Winter Egg Production Tips for Higher Winter Laying
The article advises poultrymen to focus on winter egg production through enhanced care and feeding. It details essential grain and animal feeds, plus practical daily rations including a morning grit scratch, a noon moist mash of scraps, and a night full scratch grain. It emphasizes constant access to grit oyster shell charcoal and water and outlines a mash recipe of bran middlings corn meal ground oats and meat meal with adjustments if milk or green bone is used.
Gold Stolen From Oceanic Steamer Sonoma in Transit
Five boxes of gold valued at 125 60 were stolen from the Oceanic Steamer Company’s Uner Sonoma while en route from Sydney Australia to San Francisco. The bullion, insured and consigned by the Commonwealth of Australia to the International Banking Corporation of San Francisco, was loaded in Sydney. Burglar-proof locks on the specie tanks were fired and five of fifteen bullion boxes taken. duplicate locks were snapped on afterward. The theft was not detected until the ship reached San Francisco. Authorities suspect the act occurred before the vessel reached Honolulu after stops at Pago Pago and Honolulu.
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Sydney
San Francisco
Oceanic Steamer Company
Uner Sonoma
Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
International Banking Corporation of
Sonoma
Honolulu
Pago Pago
Compulsory Grading for Dairy Products to Begin Next Year
Canada plans compulsory grading of exported dairy products to ensure uniform quality. Dairy Commissioner J A Ruddick told a Toronto conference of graders that grading likely starts next season, contingent on securing qualified experts. It was the first time representatives from all provinces attended the meeting.
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Federal
Department of Agriculture
J. A. Ruddick
Canada
Dominion
Toronto
Force of Habit Seemingly Absent Editor Declines Pudding
The editor's wife teases him for absent mindedness as the hostess offers more pudding. He explains his response was due to tremendous pressure on his space, forcing him to decline.
Manitoba Dominates Dominion Butter Scoring Contest
Dairying in Manitoba rises as a dairy province with top scores in the Dominion Educational Butter Scoring Competition. Manitoba led for three of six months May August October and posted an average of 96.65 from the six months. Quebec 96.16 Alberta 95.85 Saskatchewan 95.27 followed, while Ontario failed to place in the top four amid prairie province success credited to cream grading and standardized butter grades by the governments.
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Gare Manitobs
Dominion
Canada
Manitoba
Quebec
Alberta
Saskatchhewan
Ontario
Ihe
Prairie
Mystery Name Carved in Sky Tree Sparks Portree Debate
A beech tree blown down at Portree on Skye revealed burnt heartwood with the inscription Donald Ross and the date 10-9-90. Experts suspect the markings were carved on bark and photographed on the pulpy interior by a lightning flash.
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Portree
Skye
Donald Ross
The Meanest Man: Twain’s Humorous Tale Endures
Mark Twain’s death years ago still sparks praise for his meanest man story. The tale centers on Hannibal, where a man sells his son in law the front half of a cow and refuses milk, leading to a barbed wire fence clash and a lawsuit for damages.
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Mark Twain
Hannibal
Coast to coast voyage by 25-ton yacht Edlla
Skipper sails a 25-ton yacht from Dinorwic in the Menai Straits to Leeds via Liverpool Canal Keighley Shipley and Aire and Calder to Goole Hull Spurn Point and Bridlington Harbor crossing England coast to coast. The craft traversed over 90 locks.
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Dinorwic
Menai Straits
Leeds
Liverpool
Leeds and Liverpool
Keighley
Shippley
Edlla
Goole
Aire and Calder
Hull
Spurn
Bridlington
England
Green music aids eyes in dim theatres
Music printed on dark green paper with white notes and staff reduces eye strain for musicians in theatres. The design helps notes stand out in semi dark conditions, easing strain when lighting is poor.
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Popular
Princeton Honors Foch With Honorary Doctor of Laws
Marshal Foch visited Princeton University where the Faculty conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws making him the third French recipient. Lafayette was honored a century earlier and Ambassador Jusserland received the degree in 1911.
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Princeton
Foch
Marshal Foch
Princeton University
Lafayette
Ambassador Jusserland
Invented stainless steel arrives in England
A misread note notes stainless steel being invented and introduced to England. The fragment mentions early usage and uptake by industry, highlighting material novelty and regional adoption.
