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Popular Mechanics, March 1963 *WEATHER CONTROL USING SILVER IODIDE - ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE*
Features: Rambler and Ford Owner's Reports; Hurricane Killers Learn Where to Aim using silver iodide crystals; How Space Detectives Rate the Red Moon Probes; Complete plans for PM's point-riding funabout; water-skiiing at 106 mph; The newest on the water; How Water Dragsters do it; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - January 1994
Articles: Toronto Harbour and the Defence of the Great Lakes Region, 1783-1870; Dodging in the Bight, a good place for a Whale - Environmental Factors Affecting Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Whaling in Davis Strait; Reassessing the Dreadnought Crisis of 1909 and the Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy; The Last Murmansk Convoys, 11 March - 30 May, 1945; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1995
Articles: Building a Bigger Stick - The Construction of the Tribal Class Destroyers in Canada, 1940-1948; The 'Baltic' Goes to Washington - Lobbying for a Congressional Steamship Subsidy, 1952; Failure at Sea - Wolf Pack Operations in the North Atlantic, 10 February - 22 March 1944; The Convoy, the Grain, and their influence on the French Revolution; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The War Illustrated: No. 164 - 6 October 1917
How America in Making War - article be Hamilton Fyfe; America's Advance Army Nearying the Trenches; Canadians in contrast with their Hun Captures; More Prized Positions wrested from the Foe; Hun murders of the helpless in hospital; Ruin wrought and suffered by the Hun; Royal visits to the Scottish centres of war work; The Badge of the Bonnet; English Soldier's Deeds of Dash and Daring; Winning the Coveted Cross for Valour's Wear; Heroes decorated for valour and devotion; What Happened at Loos - article by Lovat Fraser; Home Scenes of Sentiment and Support; How East is Helping West Against the Hun; Our Navy's Huge Post-Bag - how letters reach our sailors at sea - article; On Board a Ship of Letters - H.M.S. 'G.P.O.'; Locating the Line of March of the Human Mole; The 1st (first) (Royal) Dragoons (one page article with photo). Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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Railway World Magazine, March 1975
Features: Observing the Working Timetable; Leicester - a celebrated Great Central Locomotive Depot - 2; Footplating - Continental Style; Blaenau Ffestiniog - Railway Junction; Looking Below the Surface; Cross-Country by the GC Route; North Yorkshireman; Unbuilt Lines; Tyler Hill Tunnel, Canterbury; LSWR Adams X2 class 4-4-0s; LCDR Photographs problem summed up; Nineteenth Century Footbridge Preserved; Our Transport Heritage - a paper by Sir Peter Allen to the Royal Society of the Arts; A Stockton & Darlington Shed Scene; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Railway World Magazine: March 1966
Features: North Eastern Train Services of 1905 - Half a Century of Train Travel, No. 49; The Lyme Regis Branch; Last of the Midland 0-6-0s; Some Trips to Remember; Snowplough to Blaenau Ffestiniog; Then Came the Snow; Early Railway Photographers; End of the Isle of Man Railway?; TW Saloon No. 9044 Preserved; Fireless Locomotives at Glaxo Plant; and more. Moderate wear. Small marking atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine: Volume 11 - May Through October 1903
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 189 - 30 March 1918
Front cover illustration of trained dogs used as trench messengers. Illustration of British seaplane airman. Grabbe & Co., Unlimited - article on inflated British food prices. Danger Points in the East - article by Lovat Fraser. Photos of saving Holy Objects from the 'Sacrilegious' Hun. Photos from Mesopotamia - ruins and modern doings. Photos of Humane Treatment of Turks Taken in the Pursuit. Chateau and Church shattered by Huns - photos. Photos of lights being used in war; Woodrow Wilson - 'The Only Statesman in the World' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of French and American soldiers. Lighter Moments/Recreation. Photos of 'Work at home for enmeshing enemy mines at sea'. "The Winners" by Boyd Cable. Photos of stout-hearted soldiers of Resurgent Serbia. Photos of 'Preparing for the Future in Corn Land & Quarry'. Photos of curious contrasts. "The Eyes of the Battery" - Certain liveliness at an artillery observation post by 'O.Pip'. Photos of decorated individuals. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 233 - 1 February 1919
