Newsprint From Wheat Straw May Compete With Wood
Straw pulp advances in Italy and Canada promise cheaper newsprint. Edmonton plant aims to produce paper from straw with 80 percent straw content, 22 percent lower costs, and 14 tons daily output in Naples and Dusei mills. Canada remains a leading exporter of wood pulp and cereal resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Stes
Avks
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ttawa
Canada
Edmonton
Italy
Natural Resources Service
Tallon
Planta
Societa Elettrochimica Pomilio
Naples
Societa Italiana di Elettrochimica
Dusei
Pomilio
United States
Sprouting Potatoes Extends Planting Window At Invermere
Experimental results at Invermere station show potatoes may be planted any time from May 1 to June 15 with sprouting. Sprouted seed produced earlier harvests. in tests May 15 sprouted crop reached August 3 versus August 10 for non sprouted. Yields higher for sprouted lots though non sprouted sometimes edged ahead. Sprouting done by warm dimly lit storage for three weeks before planting producing sturdy shoots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Invermere
Wee Macgregor
Abyssinia Starts School for Freed Slaves in Capital
Through the British Foreign Office the Abyssinian Regent lias Taffart has secured help from the Anti Slavery Society to establish a school in the capital for poor children and freed slaves, marking progress after criticism of delays in ending slavery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abyssinia
British Foreign Office
Lias Taffart
First Dominion Day Recalled by Toronto Cab Driver
Toronto cab driver Charte Abbott now remembered as perhaps the oldest driver recalls the first Dominion Day in 1867. His cab was hired by Alderman John Carr, chairman of the Fireworks Committee, for a modest Queen's Park display that closed Dominion Day with a Royal Artillery and Body Guard review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Abbott
Dominion
John Carr
Toronto
Queen's Park
Dominion Lay
Royal Artillery
Charming youthful frock with shirred side sections
Winnipeg pattern description for a daytime and evening frock with shirred sides, long fitted sleeves, and a V neck with lace vestee. Notes on color accents, sizes 16 to 20 years, fabric yardage requirements, lace, and pricing for pattern No. 1546 and the Fashion Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
View A
View I
Time Ball at Trai Signal Tower Pensions Off
The Trai Signal Tower timethrow ball, once dropped to signal ships and set chronometers, is retired as wireless time signals render it obsolete. The tower, last of a chain from the Admiralty, began in 1862 using electric release and compressed air to cushion the ball’s fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trai
Goodwin Sands
Admiralty
Greenwich
London
Wireless
A French Mechanical Thinker Reminds Executives of Tasks
A French invention, a mechanical desk device, records appointments and ideas. It signals time by a lever and bell, prompting the executive to read their memoranda when the moment arrives. The piece ends with a moral note on virtue and mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Planting and Pruning Roses For Gardens And Climbers
Advice from the Ontario Horticultural Association authorizes April or May planting with careful root preparation and pruning. Hybrids require spacing three feet for Hybrid Perpetuals and two feet for Hybrid Teas, Baby Ramblers need about one and a half feet. pruning focuses on removing dead growth and shaping strong shoots above grafts. The piece also notes climbers and ramblers, and ends with a quip about silver foxes and a haunted house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hf. J. Moore
Ontario Horticultural Association
Hand loom weaving thrives in Denzil Saskatchewan
Hand loom weaving has been introduced in Denzil a Saskatchewan town along the Canadian Pacific Railway. Rev Father John Schultz sparked the interest after travels in Great Britain France Germany Belgium Switzerland and Italy and on his return installed the looms. The venture aims to foster home life in rural districts attract new settlers and support sheep hemp flax farming while enabling farm families to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land
Denzil
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
John Schultz
Great Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Switzerland
Italy
Schultz
Canada Leads World in Raising Domestic Fowl and Alfalfa
An Ottawa era of agricultural guidance highlights Canada as a top nation for poultry and alfalfa. Dominion Field Husbandman E S Hopkins praises Canadian seed, nurse crops, and inoculation. The 1924 World Poultry Congress in Spain cited Canada’s egg production records and the upcoming Ottawa congress aims to showcase Dominion poultry to about seven thousand delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Hopkins
Dominion Field Husbandman
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Hopkins
Canada
Dominion
Spain
Europe
Eitimens
Puzzle for Executors Stokes Will Distributes Estate Unconventionally
Frederick Stokes, inventor of the Stokes gun, wills the residue of his estate in a novel fashion. He leaves it to the children of his brothers and sisters by inverse income, giving more to those in need, plus to the children of his wife's siblings so that his kin receive twice as much as his wife's kin, with the two shares totaling about three fourths of distributable funds. The will grants trustees absolute interpretive power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Stokes
London
Colossal Roman Emperor Statue Found Near Athens
A statue head and bust uncovered at Eleusia near Athens are believed to belong to a Roman emperor. The visible portions measure over 2.5 yards in height, suggesting the full statue stands about 5.5 yards tall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleusia
Athens
A Good Idea About Carrying Money in Multiple Pockets
A writer counsels carrying money in many pockets as a safeguard against embarrassment. The exchange promotes the practice with insistence, claiming more pockets prevent trouble, noting a claim of 2000 tons of dust per square mile near Loramie Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loramie
Wyoming
Prairie crop values surpass world gold output in 1925
The National Resources Intelligence Service reports prairie crops in 1925 valued at 669 million dollars, exceeding the world gold output of 394 million dollars by 270 million. The note adds a grammarian’s view on split infinitives and quotes casual dialogue about marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Word
Prairie Provinces
Canada
National Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Mid
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pers
Alaska
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Greenwich Time
Woreens
J. B. Spencer
Ontario
Horticultural Association
Congress
Edward Brown
Enghand
F. C. Telford
Mominion Poultry Tusbandman
Ernest Rhoades
Transportation Building
George Oliver Currie
Northwestern University
Mr. Newlywed
Jerrs
Jean
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!