Delicate Processes Behind Ottawa Bank Note Production
In a grand Wellington Street facility in Ottawa, the Canadian Bank Company prints government bonds stamps and bank notes. Artists engrave dies by hand ships of linen cotton paper are dampened for pliability and color printings proceed through multiple steps from design to the final three to five color printings before storage in a money-filled vault.
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Ottawa
Wellington Street
The
Canadian Bank Company
Royal Bank
Goshorn
George VI
Bank of Canada
America
Clothing budgets in the Middle West families
A New York World Telegram summary of Dr. Louise Stanley's study shows 3 000 white non relief Midwest families spending on clothing. Husbands average 52 dollars for all clothing. wives 4 dollars more. Hats cost 3 dollars each, shoes 8 dollars. coats 7 for husbands and 12 for wives. underwear 5 for husbands and 10 for wives. High income brackets yield greater spending with husbands 158 and wives 183 at 5 000 dollars or more.
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mid-America
Louise Stanley
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Home Economics
Middle West
Milady
Dr. Stanley
New York World-Telegram
Loans For Seed And Government Guarantees
The Ottawa Journal argues against universal seed loan guarantees, contending drought-area farmers face real crop failure while others may have occasional failures. It warns that broad guarantees would resemble collectivist farming and overstep government role.
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Dominion
Canada
Ottawa Journal
Real Diplomat Sought for Chinaware Handling Job
A prospective employer questions an applicant about chinaware experience. The candidate boasts years of work and explains breaking pieces, saying he repairs them and places them where a customer will knock them over, then charges for the damage. The employer hires him to start immediately.
Knowledge Is Essential for Farmers and Industry
The text argues that farmers educated in agricultural schools sustain the economy by tilling the soil. It contrasts urban artisan decline with rural renewal, praising earth’s renewing powers and the need for science to diversify products. It stresses production, sales, and distribution require modern knowledge, cooperation, and organization.
Radio Car Reporter Tells Loudonville Grass Fire Story
An Albany newspaper assigns a radio reporter to a five metre broadcast unit in its city room. The city editor directs field coverage via shortwave and relays breaking news from a grass fire in Loudonville direct from the scene.
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Albany Y.mc.a
Radio Club
Albany
Loudonville
This Cat is Different
Katherine Bauman’s three year old cat Felix fears mice. A mouse surprised him as a kitten in Humboldt Iowa causing a panic dash for a window curtain and since then Felix has avoided mice entirely.
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Katherine Bauman
Felix
Bauman
Humboldt
Iowa
Sponge Industry Through the Ages
The sponge industry is among the oldest on earth and is frequently mentioned in ancient Greek literature and cited in the Old Testament for its long historical presence.
Iron Can Be Hammered Into a Transparent Sheet
A brief note states iron can be hammered into a transparent sheet. No dates or institutions are provided. The statement highlights a material science concept without further context or results.
Beatitudes in Cross Stitch Fragment
Fragmentary verse lines echo the Beatitudes with garbled text and missing words. The readable phrases mention mercy purity peacemakers and persecuted for righteousness with references to inheritance of the earth and seeing God.
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Fitney
God
Kingdom of Heaven
Game Bird Conservation Plan Endorsed By Canadian Group
At the first annual Ducks Unlimited of Canada meeting in Winnipeg a 3 million dollar drive to fund game birds conservation was outlined. A major project will raise water levels on swamps and marshes in Saskatchewan and across the Dominion with government cooperation. An engineer will survey sites to preserve habitat for early spring duck broods.
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Ducks Unlimited of
Canada
Winnipeg
United States
Sportsman's Corporation
Dominion
W. G. Ross
K.C
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan Fish and Game League
L. H. Barkhausen
Chicago
C. Leigh Spencer
Calgary
E. B. Pitblado
Harold Etory
Milwaukee
Saskatchewan
Protecting health warns half of Canada may have TB
Dr. W. T. Crombie, superintendent of Queen Alexandra Sanitarium in London Ontario and tuberculosis authority, says proper tests would show half of Canadians have tuberculosis though not all should be admitted to sanitoria. He urges protection against care and overwork to avoid illness.