Demobilisation - Cover illustration of a faithful charger being sold while its British officer looks on. Illustration of Woodrow Wilson, President Poincare, and Mr. Lloyd George at the opening of the Peace Conference. Photo: French Arms Beyond the Rhine. Illustrations of 'Prussia's Arrogance in 1871'. Air Trips to Paris and Back in Four Hours - 4 photos of 'Airco' machines. British keep guard on the Bridge at Cologne - 4 great photos. "To the Rhine!" - Retribution after Fifty Years, 3 photos. Storm and Fog Claim Ships that War had Spared - 6 photos. Photo of the salved French submarine Curie. Problems of the Peace Conference - by Sir Sidney Low. A United States of Germany? - by F.W. Wile. Imperial Guile - What the Camera Saw at Spa. Photo of Berlin protest march against Bolshevism. Photo of Rodin's sculpture of Eve being exhumed from her grave in a garden in Doai where she was hidden from the Germans. Welcoming home America's Navy - 3 photos. Airship and Aeroplane Raids over Great Britain, 1914-18 - chart and map. Channel Train-Ferry and its new 'Mystery' port - 4 photos including the 'Dazzle'. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated with age. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, No. 185 - 2 March 1918
Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 241 - 29 March 1919 *COMPLETE WITH COLOUR PLATE PORTRAIT OF GENERAL BYNG*
Features: Cover portrait of Admiral Sir David Beatty, Commander-In-Chief of the Grand Fleet, watching the surrender of the German High Sea Fleet from his flagship the Queen Elizabeth. Chapter CCLXXXVII - The Surpassing Triumph of the British Navy - Failure of Germany's Submarine War and Surrender of her High Sea Fleet. Many great black and white photos. Super full-page photographic portrait of Admiral Beatty and Flag-Captain Chatfield, watching the surrender of the German Fleet. Includes photo of Admiral Beatty's historic message to the Admiralty announcing "the bloodless, most glorious triumph of the British Navy, the surrender of the seventy units of the German High Sea Fleet at the appointed rendezvous in the North Sea on November 21st, 1918, in obedience with the armistice terms." Many other historic photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 246 - 3 May 1919 - The March to the Rhine
Cover portrait of Grenadier Guards approaching the Hohenzollern Bridge at Cologne. Chapter CCXCII - The March to the Rhine. Many interesting black and white photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 247 - 10 May 1919 *The Air Battles Over London*
Cover photo of where a Gotha bomb fell in London, near a Sphinx. Includes concluding portion of "The March to the Rhine", with great photos. Chapter CCXCIII - Final Phases of the War in the Air, I. - The Air Battles Over London - How the Gothas were Defeated. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine - Part 250 - 31May 1919 *America's Share in the Victory*
Includes concluding portion of "Voluntary Motor Transport in the War", with photos. Chapter CCXCVI - America's Share in the Victory - map and photos. Full-page photographic portrait of Admiral William Sowden Sims in chief command of the American Fleet in Europe. Four centerfold photos of Americans in Germany. Full page photo of the 27th Division, U.S. Army, in New York, March 25th, 1919. Many great photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1947 Through November/December1948
