New Year Tales From Across the World Told by Aunt Helen
Jennifer and David hear stories from Aunt Helen about New Year traditions in Peiping Shanghai and Persia. They learn about dragon processions crackers and the Persian No Ruz picnic custom where sprouted grains are tossed away to banish bad luck. A festive, globe trotting bedtime vignette with childlike curiosity and cultural sparks.
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Jennifer
David
Jolly
Helen
Peletrate
Peiping
Shanghai
rick“Dent
Persia
Aunt Helen
Henry Purcell Father of English Music Remembered
Henry Purcell, born Westminster around 1658, rose from Chapel Royal choirboy to England's leading composer. He wrote for church, court, stage, and home, helped create England's first grand opera, and served as organist at Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal before his 1685 death.
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England
Henry Pucevil
ITC
Purcell
Westminster
Chapel Royal
Henry
Royal Chapel
Charles
Westminster Abbey
Melbourne
William McKie
France
Italy
Tom
Aeneas
New Year's Eve Tale Twinkletoes and the Young Year
An old story fragment follows Twinkletoes the rabbit as the New Year arrives. The rabbit ignores warnings to go home, dancing and playing while Father Time calls him back, and the New Year slips away toward next year as night deepens. The tale ends with the rabbit delaying bedtime and hearing of the young Year though not yet believed by others.
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Rabbit
Twinkletoes
Twinkletoes the
Aboriginal Waratah Tale of Love and Red Flower Legend
An old Aboriginal legend tells of Waratah and Jong a deep loving pair. He goes to battle and is believed dead. She waits daily on a hill in a red wallaby cloak watching for him. She dies and her body becomes a red flower, said to welcome the warrior who never returns.
Fun jam-jar race and spoon-and-ball dash at party
A lively house game scene describes jam-jar race with three players and a ping-pong ball, two-minute rounds, and a small prize for the winner. A spoon-and-ball race has six contestants kneeling, carrying a ball on a teaspoon, with repeats if the ball bounces away.
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Duncan
Andrew
Fragmentary courtroom style exchange about a stone throwing
A disjointed dialogue shows Mciver and Alec debating a stone incident. Alec claims he hit him and asks to buy a mirror, while a shop assistant and others react with quips about a handle and head height. The garbled lines suggest confusion in a legal or police context.
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Mciver
Inaene
Alec
What is smoke in everyday fuels and flames
The article explains that smoke consists of tiny solid carbon particles formed when fuels burn incompletely due to limited oxygen. It describes flame zones, luminous versus non luminous flames, and how combustion forms visible smoke and white magnesium oxide particles in certain flames. It ends with a teaser question and a puzzle of names.
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Gilly
Protests Push Congress To Tackle Obscene Publications
US civic and religious groups press Congress to curb cheap sex and crime magazines and comics. New York committees report up to 30 percent of juvenile literature deemed highly objectionable, while officials seek expanded laws, self censorship, and federal oversight to guard public morals.
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Washington
U.S
Congress
Tate
New York State
Bis
New York
America
Preas
Fire Delayed Tests of New Jet Bomber in Britain
London reports the Handley Page 0 bomber faced a three month delay after a fatal fire at Boscombe Down while loading hydraulic fluid. A crew member died and initial damage was extensive but later deemed repairable. Test pilot HG Hazelden expected to fly soon as the program restarts.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Supply
Boscombe Down
Wiltshire
Sanadron
Hg, Hazelden
Handley ‘Page
Handley Page
New York ii
Roast Peacock as Coronation Dish in London Hotel
The Daily Mail reports a London hotel plans a Elizabethan dining hall for the Coronation, serving roast peacock and lampreys among venison and other dishes. Robin Howard, grandson of the late Lord Baldwin, converts a Kensington hotel room into the hall to mark Britain’s second Elizabethian era.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Britain
Robin Howard
Bord Baldwin
Kensington
Christmas Gathering at Elbow Valley Hall Delights Local Community
Sunday night December 28 the Elbow Valley Hall hosted a Christmas party organized by the O Dea f and aided by the Warwick Group. About 50 children and many adults attended a nativity play and musical items, with dances and notable performances by local singers and instrumentalists. Supper followed at 11:30, and music continued into the early hours. The event, supported by the National Catholic Rural Movement, aimed to revive social life in country centres and encourage more hall gatherings in coming months.
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Elbow Valley
O'Deaf
Warwick Group
Bethlehem
Mart
Wiettle
Tnem
Patricia, Duggan
Ms. Spowers
Bethe Plana
MacArthur Denies Truman Statement
General MacArthur rejected a reported claim attributed to President Truman that his aim was not to prolong war in the Far East but to end it. He said the remark was misrepresented and that the true intention was misunderstood. Details of the conversation were not disclosed.
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New York
Macarthur
Far East
Brett
Tons R
York
Pasture Research Chief for Qld to Transfer to Brisbane
Dr. J Griffiths Davies, Associate Chief of CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, will move to Brisbane early in 1953 to head expanded CSIRO pasture research on agricultural problems in northern and summer rainfall areas. Davies, noted for temperate and tropical pasture work, previously led research at Waite Institute and Welsh Prairie Breeding Station.
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Melbourne
J. Griffiths Davies
Csir.o
Brisbane
Cs.lr.o
North Australia
Davies
My. TB
Paltridge
Queensland
Johin Stapleton
Waite Agricultural Research Tristitute
Adielaide
Division of
Plant
CSIRO
Agro
Daves Tx
Australia
England
Lived Mainly on Fish for 65 Days
Bridgetown reports Dr. Bombard and Frenchman crossing nets aboard a rubber raft to reach a distant shore, feeding on seafood for 65 days and sharing meals with natives. Bombard maintains the journey does not disprove his theory while noting health issues upon arrival in Bridgetown. He plans to depart by air to France tomorrow.
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Bridgetown
See Bombard
Ted Resterdey
Bombard
Arakaks
Barbados
SmorBeth
Bridge
France
New LBE Branding Fluid debut in wool branding
A modified LBE branding fluid designed to prevent run issues when branding sheep is announced by Wool Tex tile Research Laboratories. The formula aims to yield legible marks in wet conditions and reduce spoilage, with commercialization expanding to England, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Wool Textile Research Laboratories
CSTR
Waol
Australia
England
New Zealand
South Africa
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Truman
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