Evidence Of Gradual Ice Cap Recession, Study Cites Greenland
The Winnipeg Free Press notes a shift in Arctic science with Cornell Glacier in Greenland retreating about five tenths of a mile since 1896 and tundra forests advancing at about one mile per century. It argues current conditions reflect Quaternary ice age cycles with long warm intervals and potential ocean level rises, yet cautions against alarm while Greenland ice and Antarctic ice remain vast.
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Arctic
Cornell
Greenland
Arctic Circle
Antarctic
Winnipeg Free Press
Vitamin C in Apples Shows Baldwin Rich in Vitamin C
The Memiscousetts Experimental Station reports Baldwin apples are a rich vitamin C source while McIntosh contain little. Lime sulphur and arsenate of lead do not affect content. Fresh Baldwin cider is about half as valuable as the fruit. processed cider loses nearly all value. Fresh sauce retains some vitamin C but canned sauce loses it.
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Memiscousetts
Northeast
Baldwin
McIntosh
Beetle Threat Persists To Potatoes In UK Fields
Reports from Tilbury Essex describe ongoing issue with the Colorado potato beetle in the United Kingdom. Officials dig soil near docks and allotments to locate hibernating insects and fumigate adjoining land with carbon disulphide. Workers have tracked multiple beetle specimens since last August as the campaign to exterminate the pest continues.
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Tmmon Calorade
United Kingdom
Tilbury
Essex
Ministry of Agriculture
Tuburg
New Milking Apparatus Seeks Patents In Canada
Carley Gysler, 37, unveils a sanitary non spout milk pail at Winnipeg explaining patents already secured in Washington. A top inset water chamber provides holding power. demonstrating with a kick, no water spilled. A local firm values the invention at about 25000 dollars.
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Carley
Gysler
Winnpeg
Washington
United States
Poultry Population Grows On Prairie Provinces
The Dominion Poultry Husbandman notes rapid growth in the prairie poultry sector. In three years the three provinces added over four million birds, and by 1931 nearly half of Canada’s poultry hailed from Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba. Ontario remains the only other province with fewer birds. Grain consumption by poultry in Canada is heavily borne by the prairie trio, with Saskatchewan close to PEI BC and Quebec combined in headcount.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Prairies
Dominion
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prince Edward Island
British Columbia
Quebec
Province unlikely to fund seven million BC building plan
An unofficial survey at the legislative buildings reports that the Seven Mil British Columbia building requirements for provincial purposes over the next five years will not be less than 7,000,000 dollars. It was stated the program could not be financed by the province as aid.
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British Columbia
Legislative Buildings
Buttoned back school dress pattern in red wool blend
The description highlights a buttoned back dress pattern with a youthful back closure, offered in red rabbit's hair woolen mix for school or town wear in black satin or taupe fairie crepe. Style No. 382 lists sizes 14 to 40 bust, with a 31 inch material requirement for size 16 and a coin price of 20 cents.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg Pattern No. details appear linked to 173 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg. The notice outlines ordering patterns through the Winnipeg Newspaper Union and references Pattern No. numbers for cataloging.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Prizes For Quality Bacon Boosted By Regina Board of Trade
The Regina Board of Trade backs a Canadian bacon hog policy with four prizes for the best winter bacon litter from the Regina zone. It adds 50 dollars to the prize for the top group of three hogs at the Regina fall fair and for the champion boar and sow if from the Regina zone. They urge Chambers of Commerce to unite Boards of Trade to support the bacon hog policy and to sponsor similar local encouragement. Also note a 250 foot ancient well found at Falamich in Palestine relieving the drouth.
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Regina Board of Trade
Regina
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
Board of Trade
Conquest Of Everest Inspires Reforestation In Rhode Island
British aviators who conquered Everest spoke in Ottawa about future aims while Rhode Island townsmen plan a novel forest project. West Greenwich schoolchildren plant 4500 trees on five acres donated by the town to promote forestry education without large public funds.
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Scheel
Rhode Island
West Greenwich
Canadian wallpaper exports reach several nations
Canadian wall paper exports remain strong to Great Britain Australia and New Zealand with 53000 32000 and large totals monthly. Japan and Italy also consume solid volumes. December 1933 exports reached 90838 rolls compared with 66768 in December 1932 and total 819582 rolls for 1933, down from 1932.
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Japan
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Italy
Spring attack by Japan seen as looming in Europe
Reports from London say the Soviet government is stockpiling food and munitions, with Vladivostok moving troops toward Trans-Siberian routes, amid speculation of a Japanese spring offensive. Observers link Kremlin preparations to a potential Manchukuo aligned regime and shifts in Japanese policy.
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Japan
London
Sovet
Viadvostok
T Comiaissa
Clemence Voroshilov
Trans-Siberian
Henry Pu-Y
Manchukuo
Annousen
Sadao A
Senjuro Hayash
Arak
Jury Fined After Verdict on Numbers Case in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia jury faced a fine after acquitting Thomas Camaarote on running a numbers game. Jurors were unpaid for their services. the ten-man panel and two women were charged 21 dollars each. Judge Walsh condemned the miscarriage of justice and said the jurors would be released from further service with reduced or forfeited pay.
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Thomas Camaarote
Philadelphia
Walsh
Invention Aims at Fish-Malfunction Surfacing Device
A French inventor develops equipment to aid underwater movement. The apparatus uses paddles attached to a flexible surface covering an elliptical area of 40 inches square, enabling movement and exploration underwater.
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France
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Tate
Ruth Rogers
Tac Fig Pet Ag
Commere
Falamich
Palestine
Drouth
Mount Everest
Mount Everett
Himalayas
PF. M. Fellowes
Dso
ADC
Chateau Laurier
Ottawa
Fellowes
Houston-Mount Ever
Thia J
Commodore Fellowes
England
Everest
Maharajah of
Nepal
A of State
India
Nsed
Soviet
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