Call For Leadership In Canadian Agriculture Leadership
Dr W H Brittain dean of agriculture at Macdonald College urged a leadership to lift Canadian agriculture from distress. He called for superior training intellect and character to drive new human achievement and warned of marginal farmers and waste seen by Europeans at an international conference.
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W. H. Brittain
Macdonald College
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
Que
Eastern Agricultural Conference
Brittain
Dominion
Flour Milling Industry Leads Canada's Export Power
The Canadian flour and feed mill industry, over 300 years old, expanded dramatically after World War I. In 1928, 335 mills achieved a productive capacity of 121000 barrels per day, turning grain into flour despite grain trade difficulties and price declines. Canada remains among the world's top wheat flour exporters.
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Dominion
Canada
Men At Their Best Aged Achievements Across Years
The Edmonton Journal cites The Commentator noting figures who thrived late in life. Commodore Vanderbilt at 70 to 83 added about 100 million dollars. Kant at 73 wrote works. Tintoretto at 74 finished Paraíso. Verdi at 73 to 79 created Othello and Ave Maria. Goethe at 80 completed Faust. Tennyson at 80 penned Crossing the Bar. Titian painted Lepanto as a young elder.
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New York Magazine
Commodore Vanderbilt
Kant
Tintoretto
Verdi
Goethe
Faust
Tennyson
Titian
Battle of Lepanto
Edmonton Journal
Man in Green Bay Detained Over Dirty Car Obsession
A tall elderly man in Green Bay walked a street kicking mud from car fenders and wiping lights. Police took him in, but he explained he hates dirty autos and said he has no car of his own to keep clean. He was released.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin
Very Good Definition of a Gentleman in the New York Sun
Gabriel Wells discusses a gentleman as one who knows his place and includes regard for self, others, and authority. He contrasts this with the opposite, a snob, and notes the difficulty of publishing an up to date atlas or a Hollywood fan magazine with correct associations.
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Gabriel Wells
The
New York Sun
Hart Massey Wins Oxford Blue Coxing Against Cambridge
A London sports writer lauds Hart Massey son of Canada’s High Commissioner for winning the Oxford blue in the boat against Cambridge. Despite a four foot two inch, 72 pound frame and brain tumor as a child, Massey excels in art, sport, and academics, guiding his powerful crew with brains over brawn.
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London
Hart Massey
Vincent Massey
Oxford University
Cambridge
Young Massey
Upper Canada College
Geneva
Aga Khan
Leon Blum
France
Massey
Switzerland
St. Thomas
Pagham Harbor Eyed as New Trans Atlantic Air Base
The Sussex coast site near Bognor Regis may become the base for a projected trans Atlantic flying boat service and Empire routes. Current Empire flying boats use crowded Southampton harbor but Pagham could be developed at an estimated cost of £800000, including site purchase, with a dam needed at the harbor entrance and a land aerodrome for land planes. Pagham is about 70 miles from London, matching Southampton and Portsmouth distances.
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Pagham Harbor
Sussex
Bognor Regis
trans-Atlantic Flying Boat Service
Empire Services
Southampton Harbor
Air Ministry
Portsmouth
Pagham
London
Southampton
Nore lightship makes final voyage to graveyard
The Nore lightship, oldest afloat, is sent to the shipwrecker’s graveyard after a century in service. Canadian mariners once watched its bulb-topped mast fade as steam and motor ships altered the seas calling time on windjammers. Crews endured a two months on two off schedule before its successor, a yachtlike cruiser, arrived.
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Thames
Nore
Per Capita Apple Consumption in the United States
A historical note states that per capita consumption of apples in the United States averages half an apple per day for every man, woman, and child. This figure reflects broad dietary estimates from the era.
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United States
Centenarian Fraser River Sturgeon Weighs 767 Pounds
A Fraser River sturgeon captured last year weighed 767 pounds and, after otolith ring counting by a British Columbia fisheries inspector, is said to be over a century old. The fish resisted trapping, common to large sturgeon in inland waters, where Ontario and Quebec contribute most catches. Canada’s caviar output remains small, mostly from Ontario, totaling about two thousand pounds annually.
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Fraser River
British Columbia
Dominion Department of Fisheries
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
London
Eerie Times Annex notice about a halting dwarf
A The New Yorker described a brief alarm in the Times Annex corridor. A small notice requests keeping the window closed to prevent a dwarf from coming into the hall, signed by the hall porter.
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Times Annex
The
New Yorker
Infante Don Juan Aligns With Britain Amid Spain Succession
Spanish observers predict Alfonso's third son could ascend the throne of New Spain. Don Juan spent four years in the British Navy and once expressed a wish to become an admiral. He is young, athletic, and notably free of the haemophilia that affects the Bourbon line.
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Alfonso
New
Spain
Great Britain
Infante
Don Juan
News of the World
How About The Answers A Political Roundtable Note
A Vancouver Province anecdote recalls a man praising a politician as well informed on current questions. A skeptical friend asks how he is on the answers. The piece contrasts progress with instinct and hints at Canada’s evolving movements.
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Vancouver
Australia to adopt compulsory national military register
Prime Minister Joseph Lyons announced the cabinet will replace the voluntary register with an obligatory national roster of men fit for military service. A legislative measure will be submitted at the next session to enact the plan. The government will also establish aeroplane plants in Sydney and Melbourne with assembly plants at railway workshops in four states.
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Joseph Lyons
Australia
Sydney
Melbourne
New South Wales
Queensland
Victoria
South Australia
Lyons
Hybrid grapes may cut BC imports from California
Professor A F Barss told the B C Professional Gardeners' Association that experiments at Summerland’s Dominion Experimental Station could yield a hybrid grape for extensive growth in British Columbia. If successful Canada could reduce its large yearly grape imports from California, which totaled 30 million pounds in 1938.
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British Columbia
Dominion
Interior Summerland
A. F. Barss
University of British Columbia
B.C
Sydney awakens to air raid defenses in Australia
The Sydney public in New South Wales embraces air raid precautions as part of national defense amid plans by the government to organize civilian safeguards and expand military aircraft production. The piece notes Melbourne’s and Canada’s growing readiness despite distant Tokyo and Vancouver air threat assessments.
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Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Commonwealth
Tokyo
Vancouver
Montreal Star
No More Homesteads Ends Free 160 Acre Grants in West
The Alberta Government abandons the 160 acre free grant homestead policy adopted in 1872. The Edmonton Journal notes the plan accelerated prairie settlement but led to wasted land use and weak oversight, implying future controls could have reduced western troubles.
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Alberta
Canada
Prairies
Edmonton Journal
Ottawa pages learn while skipping school in commons
Sixteen boys aged 10 to 16 in Ottawa run messages for MPs in the Commons. They receive truant officer dispensation and miss classroom time, though some say they learn parliament better than school. Many pages advance to civil service. notable example Tommy Gu man becomes a Montreal hockey figure. Rivalry exists between government and opposition pages. pay is $1.75 a day.
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Ottawa
Tommy Guman
Montreal
Whales dive mile deep and rise unharmed
Scientists note whales can descend to about a mile and ascend without apparent injury as their blood chemistry adapts to rapid pressure changes. In California a lone oak tree reportedly sprouts a geyser from its roots, drawing curiosity from observers.
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California
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