West Prairies Put Under Broad Reclamation Plan
Canada plans large scale reclamation to restore drought damaged wheat lands across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Projects target binding soils with grasses, aim to support livestock, seed supply, and future crops while coordinating with railways on reduced livestock feed moves. Authorities anticipate costs between 15 and 20 million dollars and consider emigration trends and hay export controls.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairies
Canadian Railways
Drouth
Dominion
United States
Washington
New Zealand church delays Bible format changes
New Plymouth officials at a church convention discussed Bible printing and considered brighter covers better layout and illustrations but urged mainly to use more readable type. Stratford Beacon Herald notes the New Zealand view that current small print makes the Book hard to read unlike newspapers which use clearer type.
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New Plymouth
New Zealand
Stratford Bescon-Herald
Remarkable Wireless Link Connects India and London
A test wireless telephone link between India and London succeeded with a clear conversation between the Karachi Collector and a London Post Office official. The voice traveled 2,000 miles via Lahore, Agra, and Surat before emerging from the Kirkee wireless station.
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India
London
Karachi
Lahore
Agra
Surat
Kirkee
Umbrella Handles Feature Writeable Surfaces in London
Shoppers in London discover umbrellas with pencil tips built into the top of the handle. The handle twists to reveal a writable surface for notes that can be erased. The ad celebrates a bright side of shopping while noting a caution about repeating mistakes.
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London
Jacket Dresses for In-Between Season Wear
Today's model features a grey blue plaid wool blend jacket with wine trim and a boxy youthful cut. The dress has raglan sleeves and a front button bodice with a slim line. plaits in the skirt add movement. Sizes 14 through 40 inch bust. pattern No. 484 costs 20 cents.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg
Pattern order guide from Winnipeg Newspaper Union lists address 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg and provides pattern number name wine size details for customers.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
How To Organize A Poultry Pool In The Dominion
The Dominion Department of Agriculture Poultry Services offers a pamphlet on organizing poultry pools. It explains that assembling, packing, grading, and shipping preparation are integral to the producer's business and that overhead hinges on each member doing their share.
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Western
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Dominion Experimental Farms and Livestock Branches
Aid to U.S. Farmers Tops One Billion Dollars
The Agriculture Adjustment Administration plans to pay over 1 billion dollars to U.S. farmers by year end 1935. Cotton, tobacco, wheat and corn hog benefits total 779,402,000 with 282,882,519.21 already paid by August 25. Cotton leads at 152,510,793, wheat 67,781,951, corn hog 46,815,988, and tobacco 15,773,785. Cattle raisers expect about 120,000,000 and sheepmen 7,500,000 from selling breath-stricken animals to the government, bringing farm adjustments near one billion. Sugar program payments not included.
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United States
Agriculture Adjustment Administration
Inventors Seldom Get Rich In Patent Rejections
A window pane trap for burglars was among 20,000 last year not granted patents. Perpetual motion ideas remain popular with about a hundred new such discoveries each year, according to a leading patent agents firm.
Freight Train of the Air
A historical vision notes powerful engines pulling freight cars and foresees a future plane towing several gliders. The passage imagines aviation progress shaping transport with a train of air power leading the way.
England deploys four thousand lifeguards this summer
About 4,000 lifeguards will be on duty across England this summer, with more than 1,500 of them women.
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England
Reindeer Trek Nearing End Of Four Year Arctic Route
Nearly 3,000 reindeer bought by Canada in 1929 reach the west side of the Mackenzie river delta awaiting winter. The herd began in Western Alaska and faced blizzards and glare ice on the Mackenzie crossing, with another attempt planned for autumn to reach winter grazing east of the delta for northern natives.
