Radio Navigation Across Seas Promises New Era
A French Academy report highlights M. Lott's vision of radio towers on European and American coasts guiding ships and planes over the Atlantic. If realized, charts and compasses would be replaced by shore stations and pilots on land, reshaping navigation and upsetting ancient Phoenician tradecraft. The plan has caused European惊s and could see four towers built within two years, with earlier small tests showing directional use for aircraft guidance.
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M. Lott
French Academy of Sciences
Europe
Meetings Held To Receive Suggestions On Grain Act
Steady progress reported in rewriting the Canada grain act. ED Fameey, chair of the Grain Board, said meetings will be held in Winnipeg Montreal Toronto and in prairie provinces to gather suggestions before Parliament opens. Col O M Biggar is driving revisions focusing on preventing mixing in statutory grades. Mr Ramsey noted about 90 percent of the wheat crop fell within statutory grades with 8 percent in grade one or two.
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Fameey
Board of Grain
Winnipee
Montreal
Toronto
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
0. M. Biggar
Ramsey
Mounting Toll of Accidents and Need for Adjustment
A health publication warns that the rising machinery and traffic era demands faster human adaptation. It notes automobile deaths are high but overall accident toll exceeds traffic losses, urging safer behavior, better roads, and stronger laws while stressing personal responsibility and family education.
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United States
Becsie
Illinois
Gettysburg
Saskatchewan
Uns
Cire
Sceajusta Steels
Agni
China Bars Alien Accountants and Law Courts
Foreign accountants cannot practice in China except within foreign concessions. Documents bearing their signatures will not be recognized by Chinese courts, as announced by the National government through the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor, affecting their ability to handle cases locally.
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China
Ministry of Industry
Commerce and Labor
Western Provinces May Erect Ball 2 At Exhibition Grounds
Ontario leads a plan for provincial buildings at Toronto's Exhibition Grounds with boards of trade and service clubs backing it. Alberta weighs a duplicate of the E P Ranch House at Exhibition Park while Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta eye early projects as Ontario sets the trend. Local banter about marriage and grocery credits adds a light note amid the discussion.
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Provinces
Exhibition Grounds
Toronto
Board of Trade
Manioba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
East
Ontario
Exhibition Park
E. P
Williams Pink Pills Claim Rheumatism Cure
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for rheumatism and anemia. It cites improved blood quality and removal of toxins, featuring a testimonial from Thomas Martin of Novar Ont who reports relief after usage and urges purchase from druggists or by mail for 30 cents plus postage from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Wiliams
Williams
Thomas Martin
Novar
Ont
Mia
Dr. Williams
Cine Co
Brockville
Humbug In Politics by Tay Pay O Connor
From a wheelchair in his London apartment the veteran Tay Pay O Connor reflects that politics hides humbug when jobs are scarce. The New York Sun notes the philosopher’s view on politics as a constant art across nations, with tragedy for the innocent. Also mentions Mother Graves Worm Examinator and NYPD missing persons stats.
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New York Sun
Women Aviators Progress.Showcase in Toronto Feature
The Toronto Telegraph’s weekly With the Flyers explores women in aviation noting they may not replace men as pilots yet but are advancing in training and roles. It cites Amelia Earhart’s concerns, increasing women’s patronage of air travel, and a Copenhagen decision to create a separate category for women flyers. New Haven opens a Yale Peabody Museum branch for children, educators praise it, and a camp-useful Dr Thomas Electric Oil ad concludes.
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Toronto Telegam
Amelia Farhart
Air Transport Lines
Army
Navy
Federation Aeronautical Internationale
Copenhagen
New Haven
Thomas
Palpitation Patient Seeks Relief in February Trial
Mrs J Cunningham of Sault Ste Marie reports a February bout of influenza with heart palpitations and a thumping chest. She describes weakness and fatigue and states she began taking a remedy to address the symptoms.
Medicine advertisement on sexual health devices
An advertisement touts a medicine and sex boxes praised for helping greatly, expressing gratitude for finding the product. It notes a price of 50 cents per box and availability at druggists and dealers, with mail order options referenced.
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Uch
Macedoine of Fruit in Betty Barclay Recipe Card
Fruit salad recipe listing pineapple grapefruit apple and orange segments with confectioner's sugar and orange ice. Combine fruits with sugar, mix, chill, and serve in individual portions topped with a ball of orange ice.
Plum Pudding Dessert From Frugal kitchen
A compact date and fruit pudding recipe with raisins dates figs and milk. It guides chopping fruits simmering with water and sugar until thickened, then cooling and layering in dessert cups before adding warmed chocolate junket and spices. It finishes with a chilling step and topping of whipped cream and cherries.
Saskatchewan Mixed Farming Expands Dairy and Poultry Output
Saskatchewan, famed for over half of Canada's wheat, boosts dairy and poultry. October creamery butter output reached 1,191,525 pounds, up 50.7 percent from last October. The province supplies eggs and poultry largely through the Saskatchewan Fog and Poultry Pool, directed mainly by women farm wives.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
United States
Saskatchewan Fog and Poultry Pool
Atlantic liner Aquitania adds full West End shop on board
The Aquitania now features a complete on board store offering barber services and a West End shop experience. Passengers can buy clothes to tailor on tour and replenish wardrobes during the voyage. The Southampton mayor was an early customer, gifting a necktie to the New York mayor with the note We are sending you a bit of Regent Street. Persian Balm advertises skin care benefits for women.
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Aquitania
Europe
Southampton
New York
Regent Street
Weather Control by Radio Drives Aviation Claim
Inventor M William Loth, a French engineer, says radio light beams can control weather to guide planes and ships. He demonstrated to the French Academy of Science using two land stations to transmit weather waves, enabling avoidance of bad weather from Paris to New York.
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We Atlantic
Rado
M. William Loth
Paris
New York
Loth
Academy of Science
Wide Use of Combines Across Western Canada in 1928
The Department of Agriculture notes widespread use of combines for harvesting wheat barley rye flax clover and brome from Winnipeg to the Rockies foothills and from the International Boundary to Peace River District Township 80. The 1929 figure shows a sharp rise over 1928.
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Department of Agriculture
Canada
Winnipeg
Rockies
International Boundary
Township
Peace River District
Clear Norwegian waters reveal small objects at great depth
The article notes that water in Norwegian flows is so transparent that objects as small as one and a half inches in diameter can be seen distinctly at a depth of 150 feet, highlighting exceptional visibility beneath the surface.
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Norway
New Kind Of Bait Attracts Local Angler In Amsterdam
Charles Seible of Amsterdam says a glove finger makes a great fishing bait. He notes twenty three black bass were caught in one day from Scheharie Creek using this method and ranged about two and a half pounds, over eleven inches. A courtroom exchange shows a judge fining an attorney five dollars for contempt as the enraged lawyer offers twenty dollars.
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Charles Seiblo
Amsterdam
N.Y
Scheharie Creek
Seible
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