China Developing Resources and Homecoming Call in Windsor
Doctor Teyhi Hsieh argues the new China will attract its diaspora home within 25 years, cite s Canada as a forge of resilience for Chinese immigrants, and notes the Exclusion Act era debts. He stresses Chinese Canadians faced prejudice but contributed, with leaders like laundry workers and restaurateurs poised to guide a reformed China.
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China
Canada
Teyhi Hsieh
Windsor
Ont
Heieh
Cambridge
England
Australia
Geneva
Easton
Wil- Narasport Institute of Politics
National
Chung Hwa News Association
Shanghai
Hsieh
Mining Developments Will Aid Manitoba Industries
The Honourable D. G. McKenzie, Minister of Mines, told the Winni peg Board of Trade Mining Bureau annual meeting that Manitoba industries will gain a large stimulus from mining growth. He noted 1929 saw over $12 million spent on supplies and wages as development began. Gypsumville exposures reach about 130 million tons of gypsum and Turtle Mountain coal estimates total 160 million tons. Manitoba cement output in 1928 reached 693,250 barrels valued at $1,685,054, serving markets from Dryden to Moose Jaw Saskatchewan.
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D. G. McKenzie
Winnipeg Board of Trade Mining Bureau
Manitoba
Gypsumville
Turtle Mountain
Dryden
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
New UV Microscope Photographs Living Cell In Study
Francis F. Lucas of Bell Telephone laboratories explained a microscope using ultraviolet rays that photographs a living cell’s interior to NAS members in Washington. The device is expected to aid research on diseases such as cancer caused by obscure cellular abnormalities.
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National Academy of Sciences At
Washington
Francis F. Lucas
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Lucas
Old Elm Bark Canoe Exhibited at Rooches ter Museum
A single sheet elm bark canoe, a good sample of Iroquois craft used by the Six Nations before European contact, is on display at Rooches ter municipal museum. It is said to be the last surviving example made by the Iroquois who stopped creating them in the early 1800s.
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Roochester
Freshly baked bread warning cited by Nagels Lustige Welt
A quip attributes a warning about drinking water after fresh bread to Nagels Lustige Welt, Bertin. The remark reflects a humorous or cautionary tone in the source text.
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Bertin
Ringling Museum to Open as U S Art Center Idea
The Ringling museum in Sarasota Florida built by John Ringling costs around 20 million and will open to the public next winter. The complex includes a Doges palace style structure rich with Italian columns and art treasures and plans for a nearby art school. A crypt beneath the dome will house the remains of Mabel Ringling and John Ringling.
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Sarasota
Florida
John Ringling
King Cf
Sarasota Bay
United States
America
Europe
John and Mabel Ringling
Ringling
Italy
Father Tiber
Father Nile
Vatican
Angelo
Mabel Ringling
A Wonderful Limousine for the Shah of Persia
A new limousine built with a white body striped in gold meets royal taste. Fittings and headlamps gold plated. champagne silk upholstery with hand embroidery. Rugs use imported wolf hound fur. accessories include a solid gold cigarette case encrusted with diamonds and jeweled crests on doors and panels.
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Persia
Sun Spots Linked to Nova Scotia Crops, Says Professor
Acadia University physicist Professor Richard Hamer argues sun spot activity may forecast annual crop outcomes in Annapolis Valley. He notes maximum sun spots correlate with larger but poorer quality apple crops while minimum spots bring smaller yet finer harvests, suggesting practical forecasting for farmers.
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Nova Scotia
Joseph
Richard Hamer
Acadia University
Wolfville
N.S
Hamer
Beef Grading Policy Expands Coast to Coast
Six months in operation the Beef Grading Policy of the Dominion Department of Agriculture spreads rapidly from coast to coast. Packing houses brand beef and consumers favor Red and Blue Brand for quality assurance. Each important cut on the carcass bears the brand, letting customers see the ordered quality at a glance. Branded beef grows popular in better shops.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Alarm clock uses light to wake sleepers
A German clock maker patents an alarm clock with an attached light bulb on an extension cord that shines in the sleeper’s face when the alarm rings. A politician is asked for comment and replies that he has no time to think because he must talk.
Inventor of Electric Telegraph Sir Francis Ronalds
The earliest experiments used copper cable segments found by a Science Museum group. In 1816 Sir Francis Ronalds, a noted meteorologist, invented the electric telegraph and offered it to the Admiralty, which rejected it as unnecessary. He then shifted to other studies.
