President of Canadian Legion Calls for Scientific Study of Veterans
Brigadier-General Alex Ross, head of the Canadian Legion, urged Ottawa to back a scientific study of unemployed ex service men via the Hyndman commission. He stressed veterans seek no money, only economical, well founded aid and warned of ongoing hardship as younger workers enter the job market.
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Canadian Legion
Alex. Ross
Dominion
Hyndman Commsson
Ottawa
Canada
Justice Hundman
Pension Appeal Court
Col
C. B. Price
Montreal
W. B. Woods
Toronto
Ross
Legion
Parliament of
Starting Seed Indoors For Earlier Garden Blooms And Crops
Indoor sowing can save two to three weeks for many flowers and vegetables, benefiting short growing seasons. Early hardy crops include lettuce spinach radish peas onions beets carrots while later crops cover beans cabbage corn melons squash cucumbers and pumpkins. Successional planting spreads harvests over weeks.
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Dominion
Musk rat industry boom spurs Manitoba survey
Province sends 40 man survey party to map a 700000 acre muskrat ranching area between The Pas and Cedar Lake in northern Manitoba. Fur rancher Thomas Lamb expanded to 54000 acres and last season trapped 12000 muskrats. Authorities estimate potential output of 155000 pelts yearly under protection and conservation.
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Manitoba
Pas
Cedar Lake
Thomas Lamb
Insurance carriers pay out 3.5 billion to US and Canada policyholders
Insurance companies disbursed about 3.5 billion dollars to policyholders and beneficiaries across the United States and Canada in the last year.
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United States
Canada
German Wheel With Shovel Digs Speeds Up Excavations
A wheeled German device features multiple shovels to rapidly excavate soil. The mechanism aims to accelerate earth moving tasks and could enhance mining and construction efficiency.
Campaign in Northern Ireland to curb cart cut ins
Northern Ireland launches a campaign targeting motorists who cut in on carts. The effort aims to reduce tailgating and improve road safety for cyclists and horse carts in busy rural routes. Officials emphasize courteous driving and firm enforcement.
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Northern Ireland
Sausage Tree Lets Africans Make Sausages in Africa
In central Africa the Kigelia Tinata or sausage tree provides edible fruit that locals use as a substitute for pork sausages. A specimen in Miami, Florida is also producing edible fruit. the tree can grow to 50 feet and bears long sausage like fruit up to nearly three feet.
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Africa
Central
Miami
Florida
Theoretical Views on Sleep Origins
Scientists debate how sleep starts noting many theories. One likens sleep to pulling plugs from a switchboard. Others suggest neural refractions disrupt pathways. A fatigue toxin in the blood is also proposed to sedate the brain.
Story Of Fish Food And Sunlit Ocean Energy Use
An extract explains how diatoms and copepods in the sea convert sunlight into energy, feeding pilchards and other fish. The fish then transfer this energy to humans via fish oil and meal, mirroring land grazing where energy fixed by plants passes to animals and people.
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J. L. Hart
Pacific Fisheries Biological Station
Nanaimo
Hart
British Columbia
Canada
Fashion Fancies Dress Pattern Notice for Winnipeg
Advertisement for Ellen Worth style No. 853 dress pattern sizes 36 to 48 inches with inkable frilled collar and vest effect. Patterns 20 cents each. mail orders to Pattern Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg. Spring Fashion Magazine offers illustrated color edition with patterns and family outfits.
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Ellen Worth
Pattern
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
French peasants cling to unusual donkey trouser custom
In La Rouchelle France peasants refuse to abandon a quirky practice of placing trousers on the front legs of their donkeys, preserving a long standing local habit.
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la Rouchelle
France
Thundercloud Holds Tiny Fraction of Electricity
A scientific note states that the average thundercloud contains roughly one thousand two hundredth of a cent worth of electrical energy. The claim expresses the minuscule energy magnitude stored in cumulonimbus clouds and compares it to everyday monetary units.
Home canneries expand fruit and vegetable processing in farms
The rural canning trend grows with 1954 Quebec recording about 1 700 registered establishments and an estimated 230 000 cases. Ontario meanwhile produced around 100 000 cases in 1934, showing the movement’s early spread.
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Quebec
Ontario
Picture Flower Photography At Home By John Van Guil der
An article on indoor flower photography outlines lighting from the sides, avoiding direct front light to add depth. It notes using two photoflood lamps, a tilted tray backdrop, and a 63 diaphragm with 1/125 second shutter to capture color and brightness, promising enduring pictures even if flowers fade.
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John van Guilder
Pre Cooling Dressed Poultry Handling and Temperatures
The guide explains pre cooling of dressed poultry to remove animal heat quickly, noting about 0.25 percent weight loss and moisture release from one ton. It cites cooling from 80 100 F to 30 F in 10 11 hours and stresses avoiding surface freezing for chilled storage while suggesting packing at cooling temperature. It also mentions white whale skin from Hudson Bay used in fine leather goods.
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W. H. Cook
National Research Council of Canada
Hudson Bay
Paying Slabs From Refuse Household
Refuse from households is processed to cut taxes in a British town. After burning in a furnace the clinker is cooled and crushed, then mixed with cement and water under high pressure to form slabs. The slabs are cured and used for town pavements while waste pieces are sold for garden craziness, saving hundreds of pounds yearly.
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South Coast
New Yukon Range and Glacier Found by Young Explorer
Bradford Washburn reports discovery of a previously unrecorded mountain range in the Yukon Territory with a large glacier descending about 50 miles into the Alsek valley. The expedition base camp sits near the glacier tongue and Mount Hubbard, a peak in the St Elias range.
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Yukon Territory
National Geographic Society
Bradford Washburn
Cambridge
Mass
Washburn
Carcass
Alsek
Mount Hubbard
St Ela
Visit From German Warship Reopens Historic Canada Relations
A sleek grey German cruiser Karlsruhe anchored in Vancouver harbor during the week and discharged cadets and officers in uniform. It marked the first German uniform seen on Canadian soil since before World War I, reopening a chapter in German Canadian relations closed for over two decades.
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Vancouver
Karlsruhe
Canadas
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London
Joseph Lee
New Mountain Range
U.S
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