Rust Resistant Wheat Nears Distribution for Western Canada
After a decade of research scientists have developed rust resistant wheat with milling and baking quality equal to Marquis and Reward. Field plots in western Canada show promising yields, with plans to increase seed for registered farmers in 1937 and broader distribution soon after. Researchers in Winnipeg and western universities report ongoing rust work and related disease efforts including oats.
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Western
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Government
Morden
Dominion Rust Research Laboratories
Winnipeg
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Prairie Wheat Belt
J. N. Walsh
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Associate Committee of
Memorial for Livingstone Honours Great Missionary and Explorer
South African Scots raised a statue of David Livingstone born in Blantyre Scotland. The Union Castle Line shipped it free from Scotland and the government provided a free site at Devil's Cataract near Victoria Falls. Unveiling was by Hugh A. Moffatt ex premier of Rhodesia with a pipe band and Capuchin friars present. A burial service followed at Johannesburg before final interment in Westminster Abbey.
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David Livingstone
Blantyre
Lanarkshire
Scotland
Union of South Africa
Rhodesia
Union Castle Line
Donald Currie
Devil's Cataract
Victoria Falls
Livingstone
Niagara
Hugh A. Moffatt
Bulawayo
Johannesburg
Westminster Abbey
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Television Car Delivers Live Pictures From Germany
A German novelty vehicle mounts a motion picture camera on its roof with a cast iron support. Exposed film ribbon is developed inside the car in about ninety seconds and sent to a receiver that translates each line into radio impulses. The system allows listeners to view events as they unfold remotely.
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Germany
Patented Twenty Four Strike Match By Czech Inventor
Rudolf Petruska, a Czecho-Slovakian inventor, patentes a match that strikes twenty four times. He has spent thirty five years on this invention. The matches resist water and dampness and will strike anywhere. A company has been formed to market them.
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Rudolf Petruska
French hoarders stash billions in socks
Official statistics reveal hoarders conceal about 27 billion francs in gold and banknotes in homes. One thousand franc bills are especially favored, with over seven billion francs reportedly vanished from circulation.
Polar winds to power future energy needs say scientists
Professor F Debenham told the British Association that icy air rivers in the polar regions could supply power when coal and oil run short. He compared Niagara Falls with a vast Antarctic wind regime moving from the plateau, suggesting future engineers might harness 50 mile wide air rivers at 50 mph.
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F. Debenham
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Prof. Debenham
Niagara Falls
Adebe Land
Debenham
H. G. Wells
Antarctic
Change In The Great Dipper
Astronomers report the Great Dipper will look different in generations as seven stars drift in varying directions. Prof. R S Duggan of Princeton University, secretary of the American Astronomical Society, shared findings at the 54th annual Toronto convention.
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R. S. Duggan
American Astronomical Society
Princeton University
Toronto
Mount Royal Principal Named VP of International Federation
Dr George W Kerby principal of Mount Royal Junior College in Calgary has been named vice pres ident of the International Home and School Federation. Miss Ishbel MacDonald daughter of the former British prime minister is president.
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George W. Kerby
Mount Royal
Calgary
International Home and School Federation
Ishbel MacDonald
Great Britain
Miniature zoo shipment to London’s Royal Zoological Gardens
A special cargo sent from Trinidad aboard the Inanda includes six vampire bats Desmodus rufus, four snakes, two manatees, a king vulture, a ferocious puma from British Guiana, and a Brazil jungle bat ally, donated by Professor Urich of Imperial College of Topical Agriculture.
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Zoological Gardens
London
Royal Zoological Society
Trinidad
Inanda
Urich
Imperial College of Topical Agriculture
British Guiana
Brazil
Atlantic
Precedence Shifts With Duke of Gloucester Marriage
Royal rank questions loom as the future Duchess of Gloucester would move ahead of the Duchess of Kent to become the fourth lady of the land. Current male order places the Duke of Gloucester after the Duke of York and before the Duke of Kent. The throne sequence names the Prince of Wales first, then the Duke of York, followed by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, with the Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent further down and the Princess Royal fifth.
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Duke of Gloucester
Duchess of Gloucester
Duchess of Ketn
Duke of Kent
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Princess Royal
Princess Mary
Duchess of York
Duchess of Kent
Princess Elizabeth
Margaret Rose
Snap shot Guild rules for memory albums and child portraits
An article advises how many Snap shot Guild members have taken summer pictures of their children and offers practical tips for candid, story telling photos. It explains camera distances eight feet for box cameras, near six feet for folding models, appropriate stops, shutter speeds, lighting to avoid squinting, and capturing natural actions. JOHN VAN GUILDER.
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Billie
Jane
John van Guilder
Imperial Fruit Show Moves Toward Canadian Victory In Cardiff
The fifteenth Imperial Fruit Show opens in Cardiff, Wales, October 25 to November 2, 1935, with Canadian growers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia fielding strong entries in pursuit of the blue ribbon and a $200 prize. Prairie shelter belt programs and tree planting guidance from Norman M. Ross and the Dominion Forestry Station aim to improve drought protection and forage, while shelter belts protect gardens and fields, reduce wind damage, conserve moisture, and combat soil drift.
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British Empire
Great Britain
Greyfair’s Hall
Cardiff
Wales
Canada
Dundas County
Ontario
Ottawa
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
British Columbia
Empire
Dominion
Prairie Provinces
K. S. Archibald
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Committee
Norman M. Ross
Dominion Experimental Farms Branch
Dominion Forestry Station
Indian Head
Sask
Sutherland, Sask
Ross
Prairies
Protein content of wheat tests for 1935 crop
Tests by the grain commissioner's lab show protein levels near 1934 figures. Alberta samples averaged 14.4 percent this year from 27 points, Saskatchewan 14.2 percent from 176 points, Manitoba 13.6 percent from 25 points. To date 407 samples analyzed from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. further testing will follow as harvest proceeds.
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Grain Research Laboratory
Board of Grain Commissioners
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
One Man Band Reawakens At Stuttgart Museum
At the Provincial Trade Museum in Stuttgart Germany the original one man band the Pan harmonicum now Orchestreon plays again after more than a century Its 259 instruments blend into a single concert with 38 clarinets 237 flutes 36 hautboys 16 bassoons eight trumpets and a large drum with cymbals and triangle Beethoven wrote a special symphony for it to honor the Duke of Wellington victory at Vittoria during the Peninsular War.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Panharmonicum
Vienna
Austria
Maelzel
Ratisbon
Beethoven
Duke of Wellington
Vittoria
Orchestreon
Canada Condensed Milk Output Rises in First Seven Months 1935
The combined production of all condensed milk items in Canada for January to July 1935 reached 65,255,255 pounds, up 9,307,998 pounds or 17 percent from the same period in 1934, according to industry figures.
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Canada
Allotment to USDA Set at $125113.43 for FY1936
For the fiscal year ending June 30 1936 the allotment to the Federal Department of Agriculture of the United States is 125113 43 dollars.
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Federal Department of Agriculture of the
United States
World War death tolls prompt renewed Italian interest
The Port Arthur News-Chronicle cites wartime losses by country with Russia at 2,762,064 and Germany 2,050,466 among others, suggesting the heavy toll may partly explain Italy's renewed willingness to engage again.
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Port Arthur
New Yorker Completes 300 Mile Paddle to Boston
John Goetz, 35, of New York City, paddled 300 miles from New York to Boston over 14 days. He was stiff and blistered yet happy, losing 10 pounds in the journey.
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John Goetz
New York
Boston
Goetz
New York City
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