Agriculture In Schools and the Future of Rural Education
Dr. R C Wallace urged considering agriculture as a core school subject in Western Canada. He argued that formal agricultural teaching has limited success and should grow from science education, with school gardens fading but club work and fairs offering practical value.
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Canada
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Edmonton
R. C. Wallace
University of Alberta
Wallace
Flying Fish Glide Above Water
The text describes flying fish that do not flap but glide after speeding through water. With wind currents and momentum as they launch, they cover about 500 feet in a single glide.
Ontario festival fan hears Chicago radio concert
A festival visitor in Ontario sat hundreds of feet from the bandstand yet listened to the Chicago program via car radio, enabling him to follow the concert from more than 500 miles away.
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Ontario
Chicago
Gaspe Girl’s Arctic Odyssey Reveals Hard North Life
Marie Onraet, 20, recounts two decades in Cameron Bay and travels from Gaspe to Montreal and back to the Arctic. She describes mining life, Eskimo customs, flying to reach mines, and Eskimo justice where wife theft can be punished by death.
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Marie Onraet
Gaspe
Montreal
Cameron Bay
Great Bear Lake
Arctic Circle
Marie
Queen's
Athabaska
Peace River
Lake Athabaska
Slave River
Great Slave Lake
Mackenzie
Great Bear Rivers
Fort Franklin
Gulls Learn New Cherry Harvest Method in Utah
Salt Lake Valley gulls have shifted eating habits as cherry orchards proliferate. Unable to perch, they hover and beat fruit from trees, then feast on fallen fruit, and have been seen perched atop branches devouring reachable fruit. Clarence Cottam of the Biological Survey notes the change stems from higher gull numbers and competition for normal foods.
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U.S. Biological Survey
Salt Lake Valley
Utah
Clarence Cottam
Double for Lloyd George at Glasgow rally shocks crowd
In Glasgow 3000 people cheered James Gray a magistrate as if he were Lloyd George. Gray arrived first and was greeted with loud applause before the real premier appeared to present his New Deal proposals. The crowd’s energy faded as Lloyd George took the stage.
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Lloyd George
James Gray
Glasgow
Scotland
Gray
Lunar Eclipse Duration and Alignment Explained
A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun earth and moon align and the moon passes through the umbral cone extending about 860000 miles. The previous eclipse lasted 1 hour 40 minutes 18 seconds as the moon traversed a thicker part of the cone about 226000 miles from Earth.
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Earth
South Africa's Union Gains Flourishing Progress in 1910
St. Thomas Times-Journal notes South Africa formed by union of Transvaal Orange Free State Cape and Natal in 1910. It credits Campbell-Bannerman’s policy granting a free constitution within the British Empire and lauds Boer leaders Smuts and Hertzog as loyal British allies. The piece highlights a two million white population, majority Dutch, robust prosperity from the gold belt, and wartime cooperation with Britain.
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Union of South Africa
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Cape
Natal
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Dom
Paul Kruger
Canada
Germany
South-West Africa
Britain
South Africa
Jan Smuts
Hertzog
St. Thomas
Second Woman Senator Appointed in Canada From Ontario
Mrs Howard Fallis of Peterborough becomes the second woman in the Canadian senate and the only woman on the government side. Her Saskatchewan farm years and public life reflect her farm background and eloquent speaking. The history of Canadian women in Parliament traces back to Agnes MacPhail in 1921 and Cairine Wilson in 1930.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Howard Fallis
Senate
Iva Campbell Fallis
R. B. Bennett
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
W. L. Mackenzie King
Cairine Wilson
Ottawa
Agnes MacPhail
Grey County
House of Commons
Grey
Ont
Last London Ruins Cleared for Modern Buildings
Visible signs of World War Zeppelins havoc in London have vanished as a waste block near Ely Place Camberwell cleared for modern housing. The area held three houses blown apart in 1917 and was once a major ruin. Cleopatra's Needle base on Victoria Embankment remains pockmarked near Parliament.
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London
Ely Place
Camberwell
Victoria Embankment
Darling little coat and hat ensemble for tiny tots
Ellen Worth presents a soft Copen blue double breasted coat with matching hat sized for ages 1 to 4 years. The wool silk crepe lining plus quilted woolly back lining offers warmth. Pattern No 303 includes hat and coat with yardage details and 15 cent pattern price. Patterns mailed from Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Also notes Canada cheese production trends from 1924 to 1934 with yearly totals and 13 percent rise in 1934.
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Pattern
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Young Dutch Historian’s Radio Debut in New York
The Dutch American historian Hendrick Willem Van Loon, now a radio commentator, recalls as an 11 year old in Rotterdam watching Erasmus’s bronze statue for three days to test the legend that the statue turns a page hourly.
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Hendrick Willem van Loon
New York
Rotterdam
Erasmus
Suitor inquiry and sister’s sudden upstairs exit
The suitor asks where his sister is as Jimmy notes she ran upstairs to change rings upon seeing him. The exchange captures a brief moment of confusion and urgency between the characters.
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Jimmy
Health Of The World in League of Nations Year Book
The League of Nations Year Book shows death rates below the five year average in 27 of 30 countries from 1926 to 1930. Birth rates fell overall with slight rises in five nations Germany Britain Ireland Poland Denmark. Germany’s population increased 7.1 per 1,000 in 1933, while the United States stood at 5.7. Mental illness rates reportedly did not rise according to the US National Committee for Mental Disease and the American Psychiatric Association.
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League of Nations
Germany
Great Britain
Ireland
Poland
Denmark
France
United States
United States National Committee For Mental Disease
American Psychiatric Association
Winnipeg Free Press
Netherlands Navy Sub K-18 Completes Record Voyage
The K-18 submarine sailed from Helder on November 14 and returned to Amsterdam from Surabaya covering over 25 000 miles. Under Commander G F Hetterzhy the 35 man crew and Professor Felix A Vening conducted scientific observations including the deepest Atlantic sounding of 6700 metres between Dakar and Pernambuco.
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Netherlands Navy
Amsterdam
Surabaya
East Indies
Helder
Holland
G. FE. Hetterzhy
Felix A. Vening
Utrecht University
Atlantic
Dakar
Pernambuco
Stockyards at Williams Lake anchor Cariboo Chilcotens cattle empire
The Williams Lake stockyards sit at the center of a vast cattle realm linking Cariboo to the east and Chilcotin to the west. It takes three weeks to drive cattle from distant ranches to the yards, while cattle from west of the Chilcotin River need about ten days to reach the stockyards.
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Williams Lake
B.C
Cariboo
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Health of the World
West Indies
Minard
Minard's Liniment
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