Earth’s Core Might Be Vast Gold and Heavy Elements
A Carnegie Institution scientist argues the Earth's crust rests on a mantle of lighter elements with vast quantities of heavier metals like gold and platinum trapped below. He suggests the molten Earth dragged these elements upward during formation, leaving a core rich in heavy metals and a surrounding mantle of progressively lighter layers.
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Carnegie Institute
Meare
Washington
Carnegie Institution of
Washington, DC
Sr W
Deonaia
Mother Ke U
Dr. Washiks
Lord Kelvin
Elas
Screenings For Fattening Cattle Prove Effective Feed
Experimental feeding test at Coeaat antes Que Experimental Station shows wheat screenings from large grain elevators are an excellent feed for fattening cattle. Two groups of eight steers fed hay ensilage and a mix of ground corn oats barley and bran or mixed screenings and bran both averaged 1.44 and 1.25 pounds daily gain over six months, with screenings costing 40 cents per hundred pounds less. Mill screenings touted as a future abundant market feed for cattle and hogs, safe in grain blends.
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Coeaat Antes Que
Feed Trade Ag
Manitoba Fisheries Report Notes Low Catch Still Extends Season
Canadian fisheries officials report an approximate 606 400 pounds dressed fish taken from Winnipeg Lake this year. Fishing was poor and the summer catch may not reach 2 000 000 pounds, prompting authorities to extend the season to aid fishermen. A whale can swim twelve miles per hour.
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Winnipeg
Bentonite in Western Canada: Gumbo soil cause and uses
The Mines Branch notes bentonite occurrences in Alberta and British Columbia with Keele's early record. Bentonite swells markedly when wet, forming jelly like masses, and contributes to the gumbo soil problematic for transport while offering uses such as paper filler and deinking of newsprint. Research explores road waterproofing with bitumen sands and other potential industrial applications.
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Department of Mine
HS Spence
Spence
Dia
Sesuel Inc
Joseph Keele
Alberta
Ter
Deer River
Nikola Valley
British Columbia
Keele
University
Canada
McMurray District
Canadian Telephone Use Tops World Except United States
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada has more telephones per 100 people than all but the United States. British Columbia leads with 15.19 phones per 100, followed by Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, and others. Since 1911, total telephones rose 212 percent by end of 1922 while population grew 24.95 percent. Saskatchewan shows the fastest growth since 1914. Ontario follows. Telephone revenue rose 7 percent with 4 percent lower operating costs, netting a $2,686,001.4 gain.
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Canada
United States
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ganadda
British Columbia
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Prince Edward Island
Dominion
Tery
Globe
Beltish Isles
Republic
Eod
Salt Production in Canada Reaches 1922 Total
Canada produced 182 438 tons of salt in 1922 with about 18 794 tons valued at 1 628 320 marketed. Sales rose 10 511 tons or 6.6 percent from 1921 while value fell 45 562 dollars or 2.7 percent. Ontario remained the leading producer with 7.2 percent of sales and Nova Scotia shipments from the Melagash mine totaled 6 053 tons of common coarse land and rock salt.
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Canada
Ontario
Nova Scotia
Melagash
Chinese Sailors and Superstitions Trim the Sea
The article notes Chinese sailors practice rites to appease the Wind God before voyages, offering pork fruit and candies and hanging long scrolls of paper with designs to mislead the god. It also states Britain supplies a quarter of global coal but reserves may last about five hundred years at current consumption rates.
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Jim
Great Britain
Britain
Montreal harbor works boost grain flow capacity for 1924
Completion of harbor upgrades raises Windmill Point elevator storage to 2 250 000 bushels and loading to 96 000 bushels per hour. Four new shipping dories will join operations this month to handle increased grain traffic. A side note mentions the average spider lifespan of four years, with some individuals living up to thirteen.
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Montreal
Windmill Point
Record Settlement Flows From U S To Western Canada Rise
The United States continues to send settlers to Western Canada with a growing rate of immigration tied to prairie expansion and new homesteading. Canadian newsprint capacity expands near Winnipeg with a $3,000,000 plant and 120 tons daily initial capacity. Many American settlers arrive with substantial funds, purchasing large tracts and boosting agricultural development in the western provinces.
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Winnipeg
Preirie
Gillam
Belevead
Uray
Nile We Herm
United States
Pagirie
Middle Western
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
Remarkable Rise in Alberta Butter Production 1923
Alberta produced an estimated 18,000,000 pounds of butter in 1923, up from 3,010,755 pounds in 1912. Dairy Commissioner C. P. Marker notes 63 creameries in 1912 vs 64 in 1922, with values rising from $823,500 to $5,126,843 and per-pound prices moving from 27.352 to 33.25 cents.
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Alberta
C. P. Marker
butte#r
Marker
Amundsen Plane To Enter Northwest Passenger Service
A. H. Hanmer announces plans to place Roald Amundsen’s five passenger Junkers airplane in commercial service between Seattle and Vancouver. Several Seattle capitalists are negotiating to purchase the craft to join a proposed fleet for northwest air routes.
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Roald Amundsen
Junker
North Pole
Seattle
Vancouver
A. 11
Hammer
Annungsen
Northwest
Hanmer State
Bayer Aspirin Trade Marks and Influx of Settlers in Canada
An ad notes Bayer Aspirin branding with the Bayer cross and warns against imitations. It mentions inexpensive boxes of twelve tablets and tablet packs of twenty four and one hundred. A Canada trade mark is cited and 1924 settler influx predictions are linked to the Western Canada Colonization Association with 225 agencies active. Japan orders toothpicks from Maine and arranges a second carload shipment in September.
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Mayer
Canada
Rayer
Bayer
Bayer Company
United States
Sfoward Everett
Western Canada Colonization Association
Calgary
Republic
Japan
Strohz
Maine
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Greer Arins
Earth
Hobbs
Venus
Mars
Tama
Manitoba Fisheries
Western
EB Jenkins
the Clarion, Cabri, Sask
Domiion Bureau of Statistics
U.S
Amundsen
S.S
Australia
Tokyo
OrLs
Winard
Minard
Misia
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