Cold Winter Forecasts From Weather Experts
Experts analyze a long term study of winter temperatures in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. They note historical cold years tied to volcanic dust and current forecasts remain uncertain, with no clear sign of a colder than average winter for 1936.
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Questws
Jacques W. Redway
New York Sun
Arctic
Temperate
New York City
Philadelphia
Krakatoo
Sunda Strait
Earth
Benjamin Franklin
Thompson
Vermont
Seigneurs To Lose Rights In Quebec Municipalities
Quebec advances a Seigniorial Rights Abolition Act to establish a rights purchase commission. The plan allows rural municipalities to buy out seigneurial rights from holders, with instalments stretched over 20 years or more, ending centuries of feudal dues.
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Quebec
Canada
New France
Commission
Feeding Harvest Hands
A Kansas writer recalls the harvest scene, describing a wife cooking four pies and preparing vegetables before threshing crews arrive. The piece emphasizes hospitality, hard work, and the shared country experience of feeding a threshing crew, noting the mood hinges on the hostess’s attitude.
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Kansas
Flint Hills
Peggy
Cottonwood Falls
Up or lie in bed a daily choice says Maugham
An excerpt cites Somerset Maugham on starting the day with two disliked acts, noting getting up is harder than lying in bed. The piece references the 24 hour day, habit, and reflects on the pull between sloth and discipline with quotes from the old army ballad and Harry Lauder. The New York Times source frames the contrast.
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Somerset Maugham
Harry Lauder
New York Times
English King’s Veto Power In Parliament Not Used In Two Centuries
The article notes that while the king technically may reject Acts, there is no record of a royal veto in two centuries. It discusses constitutional limits, parliamentary sovereignty, and historical instances cited by legal commentators.
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England
National Ordnance Department in Munich Builds Nazi Uniform Arsenal
A massive two block long Munich complex titled The National Ordnance Department is financed entirely by Nazi party funds. It acts as a vast arsenal for storing uniforms and gear with prices set by party chiefs. The four story steel cement buildings include a 59 vehicle garage and supply Nazi party branches, Hitler Youth and guards with uniform kits around 25 dollars.
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Munich
Third Reich
National Ordnance Department
Nazi Party
Wireless direction finders installed along South African coast
Ships along the South African coastline will receive wireless direction finders as part of a coastal installation program. The move aims to improve navigation safety and monitoring of sea traffic by providing precise bearing data to vessels near the shore.
Raisins Presented to Winnipeg for Public Charity
A quarter ton of raisins was presented to the city of Winnipeg by L. R. Mac Gregor Australian trade commissioner in Canada during the opening of a local Australian exhibition. Mayor John Queen accepted the gift intended for public institutions relief recipients and the poor as a token of Canadian goodwill toward Australia.
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Winnipeg
John Queen
L. R. MacGregor
Canada
MacGregor
Australia
The Value Of Paper And Fifteen Indian Students
Arthur Pond argues in Atlantic Monthly that without paper history geography poetry and trade lose meaning and would rely on memory and guesswork. The piece notes fifteen Indian girl students recently toured Europe.
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Arthur Pond
Atlantic Monthly
India
Europe
Snapshot tips for football season by John Van Guilder
A near ode to photographing football games urges readers to capture crowds, lines, and motion with bold angles. It promotes on field shots, pregame crowds, and candid friends, advising shutter speeds and ready cameras for standout, story filled images.
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Bill
John van Guilder
Bees and crops powering auto industry seen in Farm Chemurgic drive
The Farm Chemurgic Council notes 93,000,000 bees and vast livestock support a major automaker's supply chain. It cites honey and beeswax as potential industrial inputs, with broader research into agricultural products for car manufacturing and related fields.
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Chemurgic Council
Industral
Council
Chemurghc Council
American Honey Institute
Madison
Wis
Thought Pictures Use Scientific Instruments To Show Thoughts
A Moscow Institute experiment records brain activity with temple needles wired to a transformer to magnify impulses onto a dial. A moving film then shows rising and falling peaks as a patient answers, aiming to classify abnormal thought patterns for mental ailment treatment.
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Moscow
Timothy Seed Production Surges in Canada 1935
Canada records an abnormally large timothy seed crop in 1935 with about eleven million pounds available for commerce, up from five million in 1934. Domestic pricing shifts to export basis, pushing prices down from 15-20 cents to 3-4.5 cents per pound as surplus production stems from last year's high prices and a bumper hay crop.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Canada
Chicago
British Admiral Gifts Talking Picture Apparatus to Lepers
Admiral Sir William Fisher, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean fleet, presented a talking picture apparatus to a Malta leper hospital after learning patients could not visit cinemas. A Jubilee film from London was shown, and a life size portrait of Fisher was placed in the hospital.
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Sir Will'am Fisher
Malta
London
Admiral Fisher
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