He cited experiments and debunked ideas like Pletcherization Graham bread and diet fads in a lively critique.
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Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Associaion
Detroit Teachers’ Association
Dr. Fishbein
Fishbein
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Sir Robert
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TION
W. L. Mackenzie King
William Saunders
Dominion
Philosophy OF Life
Saskatchewan
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