Sod Houses and Early West Pioneers Then and Now
An overview of sod houses built by settlers on the Great Plains and in Western Canada, highlighting why sod was used, durability factors, and the origin of the phrase mud fence. It cites Howard Ruede’s 1877 Kansas home and notes preservation of such histories in private diaries and university archives.
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West
Kansas
Columbia University Press
Howard Ruede
Bethlehem
John Ise
University of Kansas
Ruede
Ontario
Western
Canada
Plant Doctor Trailblazer Westcott Shapes Garden Medicine Era
Dr Cynthia Westcott, a pioneer plant physician, built a regular practice after studying Sclerotinia and Cornell. She hung out a shingle in Glen Ridge New Jersey, offered consultations and lectures, now oversees diverse gardens across the northeast and employs two assistants. She authored The Plant Doctor.
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Cynthia Westcott
Wellesley
Cornell
Europe
Westcott
Misunderstanding Over Cornet Player’s Encore At Inn
A commercial traveller staying at a country inn is told by the land lord his breakfast companion in the next room applauded the cornette player so heartily that he played every piece five times over. The traveller explains a miscommunication as the cornetist was praised, not disturbed.
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Stirg
London
Ocean Depths to Mountain Peaks Rise
The deepest ocean reaches 35,400 feet off Mindanao in the Philippines while Mount Everest rises 28,002 feet in the Himalayas. If Neptune climbed from sea bottom to land top he would traverse about 12 miles.
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Neptune
Mindanao
Phillippines
Mt. Everest
Himalayas
Public gullibility cited in postal swindle warning
K P Aldrich asserts annual mail fraud losses reach 1 billion dollars, exceeding combined robberies and burglaries. Government vigilance continues, but credulous individuals and numerous schemes allow scammers to prey on victims.
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Barnum
K. P. Aldrich
Ohio State Journal
Encyclopedias sale sparks school lesson in Kansas City
A downtown Kansas City shop promoting encyclopedia sales leads Jay Howard to overhear a father and son in the display window. The boy insists he needs one for school, while the father jokes about walking to school in his day.
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Kansas City
Jay Howard
South Alberta grows commercial mustard seed for export
Two Warner farmers in Southern Alberta produced 30 000 pounds of commercial mustard seed shipped east for processing into the mustard ingredient. The region moves from wild tumbling mustard to a new commercial variety hoping to boost local industry and offer an affordable product.
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Alberta
Warner
South Alberta
Lethbridge
Denmark’s Stauning Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday
Denmark’s Prime Minister M Thorvald Stauning, famed for a varied career as a cigar maker, trade unionist, journalist, city councillor, and politician, is highly popular. On his sixtieth birthday three years ago he received gifts from across the country, and he has written a play and two books.
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Denmark
M. Thorvald Stauning
Horse Set New High Jump Record at Tenterfield Show
Charles Perry’s horse Lockout cleared eight feet three inches to set a new high jump record at the Tenterfield Diamond Jubilee Show in New South Wales. The same horse had previously won a contest with a seven feet three inches jump.
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Tenterfield Diamond
Coronation Symbolism Across Nations and Voices
The piece reflects on the Coronation as a universal rite linking past and present. It argues the crown and orb symbolize enduring human sovereignty over opportunity, appealing across nations, with the United States seeing mirrored loyalty to constitutional law in a shared heritage.
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Americas
Europe
United States
Westminster Abbey
England
New York Times
Britain weighs airship service after Beauvais disaster
A Montreal Star report says Britain may revive lighter-than-air craft for civil aviation after the Beauvais crash on October 4 1930 during the B 101 maiden flight to India. Rumors of a London airship line linking England to St Hubert and extending to India and South Africa surface amid cautious Air Ministry review.
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Beauvais
France
India
Great Britain
Montreal
London
the Star
Air Ministry
England
St. Hubert
South Africa
Montreal Star
Robins Build Nests on Bellflower School Fire Escape
A colony of robins settled on the Bellflower grade school fire escape in Bloomington Illinois. Eleven nests were started with four soon completed and eggs laid in three. one bird kept guard while a landlady and boarder joked about turkey meat. The note adds in Oregon voters must own property to vote.
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Bloomington
Bellflower
Crochet Gloves Pattern For Summer Wear
Easy to make cotton gloves with frill edged cuffs in white and pastels. Pattern 5846 offers small to large sizes with complete instructions, materials, and illustrations. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave. E
Winnipeg
How Wheat Varieties Resist Stem Rust Explained
The article explains stem rust in wheat and how resistance works. It describes how the rust fungus invades plant tissue, killing the invaded areas quickly in resistant varieties, and notes there are many rust strains. It cites Marquis Thatcher Renown and Apex as examples with varying resistance patterns.
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Marquis
Thatcher
Windsor park oaks seedlings sent to Canada planted at ceremony
King George supplied thousands of Windsor forest oaks to Canada. Lord Tweedsmuir, governor general, urged a nationwide afforestation policy as His Excellency planted a seedling at Parliament Hill near Queen Victoria’s statue, using a silver spade. The seedling, from Rev. H J Keith for the Men of Trees group, symbolized replanting after cuts to forests.
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Canada
King George
Windsor Castle
Lord Tweedsmuir
Peace Tower
Parliament Hill
Ottawa
Queen Victoria
H. J. Keith
Canadian Association “Men of Trees
Forest of Royal Oaks
Windsor Park
Music and Women Inspire Festo Music Festival
Dr. Frederick Staton addressed the Women's Canadian Club on Music and Women. He noted women as primary inspirers and praised their dominant role in choral societies and festival participation. He contrasted female influence with male tastes, citing mothers aiding musical studies and vast female participation in Toronto diploma classes and concerts.
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Frederick Staton
Winnipeg
Staton
Toronto
Arctic Road Buses Link to Arctic Ocean
Buses run 322 miles from Rovaniem to Inarihamari, where the sun shines all night in summer. Finland boasts the only highway permitting such Arctic travel by regular service. Also noted are a pair of blue sheep sent from China to a Washington zoo and a whimsical line about a pink elephant.
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Finland
Arctic Ocean
Rovaniem
Inahamari
China
Washington
King's Champion Clad in Armor Guards Coronation Faith
Frank Seaman Dymoke aged 74 of Scrivelsby Court Horncastle Lincolnshire is the hereditary King's Champion chosen to carry the Standard at the Coronation by the Earl Marshal and Duke of Norfolk. For five centuries the Dymoke family has upheld this feudal rite though Mr Dymoke now leads a hermit life within his vast Gothic mansion surrounded by parkland.
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Frank Seaman Dymoke
Scrivelsby Court
Horncastle
Lincs
George VI
Dymoke
Duke of Norfolk
England
Mr. Dymoke
Claimant Pownall's Earl of Egmont Claim Rejected
Robert Pownall died at Haydock in Lancashire after eight years of seeking recognition as the Earl of Egmont. A pensioner, he argued his grandmother wed a naval captain who became the Earl. The Chan cery Courts disallowed his claim in 1930. the present Earl is an Alberta rancher.
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Robert Pownall
Earl of
When Greek Meets Greek in a London Hotel
An American traveler in London meets a Scotsman who challenges his identity by asking his country. The American replies and the Scotsman quips about language. The text also notes the sun’s mass is about 330,000 times that of the earth.
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London
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