Farm Land Values In Western Canada Advancing
Western Canada farm land values rise with agricultural prosperity and higher farm revenue. The Dominion bureau of statistics shows 1925 averages at 35.00 per acre overall, with prior peaks and regional shifts. Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta offer comparatively low prices but high yields. Procrastination in settlement may raise prices each year as demand grows.
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Western
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prairies
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Horse Comes Into His Own as Village Blacksmith
The Globe notes Dobbin gains a permanent place in the economy and public favor, with higher prices reflecting revived demand for workhorse services. Meanwhile Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers report a record year selling over 3.5 million pounds of wool for more than a million dollars, up 1,225,000 pounds from the previous year.
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Globe
Dobbin
Toronto Globe
Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers
Prince of Wales Names New Horse Hard to Find
The Prince of Wales has named a new horse Hard to Find. The horse's pedigree remains unknown.
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Prince
Prince of Wales
Johns Hopkins Research Reveals Two Kinds Of Sleep
Dr Curt Richter of Johns Hopkins uses a galvanometer and hand electrodes to measure sleep depth. He finds skin resistance rises with deeper sleep and differs in catatonic stupor where palm measures drop yet back skin shows high resistance, suggesting varying brain states and potential for diagnosing nervous conditions.
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Curt Richter
Johns Hopkins University
Port of Vancouver Shows Sharp Rise in Early Year Exports
Port of Vancouver exports for January and February rise across several commodities. Lumber reaches 72,958,000 feet versus 31,516,600 a year ago. flour 258,661 barrels vs 59,670. lead and spelter 443,870 pigs and slags vs 281,738. apples 47,264 boxes up from 3,703. Only canned salmon shipments decline due to direct loading at cannery ports or shipments completing elsewhere after leaving Vancouver.
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Vancouver
Genuine Honey Joke At Factory
A visitor asks why bees are in jars and the manager explains they include the bug that made 7 percent to prove the honey is genuine. The gag plays on customers recognizing authenticity via the bee.
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Wal
Central European Farm Labor Placed in Alberta
Five hundred farm laborers from Central Europe were placed on farms in the Edmonton district in two days at the end of March. The immigration flow is well managed in Alberta and there is little difficulty finding work for those unable to start on their own farms due to lack of funds or experience.
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Alberta
Europe
Edmonton
Delirious broker misreads fever cue in last moment
A stockbroker, gravely ill and momentarily lucid, asks a nurse for his latest temperature. When she says one hundred one he replies that when it reaches nineteen thousand four hundred fourteen, sell. The quip hinges on a misinterpretation of a numeric thermometer reading.
Canada to Host Third World’s Poultry Congress in 1927
Ottawa announces the third world’s poultry congress will be held in Ottawa from July 27 to August 4, 1927. The event follows prior gatherings in The Hague and Barcelona, with Canada praised for its standout Barcelona display. Information is available from provincial agriculture ministers or Ernest Rhoades, Congress Secretary.
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Otawa
Canada
The
Hague
Barcelona
Spain
Ottawa
Congress
Ernest Rhoades
Experimental Farm
Homesteader Entries Rise in Western Provinces February
Dominion lands patent branch reports February totals of 350 homestead entries across Manitoba 26 Saskatchewan 72 Alberta 126 and British Columbia 16. For the first two months this year entries reached 626 versus 440 in the same period of 1925.
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Dominion Lands Patent Branch
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
House Built Without Nails At Atlantic City Sights
A wooden frame house in Atlantic City draws visitors as the Michigan State house built for the Philadelphia centennial fifty years ago. It remains largely unaltered, well preserved, and moved to its present location after the fair. The piece notes a contrast between haste and waste and the presence of a hustler in an almshouse.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia
George Shima
California
Empire of
Nippon
Shima
America
Sacramento River
Stockton
San Joaquin
California Delta
Planting Wood Lots Opens Land Value and Shelter Benefits
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Interior Department urges landowners to plant windbreaks and wood lots on marginal soil. Governments aid with free trees and guidance. Ontario distributed 10 000 trees in 1905 and seven million last year to 3 000 applicants. Prairie settlement gains through shelter belts, with fast growing softwoods leading to broader orchard and hardwood expansion across Eastern Canada and the plains.
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Hts
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ontario
Ontario Forestry Department
Canada
Great Lake Country
Rocky Mountains
Notable Negroes of America to Feature 20,000 Biographies
An interracial board announces a new publication titled Notable Negroes of America. The book will include 20 000 short biographies of Negroes who have achieved distinction in various fields.
