Newsprint From Wheat Straw May Compete With Wood
The Natural Resources Service reports potential of straw based newsprint to supplement wood pulp. Italy’s Pomilio and Italian firms produce straw pulp, claiming 30 percent straw content cuts production cost by about 22 percent versus standard newsprint. Canada leads pulp and wheat exports, with straw newsprint promising industrial growth in the Canadian wheat field.
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United States
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interlor
Mtawa
Inter
Canada
Edmonton
Italy
Natural Resources Service
Societg Elettroebiratea Pomilio
Societa Italiana di Elettrochimica
Bussi
Pift
Reindeer Herd Rapidly Multiplies in Alaskan Tundra
Government officials and private citizens grapple with an out of control reindeer herd that grew from 1,200 imported animals before 1902 to an expected 5,900,000 in ten years. Efforts to market the meat in the United States face slow adoption despite claims of palatability.
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United States
Sprouting Potatoes Boosts Early Harvest Yields at Invermere
Experiments at Invermere British Columbia show potatoes planted any time from May 1 to June 16 sprout and forward the crop about seven days. Sprouted seed mostly reaches harvest earlier with higher yields than non sprouted, notably in the May 15 plantings.
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Invermere
B.C
Wee Macgregor
Abyssinia begins freeing slaves with new school
Through the British Foreign Office's guidance the Abyssinian regent Has Taffari has enlisted the Anti-Slavery Society to establish a school in the capital for poor children and freed slaves, marking a first step toward abolition.
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Abyssinia
British Foreign Office
Taffari
Abyasintan
First Dominion Day recollections from Toronto cab driver
Charley Abbott now about 100 recalls the 1867 Dominion Day celebrations in Toronto. He describes Alderman John Carr arranging the fireworks display in Queen's Park and a Royal Artillery and Body Guard military review that marked the first Dominion Day.
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Toronto
Canada
Charley Abbott
Abbott
John Carr
Queen’s Park
Dominion
Royal Artillery
Time Ball at Des? Signal Tower Retires After Long Service
The Des? Signal Tower ends its era as the Time Ball ceases to operate. Once used to signal ships and mark London clocks, the ball dropped by hand driven wheel and was released by an electric cue from Greenwich. Wireless time signals made it obsolete, and the tower is pensioned off.
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Des
Abu
Greenwich
London
Wireless
Chic youthful frock pattern with lace vestee views A and B
Winnipeg supply tale presents pattern No 1546 for sizes 16 18 20 with View A daytime frock featuring long fitted sleeves and bound collar while View B shows a V front lace vestee and sleeves omitted. Notes detail yardage 3 yards 39 inch fabric 2% yards 54 inch lace and price 10 cents for the Fashion Book.
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View
A Mechanical Thinker Invented in France for Offices
A French invention serves as a desk bound memorandum device for executives. It marks appointments and ideas by setting a lever to indicate the hour day and month. When the specified time arrives a light and bell trigger, prompting the executive to read his own instructions.
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France
The Man Who Aims for Good Lives and Dies Young
A reflective aphorism notes that a person striving for goodness in life may fail to reach the next world and that no person truly believes the good die young.
Planting and Pruning Roses by J B Spencer
J B Spencer offers horticultural guidance on rose types and planting. Details cover sun and soil, spacing by type Hy brid Tea Hybrid Perpetual and Baby Ramblers, root care, graft depth, bone meal use, water soaking, and pruning rules for each rose class including yearly maintenance and up to six strong shoots for Hybrid Perpetuals.
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H. J. Moore
Ontario Horticultural Association
Old Trade Flourishes in New Land at Denzil Saskatchewan
Hand loom weaving thrives in Denzil a Saskatchewan town along the CPR line as Rev. Father Pather Schultz promotes the craft after studying abroad. He sees weaving fostering home life attracting new settlers and spurring sheep hemp and flax production with weaving possible for farm family members unable to do heavy farm work.
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Denzil
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Pather
John Schultz
Great Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Switzerland
Maly
Earch
Schultz
Ife
Canada Holds Leading Place As Best Country for Raising Domestic Fow
The article extols Canada as a top nation for poultry and alfalfa farming. It cites Canadian seed as superior for alfalfa starting and stresses inoculation, nurse crops, and careful seeding. It notes the upcoming Worlds Poultry Congress in Ottawa with international delegates and Canadian hosts.
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Canada
Dominion
Spain
Ottawa
Apother
Buro
Great Britain
King George
Princae
Wiales
Limpire
Cauada
Europe
Burerpe
Buerope
Cammera
Congres
Congress
Milwarl Brown
Londe
England
Ineeter
F.C. Ihiora
Porinion
Mirnest Rhoades
Puzzle for Executors Frederick Stokes Willed In London
The inventor of the Stokes gun leaves his residue to the children of his siblings in inverse income order to aid the less fortunate, and to his wife's relatives so combined relatives receive twice as much as his. Trustees hold absolute power to interpret the will.
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Frederick Stokes
London
Colossal Roman Emperor Statue Found Near Athens
A great statue head and bust were uncovered at Eleusis near Athens, believed to depict a Roman emperor. The fragments measure over two and a half yards in height for the visible portion, suggesting the full statue stood about five and a half yards tall.
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Eleusis
Athens
A Good Idea on Pockets and Money
A writer extols carrying money in multiple pockets as sensible practice. The piece humorously suggests twelve or fourteen pockets full of funds. It also mentions a claimed dust deposition of 2,000 tons per square mile near Loramie, Wyooming, and notes the more the average man has the more he wants.
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Hopkins
Dominion Field
Ifus Bandman
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Loramie
Wyooming
Prairie crops outvalue gold worldwide in 1925 says report
National Resources Intelligence Service claims Canada prairie crops surpassed global gold output by 270 million dollars. Midwestern field crops valued at 660 million dollars in 1925. world gold output listed at 39 billion.
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Canada
National Resources Bnteligence Service
Department of the Interior
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Greenwich Time
Goodwin Sanda
Admiratty
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
J. B. Spencer
Ontario
Horticultural Association
Stokes Gun
Georgs Oliver Currie
Northwestern University
Cae
Jerry
Jean
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