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  2. FAIR NOVELTIES

    Scientific efforts on the part of British manufacturers to cater for overseas markets have always been a feature of the post-war British Industries Fair. ...

    Article : 1,350 words
  3. LITERATURE

    If I have used an Americanism in calling Ernest Hemingway a "he-man," it is simply because I can lay hold of no other term that will convey my ...

    Article : 1,662 words
  4. FAMOUS TRAIN ON A FAMOUS BRIDGE

    An unusual photograph of a famous Scottish train, the "Cock o' the North," hauling the Aberdeen express across the famous Forth Bridge. The photograph was obtained with the use of a long focus camera, and makes the giant locomotive look a mere toy engine as it passes through the massive steelwork of the bridge. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 64 words
  5. LEAVES FROM OLD FILES

    Terrace of Houses.—Messrs. R. Ingall and Son have completed a terrace of 10 houses in Smedmore, within five minutes' coach of the city. The places are ...

    Article : 622 words
  6. FOR SUNDAY

    Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also is become my ...

    Article : 1,266 words
  7. 25 YEARS AGO

    Miners' Wages.—It has been officially announced that in fixing the hewing rate at Victorian State colliery the management will work out a price that ...

    Article : 608 words
  8. A Naturalist's Notebook

    Apparently oysters are a luxury in London, where prices range from 6/ to 8/ a dozen. Even the Duchy of Cornwall oysters, which seven years ago were ...

    Article : 293 words
  9. Animal Psychology

    Can cats think? An American scientist named Thorndike decided to test the mental capacity of cats, and devised the "puzzle box" method of studying animal ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. LIFE IN RUSSIA

    "Borzoi," the life of a Russian dancer, Igor Schwezoff, is acclaimed as the winning autobiography in the £1000 competition conducted by the English ...

    Article : 1,309 words
  11. The Fly Menace

    With the advent of warm weather flies are becoming more numerous, and as it has been proved by actual experiments that the bacteria on a single fly may ...

    Article : 195 words
  12. The Red-spot Spider

    Our well-known Red-spot Spider belongs to a genus (Latrodectus), which is found in Europe, Asia, North and South America and Australasia. Some months ago ...

    Article : 407 words
  13. GREATER ACTIVITY

    Mr. Robert H. Christie, of Wellington (N.Z.), who is on a holiday to Newcastle, said, in the course of an interview yesterday, that it had pleased him ...

    Article : 408 words
  14. AMERICAN OIL RESERVES

    A serious shortage of petroleum and its derivatives, including fuel oil and gasoline, in the United States within the next five to eight years was predicted in reports ...

    Article : 243 words
  15. MUSICAL FESTIVAL

    The city of Magdeburg decided to hold a music festival this month devoted to works of the old masters. Bach, Handel. and Schutz, the three composers whose ...

    Article : 126 words
  16. Early Kangaroo Records

    Writing of the events at Botany Bay on May 1, 1770, Captain Cook records that, "In the woods between the trees Dr. Solander had a bare sight of a small ...

    Article : 204 words
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