Pasture Lands Survey Led by Saskatchewan Professor
Dominion Agrostologist Dr. L. E. Kirk of the University of Saskatchewan will supervise a complete survey of Canadian pastures. Appointed in the Commons by Minister of Agriculture Robert Weir, Kirk will study grasses to boost the cattle industry amid western grain-focused farming shifts.
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Saskatchewan University
Canada
LE Kirk
University of Saskatchewan
Dominion
House of Commons
Robert Weir
Weir
Kirk
Ottawa
Saskatoon
American
Dominion of
Can
University of Minnesota
Motor express firms slash tariffs to combat truck rivals
Rail and express firms push steep rate cuts across provinces as surveys show truck competition eroding rail volumes. Tariffs filed with Ottawa threaten to reshape pricing under the Railways Act with three days notice for reductions as carriers respond to truck-led pressure.
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Board of Railway Commissioners
Ottawa
Railway Commission
Express
Travelling In Russia Amid Ticket Lines And Wrecks
The article notes heavy rail disruption in the Soviet Union with over 19 000 vremuowns reported and 190 wrecks on Russian railroads. It describes long ticket queues of 12 to 24 hours and the need to queue weeks in advance, plus two ticket windows handling even and odd dates. It mentions dangers and travel challenges as observed by inhabitants.
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Soviet Union
Fay
Wall Street Journal
Character Not Color Determines True Worth of a Man
Daily Advertiser of Natal argues that character alone defines a man’s worth, not race. It rejects racial color as a measure of virtue, insisting sun or skin tone does not change the soul, and that true value comes from virtue and humanity.
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Lord Willington
Daily Advertiser
Natal
Mining at Great Bear Lake Expands Eldorado Properties
Mining activity at Eldorado properties on Great Bear Lake aims to expand operations. Pitchblende occurrences extend 3700 and 2000 feet with veins about 10 feet wide and ore widths from two feet to ten inches. Silver shows stretch south for about 12000 feet with native silver evident in places.
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Eldorado
Great Bear Lake
Toronto
Lord Dawson at Cheltenham College Speech Day
Lord Dawson compared Elizabethan readers to modern students. He warned that Elizabethans read the Bible with precision, gaining explicit guidance, while today many possess books but know the Bible poorly, making its guidance implicit rather than explicit.
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Lord Dawson
Cheltenham College
New Earthquake Alert Device Demonstrated in Argentina
Tests of a home earthquake alarm by an Argentine inventor showed success in San Juan. The device would switch on lights and ring bells at first ground tremor, triggered by shaking the wall with a blast of photographic flash powder.
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San Uan
Argentina
Poultry Record of Performance Boosts Farmer Breeding
For poultry, farmers with interest in trap nesting can join the Record of Performance system. Ottawa issues leg bands and report forms, with inspector support to verify entries. Breeders send weekly official copies to Ottawa. inspectors visit monthly or six weeks to review records and provide guidance.
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Ottawa
Sun spot influence on Canadian fur cycles debated
At the Canadian Biological Conference in Matameck Quebec professor Charles Elton of Oxford argued the sun spot may govern cycles of plenty and want in fur bearing animals. Elton cited Hudson's Bay Company records showing a ten year peak in fur abundance and suggested climatic or solar forces drive population cycles. Dr Huntingdon of Yale countered that temperature and pressure peaks from the Canadian northwest spread across North America, with the solar cycle underpining many cycles.
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Oxford
Matameck
Quebec
Charles Elton
England
Hudson's Bay Company
Huntingdon
Yale
Canadian Northwest
North America
Push Buttons Feed Coal How To Order Patterns
A Winnipeg note cites a method for coal feeding via push buttons in a multi story storey building in New York. Boilers burn pulverized coal and automatic release from bunkers maintains heat. The piece includes street names and quotes about domestic topics and an Austrian agricultural program.
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New York
Mild’s Rompers or Play Suit Pattern Notes
Pattern description for a children's romper or play suit with left side front slash, attached collar and pockets. Includes sizes from 1 to 3 years, yardage for fabrics and binding, and pattern price of 25 cents. Instructions urge careful pattern piece comparison before cutting and wrap coins for payment.
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Ana Nished
Brea
Printen
Iain
Canadian Pacific unveils first gas electric electro-motive car
The CPR introduces its 48 electro-motive car on the Arbory subdivision near Winnipeg, a 56 passenger gas electric unit with a 400 mile range at 30 mph and a 17 foot baggage and express compartment. The first run departs with staff including C W Lister and RA Gamble aboard.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacifi Railway
Arbory, Man
Weyburn
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Petcodera
C. W. Lister
RA. Gamble
ED. Cotterell
RM. Pyne
Gia
J. D. Muir
Iase
United States Proposals For A Yearly War Debt Holiday
The article outlines U S proposals within the Young plan for a one year holiday on war debts. It describes repayment terms from July 1933 to July 1943, with 3 percent interest and monthly instalments, plus arrangements for refinancing via the Bank for International Settlements and the German Railway. It notes participation by Belgium, Germany, and other nations and addresses issues raised by Yugoslavia and Greece.
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United States
Young
London
Foreign Office
Protocol
Bank For International Settlements
Belgium
Germany
Bulgaria
Jugo- Slavia
Jugo- Slavian
Bank of International Settlements
Japan Sees Rice Surplus Due to Fertilizer Use
Japan, more densely populated than China and with limited arable land, exports rice to China after 1929 when scientific cultivation and heavy fertilizer use produced a surplus. Government policy promoted intensive farming with large quantities of artificial fertilizers, notably ammonia and super phosphate, driving the rise in production and fertilizer expenditure.
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Japan
China
Ammenia
Hong Kong
Praise For New Treaty and Banff Park Hot Springs
The August letter of the Royal Bank of Canada hails a new Canada Australia treaty boosting Canadian producers in Australia and foreseeing greater trade. Banff Park Ontario Alberta reports five sulphur springs with the Upper Spring on Sulphur Mountain the Cave and Basin pool and warmest spring attracting thousands of visitors.
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We 1Ion
Canada
Commonwealth of Australia
Royal Bank of Canada
United States
Banff Park
Alberta
Department of the Interior
National Park
Banff
Woman Complains About Milk Quality On Grey Day
A housewife scolds a milkman for thin milk asking if it is exposed to rain too long. The milkman replies with Grade A milk prompting her to quip for a “fine weather variety.” She then asks for matches for a petrol lighter.
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Railway Express
Bunieres
Russia
Moustique
Charterol
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Tera No
Mabel
Kitty
Austria
CPR Elect
Vigor
Sera
Australia
Royal Bank
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