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America
General Allenby Lays Wreath at Windsor Station Memorial
General Allenby honors fallen C P R men of the Great War with a wreath at Windsor Station monument during a Dominion tour from coast to coast. Aged veteran Acting-Sergeant Wm Clark, from the Company Investigation Department, who served with Allenby in Mesopotamia Palestine and Egypt, stands at his right.
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Viscount Allenby
Megiddo
Felixstowe
Windsor
C.P.R
Dominion
Canada
Wm_ Clark
Investigation Department
Mesopotamia
Palestine
Near East
Unmistakable Signs of Canada's Rapid Growth Ahead
Brabson reports in the Edmonton Journal outline Canada’s progress with higher immigration, rising exports, record stock values, large wheat and barley crops, increased newsprint shipments, and substantial gains in steel and pig iron. Fire losses drop, signaling broad advancement in population, production, and trade across the country.
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Dominion
Canada
Wild Swans Seek Shelter at Kingsville Sanctuary
About two thousand wild native swans arrive along the lake shore at Kingsville in front of the Jack Miner sanctuary. The birds gather yearly here to escape the Niagara Falls drift, with Kingsville their only known Canadian resting place. Royal Canadian Mounted Police guard the shore day and night to protect them from disturbance.
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Kingsville
Jack Miner
Mr. Miner
Niagara Falls
Lake Erie
Canada
North Carolina
Arctic Circle
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Wonderful Electric Shovel Sets Material Moving Record
An electric giant in a southern mine loaded 3750 cubic yards of rock onto cars in a single eight hour shift. The eighty foot boom with an eight cubic yard dipper filled, rose, swung, and emptied at a rate of every ninety seconds. The rock moved would pave a sixteen foot road a quarter mile long. Loading that amount by hand would need about fifteen hundred shovel men. The electric shovel was operated by two men.
Edmonton Grain Inspections Set to Exceed Past Records
Edmonton grain inspections are running ahead of last year with 18 068 cars inspected this season, surpassing the 16 790 cars counted from August 1 1923 to July 31 1924. Five months remain in the current crop year.
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Edmonton
Office of the Grain Inspector
Cologne votes against new skyline altering warehouse height
The Cologne city council, swayed by voters, rejects a proposed ten story skyscraper warehouse. Officials say it would block the view of the Cologne Cathedral, a landmark visible from miles away.
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Cologne
Cologne Cathedral
Bashful Lovers and Kernels Turn White When They Pop
A playful note observes that bashful lovers and kernels of corn usually turn white as popcorn pops. It adds a wry line that many actors prefer a small role to an entire loaf of fame.
Veteran ketch Jane endures after 126 years at sea firm built in 1800
The forty ton Cheshire built ketch Jane, dating to 1800, has been sold yet remains seaworthy. The vessel served with a Bridgewater shipping firm and later in Bristol for fifty years. Named after its long service through the Peninsular and Crimean Wars and World War I, Captain Smart notes the oak frame stayed solid after refitting six years ago, suggesting few ships endure as long.
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Cheshire
England
Bridgewater
Bristol
Jane
Channel
Captain Smart
Inventor Lukin Pioneered International Lifeboat Concept
London coachman Lionel Lukin first pursued buoyant stability for boats and in 1784 converted a Norway yawl into an unim mergible craft. In 1789 The Original became the first lifeboat built for that purpose launched at South Shields. A tin model by William Wouldhave is preserved in a South Shields museum.
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London
Lionel Lukin
Lukin
South Shields
William
Advertising In India Haircutter Notice Promises Gentle Shaves
An Indian newspaper advertisement parodies Babu English boasting Mahomedsman haircutter and clean shaver. It claims gentlemen's throats cut with sharp razors with great care and skill and no irritating feeling after ward. A trial solicited.
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Buffalo Express
Artificial Fogs Shield Norway Crops From Frost
Artificial fogs developed by a Scandinavian scientist for military use are being adapted in Norway to protect crops. The vapor blankets trees vines and other growths preventing freezing on cold nights.
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Norway
Russian Doctors Unemployed Census Highlights Shortage
A government census report reveals ten thousand physicians unemployed in Russia, with 6000 graduates from Soviet medical schools in 1923 to 1924. Women comprise sixty percent of the unemployed.
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Russia
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World's Poultry Congress
Natural Resources Bulletin
Allenby
Brabson
Edmonton Journal
Mindreds
Totas
India
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