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photos of operators at work in Haney, Nanaimo and Port Moody; $35 million improvement and expansion programme; Rotation billing will be inaugurated in March; Ed Tomer terminates 44-year career; Victoria says good-bye to George Gaetz; Daniel G. Houston - he installed phones in the horse-and-wagon days; Retirement of Thomas (Tom) Smith; photos of W.J. Jefree's clothing store and W.J. Pendray soap works, both in Victoria - the first commercial firms in British Columbia to be linked by a telephone line, in 1880; Photo of Nanaimo's first telephone office in 1887 at the fruit store of Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Cavalsky; Photo of splicer's school; Annual report reveals record demand for service as result of great growth of province; World telephone network is operating again; A farewell to Dave Falconer; The telephone situation as we see it today; Hammond-Haney toll charges eliminated; From Office Boy to District Plant Chief - Lindsay Morrison; High school visitors to the Hasting's operator area; New Building Commemorates Name of First Company President, William Farrell - article with photos; A Report on the telephone situation in B.C.; Thirty-Four Years of Phone Service at Parksville; First commercial VHF circuits now in service here; Toll Chief Operator weds Chief Engineer - A.H. Lemmon and Lila Boden; advertising slogans; Wirephoto service comes to Vancouver; Telephony made great Strides during Labelle Career - Eugene P. LaBelle retires after 44 years in telephony *THIS APPEARS TO BE THE PERSONAL COPY OF MR. LABELLE AS HIS NAME IS STAMPED ON TOP EDGE OF TEXT*; A.C. Bull Elected Federation President; Photo of lovely twin sister operators in Vancouver; Photos behind the scenes at the Victoria Plant Building; New Dial Offic, 'Cedar', Now in Service; 800,000 phone calls per day in Vancouver; Wage increases for 1,000 plant employees; Meet the Executive Assistant's Department - many photos; Nearly 3,800 Bayview phones 'cut' to Cedar; Revenue accounting girls adopt three orphans; replica's of 3 recent billboards, 2 of which include suggestions for party line use; misc. photos of Fraser Valley operators; 1947 was record year despite shortages; *Car phone* service now available - with photo; Leo Griggs, Nanaimo Plant Head, retires; Fifteen years ago; Three blind mice in South America - Kathleen Stephen and Catherine Wilson recall their trip; Ads advise fewer calls, shorter calls - with 2 ads; "Newton" joins our telephone family - story and photos; 1947 progress was offset by record demand annual report points out; 37 years of ups and downs - Percy Turley, cable-splicing foreman; Miss Gertrude Greaves honoured; Photos of Seymour (Vancouver) operators; photo of radiotelephone transmitting station at Lulu Island; various photos inside Kamloops office with staff; article on John (Jack) C. Hemer; Operators learn Human Nature's Queer Quirks; Newspaper columnist visits new William Farrell Building; Trans-Canada phone system construction job resumed - text and photos; photos of staff and facilities at Princeton; Spirit of service triumphs over flood - photos of washed out Mission bridge and more, plus article; PNE float photos; Introducing the company's new business library; New submarine cable links Vancouver and North Shore - photos and text; T. Percy Waters Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: June 1969
Features: Japanese Theatre Prints - Part 1; Beaver Teapots; The Walking Rocking Horse; China Mark Research; Edward - King of the Castles; Glass - the great enigma; Ancient Mexican Gold - Four Masterpieces. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Address label on front. Quality copy. Magazine
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Canadian Collector Magazine - March/April 1986
76 pages. Features: Ed Boyagian - Dealer Profile; At the Auctions - Joyner Fine Arts Inc.; Collector Profile - Herbert Irvine; Overshot Coverlets - a craft of the past century revived; Rosetti's Wombat? - the owl, the wombat and the numbat of University College; The Myth of 'Waterford Blue' - 18th Century Irish and American Cut Glass; Gold Ingots and Export Porcelain; A Thomas Nisbet Sofa; Original Prints - unveiling the mystery of printmaking techniques; Lady Artists of Cape Breton - Louise Bradley McLennan and Hetty Donne Kimber; Furniture Restorer Ralph Clemons of Newfoundland; Easter Art - the Ukrainian Pysanka (egg); Rococo Whimsy - 18th Century Porcelain Scent Bottles. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Great War Magazine: Part 263, 30 August, 1919
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover photo of F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig in London's Great Victory March; Conclusion of Chapter CCCXII - British Propaganda; Chapter CCCXIII - The Organisers of Victory; great centerfold photos of victory celebration in France; Chapter CCCXIV - The strategy of the war and the Blunders of the German Staff; Amazing photo of some of the great gun booty captured by the Canadians on the way to Cambrai; and more. Bonus: includes 'fine colour map of the strategy of the war'. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Barnholden, Michael
