Fleming's Folly and the Irrigation Gamble
Link Fleming addresses Boone County cattlemen on a plan to form an irrigation company. Roper Kilgo manipulates the scene while Soak Torney wavers. Helen Hamilton, owner of the Triple H, pleads for in, despite Buzz Hamilton’s hostility, as fear of ruin drives ranchers toward action.
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Link Fleming
Boone County
Roper Kilgo
Soak Torney
Kilgo
Hamiltons
Buzz Hamilton
Link
Roper
Trailend Hotel
Mr. Fleming
Loak Torney
Torney
Fleming
Buzz
Helen Hamilton
Triple H
Loak
Father
Ohio
Buster Townsend
Hamilton
Helen
To Be Continued Scene of Tension at the Spread
Pluseed anger rises as a man weighs his next move while Roper Kilgo offers a sugary smile and invites Helen to ride out to the spread. Kilgo speaks of long anticipation and privacy, hinting at intimate conversation away from others.
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Roper Kilgo
Helen
Botanist H T Gussow Nominated Honorary Dutch Society Member
Ottawa Dominion botanist H T Gussow of the Experimental Farms Branch has been named an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Horticultural and Botanical Society as recognition of his worldwide contributions to horticulture. Gussow served as Dominion Botanist since 1910 and helped establish Canada's plant pathology service.
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H. T. Gussow
Ottawa
Dominion
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Royal Netherlands Horticultural and Botanical Society
Holland
Canada
Gussow
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Association
American Plant Pathological Society
International Agricultural Institute
Rome
Canadian Phytopathological Society
Royal Society of Canada
British Museum
British Royal Society
Linnean Society
Royal Horticultural Society
British Association of Biology
Societe Mycologique de France
Verinigung Fur Angewandte Botanik
Societe Pathologie Vegetale de France
Doctor Livingstone Alive Denies Death Rumor
Dr. L. D. Livingstone in charge of Chesterfield Inlet hospital NW T says he is very much alive. The death rumor began after Reginald Orcutt of the New York Explorers’ Club heard Eskimos tell of the physician’s death in Greenland. Orcutt later queried a Saskatoon paper. Ottawa radio relayed the query, and Livingstone replied, If I am dead I don’t know enough to lie down.
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L. D. Livingstone
Chesterfield Inlet
N.W.T
Churchill
Greenland
Reginald Orcutt
New York Explorers’ Club
Copenhagen
Livingstone
Botanical Garden Planned for Toronto
A committee led by Sir Robert Falconer aims to establish Canada’s first botanical garden in Toronto. The project, presented before the Royal Canadian Institute, seeks to study plant growth nutrition disease and breeding while including landscape gardening and gardener training facilities.
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Sir Robert Falconer
Toronto
Canada
Royal Canadian Institute
The Hole in the Wall Tavern in Chancery Lane
A historic English tavern named The Hole in the Wall stood at Chancery Lane No 39 for many years. Hazlitt mentioned it in 1811 and it was very popular with boxers.
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England
Chancery-lane
No. 39
Hazlitt
Bank of Montreal Reports Higher Assets and Lower Profits
At the annual meeting the Bank of Montreal disclosed assets of 792.8 million dollars for the year ending October 31, up from 759.1 million a year earlier. Profits after taxes totaled 3.005 million, down from 3.204 million, with taxes cited as the main cause. Sir Charles Gordon urged public understanding that lower interest rates for deposits reflect government and central bank pressure.
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Bank of Montreal
Charles Gordon
Central Bank
Great Scot Buchan Named Governor General of Canada
Irvin S. Cobb lauds John Buchan in Ottawa as Baron Tweedsmuir Governor General praising his humor kindness and wartime leadership. Cobb notes Buchan’s varied talents from author to diplomat and even a trout fly casting scene.
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Col
John Buchan
Sir John Buchan
Ottawa
Baron Tweedsmuir
Irvin S. Cobb
UC Develops Ultra Cold Thermometer for Absolute Zero
Professor W. F. Giauque and Dr. D. P. MacDougall at the University of California unveiled a thermometer capable of reading to one tenth of a degree near absolute zero. They claim no prior instrument could measure the last degree of temperature accurately. The device aims to reveal phenomena that occur at extreme cold.
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University of California
W. F. Giauque
D. P. MacDougall
Pay For Luxuries W L Coffey Keeps 500 Leghorn Hens
At Granite Falls North Carolina W L Coffey keeps 500 White Leghorn hens in a five story apartment house with private perches and luxuries for each bird. He notes they pay for what they get and lay more eggs for the market basket. A contrasting fact mentions an elephant has one molar tooth per side and can renew that tooth six times in a lifetime.
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W. L. Coffey
Granite Falls
N.C
Coffey
Little Helps For This Week
A devotional exhortation based on TI Thessalonians 2 12 urging readers to accept their providential lot and adapt to their circumstances, showing love for their people and contentment in season. It quotes a godly man about appreciating one’s esteemed place and timing in life.
China Clipper completes inaugural transpacific mail flight
The China Clipper ended its inaugural mail flight to Manila and return on December 6 at 11 36 am M S T. The seaplane covered 2400 miles from Honolulu in 17 hours one minute, part of an 8000 mile return trip totaling 63 hours 28 minutes. The 16000 mile round trip took 123 hours 15 minutes, after departing Alameda November 22 with stops at Honolulu Midway Wake Island and Guam.
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Manila
M.S.T
Honolulu
Pan American Airways
Alameda
Calif
Midway
Wake Islands
Guam
British Sub Sea Wolf Launched at Greenock Scotland
The Sea Wolf, a Swordfish class submarine, was launched at Greenock Scotland. It measures 202 feet six inches and displaces 640 tons surfaced and 935 tons submerged.
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Greenock
Scotland
Ceylon Cotton Tree Drops Leaves in Dry Weather
The Ceylon cotton tree sheds its leaves during dry periods to conserve water stored in its trunk and branches, a natural adaptation to arid conditions.
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MNA
Bob
Matt Benson
Otto Pieper
Silver Creek
Pieper
Otto
Sam Bass
Star Loop
Sam
Bass
Orrey Jackson
John Mulrooney
Marty Bush
Mulrooney
John
Bush
Marty
Jackpot Mell
Tomney
Ellen Glasgow
DR. Mallory
Alan Hart
Solomon Levi
Claudius Gregory
London
H. V. Morton
Orient
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Schrink
Claudius
Robert Graves
Robert
George J. McLeod, Ltd
King St W
Ontario
Netherlands Society
Jackson Dodds
Robert Louis Stevenson
A. A
Rane Ee
Ses
Calga
Edmonton
Regina
Winnipeg
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