Dominion Botanist Urges Botanical Gardens For Canada
Dr. H. T. Gussow of Dominion plants a plea for national botanical gardens in Canada to study plant wealth and aid economic medical and industrial needs. He cites Kew as a model with 2 million yearly visitors, a 300 acre site, a two million specimen herbarium, and a global scientific draw.
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Dominion
Canada
Globe
H. T. Gussow
Universty
Manitoba
William Saunders
Australia
India
Devion
Mauritius
Jamaica
West
Gussow
Kew Botanical Gardens
Kew Gardens
Mounties style rangers to patrol Newfoundland and Labrador
A Newfoundland commission government plan to form 52 rangers modeled on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police awaits London approval. The force will open 18 posts on the island and five in Labrador with aeroplanes cars boats horses and dog teams as mounts.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Newfoundland Commission
Dominaions
London
Labrador
Canada
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Newfoundland
Avalon Peninsula
Proposal to bar death sentence for females in Criminal Code
T L Church of Toronto East filed a bill to amend the Criminal Code to prohibit any death sentence for female persons. The Toronto Globe notes the measure would require one third of jurors on a female defendant trial to be female, qualified the same as male jurors.
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House of Commons
T. L. Church
Toronto East
Toronto Globe
The
Globe
Itcisco
Valued Titian Madonna Eyed by Experts in New York
A worn canvas owners claim is a famous lost Titian Madonna and two other paintings by the master have been sent to New York for appraisal. Henry Cini of Stafford Springs Conn owns them and believes they could be genuine Titian works worth about 1 500 000 dollars. Experts who viewed the pieces at Mrs. Robert Grimes Park Avenue hotel deemed them very valuable and one is thought likely a Titian. The Madonna Medcarna has long worried connoisseurs. The canvases show a Madonna with Christ Child, St Joseph with infant, and a guardian angel among cherubs, with evident age damage on the Madonna and angel.
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New York
Henry Cini
Stafford
Springs
Conn
Robert H. Grimes
Park Avenue
Grim
St. Joseph
Christ
Gardening with seeds rocks and rock gardens in Canada
Gorton L. Smith advises sowing early season vegetables after frost risk, using hardy varieties like spinach radish and lettuce for quick returns. He describes creating artificial rock gardens with embedded boulders, Alpine meadows and canyons, stressed by frost and soil drainage considerations and urges consulting seed catalogs and literature for suitable Canadian plants and varied bloom times.
Superstition Fueled China Rail Way Mass Killings and Abductions
Reports from Latvane district southwest of Honan describe a mob that murdered 16 railroad workers and abducted 43 others on the Canton to Hankow line near Chionuknoan. Villagers believed laborers sacrificed humans to appease underground spirits for favorable weather. Authorities fear for the abductees' fate as the incident devastates the regional workforce.
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South China
Crere
Latvane
Honan
Rairoads
Canton
Hankow
Chionuknoan
Four clocks declared most accurate at Reichs Institute exhibit
The Reichs Institute for Physics in Perlin displays novel quartz crystal clocks claiming 0.002 seconds deviation in six months. Crystals vibrate 60 000 times per second inside vacuum tubes, controlled by dual copper feather cooled enclosures to stabilize temperature, powering an AC circuit.
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Reichs Institute For Physics
Perlin
Quotation on agriculture as the root of a nation's welfare
A historical quotation attributes national well being to agriculture as the root, with manufacture and commerce as branches. It frames the idea that damage to the root harms the whole tree, causing leaves and branches to fail. The speaker is attributed as Shou-ning, a Chinese emperor and inventor of farming tools, circa 2800 B.C.
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Shou-ning
Baldwin warns nations drift toward war amid dust and disorder
Stanley Baldwin decries European powers choosing dangerous paths that threaten peace. He compares the era to a plague and warns disarmament failures and economic nationalism risk global conflict, citing gas masks as tragic necessity and accusing Germany of misusing the League of Nations.
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Stanley Baldwin
Council
Assembly of Free Churches of
England and
Wales
Paris
Locarno
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Baldwin
Germany
League of Nation
Russia unveils two seat plane powered by common auto engine
Russian experts announce a two seater aircraft using a mass produced light car engine from the Gorky motor factory. It runs on ordinary auto gasoline and reaches about 70 mph, mainly for training and touring, amid a skeptical mood about global notions.
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Gorky Motor Factory
Candid photography and its appeal to amateurs
John Van Guilder explains candid photography as taking natural unposed images of people, emphasizing action and proximity. The piece links the practice to miniature cameras, notes its accessibility, and previews upcoming coverage on personal and mechanical requirements.
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John van Guilder
Heart disease drug from be-still nut announced in Toronto
Dr. Albert Hyman and Dr. K K Chen unveiled thevetin a new heart remedy derived from the be-still nut of the yellow oleander tree noted for Hawaii and India growth. Trials since last September show remarkable success at Beth Israel Hospital with injections claimed superior to digitalis for rapid heart action.
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Toronto
Albert 8. Hyman
Witkin Foundation
Beth Israeli Hospital
K. K. Chen
Lilly Research Laboratories
Indianapolis
Hawaii
India
Beth Israel
Chen
Cooking pudding under Thames lime heat test
An Englishman attempted to cook a pudding at the river bottom. He proved it possible by placing the pudding in a tin, packing it into a lime filled sack, and lowering it into the Thames. After three hours the lime's slaking heat cooked the pudding as the sack was hauled up.
The sacred African Mig is a native of India
A note clarifies that the so called sacred Mig origin is Indian rather than African, correcting a geographic misperception in the discussion.
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India
Africa
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