Reading The Riot Act: A Brief History Of Riots In Vancouver
135 pages plus bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. "An indispensible resource for activists, students, historians and anyone interested in the Vancouver the tourist brochures don't talk about. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1981
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
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Motion Songs: Drills and Marches
75 pages. The first eight pages are devoted to "Drills, Pantomines and Motion Songs - Swimming Drill" and are cutely illustrated with sketches of children performing the various motions. Next come 9 pages of "Marching and Motion Songs for Schools" which include words and piano music. Pages 19 through 61 cover Motion Songs with piano music included for most - songs include The Brook, Our Flag, The Violets, The Leaves, What the Wind Says, Fife and Drum, Little Things, On the Lake, Pussies, The Farm, The Meadows, Good Night, Song of the Waves, and Japanese Parasol Drill. Pages 62 through 75 are devoted to Marches and include diagrams. Heavily worn, soiled and stained yet binding remains intact. Page 17 missing. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper else unmarked. While copy has seen considerable use, it retains its vintage charm. Book
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The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, March 1911, Whole No. 123, "The Public Health Movement"
334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1977
Features: John W. Barriger III, 1899-1976; Derailment and accident photos; Steam's last chance - Pennsylvania Railroad gambles - and loses - on the steam-powered T1-class for passenger power after World War II; "Fireboy, know something? We don't fit through that bridge"; How to build a DL109 - great photos; Rio Grande's Monarch Branch Revisited - an exercise in the use of the 26-C automatic brake valve, F-3 retainers, and COBRA brake shoes; Colur centerfold of the Katy Pacific 401 (Lima 1920) in 1945; The Iris G, et al - much of Canadian Pacific's history has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1974
Features: CN's back-door entry to the U.S. - in Minnesota, CN is spelled DW&P - the Peg; Centerfold (loose) is a colour painting of a Pennsylvania D16 4-4-0 highballing; Railroad in a Copper Mine - the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation and its operations at Bingham Canyon; News photos; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: September 1972
Features: 50th Anniversary of EMD (GM Electro-Motive Division); EMD News Photos; The La Grange Influence - what if ground had not been broken on March 27, 1935; Two Railroads, One Locomotive - interchange is no longer synonymous with engine change - with photos; La Grange Locomotive Landmarks - Attractive color centerfold; Three that survived - mementos of Electro-Motive's pre-GM years; EMD questions even EMD couldn't answer!; Concerning a dipstick, Derby Day, Slack-Free Starts, 74 Degrees below zero, a Lonely E9, and May 18, 1942 - confessions of an EMD-watcher; 'Tunnel Motors' or 'T-2s'; An instant history of EMD; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1969
Features: Super Power Survives! - 14 pages of NKP 759; Exclusive - Viet Nam Rails, firsthand! - long article with many illustrations; Railroad News Photos; Southern's Computer records car locations; Daniel "Uncle Dan" Willard and his one of a kinds; Modesto & Empire Traction... diesel style - a short but solvent story by Ted Benson; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1968
Features: Railroad News Photos; Early Turbotrain photo; Steam News Photos; photos of a 1948 derailment near Adamsville, Alabama; Guess Who Operates the Largest Railroad System in the Free World? - India! - Article, Map and Photos; The Moguls of Marietta - Glover Machine Works built over 500 locomotives - article and photos; photo section; Incredible two-page 1903 photo of a head-on collision east of Hebron, Indiana; How the Freight Car Problem Got That Way... a History Lesson - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 2; Blue Mountains Revisited - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March, 1960
