Western wheat prices face crisis as four nations export glut
A Calgary editor warns Western Canada may be forced to abandon wheat farming as world markets show rising production yet falling consumption. He cites a 72 percent production rise since 1883 among major exporters and argues for coordinated government action to stabilize prices, including potential open-market price setting and diversification of wheat uses.
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Ato
Canada
Argentina
United States
Australia
C. W. Peterson
Farm and Ranch Review
Calgary
Asia
Regina Board of Trade
Peterson
Europe
Canadian Wheat Board
Fort William
Peters
Earth orbits the sun in a 365 day 6 hour 48 minute 48 second year
The statement notes the earth completes one orbit around the sun in 365 days 6 hours 48 minutes and 48 seconds, a period that aligns with the solar year used in calendars and astronomy.
Fragmented OCR Notes Reflect Quirky Early 20th Century Echoes
The text presents a jumble of notes about bread disposal rules for Muslims, hearing impaired turtiles, Lloyd George on education at Yattle Island Labrador, Eskimo village Hopedale, a Robert Louis Stevenson wireless station, a Newfoundlander stationed there, and a floating mahogany tree height. It also recalls a noonday orator’s question about father and son ties, a mistaken claim about seaplane flight history, and a Paris 2285 1811 reference.
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Fe Atlantic
Lloyd George
Yattle Island
Labrador
Hopedale
Robert Louis Stevenson
Britain eyes global air supremacy amid rearmament push
In London Sir Kingsley Wood outlined a British aim for world dominance of air transport routes as rearmament pressures and international politics intensify. The six way European United States derby in commercial airliners highlights how military needs drive plans for bases, routes, and defense. Britain ranks fourth in world route mileage behind the United States France and Germany in test line development.
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Great Britain
Air Ag
London
Harold Balfour
Air
Kingsley Wood
United States
Netherlands
Dutch East Indies
Britain
France
New Canyon Discovered Off California Coast
A previously unknown canyon near Monterey rivaling the Grand Canyon in depth was found to be 7,000 feet deep. Explorer Dr. F P Shepard of the University of Illinois, via the Scripps Institution of Oceanography lab, undertakes sounding and dredging studies from a floating research platform, noting the extreme difficulty of reaching the canyon floor and recording findings.
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California
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Pacific Ocean
Monterey
F. P. Shepard
University of Illinois
University of California
Scripps: Institution of Oceanography
Relaxation of restrictions on royal emblems for souvenirs
The secretary of state announces a relaxation of rules on reproductions of the royal arms and cypher for souvenirs. Manufacturers may use royal portraits of the king and queen as well as emblems, during 1939, amid preparations for the Canadian visit next summer. The royal cypher will be displayed with initials C and royal emblem features.
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Canada
Secretary of State Department
Chocolate Nut Tea Cakes Recipe Card
Selected recipe for chocolate and nut tea cakes. Ingredients include flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, eggs, cocoa, nuts, raisins, milk, and vanilla. Instructions detail creaming, beating, folding, alternating flour and milk, then baking in greased small cup cake pans at 350 degrees for about twenty minutes.
Cake Recipe Fragment from a Historic Page
A partial recipe describes sifted flour with baking powder and salt, creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs, and alternating flour and milk. It advises baking in small muffin pans at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes, yielding 12 cakes.
War Medals Demand Grows Ahead of Royal Visit
The records office of the national defence department faces brisk demand for war medals as the king and queen may join Canada next year. Veterans who long neglected to claim badges of service are now filing requests, with about 80 percent having claimed since the war. Some 50,000 medals remain to be issued, including two for those who served in France: the General service and the Allied Victory medal.
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Ovawa
Canada
National Defence Department
France
Storing Gold Here in Canada Vaults for War Readiness
The British government reportedly strengthens North American gold reserves by shipping metal to the Bank of Canada vaults to secure pure war materials in Canada and the United States. An arrangement allows gold hoarders to earmark holdings for remittance to South African banks in their vaults. A closing line notes a man’s stubborn mindset.
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Bank of
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