Complete Destruction Of Canada's Spruce Timber Threatened
The spread of foreign insect pests threatens to wipe out Canada's spruce timber within a quarter century. The European spruce sawfly has caused extensive damage from Gaspe to Temiskaming, with 6,000 square miles of dead timber and a vast forest area at risk. Government and private agencies mobilize 1,400 workers to detect the pest while the Agriculture Department explores parasite controls in Belleville Ontario to halt caterpillar and cocoon destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Garpe Peninsula
Nova Scotia
Temiskaming
Gaspe
Department of Agriculture
Belleville
Ont
Adler predicts crime cure through early psychology lectures
Dr Alfred Adler, the Viennese psychologist, arrived in London to lecture on identifying likely criminals in minutes and curing them. He argues world crime could be eliminated by organized psychology starting with children and training teachers as psychologists. He says the child who withdraws and feels imaginary grievances becomes a future criminal or drunkard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Alfred Adler
Freud
Jung
Adler
Beatty Urges Private Competition for Market Reform
Sir Edward Beatty, head of Canadian Pacific Railway, voiced opposition to overproduction in agriculture and urged private competition to boost efficiency. Speaking at the University of New Brunswick convocation alongside the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists, he warned of public extravagance and state control funded by taxation.
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Sir Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Sir Edward
University of New Brunswick
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Real salesmen of Manhattan and Staten Island noted
Collier's cites misattribution of the 1626 Manhattan sale to Canarsies Montauks and Rockaways visiting town while the true traders were the Raritans who sold Staten Island to the Dutch six times. The piece adds a spoof about a crooner in a theatrical magazine proving tolerance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Island
Peter Minuit
Long Island
Peter
Staten Island
Collier’s
Crystal Palace Glass Roof Holds 100000 Panes
The 26 acres of glass roofing in London's Crystal Palace contain more than 100000 panes, underpinning the famed exhibition and leisure venue.
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Crystal Palace
London
Word Growing Obsolete by J C Kirkwood
A Marketing columnist laments the word gotten and argues it is archaic while noting other participles like eaten and written may be preferred. He cites Oxford and Victorian texts to justify using gotten as more euphonious in some cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Kirkwood
Mr. Kirkwood
Burglary Defense Ray Promises Instant Warning Lighting Locks
Buckinghamshire inventor Charles Alexander claims a secret invisible ray that floods rooms with light and locks doors when a burglar nears. The device could open safes, ring bells, take photographs, and trigger automatic alarms as police respond. He reports testing at his Iver home and shows off dramatic effects at his Whitehall office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Iver
Buckinghamshire
England
Whitehall
Industrial Revival Gains Momentum in Britain
The British Government reports a strong revival with record iron and steel output in the last quarter and textiles at their highest since early 1928. Coal production rose to its peak since 1930, overall production up 9.5 percent from a year earlier, with wages rising by over 15 million pounds annually. Savings grow as deposits and building society funds rise.
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Britain
Board of Trade
Post Office
Trustee Savings Banks
Building Societies
Old Victoria gardener claims prize roses thrive on bones
W F Salsbury, 90, of Victoria B C, has spent fifty years winning rose prizes. He advises ignoring golf and bridge, insists roses grow anywhere with drainage and proper care, digs beds 42 inches deep, lines with sods and leaves, adds earth and barnyard manure, then inserts kitchen bones before waiting for blooms.
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W. F. Salsbury
Victoria
B.C
Salsbury
Fidelity Insurance Manages Husband's Fidelity Request
A woman asks at an insurance office to arrange fidelity coverage for her husband. The clerk confirms the company and discusses options, indicating a policy inquiry or potential plan.
World's Tallest Man Wadlow Reaches New Height Record
Robert Wadlow of Alton Illinois, an 18 year old with shy disposition and glasses, is documented as the tallest man in scientifically recorded history. He has grown to five feet five inches from a base of thirty five shoe size, gaining one inch in six months, and has increased weight to 425 pounds despite heat.
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Robert Wadlow
Alton
Illinois
China Shuts Down Theaters, Now About 200 Screens
China reduced its cinema capacity to around 200 theaters amid a broader entertainment sector adjustment. The move reflects a tightening of cultural venues as markets shift and new regulations take effect.
Disease resistance in plants for Canadian farmers
The article outlines progress in breeding disease resistant crops including wheat tolerant to rust and turnips resistant to club root. It notes complete partial and apparent immunity in potatoes and mentions the Rust Research Laboratory in Winnipeg for rust resistant wheat. It highlights regional climate effects on disease escape in Eastern Canada including Prince Edward Island.