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; C&IM Revisited (Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway) - since our last report in August 1955 Trains, just 11 hood units have replaced 26 steamers; Calling all Candidates - a preconvention memo to Adlai, Dick, Jack, Hubert, Lyndon, Pat, Soapy, Stu, Wayne, et al; Weekend with Steam - the magic numbers were 2613 and 2114; The SP&S Story - 1 - the Spokane, Portland & Seattle - fastest track in the Northwest; A photo glimpse of one of the world's great railways - British Railways; and more. Cover held by one staple. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March, 1958
Features: The Fan Trip - nicely illustrated article; Railroad News Photos; Photo of local at YM, March 18, 1956; How to Run Streamliners - Atlantic Coast Line - long, nicely illustrated article; 2.5 miles - a very short short line - Maryland's Preston Railroad doesn't even rate a caboose; Wonderful sunset centerfold photo of Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4008 near Creston, Wyoming; The Railroad that time passed by - 100 miles of narrow gauge in deepest France - nice article with photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March, 1957
Features: Railroad News Photos; Photo salute to a General, No. 3; The Full Story of The Striped Beast - New Haven's electrified operations between New York and New Haven - long illustrated article; Southbound behind steam - the 2-8-2's of Winston-Salem Southbound - article with photos; Nice feature on the men behind the camera, and samples of their work; Steam in Indian Summer - David P. Morgan; Beware of Trains! - beyond the Atlantic there is witchcraft and magic in the railway for those with hearts to hear; and more. Date stamp on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
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Material History Review 58, Fall 2003
Features: An Examination of the Pointe Shoe as Artifact through Ethnographic and Gender Analysis; Life and Work in the Brigus Knitting Mills, 1953-1970; L'espace domestique comme source biographique - le cas de la maison d'Alphonse et de Dorimene Desjarkens a Levis; Regimes de verite et quete de l'origine - marche et monde des objets dans la Roumanie post-communiste; Forget-Me-Nots - Victorian Women, Mourning, and the Construction of a Feminine Historical Memory; Metallurgic Analysis of Slag Samples from a Seventeenth Century Blacksmith shop in Ferryland, Newfoundland; MoMu - a stylish newcomer in the world of Fashion and Museums; four book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 259, August (Aug.) 5, 1919 *The British Army in the West (Dec. 1917 - Nov. 1918)*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: Mr. Lloyd George as War Premier; Caporetto and the Rapallo Conference; The German Offensive of March 21; The Campaign for the Channel Ports; Unity of Command; The Strategy of Marshal Foch; The Allied Counter-Offensive; The Achievements of the British Army; THe Contributions to Victory of the Canadian and Australian Armies; The Armistice; Sir Douglas Haig's Review of the War. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 249, May 27, 1919 *The American Army in Europe*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: America's Contribution; Military Unpreparedness; Conscription of the Nation; The American Divisions; Transport of the Army; The First Troops in France; Reorganization of the French Ports; Vast Work of Transport and Supply; Horses, Staffs, Artillery, Aeroplanes; Training; First Operations; Cantigny; Chateau-Thierry; The Allied Offensive; The Marne; July 18, 1918; St. Mihiel; Advance in the Argonne; March on Sedan; The Armistice; America's Achievement. Average wear. Staples rusty. Covers almost loose from staples. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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National Lampoon, March 1986 *THIS ISSUE EXPLOITS WOMEN!*
