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Newspaper

Springfield Leader

Location

Springfield, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Jan 28, 1964

Page

7

Snail Watch 1963 Ends With Final Report

A condensed 1963 note from the British Snail Watching Society, as reported in the Christian Science Monitor, states the 1963 report will be the last. The piece surveys humor about snails in cartoons, speed debates, humane slaughter concerns, and notes global attention from The Times to Time magazine while defending snail virtue.

British Snail Watching Society Christian Science Monitor Unique Society The Society of Snail Watching Harvey Taylor Free Press Michigan Maxwell Knight Sunday Times London Massachusetts Audubon Society Richard Headstrom Country Beautiful Robert Browning Anthony Smith Science and Industry General Overseas Service British Broadcasting Service Listener Snail Norm Brookline Mass Smith Nyanassa Royal Astronomical Society Club Times Shell United States Army Italy Leghorn United States Time Magazine Washington D.C Hemisphere Brazil Boston New York Washington Belo Horisonte Brasil ARMY West Germany

Ridiculous Ottawa school cost sparks housing debate

An Ottawa opinion piece criticizes a newly opened Ontario secondary school for lavish design and a $2.4 million price tag, equating to about $2,900 per student. The author questions affordability and whether such plush surroundings aid learning, contrasting with still- underfunded older schools.

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Test Your Knowledge Test Your Knowledge

A quiz style item by Tom Frost with questions on subjects like lynx dangers water depth linen sources and Kipling’s Limpopo river. It presents multiple choice answers and brief notes on each topic including geography flax linen origins and African rivers.

Rudyard Kipling Europe Asia North America Russia Ireland Limpopo Transvaal South Africa Indian Ocean Delagoa Bay

Song of the snail on approaching Kensington Gardens

A fragmentary verse pieces together a young narrator’s roaming in glum weather and late show imagery. It notes a Burgundy father and claims Ellis Island in New York as named after Samuel Ellis, a Manhattan butcher who owned the island as early as 1785.

Ellis New York Harbor Samuel Ellis Manhattan

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