Whaling Industry Gains Importance in Pacific Coast
Minneapolis financier W S Dwinnell leads a push for U S congressional action to safeguard Pacific whaling amid growing Canadian and American investments. He cites Alaska and Grays Harbor stations, estimates multi million dollar capital, and argues limiting stations to 75 miles to prevent overfishing and monopoly.
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W U.S Congress
Alaska
Washington
Pacific Ocean
W.S. Dwinnell
Minneapolis
Congress
Senate
Knute Nelson
Dwinnell
Senate Committee On Fisheries
Pacific
Atlantic
Mr. Dwinnell
Chile
Mexico
British Columbia
Grays Harbor
Wash
Port Armstrong
Akutan Island
Aleutian
United States
Alaskan
Seattle
Canada
Woaes
Young Author Submits Manuscript to Relentless Editor
A young writer with many disappointments and a blooded head sent a manuscript to an editor who repeatedly refused it. The cover note reads Dear Sir The inclosed MS is submitted for your rejection Yours very truly Woman's Time Companion.
Lighting the Panama Canal Lights and buoys mark navigation
The Panama Canal will be illuminated with automatic lights and a grid of acetylene buoys. Double rows of buoys and rapid flashing range lights guide vessels, with beacons along the canal and gas buoys every mile marked by a steel, floating body.
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Panama Canal
Jatuon Lake
Wireless telephone across Atlantic eyed by Marconi chief
At a royal commission in London the Marconi president expressed faith that wireless speech between Wales and Newfoundland could be achieved this year. He noted the need for powerful machines to transmit sound over great distances and discussed privacy concerns with long wave signals, stressing equal-power stations could limit privacy similarly to existing telephones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leondon
Marconi Company
Wales
Newfoundland
Marconi
Atlantic
Canada’s West Seen on Threshold of New Resources
Sir William Van Horne asserts Canada’s vast resources remain untapped and estimates show 272,920.01% acres of arable land in the three prairie provinces with about 59,000,000 now broken. Last year Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta produced 231,717,000 bushels of wheat on only one fifth of available land. Agriculture is not the only resource as the west edges toward developments in other valuable directions previously ignored.
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William van Horne
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Salmon migration linked to river oxygen levels
At a French Academy of Science meeting Professor Roule reported that salmon ascend rivers to Bretons seas where dissolved oxygen in freshwater governs entry. Salmon seek waters with sufficient oxygen during breeding, leaping over obstacles, and results could guide which rivers merit efforts to purify water or install ladders.
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French Academy of Science
Roule
Breton
Suffragette’s Handcuff Offer Sparks Gallery Closures
An outraged suffragette movement led to closures of English picture galleries including the Naval Gallery. Visitors to London pleaded for special rounds, embassies faced high demand, and one unnamed lady offered to hire police or missionaries to accompany her and even be handcuffed to her guardians to view the old masters.
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Naval Gallery
London
Page
U.S
No Peace Stamp Plans Reported by Post Office
The post office department says no official representations or consideration have been made about peace centenary stamps. Outside talk exists, but no formal action or plans have been announced.
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Post Office Department
United States
Birth rate rises in Great Britain after years of decline
Provisional 1913 figures show birth rate up by 9.1 per 1 000, the first increase since 1908, with marriages also rising and the 1912 death rate at a record low of 13.3 per 1 000. Improved conditions credited for the turn, while child mortality under five falls.
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Great Britain
Leprosy in North America Demands U.S. Leper Colony
A resolution before Congress urges a national leper colony in the United States, arguing 300 to 500+ cases exist and segregation with humane care is needed. It contrasts Hawaiis Malaikai leprosy colony with isolated U.S. cases and notes England plans a colony despite fewer cases.
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Congress
United States
Malakai
Hawaii
Mies
Essex
Lord Strathcona
England
Argus
Farmers Pioneer Dual Harvest Ploughing Method
In western fields the ground bakes after harvest making ploughing tough. Farmers now cut grain and plough simultaneously using a seven foot binder and six bottom plough, plus a two section harrow. The setup improves ploughing before baking and helps kill weeds.
Deadly torpedo with whisker-like blades described in Naval Annual 1914
The Naval Annual 1914 reveals a new British torpedo mine with adjustable depths and buoyant ascent. Aimed to operate in open seas or tidal harbors, it uses deadly steel whiskers and could target shipping similarly to hatsuse and Petropavlosk.
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H. G. Welle
Jules Verne
Naval Annual
Hatsuse
Petropavlosk
Skeleton Found at Brechin Point May Link to Vancouver Crew
At Brechin Point near Nanaimo K B Greave unearthed a skeleton buried about three feet deep surrounded by clam shells from an Indian feast. A cedar tree now covers the site and locals suspect the remains may belong to a member of Captain George Vancouver's crew who disappeared during his 1791 92 visit to Departure Bay.
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Brechin Point
Nanaimo
K. B. Greave
George Vancouver
Departure Bay
Pre-emption maps illuminate British Columbia lands for settlers
Victoria issues three new pre-emption maps Nechaco Chilcotin and North Thompson districts showing surveyed pink available and white taken land. Maps aid settlers by detailing topography and location for staking required when applying for pre-emption in various land recording divisions.