82 pages. Stories: You're a Man Baby and Don't You Forget It; I was a Gay Male Drag Queen Trapped in the Body of a Woman; Feminist Party Jokes; Ass-Anon Comes to New Jersey; How I Became a Feminist; Guys on Dolls - Four Male Cartoonists Look at the World of Women; National Tampoon; Mary Tyler Moore and Me; A Tale of Modern Romance; Womaning; A Woman Tells Men - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Women and Probably Won't Understand When I Explain It to You; Women, What do they Want?; Scary Monsters; Why Women Become Lesbians. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Chip Chats Magazine, January/February 1990
80 pages. Features: Ray Kellogg; Nelson Nichols; Santa Maria Show; Let's Carve! - Noah's Ark; Curious Copy Cats; Livonia Show; Carving Dragons; Quilceda Carvers; Walter Henry Lueth; Kaw Valley Show; Eggheads; Florida Carousel Art Auction; Don and Frances Pickett; East Texas Show; Seawater Carvers Club of Austell, Georgia; Woodcarving Rendezvous V; Quassy's Merry-Go-Round; Carved Floral Reliefs; Burning Techniques; Ideal Walking Stick; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Creases to front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, March 1971 - Ontario County Atlases
40 pages. Features: County Atlases of Ontario; For to Breakfast on - Pembroke Tables; How Old is My Antique; Old Toronto on the Move - moving homes; Leading English Dealer Crosses Atlantic - Mallett and Son; and more. Crossword on back cover has been completed. Address label on front cover has been blacked out. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, March 10, 1962
39 pages. Features: My holiday ended in a red jail - Milorad Cop went to see his son in Prague and was accused of spying; Marie St. Laurent at the Florida Message Centre helps Canadians down south; Skiing for Eight - On a Budget: Fun-filled weekends are a way of life for the Moore Family (son Tim went on to great success with AMJ Campbell Van Lines); Arlene Phillips Braves the Heights - goes atop buildings with her high-steel worker father Joey Phillips, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Caughnawaga Indian reservation near Montreal; I live for work and love says Melina Mercouri - the star of Never on Sunday; Seat of Trouble - comic; Great colour photos with story about NHL goalies Gump Worsely and Jacques Plante; The Rockefellers Change with the Times - the fourth generation of the family has a different approach to wealth - inclues 8 interesting black and white photos; The Fleet Nobody Wanted - British Columbia's government-owned ferry service (B.C. Ferries); Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, March 31, 1962
39 pages. Features: I spent a year waiting to be hanged - twice sentenced to the gallows for the murder of a newsboy, this British Columbia cook survived five execution dates - Charles M. Heathman was accused of the murder of Donald Ottley; Two Young French-Canadians delight Montreal audiences by making a Song and Dance about Separatism - Bernard Sicotte and Gilles Richer; How U.S. First Lady Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy conquered the world; Aurel Joliat still thrills over that playoff moment with Howie Morenz; Producer in search of more characters - Norma Springford; A Scaasi suit can cost $7,000 - this Canadian designer soars to fashion's peak in New York - Scaasi was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal; The Mystery of the Giant Lemon - a dwarf tree in a Vancouver suburb yields fruit that weigh as much as 2.5 pounds each; Simple tests that can avert tragedy - PKU, phenylketonuria; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Colliers Magazine, March 6, 1937 - The National Weekly
70 pages. Features: The Grand Manner - a modest young man in love (Frederick Nebel); Invitation to Dance - The girl who stole a lipstick (Libbie Block); White Man's Burden - in defense of a lady and a tropical isle (Will F. Jenkins); On the Bench - Harun-al-Rashid in modern dress (Frank Condon); Very Much a Lady by Alec Rackowe; Man with a Past - Romance of a stagecoach guard (Ernest Haycox); I Love You Again, Part VI - Suspicion of Murder (Octavus Roy Cohen); Castle Key, Part II - Get up and Fly Again (Dwight Mitchell Wiley); Under Chiang Kai-shek's Hand - Number One in Asia, with photos (Jim Marshall); The Minsky Kids, H.K. and Morton - Art School for strippers/burlesque (Henry F. Pringle); High School Hero - Mr. Bob Feller - The $100,000 rookie (Kyle