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Canada
Prince Edward Island
Rust
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Newton to swap motors for horses in city work
Newton plans to sell motorized public equipment and replace it with horses for sidewalk snow plows and other tasks. Mayor Childs said next winter 30 more horses will be used, improving work over the eight tractor plows bought last winter at 1600 dollars each. The old plows are for sale, Our Dumb Animals.
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Newton
Boston
Boston Daily
Childs
Dome Regilding of Paris Invalides Honors Napoleon
The great dome of the Invalides in Paris has been regilded with gold leaf, applied over nearly half an acre. A total of 253000 gold leaves were used to restore the surface above Napoleon’s tomb.
Colorful Cutwork Charms The Eye Pattern 5606
Colorful cutwork tulips and lilacs weave a decorative motif for scarves cloths and centerpieces. The pattern includes two sizes of reverse motifs and four small pieces with diagrams stitches and color suggestions. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 5606.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Experimental Atlantic Flights Push Toward UK Canada Link
Return of Hon. C D Howe from an inspection of the trans Canada airway precedes experimental flights over the Atlantic skyway. The first giant British composite amphibian monoplane has left the factory with survey flights expected to begin soon. Open of commercial service is unlikely before 1938 with initial mail and express carriage and gradual passenger service as safety is proven.
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C. D. Howe
Canada
United Kingdom
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Azores
Bermuda
New York
Imperial
Pan-American Airways
United States
San Francisco-Manila
Pan- American
Soviet to Publish 35 Million Books for Children in 1936
The central committee of the Young Communist League approves a vast plan to publish 35 million children's books in 1936 in the Soviet Union. Fairy tales by Grimm and Anderson appear among 15 million preschool titles and 10 million for younger students, with Pushkin Tolstoi works and Marshak Chukovskiy Jitkov among others. A series Our Fatherland will feature regional profiles and border troops. Older readers will get Russian and world classics plus modern Soviet works and science texts. Perm will build a factory capable of producing 120 million books yearly.
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Central Committee
The
Young Communist League
Grimm
Anderson
Soviet Union
Pushkin
Tolstoi
Marshak
Chukovski
Jitkov
Perm
Dorchester Replica Marks Canadian Rail Anniversary
A 13 foot replica of the Dorchester steam locomotive retraced the original 16 mile route from Montreal to St. Lambert and St. John’s Quebec. The anniversary train ran behind CN 6400 on a flat car, amid cheering crowds along the Champlain and St. Lawrence line now part of the national system. The journey also included Laprairie.
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Dominion
Canadian National Railways
Montreal
St. Lambert
St. John’s
Que
Champlain and
St. Lawrence
National
Dorchester
Laprairie
New Ottawa Stamp Uses King Edward Photo
The post office department in Ottawa has received a new photograph of King Edward approved for Canada stamps to be issued soon after the coronation next May. A later photograph may be substituted if needed.
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Ottawa
King Edward
Canada
Sunburn Causes and Arctic Case Records
The cause of sunburn is actinic rays not heat. Some severe cases on high Arctic mountains saw facial skin peel before nightfall due to cold air freezing the cheeks. James Whitcomb Riley once used the alias Benjamin F. Johnson.
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Arctic
James Whitcomb Riley
Benjamin F. Johnson
Indifferent Farming in Saskatchewan Neighbors differ in crops
The Regina Leader Post notes that in moisture rich areas of Saskatchewan, adjacent farms can show strong disparities in crop growth. The piece argues that differences come from farming quality rather than land or rainfall, with better treatment boosting yields and weed control.
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Saskatchewan
Regina
Canada
Inadequate Inches Reported in Northern Queensland Rain
Rainfall in Northern Queensland towns such as Tully Innis fail to reach expected heights. Tully reports seven feet in 19 weeks while Innis and Babinda exceed six feet. Mackey shows only a yard and a half though overall totals could match average and float a battleship.
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Queensland
Australia
Tully
Innisfall
Babinda
Mackey
Wombwell Council Drops No 13 From Estates
The council in Wombwell York shire England has abolished house No 13 on its estates following rent collector advice amid tenant reluctance. A tenant cited six years of bad luck and then reports change of number to 11A. the next day her husband won $40 in a football contest.
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Wombwell
Yorkshire
England
Memory Knot as Reminder for Pickled Onions
In a string tied to a finger a man borrows a joke about memorizing tasks. The line links a knot to forget me not and a bread with cheese, then reveals the practical aim to remember to buy pickled onions.
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Bill
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