Controlling Incipient Farm Home Fires
Safety guidance issued by the Natural Resources Intelligence Service warns of a fire surge in small Canadian homes and deaths of children due to careless use of coal oil gasoline and unsafe heating. It details precautions including chimney checks, childproofing matches, keeping water ready in ladders and buckets, and specific methods to extinguish grease fires and kerosene or gasoline flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euli
Af Children
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Ancient syrinx roots modern mouth organ history
The ancient Greek syrinx is identified as the probable ancestor of the modern mouth organ. The modern device dates to 1830 when Christian Messner built a factory in Württemberg. The operation now employs about 18,000 people including 5,000 at the factory and 3,000 home workers.
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Christian Messner
Trossingen
Wurtemburg
Australian Butter For Canada Arrives With Treaty Shipment
The Canadian Australian liner Nia gara reached Vancouver on February 5 delivering the first consignment under the trade treaty. It carried 15 000 cases of Australian butter and 6 006 cases from New Zealand with 2 000 unloaded at Victoria and the bulk sent to Toronto.
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Niagara
Vancouver
New Zealand
Victoria
Toronto
Food Value Of Honey As A Strong Energy Source
Tests show one pound of honey provides 42 percent of a healthy adult's daily energy. Honey yields 1520 calories per pound and supplies significant amounts of protein calcium phosphorus iron and vitamin A, far surpassing milk in energy contribution and nutritional density.
Dairy Expert Prof Sadler Wins New York Fellowship
Prof Wilfrid Sadler of the University of British Columbia, noted for pure milk supply work and cheese varieties, receives a $2,000 New York educational board fellowship with Europe travel, tuition, and study abroad. He collaborates with leading European dairy scientists and will visit Reading and London institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfrid Sadler
University of British Columbia
Educational Board of New York
Europe
Sadler
Midlands Agricultural College
England
Orla Jensen
Copenhagen
Charles Barthel
Stockholm
Gavini
Milan
National Institute of Dairy Research
Reading
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Health
London
International Education Board
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Community Settlements for Emigrants Proposed in Interview
Brig Gen A C Critchley, Calgary native and vice-president of the British Portland Cement Association, urges Canadian Government and transportation bodies to foster long term community settlements. He proposes starting with a farming village in a selected district with ready houses and farming instructors. Government would advance crops to recover settlement costs over years.
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Great Britain
Canada
London Sunday Observer
A. C. Critchley
Calgary
England
British Portland Cement Association
Critchley
Canada Sets Save the Forest Week April 18 to 24
The governor-general announces in the Canada Gazette that Save the Forest Week will occur from April 18 to April 24 this year. The official notice details the annual event and its timing.
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Canada
Canada Gazette
Napoleon's Wooden Horse Sells in Paris for 2400
A carved wooden horse said to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte sold in Paris years ago for 2400. In the same period the United States granted more than 165000 divorces in 1923.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris
United States
Canada wealth far exceeds population says Sir Henry Thornton
Sir Henry Thornton head of Canada National Railways and famed publicist argues Canada’s wealth dwarfs its population citing his figures of national world production. He lists Nickel eighty nine percent Asbestos eighty eight percent Cobalt eighty five percent Pulpwood thirty five percent Lamber twenty five percent Cured Fish twenty percent Silver ten percent Oats eighteen percent Wheat twelve percent Gold seven percent Simcoe Reformer.
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Sir Henry Thornton
Henry Thornton
Canada
National Railways
Simcoe
World’s Largest Warehouse in Liverpool Revealed
The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse in Liverpool spans thirteen floors and measures 725 feet long 165 feet wide and about 125 feet high. It holds 770 000 hogsheads of tobacco and used over 27 million bricks with 6 000 tons of iron in construction.
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Liverpool
Stanley Dock
Surplus Wheat Board funds proposed for agriculture research
The Wheat Board surplus of 284200 dollars would be invested to fund a permanent agriculture foundation. The plan includes a research focus on wheat rust and marketing with scholarships, led by the dean of the agricultural college, the minister of agriculture, and the university board president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheat Board
Dunning
Agricultural College
University Board of Goveernors
Ther Bs
Saskatoon Star
Voting in Australia Compulsory Example for Canada
The Sentinel argues that compulsory voting in Australia yields high turnout with 92 percent of men and 91 percent of women voting. It urges Canada to adopt similar measures to curb voter indifference and fulfill civic responsibility.
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Australia
Canada
Commonwealth
The
Sentinel
Toronto
Canada Has Lowest Per Capita Taxes Among Four Nations
Figures from the Canadian Tax Conference for 1923 show Canada with a per capita tax of 66.11 dollars, lower than the United States and Australia and Britain. The report notes Canada pays 18.7 percent of net production in taxes, higher than the United States but lower than Britain and Australia, with total tax receipts at 600 million dollars.
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Canadian Tax Conference
Horace L. Brittain
Canada
United States
Australia
Great Britain
States
Britain
Dominion
Humidity Advice For Winter Health From Medical Winter
A medical winter figure says perceived cold comes from low humidity not temperature. He claims homes in winter are drier than Death Valley Sahara or King Tut’s tomb by humidity readings and urges maintaining humidity at all costs for health. He warns gradual pace over speed for daily activity.
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Death Valley
Sahara
Old
King Tut
Hebrideans Settle in Alberta Evarts Thrive on New Farm Life
The Hebridean settlers at Evarts near Red Deer Alberta adapt to prairie conditions with a focus on home making and baking. Mrs Lena MacLean and neighbors describe farming, schooling for eight children, and pride in winter stores and a canning effort. The article notes isolated farms, Scottish Immigration Society cottages, Gaelic schooling, and plans for a future weaving industry selling Harris tweed to Hudsons Bay Company.
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Canada
Evarts
Red Deer
Alberta
Lena MacLean
Bannock
Neil MacLean
Mrs. Gillis
Scottish Immigration Society
Western Canada
Hudson's Bay Company
Intensive settlement and farming to expand Manitoba lands
F W Russell of the Canada colonization board says spring settlers will fill vacant Manitoba tracts with intensive wheat and stock raising. Large private farms from 2000 to 3000 acres may be divided, enabling support for multiple families. a 640 acre unit could sustain three families. Overall it promises higher wheat output dairy products and better province conditions. The settlers will be placed on the land in spring.
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Manitoba
F. W. Russell
Canada Colonization Board
Mr. Russell
Russell
Manitoba Free Press
Canadian fish eggs sail to Japan aboard Empress of Asia
The first shipment of Canadian brook trout eggs, 50 000 in total, sails from Vancouver to stock streams near Tokyo. The eggs were sent at the request of Sir Charles Elliot to Japan’s Tokio Angling and Country Club, once led by Premier Kato, and are packed in insulated boxes under the chef’s care until Yokohama.
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Vancouver
Tokio
Yokohama
London Quiet Hour Reveals City’s Pacing and Health Beliefs
London’s proclaimed zero hour sits at 2 am on Sundays, a time of rare calm as trucks and market carts are scarce and the city otherwise hums with activity. The line about doctors being quacks reflects a view that one is in good health.
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London
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W. Nou
Prof. Sadler
British Columbia
Gen. Critchley
Napoleon
the Wheat Board
Saskatchewan
Ernest Rutherford
Frank Heath
Dominions
Hebrideans
Father McDonnell
Kimg
Roderick Galbraith
Hebrides
Roderick Gillis
Galbraith
Japan
Eastern
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