Crichton); You're the Cook - Kitchen Calm (Betty Thornley Stuart); Who Taught You to Drive? - It's never too late to learn (T.R. Carskadon). Page 23 is a wonderful full-colour ad for a food product called Karo which features charming photos of the Dionne quints (quintuplets). Page 25 is a nice colour ad for Packard cars. Super colour centerfold for the Hudson automobile. Excellent two-page colour ad for Nash cars on pages 48-49. Interesting United Airlines ad on page 55 - does not resemble contemporary air travel! Two-colour Ford V8 truck ad inside back cover. Interesting colour Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover suggests that their product offers 'throat protection'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 6, 1965 *THE GREAT TRAVEL EXPLOSION*
Features: The Great Travel Explosion - Suddenly everybody's got itchy feet; The Pleasure of Failure - what famed author Morley Callaghan learned when the bottom fell out of his world; When Sickness Strikes at Night - what can you do, where can you turn for help?; The Prickly Producer - now everyone wants John Hirsch; Montreal's Vieux Quarter - how a dedicated few led the fight to save a city's historic past, with many nice photos; This Army has only begun to fight - the Salvation Army turns 100, waging war to a new jazz beat. Great colour ad for the 1965 Oldsmobile Luxury Sedan. Colour ad for the '65 Pontiac on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling with evidence of exposure to moisture. A less than pretty but sound copy. Book
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Flora Magazine: March 1982
Features: Clivias - Julia Clements; Floranovice; Great American Gardens; The Ideal Home - and Garden; Annuals for Arrangers; Thimble Arrangements; March in Your Garden; Medicinal Plants in Medieval Christian Art; Alstroemeria; Flowers for Mother's Day; Blooming Britain; Mrs. Forget-me-not's Seasonal Hats; Flowers in Paris; Camelias to Grow and Arrange; Silk Daffodils; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, 20 February 1971 *THE NIAGARA DAREDEVILS/PART 6 OF 'THE MOB'*
Features: The Niagara Daredevils - Red Hill Jr. tried to go over and was killed - his brother says he'll try in June; "As an Abortionist I was Really doing something to help people" - When Dr. Robert Makaroff was arrested in Vancouver last March, he had performed more than 1,000 illegal abortions; Stretch denim fashion feature; What a golf pro does in winter - Len Ellerton uses a videotape recording machine to help students with their swings; A guide to Golf Etiquette; Yummm Yogurt! - food feature; Part 6 of 'The Mob' - The Bookies - They're crime's biggest moneymakers - Montreal bookie Gary Ball; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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Frontier Times, March 1936
46 pages. Features: Liberty dawned when the Alamo fell; Paul Maureaux - early Texas Cabinet-maker; John Durkee - pioneer horse-raiser; Walter P. Webb writes a great book; A journey through Texas in 1856; The first cattle rance in Texas; Texas historical data found in the big thicket; The drawing of the Beans by Texans; The Massacre at Goliad; Account of an Indian attack in 1868. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Undated - circa 1990? Book
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Aviation and Marine International - Atlantic Edition: February/March 1978 *SCHNELLBOOT 148*
Features: Merchant Marine Today - significant illustrated article; The Bundesmarine Today - substantial article; Tactical Transport Aircraft; Schnellboot 148 - article with great colour foldout; Electronic Warfare (part III); Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1965
Features: The village of Kibweta in the war-torn Congo; The hard limits of government by consensus - LBJ is up against it; Daily Dilemmas of the Attorney General - Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Commuters of Rio de Janeiro gripe but they love their city on its 400th anniversary; The American Dream and the American Negro; Venezuelan artist Marisol (includes picture of her with Andy Warhol); New York's street gangs no longer 'Bop,' they 'Jap'; Playwright Neil Simon's Prescription for Comedy. Crossword completed otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The New York Times Magazine, March 14, 1965
