Protection Of Game Supply In Northwest Territories
Government steps to protect caribou and native food sources in the Northwest Territories include five wildlife preserves totaling 241,500 square miles and wolf destruction drives. A 1925 expedition bagged 186 wolves and 2 wolverines, reducing annual caribou losses and pelts damage, signaling substantial wildlife protection progress.
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Northwest Territories
Departments of the Interior
Territories
Yukon
Great Slave Lake
Port Smith
Motor Tourists Flood B C Roads In Record Year
Victoria reports a surge in cross border travel with 16 176 foreign cars entering British Columbia from 19 points last year carrying 556 713 passengers. The prior year saw 75 608 cars and 4 405 passengers. Road mileage grew nearly fivefold in nine years while total provincial road and bridge spending reached 56 000 000 dollars.
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Columbia
Victoria
B.C
British Columbia
Mimmariet Pad
Mountain Lions and Catnip Fascination Described
A biologist at the predatory animal centre of the Colorado Fish Game and Forest Protective Association notes that mountain lions respond to catnip similar to domestic cats. He says mountain lions gather in food patches where catnip oil is poured, showing kittenlike behavior.
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Predatory Animal Centre
Colorado Fish, Game and Forest Protective Association
Optical Mishap Prompts Laughable Moment at Shop
An amused scene unfolds as a visitor misreads a device on display. The optician explains the instrument is an optical motonomester while the visitor, tracking its purpose, mutters a wary remark about its nature. The exchange ends with a shy retreat.
Reporters seek protective badges for noncombatant status
In Paris during riots reporters fear misguided police actions. They urge authorities to issue small badges to identify journalists as noncombatants to prevent harm amid disturbances.
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Paris
Starting an Early Garden With Hotbeds and Cold Frames
Amateur gardeners should build hotbeds or cold frames 18 inches high at back 6 inches at front using two sash units. Set hotbeds in pits filled with fermenting horse manure to heat the bed. cold frames sit on soil and protect seeds from weather. Prepare manure by turning mixing and moistening until it steams, then place in pit or on surface as weather allows.
Peculiar Swiss Cheese Family Registers
In the cheese regions of Switzerland couples receive a register cheese from friends on their wedding day. The cheese bears carvings of births marriages and deaths and serves as a family register kept for generations. Some records date to the mid 1600s. At Gessenay agricultural fair many such heirloom cheeses are shown, including one from 1660 belonging to a country squire near Gessenay.
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Switzerland
Gessenay
Buffalo Scientist Documents Massive Wild Bison Study
Alberta University zoologist Professor William Konap shares field notes from the Slave River country observing giant buffalo in Salt River plains. He records measurements of height five feet nine and a half inches, length ten feet four inches, weight two thousand two hundred pounds and stomach contents, recounting the pursuit and eight-bullet kill of a bull specimen amid heavy rain.
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Alberta University
Slave River
Salt River
Canada
Willam Konap
Parry
Food Value Of Candy Calorie Equivalents
A historical note lists candy items and amounts to supply about 100 calories. Peppermint creams, chocolate coated variants, caramels, sugar almonds, marshmallows, and other confections are quantified to show energy content. It emphasizes candy as a means to raise energy intake.
Propaganda and petitions quoted by the Portland Oregonian
The Portland Oregonian notes that petitions attract easy signatures from people of all ranks. It argues a plausible propagandist can secure many names for nearly any public petition, labeling signers as easy marks or suckers for get rich quick schemes.
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Portland Oregonian
Yukon garden blooms as Mrs Black tends northern flora
Mrs George Black wife of Yukon MP in Canada compares the far north to a garden praising Yukon flora since 189% arrival. She claims to have gathered 460 wild flower varieties and notes Dawson sweet peas reaching sixteen feet, describing the land as rich and fertile.
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George Black
Yukon
Mra. Black
Dawson
Porter retires after 55 years with no reprimands
The Giher Gay, a Pullman porter, retires after 55 years with the company and a spotless record. He quotes his mother's advice never to quarrel with a fool, a lesson he says applies to all workers, even those in humble positions.
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Pullman
Detroit Free Press
Very Obliging Shopkeeper and the Soft Hat
A shopkeeper recalls a polite customer who asked for a hat suited to his head and left after being shown a soft one. The anecdote highlights a small moment of choice and courtesy in a retail encounter.
Windmills of Holland Face Decline and Preservation
The Dutch countryside, famed for windmills, sees these structures disappear as modern power shifts to steam and electricity. Officials and citizens mobilize to save remaining mills and restore those abandoned, keeping a piece of national heritage alive for future use.
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Holland
Zaandamly
Low Countries
Alberta Stockmen Benefit From Mild Winter Weather
Alberta stockmen report a mild winter with no heavy snow. Livestock have thrived and are in better than usual condition for this season, many not needing any hay. Animals forage easier as snow is scarce.
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Alberta
Canadian Lamb Exports Rise Sharply in 1925
Twenty six thousand head of lambs left Canadian stock wards and abattoirs in 1925, up from 9000 in 1924. Mutton and lamb exports topped 1.5 million pounds, well above the previous year's figure under 260 thousand pounds.
Canada launches all cattle transatlantic liner SS Ontario
The Livestock Steamships Limited introduces the all cattle transport service from Eastern Canada to Britain. The SS Ontario sailed from Saint John on January 2 with 1,168 Canadian cattle to Glasgow, first of four sister ships. The vessel has five steel decks, runways and elevators, and turbine ventilation enabling rapid turnover on a 27 day round trip.
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Canada
Great Britain
Eeattle
Ontario
Saint John
Glasgow
Dominion
Livestock Steamships Limited
H. P. Kennedy
Livestock Producers of Canada
Albert Jensen
Copenhagen
London
Toronto
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Mr. Kennedy
U.S. Ontario
Cattle Industry of
Jack Miner Crow Controversy Blazes Over Bird Sanctuary
The account discusses Jack Miner’s wildlife work since 1904, his claim of changing migration routes for geese and swans, public reaction to his crow killings, and calls for support amid debate on crows versus other songbirds. It notes his sanctuary actions and interior department involvement.
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Jack Miner
Niagara Falls
Came
Daily Press
Ine
Arctic
J. B. Harkins
Hayes. Lloyd
Department of Interior
Deck Miner
Pineapple Fibre Cloth Emerges as France Trials New Fabric
French experiments turn pineapple fibre into a fabric resembling a silk cambric blend. The material rivals cotton in durability and reflects African origins where natives long used the fibre for nets.
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France
Africa
New Button Service Hires Room Near Bank of England
Two women run a small sewing business in a single room near the Bank of England, offering button sewing for London’s bachelors. They found landladies rarely provide needed needlework for lodgers, a long familiar issue.
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London
Bank of England
Misquoted Exchange Reveals Strain in Household
In a brief exchange, Mrs. Sound accuses her husband of laziness while Mrs. Pound comments that a postcard on his desk has gone unread for a week, claiming he cannot read it because it is wrong ide up.
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Mrs. Sound
Mrs. Pound
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