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Canada
America
St. Thomas Times-Journal
W. T. Crombie
Queen Alexandra Sanitarium
London
Ontario
Newspaper reading as daily habit for knowledge
A reader notes that skipping a day of newspapers robs one of current events such as the French premier. The item emphasizes the role of daily paper consumption in staying informed about politics and world affairs.
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France
Trade Buyer Recalled Sir Frederick Marquis Reforms Lewiss Outlets
Sir Frederick Marquis managing director of Lewiss Ltd recalls the trade buyer from Germany and Austria. The firm with stores in Manchester Liverpool Birmingham Leeds and Leicester will not deal in German goods and will seek goods sold with a free conscience to Britons.
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Sir Frederick Marquis
Lewiss, Ltd
Manchester
Liverpool
Birmingham
Leeds
Leicester
Germany
Austria
Frederick
Britain
Pattern 6087 Embroidered Panel Cross Stitch Design
Pattern 6087 describes a 15 by 204 inch panel with color chart and stitch key. It offers transfer instructions and necessary materials, with illustrations of stitches. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave to obtain the pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot
Thatcher Wheat Approved for Manitoba Northern Grades
The Grain Research Committee endorsed including Thatcher rust resistant wheat in all Manitoba Northern grades. Two new rust resistant varieties were approved for further testing as crop test 115 RL197 and 124 RL975. Thatcher from Minnesota, developed in Winnipeg, is expected to be rated No 1 Manitoba Northern grade and equal to Marquis pending board approval. Coronation was rejected for Northern grades after tests in the UK showed different milling characteristics.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners
Thatcher
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Minnesota
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Dominion
England
Coronation
United Kingdom
National Research Council
Dominion Agriculture Department
A Puzzle To Science
The article quotes Professor C Judson Herrick noting the brain’s complexity and how telegraph and radio apparatus pale beside it. It discusses the limits of knowledge about mind, eye, and ear and reflects on whether science creates or discovers what already exists.
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C. Judson Herrick
North America
National Research Council Awards Forty Nine Scholarships
The National Research Council issued a report announcing 49 scholarships for 1938 39. Awards include special grants of 1000 and 750 dollars for Saskatchewan winners and 650 dollar studentship scholarships with university affiliations noted. Bursaries of 550 dollars go to Saskatchewan students in Beechard Kamsack Laird Saskatoon Wolseley and other communities.
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National Research Council
Saskatchewan
A. G. Brown
Lloydminster
McGill
A. D. Hogg
Landis
Toronto
I. B. Cushing
Bechard
Alberta
D. S Pall
Kamsack
K. J. McCallum
Scott
C. N. Pennett
Laird
A. H. Sparrow
Saskatoon
G. Schneider
Wolseley
Queen Mary Seen Examining Tea Sets At Fair
Montreal antique dealer Paul Saks reports Queen Mary, famed as a china expert, inspecting tea sets at the British Industries Fair. King Carol II of Roumania earns much from his vineyards with royal domain revenue around $125,000 annually.
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Queen Mary
China
Paul Saks
Montreal
Europe
Carol II
Roumania
Gas eruption above sun yields record prominence height
Mount Wilson Observatory reports a huge hydrogen and calcium gas cloud 970000 miles above the sun’s atmosphere, blown outward with tornado force to 167000 miles high, 85000 miles wide, and speeds up to 200 miles per second. The sun is in a period of greatest disturbance with multiple sunspots observed.
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Mount Wilson Observatory
Los Angeles
J. O. Hickox
Hickox
McMath-Hulbert Observatory
Pontiac
Mich
Hansard Records Parliament Word Flows and New Stamps
The piece notes 4 to 6 million words flow from the House of Commons each session and are printed in Hansard after. It notes Hansard is well indexed with about 5 000 copies distributed daily. It adds a comic exchange about marriage and a US stamp change featuring Roosevelt and the Statue of Liberty.
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House of Commons
Hansard
United States
Statue of Liberty
Roosevelt
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Alice Brooks
Wae
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Euan Wallace
Science Museum
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Warners
Grain Research Committee
Ates
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