Record of Motor Tourist Traffic Surge at Western National Parks
Ottawa reports strong gains in car visitors to western national parks for four months ending July 31. Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Waterton Lakes, Riding Mountain, and Buffalo parks show substantial year over year increases, with total automobile visitors up about 55 000 across western parks. Foreign and interprovincial visitors contribute to higher park incomes as park facilities and road access improve.
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Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
Department
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Kootenay and
Yoho
Waterton Lakes National Park
Buffalo National Park
Alberta
Prairies
Riding Mountain National Park
Manitoba
Prince Albert National Park
Saskatchewan
United States
Prairie Provinces
Delinquent Subscribers Send Gifts in Kansas Editor Plea
A Kansas newspaper editor reports a delinquent subscriber visit where he vowed to return a Winchester rifle. Caught off guard, subscribers believed he was on the warpath and offered payments. On returning to the office, he found a load of hay, 15 bushels of corn, ten bushels of potatoes, firewood, and a barrel of turnips delivered.
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Kansas
Soil erosion as key factor in fertility at Dominion farm
Experiments conducted at the Dominion experimental farm in Ottawa over four years show erosion as the major cause of soil fertility loss. barley yields declined from 30.5 to 5.2 bushels per acre as surface soil was removed, underscoring the value of soil conserving crops and across the slope tillage to combat erosion.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
Ottawa
William Dickson
Field Husbandry Division
Dickson
Durban Rejects German Cable Tenders For British Offers
Durban Municipal Tender Board unanimously rejected fourteen German tenders for telephone cables in favor of British bids. German prices undercut British offers by up to 55 percent, yet lowest British offer was chosen, leading to higher overall cost of 2065 pounds instead of 1157. Telephone manager J W Roxburgh supported the lowest British bid as compliant. A prior council practice favored British goods by ten percent. Also notes a separate line about acorns and woodpeckers storing food.
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Durban
South Africa
J. W. Roxburgh
Arctic prospects teased by Lord Tweedsmuir’s son in sas katon interview
Hon John Buchan son of Lord Tweedsmuir returned from a year with Hudson's Bay Company posts in the Far North predicts tremendous development for the Arctic region known as Aw up North. He spoke in Saskatoon en route to Jasper noting fur farming hurts trapping and musk ox preservation efforts.
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Lord Tweedsmuir
Arctic
John Buchan
Hudson's Bay Company
Baffin Island
Canada
Saskatoon
Jasper
Alta
Buchan
North
Far North
Arctic Circle
Rothschild Sister Faces Odd Field Study Problem
Miriam Rothschild, sister of the third Baron Rothschild, admits she is puzzled how to collect fleas off a live grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains. She notes she began collecting worms at age five and has long loved bugs and insects, following in the notes of her banker-father, the late Baron Rothschild, who is credited with discovering a flea that carried the bubonic plague.
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Rothschild
Miriam Rothschild
Baron Rothschild
Rocky Mountains
London University
Miss Rothschild
Younger drivers dominate fatal car crash statistics
A report from England finds that about half of motorists in fatal accidents are under 31, challenging the view that old drivers pose the main hazard.
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England
Winnipeg doctors study bacteria in permafrost samples
Two Winnipeg doctors, Dr. A. M. Davidson and Dr. J. Buller, aim to determine how long bacteria survive in perpetually frozen soil. They collected solid earth samples from below the surface at Churchill, Manitoba, and arrived at The Pas with their sealed specimens.
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Winnipeg
Churchill
Manitoba
Hudson Bay
A. M. Davidson
J. Buller
University of Manitoba
Pas
Man
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