Farm Land Values In Western Canada Rise With Prosperity
The Dominion bureau reports Canada wide farm land values at 28.00 per acre in 1975, up from 37.00 in 1931 and 1920s levels. Prairie provinces show higher fertility and lower prices than eastern regions, with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta offering cheap land yet high yields. Delayed settlement may push prices higher next year as demand grows.
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Setisfactorsarm
Dominion
Tata
Dominion Bureau of Stafixties
Canada
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prairies
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Horse Reclaims Place in Economy as Blacksmith Niche Grows
The Globe notes a ten year uncertainty ending as horses regain a fixed role in daily life. Prices for horse services have risen, reflecting renewed demand and recognition of Dobbin as an economic factor. The shift emphasizes intelligent, capable horses alongside a reduced but valued presence. Canada Wool Growers Report Strong Year
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Globe
Dobbin
Toronto Globe
Prince Names New Horse Hard to Find
The Prince of Wales has named one of his new horses Hard to Find. The horse’s pedigree is not known at this time.
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Prince
Prince of Wales
Sleep types and skin resistance reveal two sleep forms
Dr Curt Richter of Johns Hopkins reports experiments using a galvanometer and zinc kaolin electrodes on volunteers to distinguish two sleep kinds. He finds palm and back skin resistance varies with sleep depth, and in catatonic stupor shows high back resistance with low palm resistance, signaling differing conscious control.
Port of Vancouver Sees Busy Export Pace Early This Year
Vancouver port exports for the first two months show a sharp rise over 1925 with lumber leading at 72,958,000 feet vs 31,516,600. Flour exports total 258,661 barrels vs 59,670. Lead and shelter shipments reach 442,870 pigs and slags up from 281,738. Apple shipments total 47,264 boxes up from 3,703. Canned salmon shipments fall as steamers load at cannery ports or divert cargoes elsewhere.
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Vancouver
Vanecouver
The Real Thing At a Factory Kept Honey Honest
A visitor witnesses a factory bench with a heap of dead bees as the manager explains they jar honey with one bee per jar to prove authenticity. The manager admits they semi along the bug that made it so customers know they are getting genuine honey.
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Wal
Central European farm laborers placed in Alberta
Five benched farm laborers from Central Europe were placed on farms in the Uhe Edmonton district in two days at the end of March. The immigration flow is well managed in Alberta with little difficulty finding work for those who cannot farm their own land due to money or experience constraints.
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Central
Europe
Uhe
Edmonton
Alberta
Stockbroker’s feverish quip sparks nurse’s sharp reply
The stockbroker, briefly lucid, asks a nurse to read his last temperature. She answers one hundred and one. He mutters a garbled word and jokes about reaching two hundred percent, revealing delirium but light humor amid illness.
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Treod
Canada to Host Third World Poultry Congress in Ottawa
The third world poultry congress will be held in Ottawa from July 27 to August 4, 1927, with Canada chosen after its strong showing at the Barcelona and The Hague congresses. Full information is available from provincial agriculture ministers or Ernest Rhoades, Congress Secretary, Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
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Canada
Deowinton
Onis
The
Hague
Barcelona
Sparin
Utawa
Ottawa
Congress
Ernest Rhoades
Experimental Farm
February Homestead Entries Rise in Western Provinces
February total homestead entries in the western provinces reached 350, up from 207 a year earlier. Manitoba 6, Saskatchewan 172, Alberta 126, British Columbia 16. For the first two months, entries total 626 versus 440 in 1925.
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Dominion Lands Patent Branch
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Michigan State house in Atlantic City on display
A large wooden screw framed house, the Michigan State house built for the Philadelphia centennial fifty years ago, stands in Atlantic City. It has not been remodeled and remains well preserved despite its age. The remark about haste and hustlers adds a playful local note.
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Atlantic City
Michigan State House
Philadelphia
Tree Planting Boosts Land Value Across Canada
A Natural Resources Bulletin highlights windbreaks and woodlots as profitable, low maintenance additions to unproductive soil. Government programs distribute millions of trees yearly, with Ontario distributing 19,000 in 1945 and over seven million last year to 3,000 applicants. Prairie regimes also promote shelter belts, expanding forestry across eastern Canada toward the Great Lakes to Rockies.
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Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ontario
Ontario Forestry Department
Canada
Great Lake Country
Rocky Mountains
Notable Negroes of America announced for publication
An interracial council of prominent men announces a book titled Notable Negroes of America. It will feature 26 000 short biographies of African Americans who have achieved distinction in any field.
