Easy Money in Moonlit Burglary Ends With Capture
A young man named Jack Hallocx steals five hundred dollars from a hardware store then eludes a night watchman and escapes through hedges. He imagines a life of quick money and leisure, plans more robberies, but is soon tracked by rosemary scent and the pursuing watchman who detains him for police.
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Janie
Jack Hallocx
Jack
Night Watchman
Pop
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Home Workshop patterns offer garden and household projects
The notice promotes Garden Figures and Lawn and Garden Patterns for home decor and yard features. It highlights a fourteen by eighteen inch wheelbarrow pattern priced 35c with tracing for numerals, plus five more full size patterns in the Lawn and Garden Figures Packet for $1.50 postpaid. Also described is a compact telephone set project for teens, with a small shelf and bench, using pattern 387. Address orders to Department PPL, Home Workshop Pattern Service, 4438S West Fifth Avenue, Vancouver BC.
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Department
PPL
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Public forest resources span vast prairie lands
The largest public owned asset in the prairie provinces is the forest resources. they cover 173,000 square miles of productive woodlands, about six times Scotland’s area, with over nine tenths of acres owned by the people.
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Prairie Provinces
Scotland
One Man's Diet May Not Suit Another
A reducing program that slimmed one man may harm another if tried without proper medical advice. Doctors may prescribe exercise and diet, but individuals should seek guidance before matching a plan. A safe universal tip is limiting rich desserts and second helpings, with Canada’s Food Rules offering a balanced approach.
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Canada
Walter Lowdermilk sets forest needs at sixty cubic feet
Dr. Walter Lowdermilk, a world authority, says a standard of reasonable well being requires 60 cubic feet of wood per person each year. To meet this level humanity would need to grow and fell two and a half times as many trees as are presently available, about 3144 trees per year.
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Walter Lowdermilk
They're razing El in Manhattan
Razing of New York City's Third Avenue Elevated line begins, ending a 19th century transport era. Once opened in 1868, it evolved from steam powered overhead rail to electric cars by 1902, expanding to a four line network that fed Manhattan. Subways and buses supplanted the El, draining its revenue and life.
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New York City
Third Avenue Elevated
Manhattan
Pasture Profits on Greywood Soils Seen in Alberta Study
Research at Beaverlodge Experimental Station shows organized pasture programs boost sheep carrying capacity on depleted grey-wooded soils. Seedings of creeping red fescue and legume additions, with or without fertilizer, raise lambs per acre and total lamb gain, with rotational grazing limiting overgrazing.
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Federal Department of Agriculture
Beaverlodge
Alberta
Gems of TROUGHT Love and Marriage
A collection of quotes on love and marriage from Mary Kimball Morgan Mary Baker Eddy Ruth Lydia M Child and Oliver Goldsmith emphasize love exceeding pride, harmony with faith and home life, and happiness through small sacrifices.
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Mary Kimball
Morgan
Mary Baker
Eddy
Lydia M. Child
Oliver Goldsmith
John Selden
Canada Exports Frog Legs to United States in 1834
Canada reported selling 13,363 pounds of frog legs to the United States in 1834. The trade highlights early cross border food commerce and demand for amphibian delicacies across North America.
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Canada
United States
Ventilating Fans Improve Home Freshness and Air Flow
The Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau notes small homes boost grease and fumes spread via kitchens. Ventilating fans fit in windows by replacing one pane and four screws secure them. Over 84 percent of urban builders plan to install such fans, extending to laundry bath and recreation spaces for steady cross circulation.
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Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau
Wood use and newsprint supply cited in Canada and world
A Canadian paper reveals that 67 percent of global newsprint comes from mills, with mills consuming only five percent of timber. In both hemispheres about 67 percent of trees are burned for fuel, heating and hunger relief. Canada uses less wood for paper than for fuel while fish cannot close their eyes.
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Russia
Canada
Appetizing Recipes from a Supper Grill
A dated recipe snippet describes preparing a sauerkraut and cheese mix with Worcestershire and mustard baked on toast bread, with buttered tomatoes and weiners broiled nearby. After assembling, arrange the components on a serving plate for six servings.
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Weiners
Greatest road building year in history for Canada 1955
Ottawa reports Canada will spend over 600 million dollars on road construction in the year, the highest ever. Provincial budgets total 426 million, municipalities 110 million, federal 27 million, with the army and industry adding smaller sums. The program aims to clear a winter backlog and keep Canada’s half million miles of roads open for transport.
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Canada
Ottawa
Canadian Good Roads Association
C. W. Gilchrist
Army
CGRA
Ontario
Quebec
United States
Great Britain
France
Fresh Fellow Divorced Over Shoes And Sofa
A Denver man obtained a divorce claiming his wife forbade him to wear shoes indoors for five years and allowed him to sit on a new sofa for only ten seconds. A humorous tale reflecting odd judicial grounds and domestic quirks from the era.
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Denver
Colo
Post Graduate Driver Refresher on Highway Courtesy
With highways inviting drivers to the country it is wise to read traffic and driving manuals. Even seasoned drivers benefit from a refresher on courtesy signalling and speed hazards to avoid overconfidence after years on the road.
Shallow tillage yields boost after summer fallow
Ottawa reports from Canada's Experimental Station at Scott Sask state early shallow tillage before seeding 10 days later increases grain yields, especially in dry seasons. Oats show the strongest response with about 9 bushels more per acre over a 13 year average. Delayed seeding also improves germination and uniformity, reduces time to harvest by about a week, and ammonium phosphate applications further boost yields in dry or moist years.
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Ottawa
Canada Department of Agriculture
Scott, Sask
Scott
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