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Science Museum
South Kensington
Francis Ronalds
Admiralty
Ronalds
Greenhouse Heated By Natural Hot Springs Nome Item
Fresh spring vegetables will be offered in May from a greenhouse heated by natural hot springs beneath the Arctic Circle. Baker Hot Springs, 75 miles north of Nome, has seven earth bubblers at Sawtooth Mountain's base. Water at 160 degrees heats a 320 acre tract used for farming last year with cucumbers onions radishes lettuce and tomatoes.
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Nome
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Baker Hot Springs
Sawtooth Mountain
G. D. Schofield
Lessee
Detained Mission Helpers Draw Suspicion in Ontario Bank Visit
An elderly woman selling a monthly magazine for 15 cents at a Woodstock bank outlet in Ontario claims she was detained by snow and rain while aiding a mission in Illinois. A male customer questioned the purchase and received the calm explanation before the woman continued on.
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Woodstock
Ont
One Man Jazz Band Sparks Hungarian Alarm
Jazz players in Hungary protest a new device by Francis Szeheres allowing a single musician to emulate all jazz sounds. Szeheres has received a bomb threat letter signed by Desperate Jazz Players Hungary demanding cessation of the invention. an alabaster mine in Italy has operated since the Etruscans over two millennia.
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Hungary
Francis Szeheres
Szehere
Italy
Canadians at World Grain Exhibition show unregistered seeds
The world grain show will feature many seed grains not registered in Canada. Some varieties like Reward wheat and Gopher oats are not eligible for Canadian registration, though exhibits of these grains are anticipated.
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Canada
Full Dinner Pail to Gas Tank Empty? A Folkline View
A nostalgic line contrasts the old ideal of plenty with modern worries about fuel. The piece hints at shifting political or economic optimism from bountiful benefits to everyday survival concerns.
Canadian National to debut three Pacific steamships
The Canadian National Steamships plan three turbine steamers built at Birkenhead for Pacific service between Vancouver Victoria Seattle and Alaska. The SS Prince David Prince Henry and Prince Robert will be 384 feet 6 inches long 57 feet wide with 16 feet 6 inches draft. They will carry 334 first class 70 third and 1500 deck passengers with deluxe twin bed rooms showers and single bed rooms. Wireless broadcast receivers loudspeakers telephones 4370 cubic feet cargo space and room on the main deck for 30 automobiles are included. Work is underway and service starts in the 1930 summer season.
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Canadian National Steamships
Birkenhead
Pacific
Vancouver
Victoria
Seattle
British Columbia
Alaska
Prince David
Prince Henry
Prince Robert
Igloo Architecture The Eskimos Build With Snow
A detailed account of how Eskimos construct igloos using a snow knife and blocks of packed snow. Two builders form a 12 to 15 foot circle, tiers rise inward, and a keystone seals the dome. Inside, a thick snow floor, an arch doorway, a small ice window, and furnishings complete the cozy, windproof home.
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Tropics
Arctic
Museum displays trace German airport aeronautics history
At Berlin Tempelhof Airport a new aviation museum presents exhibits from earliest flight to modern times. Highlights include Wright brothers airplanes, early powered craft by Gräde, the Rumpler Taube, post war models, and a section on airship construction.
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Berlin-Tempelhof
Germany
Wright Brothers
Grade
Rumpler “Taube
New Roofing Material Claims Fireproof Zonolite
The Canada Gypsum Company's East Calgary plant now produces zonolite claimed to mix with asphalt to form a roofing material as fireproof as asbestos and lighter than cork while being frost resistant and with minimal expansion or contraction.
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Canada Gypsum Company
Calgary
Profit In Turkeys If Care Is Taken
Article by A G Taylor from the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa outlines essentials for successful turkey breeding. It covers soil quality, mature breeding stock, proper feeding, isolation from other fowls, and the value of free range for healthy growth.
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A G. Taylor
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Turkey
Officials report strong hatchery sales and egg output
Approved hatchery men from the Poultry Division of the Dominion Department of Agriculture report a good business year with hatchery chick sales closely tied to favorable weather. They foresee rapid progress for approval and higher egg production for the coming winter market.
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Poultry Division
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Repo
Plague Era Believed Smoking Preventive in England
A historian notes 1665 England clung to cures as the plague spread. Among remedies, smoking was popular and children at school were punished for not smoking, with historians claiming boys were whipped more for abstaining.
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England
Portrait of My Mother-in-Law Aloofness
A fragment from Lustige Kolner Zeitung in Cologne contrasts a request for poison with a joke about a portrait of the mother-in-law. The quirky dialogue hints at dark humor and social humor in a clipped newspaper snippet.
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Lustige Kolner Zeitung
Cologne
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