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Alaska
Yukon
Mackenzie River
Northwest Territories
Mackenzie
Napaktoolek
Shingle Point
Delta
Department of the Interior
Dominion
English Bakers Seek Canadian Flour to Raise Bread Prices
J. H. Merrett of Cardiff and William Collier of Leigh, members of Britain's National Association of Master Bakers, visit Canada to study a five year plan to boost bread consumption and push for price regulation. They report a two year bread price war and a recent drop to a penny a pound in Liverpool and Manchester, and argue higher quality Canadian flour could improve bread value and raise prices.
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Great Britain
J. H. Merrett
Cardiff
National Association of Master Bakers and Confectioners
Canada
Mr. Merrett
William Collier
Leigh
Britain
Manchester
Liverpool
Londoner cultivates coffee plants and peach vine in Ontario
A London Ontario resident, while visiting Michigan, tasted local coffee and peaches. He brought seeds home and now grows three coffee plants and a peach vine. The peaches taste Canadian but grow on a vine, with no pits and about the size of a goose egg.
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Michigan
London
Ont
Lightning conductors fitted to historic trees in Czecho Slovakia
Workers will install lightning conductors on ancient trees across Czecho Slovakia to protect historic groves from storm damage. The program aims to preserve landmark specimens while reducing fire risk during severe weather.
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Czecho-Slovakia
Panama History From Early Explorers To Canal Era
The piece surveys Panama from its early European contact and Balboa’s crossing to its 1908 shift to independence from Colombia. It covers the 1903 U S backed independence, the 1904 canal project start and 1914 completion, Panama City’s role as a port and shopping hub, and Morgan’s 1671 sack with its enduring cathedral remains.
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Panama
America
Columbus
Panamanian
Europe
Cathay
Balboe
Pacific Ocean
South America
Cape Horn
Department of
Colombia
United States
Government of
Canal
Colon
Acapulco
Republic
Republic of Panama
Engineer Corps
Regular Army
G. W. Goethals
Costa Rica
Maine
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Zone
Aid For Sheep Breeders In Southern Alberta Buy Rambouillet Rams
N T Macleod of the Alberta Sheep Breeders Association says Dominion aid will help Southern Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan associations purchase Rambouillet rams in Montana. A A Macmillan has identified ram sources, with W S Benson to select final purchases. government will cover Benson's expenses and freight. Purchases expected to total two car loads.
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Westernanada
Department of the Interior
Dominion Department of Agriculture
G. S. Herringer
Southwestern Saskatchewan Wool Growers’ Association
Maple Creek
Sask
N T. McLeod
Southern Alberta Sheep Breeders, Ltd
2Nd Ave
Lethbridge
Alta
M. E. Lauder
British Columbia
Sheep Breeders’ Association
Kamloops
B.C
Economica
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Alberta
Dominion
Montana
N. T. Macleod
Alberta Sheep Breeders’ Association
Saskatchewan
A. A. Macmillan
W. S. Benson
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers’ Association
Timely warning on gold mine stock telephone tips
The Brandon Sun warns against investing in unknown stocks based on tips from strangers over disguised telephone calls. Local variations of old rackets are using social circles to lure dupes into buying shares with blind assurances.
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Brandon Sun
Balzac Prize Awarded to Balzac House in Paris
The French Society of Men of Letters in Paris awards a $625 prize posthumously to honor Henri de Balzac eight years after his death and designates the money for the Balzac House in Paris. Tennyson spent 17 years composing his famed poem In Memoriam.
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Henri de Balzac
French Society of Men of Letters
Paris
Balzac
Tennyson
English bishop questions beauty parlor concept
A bishop questions the meaning of a beauty parlor while a tongue in cheek definition describes the parlor as a place where a woman endures hours of looking her worst to achieve brief moments of looking her best. The piece then cites rules barring misleading egg advertisements in line with Canadian regulations.
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Rich, Royal Ruby
Union Vaio
Ruth Rogers
U.S
Reindeer
White City
Quartstte
A. Dearnley
E. Meacher
L. Palmer
B. White
Canal Zone Strip
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama City
Bay
Morgan
Old City
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