Features: Cover photo of Senator Kirksen cross-legged; Excerpts from "Moscow Summer 1964" by Yugoslav essayist Mihajlo Mihajlov who documented the astonishing Russian outpouring of literature and songs about Stalin's concentration and work camps; Civil Right No. 1 - The Right to Vote, by Martin Luther King; The Huks bring terror to the Philippines; The Oil Can is Mightier than the Sword - Everett McKinley Dirksen - one of the real pillars of today's Senate; The U.N. of Dag Hammarskjold is Dead - Can it be reborn?; He loves things to be beautiful - I.M. Pei; On the rounds with an African Witch Doctor; Why they invade the sea - skindiving; Full-page colour ad for The Sound of Music; That's the Truth - and other Cosby stories. Covers almost detached. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1965
Features: Do we want to win the war on poverty? - Christopher Jencks; The Inner-Directed Mood - Stewart Alsop; Madison Avenue - the big invisible sell, by Martin Mayer - long article with many photos; Elizabeth (Liz) Montgomery of the TV show 'Bewitched' - Sam gets her way; The Case of the Dead Bookie - Mark Fein and the death of Rubin Markowitz; Attack on the unborn - last year up to 20,000 children suffered prenatal damage because their mothers contracted German Measles while pregnant; Grits, Magnolia and skiing - snowmaking allows downhill skiing in the southern U.S.; The filibuster's best friend - Richard Russell, dean of southern senators, braces for his greatest fight; Richard Rodgers - the No. 1 melody man. Many nice colour car ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1965 *GO GO MADNESS!!!*
Features: Presidential campaigns are a sham - Dean Burch, G.O.P. National Committee Chairman; We Can't Let Them Down - Stewart Alsop discusses the Vietnam War; Discotheque - Go Go Madness strikes and the nation gyres in a frenzy of Swim, Surf and Frug - many colour photos; Vietnam - where do we go from here? - more and more Americans are dying - at the center of the chaos stands U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Davenport Taylor; A mirage of beautiful air - feature on Liz Renay; Anyone for Survival? - not so long ago, fallout shelters were the hot topic of discussion; A sentimental journey to Dracula's Hometown - Borgo Pass in the Romanian People's Republic; Lyndon Johnson's Religion - the President holds to a surprising faith, and it has an uncanny influence on him; Light-Heavyweight Boxing's World Champion Willie Pastrano - champion of nonviolence. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, May 22, 1965 *I SPIED FOR THE RUSSIANS*
Features: The World is Mean to Millionaires - J. Paul Getty; ; The Soviet Spymasters; My Wife, The Critic - by Marvin Kitman; I Spied for the Russians (Part I) - Robert Glenn Thompson reveals how the Soviets recruited him, what kind of information they wanted, and how he got it; The Meaning of the Selma, Alabama March (with incredible photos); How Much Can You Take - testing the limits of human endurance for the sake of space exploration; Soviet Fashions - a hesitant bit of Glamour; I wrote "The Drinking Man's Diet" - Robert Wernick. (Red) Colour Corvair ad. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 2, 1963
Features: England's place in the sun - Selwyn Lloyd; Birmingham, Alabama - a City in fear as racial violence smolders in this Deep South inderbox - with black and white photos; The new pulse of Australia - Jolly swagmen, kangaroos and tough outback cowboys are waltzing, like Matilda, toward a new destiny; Buck$ Benny Rides Again - the world's best-paid comedian, Jack Benny, still 39, returns to Broadway after a 32-year absence; Why I Didn't Quit the Ministry - by Norman Vincent Peale; Funny Side of the Bunny Business - a new Playboy Club whirls in a tangle of corn, beefs and cabbage; Dishrags to Riches - The Saga of Heloise Cruse; The Convict Volunteers - when scientists need human guinea pigs to submit to cancer shots or to test drugs, thousands of prisoners step forward, for surprising reasons; Atomic Bombs for Everyone - the exclusive 'nuclear club' may become crowded with new members including Egypt, Indonesia, the Congo. Absolutely *fantastic* colour full-page ad for 12 huge Cadillac models of varying colours. Book
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