One Horse Country Tales From Canada's Early Farms
Allan Strathgrass recounts how Canada was a one horse country for eighteen years after 1647. Champlain brought cattle in 1608, horses appeared in 1647, and by 1698 horse breeding exploded before government limits in 1709. Pigs, cattle, and other livestock followed, shaping early Quebec farms.
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Canada
Allan Strathgrass
Farmer's Advocate
North American
Eohippus
St. Lawrence
Champlain
Quebec
Normandy
New France
Governmnt
Montreal
France
Montmagny
Honfleur
Nicholas Boucher
Mathematical Wonder Mile Osaka Demonstrates Extraordinary Memory
The Metaphysical Institute of Paris reports Mile Osaka a 22 year old woman can raise numbers to the tenth power mentally and extract tenth roots in under a minute. She can recall up to 20 numbers given orally in any order, and upon hearing 48 digits at two per second can reproduce them exactly. She explains figures appear as if written on a mental blackboard.
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The
Metaphysical Institute of
Paris
Mile
Osaka
Inauchi
Paganini
Easy Tales of Dead and Living Legends Across Time
The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes that rumors of famous figures living after death or disappearance persist across eras. It cites Lord Kitchener, Jesse James, Charlie Ross, John Wilkes Booth, and T. E. Lawrence as enduring subjects of belief and legend despite historical outcomes.
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Lord Kitchener
Hampshire
Jesse James
Charlie Ross
Philadelphia
United States
John Wilkes Booth
T. E. Lawrence
England
Memphis
Telescope once owned by King to aid London boys
Minchenden School in London received a telescope that once belonged to the King. The instrument will be housed in a new observatory the pupils are building under their science master. Seventy students belong to the school astronomical society and aim to contribute data to the British Astronomical Association which lent the telescope.
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Minchenden School
London
School Astronomical Society
British Astronomical Association
In Memoriam A Yorkshireman Round London Tale
An American and a Yorkshireman cross a busy corner to test traffic. The American boasts about walking with eyes closed as a safer path. The Yorkshireman recalls a man who tried and made it, but with a marble obstacle in his way.
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London
Northern Hammerfest Claims World’s Far North City Tag
A note cites Hammerfest in Norway as the northernmost city in the world. It mentions Mis sissippi valley mounds used as golf hazards and a claim about asparagus’s ancient culinary use.
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Mississippi Valley
Hammerfest
Norway
Autos And Lightning Sparks Fatal Detroit Driver Death
A Detroit doctor died near Dunnville Ontario when lightning struck a car and caused a high speed crash into a Hydro post. The article notes that rain saturates cars making them good conductors while metal buildings with steel frames and plumbing provide safer shelter during storms.
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Detroit
Dunnville
Ontario
Hydro
Hamilton Spectator
Words Define Vocabulary Size Across Professions
A discussion cites Dr. C K Ogden in the London Times noting a tea shop waitress uses 7000 to 8000 words while a skilled lawyer uses 50000. Churchill is credited with about 60000 words and scientists up to 80000. Japan and China publish compact dictionaries of 900 and 850 words respectively. The piece concludes that words serve ideas and usefulness depends on the ideas shared.
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C. K. Ogden
London Times
Winston Churchill
Japan
Christian Science Monitor
Canada tubs cattle move to US eased after August
The United States will admit cattle from modified accredited areas in Canada after August 1 1935 without further tuberculin testing as an extension of prior practice. The policy applies where all cattle are tuberculin tested and disease is under 0.5 percent, with health certificates still required as a safeguard.
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United States
Canada
Bureau of Animal Industry
Bank of England Garden Link to Past and Silent Grave
The Bank of England’s forthcoming rebuild will erase the historic garden linking to the Church of St. Christopher le Stocks graveyard. It notes a claimant tale of Herbert Jenkins, a seven foot six inch bank clerk buried inside the Bank walls at midnight with a gold scoop, amid fears of body-snatching. The piece also briefly mentions ants using plaster on broken legs and defines the ionosphere as the earth’s high altitude ionized shell.
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Bank of England
St. Christopher-le- Stocks
Herbert Jenkins
Overseas Daily Mail
Taking camp fire pictures with Photoflash lamp
John van Guilder explains how to capture camp-fire photos using the Photoflash lamp. Advice covers lighting, subject placement, finder visibility, avoiding lens flare, and keeping smoke from the lens. A box camera with a large stop can also yield good night pictures.
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U.S. 4
John van Guilder
Death-Ray and Multilingual Talkie Device From Britain
A Budapest inventor touts a device to synchronize five languages on a film soundtrack allowing projection in any language at the flip of a switch. In England, Harry Grindel Matthews claims a death ray will disrupt aircraft and enemy engines, with plans for rocket planes and steel wire defences around London. Col. Etherton reports on Matthews’s lab secrecy and ambitious aims for submarines, disease germs, and air defenses.
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Budapest
England
Harry Grindel Matthews
Col
P. T. Etherton
Matthews
London
Etherton
Grindell-Matthews
Britain
Buried City Found Beneath Vienna During Pipe Work
A vast subterranean city lies under Austria's capital, uncovered when new pipelines were laid in Zoller Gasse. Nine story deep structures and passages reach 120 feet below ground, with underground halls 36 by 20 by 15 feet, brick lined walls, and a maze of galleries spanning square miles. An underground cemetery with bones and coffins and a vaulted catacombal chapel with wall paintings were also found.
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Austria
Zoller Gasse
Vienna
New rust resistant spring wheat offers hope in Northwest fields
Dr. E C Stakman of the University of Minnesota notes a new rust resisting spring wheat has proven valuable in Northwest plague conditions but seed is scarce. He suggests using Thatcher seed with Marquillo to expand planting though Marquillo’s flour turns yellow.
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Northwest
E. C. Stakman
University of Minnesota
Revival of discarded plants earns show hopeful
Peter Podneck, a Rockfeller Centre doorman, rescues plants discarded by exhibitors at Horticultural Hall. He replants them at home and debuts revived specimens at the first annual tenant and employee flower show, prompting expectations of a prize from connoisseurs.
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Peter Podneck
Rockfeller Centre
New York
Horticultural Hall
Eligible Indian to Vote in Alberta and Dominion Elections
King Bears paw, a Stoney Indian hunting guide and prospector living west of High River near Pekisko, is believed to be the only red man in southern Alberta eligible to cast ballots this year. He left the Stoney reservation years ago, surrendering his treaty rites.
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Alberta
Dominion
Canada
King Bearspaw
High River
Stoney Reservation
Pekisko
Coffee From Ethiopia In World Market Ranking
The Harar district of Ethiopia produces coffee ranked next to Mocha in the world market, per the National Geographic Society. If war halts Ethiopian labor, some people would go without their morning coffee.
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Occidentals
Harar
Ethiopia
National Geographic Society
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M. de Montmagny
Louis XIV
Quebec Jerseys
Quebec Province
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Memoriam
Bavaria
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Mead
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