Canada's weekly newspapers the backbone of country life
Liberty magazine selects Canada’s 963 weekly papers as the backbone of country life. Editors average 55 hours weekly, many with high public office, to serve communities with features from Livestock Base to women’s columns. The piece honors editors as enterprising community builders.
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Canada
Backbone of Country Life
Liberty Magazine
Brampton Peel Gazette
Purbert Webb
Liberty
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Trade
Dec Hacker
Abbotsford
Sumas
Matsqui
B.C
News
George Murray
Pictou
N.S
Advocate
Ann Advocate
Sociation
Helen
Corky) McCorquondale
Alberta
High River Times
Bill Cranston
Midland
Artificial Moonlight Planned By British Scientists
British space researchers outlined a two year program to release sodium vapor from rockets to create artificial moonlight. Aiming to study high altitude winds and chemistry, the tests would reach about 120 miles up in the stratosphere with 100 pound instrumented rockets.
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London
Reuters
Eisenhower
United States
D. R. Bates
Queen's University
Belfast
Bates
Royal Society
Britain
Sodium Bates
Scarcer male population in America prompts debate
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes a shift in gender balance with 9314 males per 10 000 females in 1950 and about 91 men per 100 women today. It argues women control business, finance, advertising, fashion, and even car design, while men face economic disadvantages.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Spider found living on Mount Everest at high altitude
A study reports a spider species living at about 22 000 feet on Mount Everest. The discovery confirms Rift Valley biota can endure extreme conditions and expands known spider habitats.
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Mt. Everest
Will It Hatch The North America King Penguin Egg
Vancouver Zoo keeper Alan Best monitors a 64 day incubation of North America’s first king penguin egg laid at Stanley Park. The egg arrived recently and rests on rubber mats in the pen penguin shelter as the male incubates it briefly between his feet.
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Vancouver
Alan Best
North America
Stanley Park Zoo
Best
Waistline Pinch Test Backed by Vermont Health Official
Burlington report advises the waistline pinch test for overweight risk. Milla Newland of the Vermont health department says a pinch more than an inch around the ribs warrants medical advice, though a doctor may not always be required. She notes will power and the first two weeks are hardest and stresses protein at breakfast to curb midmorning doughnut urges.
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Burlington
Milla Newland
Vermont Health Department
Miss Newland
Try and Stop Me from Bennett Cerf
A collection of humorous vignettes and wordplay snippets recounts a noisy young man expelled from a saloon and a series of ironic misdirections. The pieces parody social pretensions and mistaken identities with wry punchlines involving Boston families and Teddy Roosevelt anecdotes.
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Bennett Cerf
Boston
O.B
Collar bone most commonly broken advises St John Ambulance
St John Ambulance says the collar bone is the easiest bone to break typically from a fall on an outstretched hand. It explains signs, first aid steps including immobilisation with a sling and splint, and advises treating uncertain injuries as fractures.
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St. John Ambulance
St. John’s Ambulance
Gems Of Thought On Rest And Reflection
A collection of quotes on rest and inner peace. Mary Baker Eddy William Cowper John Caspar Lavater Lonerfellow Voltaire reflect on quiet moments and benevolent conduct as sources of true wisdom and renewal. The holiest holidays are personal silences and secret heart anniversaries.
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Mary Baker Eddy
William Cowper
John Caspar Lavater
Fts
Voltaire
Home Workshop Sign Ready for Sawing and Painting
A home workshop project outlines a street and number sign cut from hardboard or 44 inch plywood. The entire picture is traced to the material ready for sawing and then painting follows.
Sign pattern 446 replicas for house or post display
A dull finish black paint simulates metal on a sign pattern 446. Two arriving guests stand three inches tall and a complete alphabet with numerals in correct proportion for any length addresses. The sign attracts observers whether attached to a house or mounted on a post. Copies of pattern 446 will be mailed for 35c.
Canada to Operate World’s Biggest Reactor Next Year
Canada says NRU, the new Chalk River reactor, will go into operation in 1956 with 200000 kilowatts and use 43 tons of heavy water valued at over 5.16 million dollars. The crown company Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. prepared the booklet for the Geneva peaceful uses conference.
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NRU
Chalk River
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
NRA
Crown
Geneva
Howe
The
Commons
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
NRX
Alberta film to highlight province history for Jubilee year
A 30 minute colored motion picture on Alberta history is being produced by three Alberta companies. Canadian producer Art Hundert from Vancouver will film across the province, with scenes from the Peace River to the southern border and re staged events. The film aims to serve as a memorial to Alberta's Golden Jubilee offering a turning point record of the province.
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Alberta
Art Hundert
Vancouver
Hundert
Mr. Hundert
Peace River
Men face higher cancer risk across most types
A National Cancer Institute survey reported by United Press found men have about a 6 percent greater risk for nearly all cancers except breast and certain reproductive organs. Lung and bronchial cancers are over five times more common in men, laryngeal cancer about 12 times, with age increasing risk. the study analyzed 42 000 cases in 1937–39 and again a decade later in 10 large cities.
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Washington
National Cancer Institute
United Press
John R. Heller
Institute
Atlanta
Birmingham
Dallas
New Orleans
San Francisco
Denver
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
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