Canada Dairy Output Rises Across Nine-Year Span to 1937
Canada’s milk production climbed for nine straight years, reaching nearly 17 billion pounds in 1937, up about 200 million from 1936. Butter and cheese led processing, with butter 66 percent of output and cheese prices boosting 1937 values. creamery butter fell slightly, milk cows rose by 66,500 from 1936 to 1937, and exports or prices improved into 1938.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ontario
Quebec
Dominion Departments of Agriculture and of Trade and Commerce
United Kingdom
New Zealand
King George VI Flies Again Acknowledges Wartime Wings
The New York Times notes Britain's King George VI flew recently, the second royal aviation trip since ascending the throne thirteen months earlier. He earned his wings during World War I and became a wing commander in the Royal Air Force. Palace officials indicate he will enplane to return to Sandringham estate.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Britain
George
Royal Air Force
George VI
Edward VII
Sandringham
Webster's
New York Times
A Worth-While Invention Demonstrated in Leipzig
A remarkable invention on show in Leipzig can close windows and doors automatically at the first sign of moisture. It activates as soon as rain or snow begins, sealing openings promptly. The scene shifts to a family exchange where an employer notes honesty and a mother affirms her son’s scrupulous honesty in business.
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Leipzig
Bridge rebuilt after 110 years demands new outfit
The famed suspension bridge linking the Welsh coast to Anglesey, designed by Thomas Telford, is to have its 580 foot span rebuilt with steel carriageway and high tensile chains. Work overseen by Alexander Gibb, descendant of a former engineer, aims to restore the structure after fears of shakiness.
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Falls View
Brooklyn Bridge
George Washington Bridge
Southey
Menais Strait
Wales
Anglesey
Ireland
Thomas Telford
Institution of Civil Engineers
Telford
Alexander Gibb
Buffalo Courier-Express
First Bell Telephone Reach in British Columbia Traced
A 60 year old note recalls Bell Telephone history with McMicking receiving two talking boxes shipped from Brantford by Rev. Thomas Henderson on February 13 1878. The devices demonstrated long distance voice and music and led to 50 more orders and McMicking establishing a Pacific Coast agency and later a Victoria company. Professor Melville Bell predicted global reach later achievements across continents.
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British Columbia
Bell Telephone
Brass
McMicking
Brantford
Thomas Henderson
Bell
MecMicking
Henderson
Sheridan Street
Pacific Coast Agency
Victoria
Mauretania Nears Completion at Birkenhead Yard
The Cunarder Mauretania, the largest product of England's shipyards, has seven of ten decks finished at Birkenhead. The 33 000-ton liner, to be launched July 28 by Lady Bates, will employ about 150,000 people before its maiden voyage in 1939. It features extensive third class facilities, twenty public rooms, air conditioning in several salons, and a largely electric system with standard keeps fit design.
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England
Birkenhead
Lady Bates
Percy Bates
Line
Just One Drawback Indr from Wholesale Drapery Tale
The son of a wholesale drapery proprietor joins the business and travels to the road. He dislikes the counting house duties, enjoys social hotel life, but finds calling on drapers the chief drawback on his first sales tour.
Little Girl Misreads News Of Mr Foster’s Death
A country gentlewoman's daughter named Joan idolizes a garageman, Mr Foster, who dies of a heart attack. Her mother hides the news by moving to a new garage, and Joan remarks that Mr Foster had two pumps, revealing her literal misreading of the situation.
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Joan
Mr. Foster
Robert Taylor
The Big Bonspiel Skips and crews cry, shout, and sweep through curling
A lively Winnipeg Free Press account describes the rink ritual as skips adjust gloves bend hats and raise brooms while thirds seconds and leads shout and sweep. One rocksman boasts nine shots in the house and another departs in silent defeat the flavor note adds a playful aside on taste and smell.
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Art
Sam
Edinburgh
Winnipeg Free Press
Honest People In Ontario Purses And Proscriptions
Several true tales from Hanover and Barrie recall honest acts. A Hanover woman’s ten dollar bill reappears after she advertised its loss. A Barrie girl returns forty four point one five dollars found in a purse. A 14 year old pupil finds and returns a hundred dollars to a farmer after prompt publication. The column contrasts these deeds with Diogenes’s search for an honest man.
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Hanover Ontario, Post
Hanover
Barrie
Diogenes
Yonkers street car heater device questioned by riders
Passengers report the automatic heater often fails to activate below 40 degrees so they roll down a window to force warmth. Veterans say the system isn’t infallible and rely on manual cooling to trigger heat.
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Yonkers
N.Y
Fire and Wedding Customs Across Europe
The text describes Dutch and Hungarian courtship traditions. In Holland a suitor visits with cake and a silent approach, awaiting the girl’s signal. if she approves, the cake is cut and the union proceeds, otherwise he leaves. In Hungary, Cupid delays until the wedding day with a wagon transport of the bride and a later feast with music and dancing.
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Holland
Chicago Tribune
Hungary
Cupid
First Insured Car Marks Fortieth Anniversary
The first automobile liability policy issued by Travellers to Dr. Truman J. Martin of Buffalo on February 1 marks the fortieth anniversary. Written by Walter G. Cowles, the longhand contract covered an electric car bought in 1897, with a premium of 11.25 dollars for liability limits from five thousand to ten thousand dollars. U S Weekly Underwriter notes discuss agriculture as safer than government props and compares German motor travel to prior year levels.
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Truman J. Martin
Buffalo
New York
Walter G. Cowles
U.S
U S Death Rate Falls Among Insured in 1937
The United States insured death rate dropped to 82 per 1000 in 1937, down 2.1 percent from 1936, with major declines in typhoid, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, nephritis, and maternal mortality. Canada also shows declines in several causes, despite nephritis rising. The overall death rate declines parallel gains in preventive medicine and public health.
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United States
Canada
Federal Department of Pensions and National Health
Insurance Company
Judge Foiled by Castor Oil Honey Deception
Alex M. Stewart of Ailsa Craig told the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies in Toronto that a judge's three straight first prizes for amber honey were exposed when a new judge tasted a jar. The contents proved to be castor oil, revealing the ruse.
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Alex. M. Stewart
Ailsa Craig
Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies
Toronto
Suggestions from the Police Department booklet issued to Winnetka residents
Winnetka residents receive a small safety manual titled Suggestions from the Police Department. It advises simple steps for burglars to call the police by using a phone and speaking in a low voice, providing practical home security tips.
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Winnetka
Chicago
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Hamble
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Germany
Westminster Abbey
Great
Talbot
William de Valance
First Earl of Pembroke
Hawaii
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