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Victoria
Nechaco
Chilcoten
North Thompson
Department of Lands
Fort George
Tete Jaune
Hazelton
Great Interior Lake Basin
Endako
C.N.R
Canem Lake
Bridge Lake
Bonaparte
Lillooet
Lake
Cariboo
Fort Fraser
Skenna
Bariboo
Peace River
Odds and Ends From a Curious Era
The excerpt lists varied notes from advances and oddities including an ice cream freezer that never needs cranking, automatic telegraph printing, mental states affecting health, a long tin tubing filter for phonographs, a 70 percent alcohol-aided disinfectant, Spain exporting cigarettes paper, a hand controlled drive for legless motorists, a fatal Belgian lightning strike, arid region survival without water, and a collapsible bed for transporting invalids by car.
Food Eaten Determines Skin Color Says German Doctor
A German doctor presents a theory that skin tint is shaped by diet. He claims primitive Man was black from fruit and root manganese. He cites Americans and Mongols as colored by raw meat and herbs, Caucasians by salt preference.
Dutch Test Eugenics Examined by Dutch Study Panel
British consul-general reports a The Hague office by the committee for public hygiene where a medical man advises men and women planning marriage. The aim is to prevent unions of the unfit and to check race death by action.
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E. B. Maxse
Netherlands
Committee For the Study of Public Hygiene
Hague
New two dollar bill issued to honor Duke and Duchess of Connaught
A commemorative two dollar note features the Duke and Duchess of Connaught with engravings in the corners. The design swaps the fishing scene for a prominent two and displays the Dominion coat of arms with provincial arms on the back in light olive green. Numbers one and two were presented to the royal couple as souvenirs during their Canada visit.
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Dominion
Duke and Duchess of
Hard to Get Persian Lambs
Persians M K Maljana in M G Vartaiian and John Abajian of Providence Rhode Island report a decade long effort to introduce Persian lambs to the Western Hemisphere. Only eight reached Montreal aboard the Patenza days ago and two survived landing attempts halted by foot and mouth disease fears. authorities from Canada Britain and Holland refused landings. Abajian notes lambs worth about fifty dollars each and that skins are the main product with no rights to compensation.
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Atlantic
M. K. Maljanain
M. G. Vartaiian
John Abajian
Providence
Rhode Island
Wave Teen
Montreal
Persia
Abajian
Caucassian Mountains
Batcom
Hamburg
Canada
F Torrance
Ottawa
London
Holland
Faraday’s Pay at the Royal Institution A Brief Mirror
Professor Silvanus Thompson notes Faraday lived in two rooms atop the Royal Institution with a $500 salary plus free coal and gas. He recalls the institution’s total salaries and materials cost, and that Faraday never received higher pay despite landmark magneto electric induction.
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Silvanus Thompson
Royal Institution
London
Faraday
Pavy
Fareday
Tyndall
Franklin
Rayleigh
Thompson
Devys
Faiday
Won a Abolish Black Rod Feud in Parliament
Nationalist members in the British House of Commons clash with Black Rod after repeated abolition attempts. The office dates to Henry VII with duties guarding secret chambers. Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson serves as usher. Lloyd George must yield to the Black Rod message amid Democratic opposition.
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House of Commons
Black Rod
Henry VII
Henry Stephenson
Portuguese-American chemist claims synthetic gas substitute
John Andrews of McKeesport a Portuguese-American chemist says he has developed a synthetic gasoline substitute after three years of experiments. He states the fuel can be marketed at six cents per gallon and has shown superior performance to gasoline of the same proof in demonstrations to several motor car companies.
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John Andrews
McKeesport
Andrews
All Round-the-World Air Race Attracts Wide Attention
The All Round the World air race linked to the Panama Pacific Exhibition will use wireless telegraphy along the route with Marconi stations aboard ships and at supply points from Newfoundland to Europe and Siberia. Prizes total about 150000 dollars with 250000 dollars in subsidiary awards and penalties for delays. about 50 pilots have entered the contest.
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Ir. Marcon
Newfoundland
Abrados
Greenland
Lowland
North Biilein
Europe
Siberia
London
States
Hendon
Great Britin
Shetlands
Metro
Royal Aero Club
Shell” Company
Ocean
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Chicago
New York
Toronto
Montreal
Quebec
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence
Belle Isle
Eastwari
Baunchig
Vladivostok
Dry farming trials in Central British Columbia begin
Government experimental farms at Nicula and Lillooet start stable meat trials to test dry farming viability in BC’s semi arid region. Meteorological data and cultivation methods are recorded as oats wheat barley grasses and vegetables are sown. Winter moisture shows surprising depth in unploughed versus ploughed soil, suggesting agricultural potential.
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Semarid
British Columbia
Nicula
Lillooet
Fergus County
Lena
Montana
Western States
Australia
J.T.E
Montreal Family Herald
Louisville racial segregation ordinance sparks constitutional fight
A Louisville Kentucky ordinance bars blacks from white residential areas and forbids whites from moving into black quarters. Activists plan a test case with protests and funds collected to challenge the measure as unconstitutional. If unresolved, the dispute may trigger disorder in Kentucky and the broader South.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Bette 1
South
Caniaa's Air Forest Reported as World Largest in Canada
The piece notes a vast forest in Canada described as the world's largest, located in the Labrador and Hudson Bay district. It claims dimensions about 1,000 by 1,700 miles, per the London KS press.
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Canada
Labrador
Hudson Bay
London
Ks Press
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Panama Channel
North America
B.C. Lands
THE
Provinial Land Department
Spain
NEW “Wooollar Bills
Science
B.C
Caniaa’s Air Forest
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