Winslow's Miss Maude Duncan Runs Own Small Paper
In Winslow Arkansas an 80 year old editor prints publishes and hawks her paper the Winslow American. Maude Duncan serves as publisher editor reporter printer ad salesman and carrier. She built a hand set four page weekly with a one room cabin press and a foot pedal press. She writes and sets type then runs the press to deliver local news ads and odd items to 400 subscribers. Her aim remains to tell folks about Arkansas for nearly 80 years.
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Winslow
America
Breezy Hollow
Duncan
Arkansas
Saint Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount Overview
The text extols Matthew the customs official as the great recorder of Jesus words, authoring the Sermon on the Mount. It presents its themes as the kingdom’s constitution and life, with parables like the Prodigal Son and Good Samaritan illustrating forgiveness, love, and generosity as core motives.
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Matthew
Jesus
God
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
A Friday the thirteenth day begins with fear yet ends bright. Jane Dale bakes, cleans and keeps cheerful, visiting an old neighbor for lively reminiscence. The household mood shifts from trepidation to warmth as the day unfolds into one of the best life moments.
Weekly Tip Curtains Size List Helps Set Stretchers
A simple weekly tip suggests making a list of curtain measurements for every window in the house. Store the list in the basement or utility room to quickly determine needed curtain sizes and adjust curtain stretchers accordingly.
Decoded InteRprima Fragment Headlines
Oxford amnesia Ontario Los Angeles Pride Love apples Do not Was Do ostrich. Trees are the oldest living things.
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Oxford
Amnesia
Ontario
Los Angeles
Pride
Roger Bannister
Cambridge
England
St. Lawrence Seaway
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake
Erie
New York
Apostle
Luke
The Home Maker and Her Job And A London Matchmaker
A housekeeping efficiency fragment notes a bed making method reducing steps from 386 to 56 feet. It mentions Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and her book. The column jokes about women’s appearance variety via Coifs and wigs, then shifts to Dublin whiskey prices, Irish flag color debate, and muses on window dressing by men. It highlights Heather Jenner's London marriage bureau with 5000 marriages in 15 years and low divorce rate, charging registry and introduction fees.
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Lillian Gilbreth
London
Heather Jenner
Heather
Jenner
Horse numbers fall across Canada as mechanization rises
Census reports show a 44 percent drop in Canada’s horse population from 2,788,000 in 1941 to 1,235,300 in 1951. Declines varied by region, with Alberta and Saskatchewan hardest hit, while eastern Canada saw smaller decreases and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec less than 20 percent. The share of two year olds fell to about 3 percent by 1951 as farms shift to tractors. 1,096,200 horses were on farms by June 1, 1953, signaling continued mechanization.
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Canada
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Maritimes
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prairie Provinces
Prairie Province
Maritime Provinces
Bureau of Statistics
First Aid Training Emphasized for Civil Defence
A notice stresses that accidents happen in a moment and life saving depends on prompt first aid. Training in essential emergency procedures is taught to all civil defence groups to bridge waiting time for medical aid.
Snow mold in alfalfa linked to hydrogen cyanide risk
Dr. J. B. Lebeau reports snow mold in alfalfa produces hydrogen cyanide during growth. The gas, volatile and deadly if confined by cold snow, causes winter crown rot especially at spring thaw. Greenhouse results hint the fungus survives while alfalfa dies, with field trials pending.
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J. B. Lebeau
Federal Science Service Laboratory of Plant Pathology
Edmonton
Lebeau
Treating Shock After an Accident in Patients
In many accident cases the patient may suffer more from shock than from injury. If the patient is dazed with cold perspiration on the forehead cold and clammy skin and a feeble rapid pulse he should be treated for shock. Waste Not Want Not.
Goose lays coin and hunter knocked senseless in Utah tale
A Utah couple found a 25-cent coin inside a goose egg, while a hunter and his son were knocked unconscious by a goose during a shooting at Crab Orchard Lake. An Essex county man rescued an injured owl only to discover its mate had delivered a row of dead mice to his garden.
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Utah
Adrian Earl Ferguson, Jr
Arthur Melvin
Marion
Til
Harry
Crab Orchard Lake
Ooth
Gerald Excell
Essex
Eng
Coronation Era Name Origin for Coronation Alberta Town
The town of Coronation in Alberta earned its name during George V's 1911 coronation. In a separate note, a curious line observes that rattlesnakes are not immune to each other's venom.
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Coronation, Alta
George V
Answers to Quick Quiz facts compile Canadian data
Summary of the Quick Canadian Facts entry lists key figures: CBC spending 24.8 million, rail freight cost 1.38 cents per ton mile in 1952, farm income down 261 million, Ontario leading, Wood Buffalo Park spanning Alberta and Northwest Territories at 17,300 square miles, housing the continent's largest remaining bison herd, and piano wire strain at 390000 psi.
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CBC
Canada
Ontario
Wood Buffalo Park
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Quick Canadian Facts
National Banner HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted is the flag of 6
Crossword style clues reveal a themed fill about flags nations and titles with entries like Ireland and Edward and Malayan skirts as part of a puzzle page in a 20th century newspaper format.
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Antilles
Ireland
Albert
Edward
Bannister on training and natural ability for peak sport
In a clinic style interview with Roger Bannister the four minute mile pioneer rejects being a natural and stresses a mix of physique temperament and drive. He cites lean build endurance and training heart adaptation as keys noting a slow resting heart aids performance and that fatigue masks the joy of success after the race. He urges readers to adopt a “can do” attitude and persistent hard training to improve in any sport.
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Roger Bannister
Bannister
Chattaway
Brasher
Quick Canadia Quiz
A compact quiz asks how farmers’ net income moved in the year, which national park has the largest area, and the Canada wide costs and revenues for freight, fur farming, and trapping. It notes CBC spending in 1939 and asks for last year government radio service costs.
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Canada
CBC
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