Increased Home Milk Use Lowers Canada’s Exports
Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes a drop in milk product exports for year ending November, offset by higher imports. Domestic demand rose with 100,000 more people, boosting per person milk use to about 1,000 pounds annually. Butter exports fell from 98,034 cwt to 27,714 cwt, while cheese exports remained near last year’s levels with much going to the United Kingdom.
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Dominion Bureau of Statstics
Department of Agriculture
Canada
Ruddick
Dominion
Prairies
Ontario
United Kingdom
Tale of Heaven and Earth and Raising Hell
Lord Hewart recalls a shipboard telegraph story told by a liner captain. Coaling at Valparaiso the captain showed his second mate a command from owners to move heaven and earth to reach Sydney. The reply: Heaven and earth not available Raising hell Things are moving.
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Lord Hewart
Liverpool
Valparaiso
Heaven and Carth
Sydney
Heaven
Earth
Twin study links together testing to higher scores and fingerprints
Professor H. H. Newman of the University of Chicago reports identical twins score higher on written tests when together despite no communication. He also notes twins share similar fingerprints, suggesting innate similarities beyond shared environment.
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H. H. Newman
University of Chicago
Pedestrian Unsafe Despite Motoring Health Claim
A St. Louis authority touts motoring as healthy while the reader notes pedestrians are at risk of being run down, highlighting a clash between mobility ideology and street safety.
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St. Louis
No! Well it is certainly much like you Kikeriki Vienna
A fragmentary exclamation appears with the phrases No and Well it is certainly much like you tied to a place name Kikeriki in Vienna. The garbled text offers no clear event or attribution beyond a partial quotation.
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Kikeriki
Vienna
New Garden Plums List Of Varieties That May Be Grown
Plums can be grown in many parts of Canada with careful variety selection. A Ottawa bulletin on Plum Culture lists suitable varieties by district and describes new Japanese American crosses such as Kahinta Waneta and Omaha. Older favorites like Greengage Coes Golden Drop and Damsons remain key for culinary use, while the American group 6ixby Cheney Terry Mammoth suit jelly making.
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Canada
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Omaha
Coe
Simple daytime frock pattern with center-front bodice
A practical one-piece frock design with two side plaits, belt, and pointed cuffs. Available as pattern No. 1605 in bust sizes 31 to 42 inches, requires 31 or 39 inches of fabric plus 2 1/2 yards of another width. Price pattern 20 cents. Fashion Book 10 cents.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Union
Instructions appear to list pattern orders from the Winnipeg pattern office at 175 McDermot Ave. The itemized form shows pattern numbers and sizes for customer requests and mailing options.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Butter Production In Canada Rises In 1926 Figures
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada's creamery butter production in 1926 at 178 156 375 pounds, up 8 661 408 pounds from 1925. The data reflects a year of higher output for Canadian dairy processing.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Winter Road Maintenance Moves Toward Year Round Traffic
Saskatoon farmers report ongoing winter road work in cities and towns across Saskatchewan. Urban boards of trade rural councils and road equipment firms are testing methods to keep main highways open with floats packers tractors and limited machinery costs. A central authority may eventually manage winter maintenance for efficiency and coordinated through-traffic.
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Saskatchewan
Gas Masks Issued as Hydrogen Sulphide Fumes Threaten Oil Field
Fumes from the Crane Upton oil field have grown dangerous, prompting the distribution of gas masks to workmen and to mules. The nearly odorless gas requires constant protection, and animals proved more compliant with the gear than workers.
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Crane-Upton Field
English Learner Taxi Driver S Script Berlin
An ambitious Berlin taxi driver posted a handwritten English request between his cab windows for fares to converse in English. The note reads in part You would oblige me very much by talking English to me I want to improve my knowledge of this language.
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Berlin
Schuette
Exploration to Begin Northern Canada Census Mission
In January WV B Hoare of the Northwest Territories Department of the Interior plans a one year to eighteen month expedition to the Habury and Thelon river junctions to census wildlife. He will study caribou migrations and investigate musk oxen still surviving near the Hanbury and Thelon rivers.
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Canada
WV. B. Hoare
Northwest Territories
Department of the Interior
Habury
Thelon
Great Slave Lake
Crompty
Chesterfield Inlet
Hoare
Hanbury
Thelon Rivers
Outlawing War Question Stirs Constitutional Debate
The New York World notes President Coolidge proposed outlawing war but warns it may conflict with the constitutional grant of war declaration to Congress. It asks whether the constitution could be amended to permit peace and whether congressional prerogatives or constitutional immutability limit progress.
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New York World
Coolidge
Congress
Composer Katherine Giron Debuts Musical Typewriter
Katherine Giron a composer pianist introduces a musical type writer claimed to replace hand jotting of notes. Orchestra leaders and composers can draft a piece as easily as playing it on the piano using the device.
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Katherine Giron
Bank Clerk and Mrs Juggs Overdrawn Conversation
Bank clerk informs Mrs Juggs she is overdrawn by 16 dollars. Mrs Juggs responds sweetly to charge the amount.
Expulsions Mark Bolshevik Leaders on Lenin's Anniversary
The London Times reports the tenth anniversary of Russia's seizure of power marked by expulsions of top Bolshevik leaders. Trotsky, once Lenin's ally and organizer of the coup, is degraded and expelled, with Zinoviev Kamenoff Rakovsky and others similarly stripped of posts. Stalin is noted as having secured Lenin's legacy.
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Communist Party In
Russia
Petrograd
Lenin
Trotsky
Kerensky
Bolshevists
Brest Litovsk
Red Army
Kolchak
Denikin
Yudenich
Wrangel
Warsaw
Dzerzhinsky
Cheka
Soviet Union
Zinoviei
Communist International
Kamenoff
Rome
Rakovsky
Paris
Central Committee
Peterson
Kremlin
Smigla
Yoffe
Quebec the Birthplace of Winter Sports in North America
Quebec stands as the cradle of North American winter sport with customs dating back over 300 winters. The article notes early French Canadian roots, December to New Year carnivals, and the International Dog-Sled Derby held in late February drawing famed dog drivers Seppain and St. Goddard.
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Quebec
North America
Plymouth Rock
Mozen St. Law
Rence
J. G. Strathdee
Chauteau Fronnuenac
Ered Plains of Abraham
Pattlefelds Park
Chateau Frontenac
Cleaning Seed Grain Needs Greater Attention by Farmers
Investigations by Experimental Farms urge farmers to properly clean and grade seed grain. Rushed spring work harms quality. use best grain for seed and overhaul fanning mills. Multiple passes improve uniformity and yield, with guidance from the Dominion Cerealist report.
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Dominion Cerealist
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Alfalfa’s Role in Medium Duration Crop Rotations
The article argues alfalfa is a valuable hay crop but not suited to short rotations. It recommends including alfalfa in a rotation by using one more field than years in the cycle, seeding with a light nurse crop on summer fallowed land, and following with a heavy nitrogen feeder to maintain soil fertility.
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Canada
Ontario
Manitoba
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
What a Title Will Do
The daughter of a rich American recent returnee from Europe travels with a Russian Baroness and a governess. Reporters photograph the Baroness and note the American maid accompanying her. A press agent is used to promote a prima donna. Also mentioned are tall African white ant mounds.
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America
Europe
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