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America
General Allenby Honors Fallen Field Marshal at Windsor Station
General Allenby lays a wreath on a Windsor Station monument to memory of C P-R Owen who fell in the Great War. His tour of the Dominion drew broad Canadian receptions. The medalled veteran on the right, Acting-Sergeant Wm. Clark, served under the Field-Marshal in Mesopotamia Palestine and Egyptian campaigns.
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Viscount Allenby
Megiddo
Felixstowe
Windsor
C P-R. Owen
Dominion
Canada
Wm. Clark
Investigation Department
Mesopotamia
Palestine
Near East
Signs of Rapid Growth in Canada Across Several Sectors
The Edmonton Journal notes diverse gains in immigration, stocks, wheat and barley output, newsprint shipments, pig iron and steel production, and lower fire losses. It argues these indicators reflect genuine growth beyond postwar stagnation, forecasting continued improvement nationwide.
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Dominion
Canada
Wild Swans Arrive at Kingsville Sanctuary by Lake Erie
About two thousand wild native swans have gathered along the Kingsville lakeshore before the Jack Miner bird sanctuary. The birds, lured by safe waters since the Miner ax incident, rest at Lake Erie each winter and migrate to the Arctic Circle to nest. Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol the shore to protect them.
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Kingsville
Jack Miner
Mr. Miner
Niagara Falls
Lake Erie
Canada
North Carolina
Arctic Circle
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Wonderful Electric Shovel Breaks Material Moving Records
An electric giant in a southern mine loaded 2 750 cubic yards of rock onto cars in eight hours using an eighty foot boom and eight cubic yard dipper. The two man crew operated the shovel, filling, lifting and dumping at a steady rate. The single machine moved enough rock to pave a six inch layer on a sixteen foot road a quarter mile long, a feat requiring fifteen hundred shovel men by hand in the same time.
Edmonton Grain Inspections Expected to Surpass Past Years
Edmonton grain inspectors report a surge in volume with six months remaining in the season. So far 18,968 cars have been inspected this year compared with 16,790 cars for the entire 1923-24 crop year, a new record in progress.
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Edmonton
Office of the Grain Inspector
Cologne rejects new ten story warehouse skyscraper plan
The Cologne city council, swayed by voters, votes against a proposed ten storey warehouse skyscraper. Officials say it would obstruct the Cologne Cathedral’s view, which dominates the skyline and can be seen from miles away.
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Cologne
Cologne Cathedral
Bashful Lovers and Kernels of Corn Pop to White
A lighthearted note draws parallels between bashful lovers and corn kernels that turn white as they pop. The playful comparison links romance and a kitchen staple in a whimsical vignette.
Actors Favor Small Roles Over Major Lead
A historical comment notes that most actors favor modest supporting parts over taking on a full lead, citing career balance and workload considerations.
Vessel Jane A forty ton ketch sails into modern service
Built in 1800 in Cheshire England this forty ton ketch named Jane has a long sea life. After years with Bridgewater shipping and a Bristol period she served in the Peninsular and Crimean Wars and later in 1914 wartime service in the channel. Captain Smart notes the oak frame remains solid and well built even after 126 years of seafaring.
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Cheshire
England
Bridgewater
Bristol
Jane
Channel
Captain Smart
Inventor Lionel Lukin Pioneered Buoyant Lifeboat Design
The first English lifeboat idea was by London coachman Lionel Lukin who in 1784 converted a Norway yawl into an unim mergible craft. In 1789 South Shields launched The Original the first boat built to serve lifeboat purpose from several inventors plans. A tin model by William Wouldhave, a house painter and singing teacher, is kept in a South Shields museum.
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London
Crafe
Lionel Lukin
Lukin
South Shields
Advertising In India Babu English Ad Wording
A historical clipping presents an Indian newspaper advertisement in Babu English for a barber service. It promises sharp razors and careful throat cutting with no irritation, inviting potential customers to request a trial.
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Buffalo Express
Artificial Fogs Protect Crops in Norway
Norway adopts military developed artificial fogs to shield trees, vines, and other crops from frost. The vapor blankets fields, preventing freezing and preserving fruit yields.
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Norway
Russian Doctors Unemployed Census Reveals Shortage
A government census shows ten thousand physicians unemployed in Russia, with 6000 graduates from Soviet medical schools in 1923 24 and sixty percent women. The report highlights a large surplus of doctors despite recent graduate intake.
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Russia
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Curt Richter
World's Poultry Congress
Otawa
Aus
Natural Resources Bulletin
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George Shima
San Joaquin
California Delta
Habeon
Edmonton Journal
India
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