Palliser's Triangle and Western Canada's Drought History
The article surveys Palliser's Triangle, a 20 million acre semi arid region in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It traces drought impacts over a century, population changes from 1856 to 1931, and the shift to scientific farming including trees to prevent soil drift and moisture preservation. It notes crop yields, prices, and wartime earnings, and mentions efforts by Dominion and Provincial agriculture departments to combat drought.
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John Palliser
British Colonial Office
Turtle Mountain
Manitoba-Saskatchewan
Rockies
Old Bow Fort
Calgary
Olds
Alta
Saskatoon
Hudson's Bay Company
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Palliser's Triangle
Dominion and Provincial Department of Agriculture
Roughage Grinding Proves Economical For Fodder Farmers
Amid feed shortages this year farmers are grinding roughage to cut waste and improve value. Grinding aids mixing with concentrates, reduces storage needs, and simplifies feeding. Idaho experimental station notes chopped hay yields 1,339 pounds per 100 pounds gain versus 1,630 pounds with long hay on two year old steers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Fretting as Confession in a Quiet Moment
A fragment notes fretful self-doubt tied to the year 2168, exploring inner weakness and the mind’s response to looming pressure. The line hints at introspection rather than external action, suggesting a solitary, contemplative scene.
Dairy records show top milk producers in Saskatchewan June
The Guernsey association led June milk output in Saskatchewan with 1,085 pounds per cow. In June 222 herds totaling 2,394 cows were tested across 54 centres, with 427 cows on the bovine honor roll. J. H. Reed posted the top butterfat at Nutana with 53.6 pounds per cow from 10 cows. Martin Braaten led for milk with eight cows at 1 432 pounds per cow.
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Guernsey Association
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Carrot River Valley Association
J. H. Reed
Nutana
Martin Braaten
Birch Hills
Ottawa authorizes air mail service in northeastern British Columbia
Ottawa approves a new air mail service covering an almost virgin mining and fur trading region in northeastern British Columbia. Major W. R. Hale announces the Edmonton Postal District. An inaugural flight is expected in December. A Edmonton flying company wins the mail contract.
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British Columbia
Ottawa
W. R. Hale
Edmonton
Minister's Daughter Offends Parishioner With Plain Comment
A minister and his wife host a visiting parishioner when their young daughter blurts out that the woman is plain. The mother recoils but the child says she meant it as a joke. The mother cautions that a kinder line would have been better.
Peaches Defuzzing Inventor Predicts New Standard
Norman Bartlett of Hamilton Ontario claims a system to defuzz peaches using soft brushes will render fruit free of goofer feathers. He says housewives will reject fruit lacking this treatment and that 350 baskets can be produced per hour with a “school girl complexion.”
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Norman Bartlett
Hamilton, Ont
Bartlet
Has Miniature Railroad Enthusiast Built an $8000 Model World
William Haverly of the United States began building model trains at age twelve. With family help and skilled craftsmen he created a sprawling collection valued at about $8,000, featuring 865 feet of track, six engines, 175 cars, an eight stall roundhouse, and a passenger terminal for thirty cars.
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William
Phrenology Guides Hiring At Sydney Boarding House
A cautious proprietress seeking two chefs near Sydney had a phrenologist assess applicants. The scientist selected two men from fifty candidates and the proprietor approved them, giving phrenology two new supporters.
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Sydney
Australia
Not Always Pleasure Resort Sibenik
A News of the World columnist notes that Sibenik would not always be a monarchs first choice for a Dalmatian holiday. The harbor sheltered by pirates in the past while the fortress testifies to battles against the Turks. Today Sibenik is known for white marble a cathedral renaissance houses winding streets and nearby Kirka falls.
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Sibenik
News of the World
Kirka
Mystery of Aboriginal Communication Revealed in Sydney Talk
G A Francis former Queensland MP described a native ability to sense distant plans. While visiting North Queensland he spoke of a Gulf of Carpentaria visit and Arnhem Land locals 300 miles away heard of his talk. He said natives keep their secrets and possess faculties unseen by whites.
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Australia
Legacy Club
Sydney
G. A. Francis
Queensland
North Queensland
Gulf of Carpentaria
Arnhem Land
Mr. Francis
Delightful cut-work basket pattern 5669 offered
Fun to make pattern 5669 features two motifs 9 by 15 inches and a reverse motif 5 by 6 inches with French knots outline and lazy daisy stitches. It lists material needs, stitch illustrations and color ideas and costs 20 cents with requests to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Measurements Hold Public Attention Across Centuries
The article traces the history and importance of accurate standards from bronze markers in Trafalgar Square and Ottawa to the modern quest for an exact yard length via light wavelengths. It contrasts medieval rough measures with today’s need for precise, uniform units and notes the enduring influence of ancient systems and the meridian mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Lytell
Messurit
H. G Vansell
University of California
Bailly
Histoire de l’ Astronomie
Chaldaea
Nile
Ganges Plain
Forecast Of Star Gazers In 1937
D M Davidson of Chicago cites consensus of 500 astrologers at the All American Astral Convention. The outlook predicts a good economy, a real estate boom, no drought, no European war for at least a year, and Japan delaying action on China until 1940.
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D. M. Davidson
Chicago
Davidson
America
Japan
China
Saskatchewan Farm Expenditures in 1934
Expenditures of Saskatchewan farmers averaged 1262 dollars for living and operating costs on 639 farms as reported by 639 crop correspondents to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Living costs averaged 532 dollars for a 5.74 person family while operating outlays averaged 730 dollars for farms averaging 604 acres. 42.2 percent of total cost was for living and 57.8 percent for operating.
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Saskatchewan
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan Forecasts More Grasshoppers Next Year
An Ottawa issued agriculture department report warns grasshopper and sawfly activity will likely yield higher pest levels in Saskatchewan next year. Damage already affects delayed harvest wheat and fodder crops, with infestations expanding into the northwest region.
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Saskatchewan
Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
Predictions of rapid air travel by Selig Brodetsky
Selig Brodetsky of Leeds University proposed in Johannesburg that an airplane could fly from Croydon to Cape Town in one day at 500 miles per hour and circle the world in two days. He spoke at Rand University. A cartoon-like exchange follows with a waiter quip about the meal.
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Croydon
Cape Town
Selig Brodetsky
Leeds University
England
Rand University
Johannesburg
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Palliser
Canadas Prairie
North
William Haverly
The
United States
Edward
Alice Brooks
Saskatchewan Farm Expenditures
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