Toronto joins North America’s top ten cities by merger
Toronto expands by uniting 12 suburban communities into a Greater Toronto with a 1,200,000 population across 240 square miles. A 24 member council governs planning housing transit water and hospitals with power to levy assessments. Separate Education Board and Toronto Transit Commission separate the council from local police fire and taxing powers remain.
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Toronto
Canada
North America
Greater
Toronto Transit Commission
Metropolitan Board of Education
United States
Machine takes over for heart lungs on 18 year old girl
Surgeons at Jefferson Medical College Hospital used a combined mechanical heart and lung apparatus for 26 minutes during heart surgery. It marked the first successful use of the device on a human, aimed at congenital heart defects in young patients, not suitable for broader heart disease. Dr. John M. Gibbon Jr. developed the apparatus.
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Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical College Hospital
Pennsylvania
John M. Gibbon, Jr
The
Medical College
English Professor Defends Lazy Wives
London based Professor Guy Puas coe Browden of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine argues for rest during routine tasks. He recommends a minute’s break after four minutes of work and urges housewives to avoid standing, tea, good lighting, and nutritious food, sparking questions about balancing chores with meals.
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London
Guy Puascoe Browden
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
United States
New Labor Saver Let Man Eat Goose
ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico's cotton fields host flocks of geese replacing hundreds of laborers. Farmers see geese as economical for back-breaking weeding, able to pulp weeds including Johnson grass. In year one they starve rather than cut cotton, then must be sold after. Geese used in strawberry patches elsewhere for years. Soil testing dates to 1680. An anecdote recalls an Indian brave sitting to test warm ground for planting beans.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Southwest
Johnson Press
Farm Outlook Shows Broiler Prices Likely to Ease
Consumers can expect broad broiler bargains in coming weeks as production outruns demand. January sales and February marks suggest supply will stay high through mid April. Egg prices softened with reduced processing activity while hog markets show weak wholesale pork prices amid light gains in new crop hogs.
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Don Hunter
Iowa State College Farm
New England
Hunter
Interior
Iowa
Corn Belt
Understanding Iowa Children
An article argues that children respond reluctantly to angry questions, showing why calm, indirect questioning yields better insight. It cites a kindergartner named Jack and suggests parents give children time to think, speak in their own language, and avoid forcing quick answers, to understand behavior.
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Jack
Cull Old Cows and Manage Your Herd
Cattlemen are urged to cull sterile and aging cows promptly as part of herd management. Save heifers with strong, milk-producing dams, but sell nonperforming first calves as heiferettes to maximize value before their value drops.
Crisis Develops As Britons Desert Pubs for TV
London reports a new England crisis not political but social as television keeps Britons home nights. Pubs once lively for lunch and debate are fading as beer sales drop across London’s 4,469 pubs. One owner plans a mobile pub to reach crowds at matches and events.
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London
53 Million Cars and Trucks on U.S. Highways
Washington reports a national total of 53,258,570 vehicles including autos trucks and buses on highways last year. State totals show 43,810,531 autos up 2.6 percent, 9,207,897 trucks up 2.3 percent, and 240,142 buses up 4.2 percent. California leads with 5,154,326 registrations, up 4.6 percent. Next are New York Pennsylvania Texas Ohio Illinois Michigan New Jersey Indiana and Massachusetts with multi‑million totals.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
California
New York
Pennsylvania
Texas
Ohio
Illinois
Michigan
New Jersey
Indiana
Massachusetts
Will of Knoxville Grocer Awards 100 Monthly to Student
Charles W. Davis of Knoxville left his foster son Charles Gordon Davis an allowance of 100 per month as long as he maintains passing grades. If the student graduates college the payment is offset by 10,000. Failing a subject and not making it up ends the payments and any share in the estate.
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Knoxville
Charles Gordon Davis
Young Davis
Davis
Charles W. Davis
London Dog Show Origins and Notable Early Guests
London Cruft's dog show began in 1886 founded by Charles Cruft after selling dog biscuits. It drew 5865 entries this year and 50000 visitors, with Queen Victoria and King Edward VII among early exhibitors. now run by the Kennel Club in the British Isles. A Sicilian immigrant boy in Hartford, aged 12, earns his living, works for two newspapers, shovels snow, and saved $150 to buy his mother silver.
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London
Cruft
Charles Cruft
James Spratt
Royal Aquarium
Westminster
Victoria
British Isles
Hartford
Conn
Sicily
America
200 Years to Go For Pisa Leaning Tower Topple
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is projected to topple in about 200 years unless remedial work is done. The tilt increases by .04 inches annually as Pisa, with around 59,000 residents, largely depends on visitors who come to see and climb the famous structure.
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Washington
Pisa
Kossuth County X-ray Survey Reveals 83 Abnormalities
A county wide x-ray survey in Kossuth County completed January 8, 1954, found 28 tuberculosis cases among 11 711 miniature x-rays taken from a 26 241 population. Of the 83 abnormalities 22 likely healed, with 55 non tuberculosis findings. The survey began November 13, 1953, included adults and seventh grade up, and used donated funds from Christmas Seals.
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Kossuth County
Division of Tuberculosis Control
State Department of Health
Des Moines
Kossuth
New Cars and Trucks Sold in Kossuth County
Twenty six new cars and trucks and one house trailer were sold in Kossuth county last week. New owners include Ford, Irvin Bathe of Armstrong, Dale Dundas of Burt, Otto Harlan of Algona, Albert Scott of Swea City, Pratt Electric Co. of Algona, Mrs Ardeen Sampson of Algona, Gustave Bierstedt of Fenton, James Droessler of Bancroft, Carrie Durant of Algona, Nelda L Gade of Whittemore, Wm R Garman of Burt, Lon J Gouge of Wesley, Virgil Kunkel of Bancroft, James Meurer of Wesley, Irene Miller of Titonka, Roy Rohlen of Swea City, Marlin Runksmeier of Swea City, Louis Schafer of West Bend, John A Swanson of Swea City.
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Kossuth
Ford
Irvin Bathe
Armstrong
Dale Dundas
Burt
Otto Harlan
Algona
Albert Scott
Swea City
Pratt Electric Co
Ardeen Sampson
Chevrolet
Gustave Bierstedt
Fenton
James Droessler
Bancroft
Carrie Durant
Nelda L. Gade
Whittemore
Car owners and towns listed in dealership roster
Buick owners include Alphonse Erpelding Algona Arland Newbrough Wesley Dodge Alfead Hillman Lakota truck owner Mrs Harold J Koppen Lakota DeSoto Walter Krause Lone Rock Oldsmobile Garwin Peer Algona Cadillac Mrs W E Quinn Bancroft House trailer Leo Swainson Algona
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Buick
Alphonse Erpelding
Algona
Arland Newbrough
Wesley
Dodge
Alfead Hillman
Lakota
Harold J. Koppen
DeSoto
Walter Krause
Lone Rock
Oldsmobile
Garwin Peer
Cadillac
W. E. Quinn
Bancroft
Leo Swainson
Kollaschs Honored at Surprise Moving Party Lakota
Sunday evening neighbors of Mr and Mrs Donald Kollasch gathered at their home for a surprise party. The Kollaschs are moving onto a farm now occupied by Mr and Mrs Harold Olthoff. The Olthoffs will move to the Kollasch vacated farm. The couple received a purse of money and guests brought a delicious lunch.
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Donald Kollaschs
Donald Kollasch
Mrs. Kollasch
Harold Olthoff
Mrs. Olthoff
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Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
England
Britain
Berculosis and Health Association
Iowa Tuberculosis and Health Association
Bancroft Main Street
Ledyard
J.B
Bang
T.B
Ames Incross
John Deere
New Holland
Little Comfort
Frank Cunningham
Farmers & Traders Savings Bank
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