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England
Head Hunting in the Gatineau (2) Below the Pangan at Low
The narrator ventures into Low in the Gatineau region seeking adventure and rare finds. He discovers a large fossil bone, contemplates presenting it to Ottawa’s Geological Museum, and learns locals joke about steer heads being fossils. The tale blends exploration, humor, and local lore.
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Gatineau
Seventh wonder oil well at Pouce Coupe
Imperial Oil Company reports a new well at Pouce Coupe producing 33,000,000 cubic feet of wet gas daily and about one thousand barrels of gasoline daily when compressed. Gas flow rose by two million feet daily before cap, then continued increasing to the 33 million mark as drilling resumes to strike the parent off body.
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Imperial Oil Company
Pouce Coupe
Japan Eyes B C Lumber Mills For Japanese Firms
Mitsui and Company of Tokyo negotiates for a mill site and timber preserves in British Columbia as Japanese firms seek to mill B C lumber for the Japanese market.
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Japan
B.C
British Columbia
Mitsui and Company
Tokio Financial Corporation
Enjoye Western Womens Freedom in Japan’s Business Class
Mrs. Shimazu wife of the Japanese Consul General at Ottawa notes many Japanese girls in business wear European clothes. She describes a charming personality and enjoys golf driving her own car and the freedom of western women.
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Ottawa
Shimazu
Japan
Dentist in Temesvar Charged With Gold Theft
A Hungarian dental practitioner who opened a cut rate clinic in Temesvar was arrested for extracting over a pound of gold from patients’ teeth. He told patients the gold was poorly fitted, took a wax mould, asked them to return twice, and vanished. He was found to be a grocer’s clerk.
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Europe
Temesvar
Hungary
Lancet
Gas Pistols Carry Poison Gas in Paris
Poison gas designed for military use is reportedly used in a small pistol carried by many Parisians as protection against highwaymen. The liquid agent sits in the pistol handle and is propelled by compressed air from a bicycle pump through a bottom valve.
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Paris
Bridge Works Like An Elevator In Chicago River
A bridge spanning the Chicago River measures 130 feet in length and one foot in width, weighs 280 tons, and operates with lift like an elevator, rising or lowering in about one minute.
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Chicago River
Unclear original text about a medicine reminder
The fragment discusses taking medicine and the challenge of forgetting doses. It suggests a personal note on adherence and memory for a prescribed drug.
Beavers as Revenue Source in Manitoba Farms
Colonel J. G. Rattray, Commissioner of Manitoba Provincial Police, says beaver farming could yield up to 500000 dollars annually for Manitoba farmers. He notes that by following existing preservation laws depredations on private lands can be stopped and colonies turned into productive farms. Closed seasons have spurred new colonies and show beavers thrive in settled districts amid growing western province interest.
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Manitoba
J. G. Rattray
Sacred Ugandan King Carried by Chosen Bearers
In Uganda, the king is treated as sacred and never walks freely. He is carried on the shoulders of selected men, whose shoulders are revered and never touched familiarly by another person.
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Uganda
Her First Thought Teacher
A humorous exchange unfolds with Tommy explaining his lateness. He cites a wakeful morning after a man was pinched for stealing hens and setting a house on fire, plus his mother sending him to check if his father was involved. The London Blighty quips about Napoleon’s sixty battles.
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Tommy
Mither
Father
London
Jamaica Shifts Flour Trade to Canada
Jamaica now buys all its flour from Canada as Dr. A H Stafford notes. Canadian ships delivered flour, its quality appeals to Jamaicans, and the population seeks closer Canada Jamaica ties, transforming an erstwhile US market into a Canadian one.
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Jamaica
Canada
United States
A. H. Stafford
Winnipeg
Canadian Government Merchant Marine Service
Kingston
Stafford
Baku Struggles Under Communist Rule Amid Oil Wealth Decline
The ancient city appears shabby and poor under the regime, with unproductive oil wealth, boarded windows, and scarce goods. Bolshevik posters dot the streets as residents cling to hope, while boys call strangers comrade Tovarish seeking bread or a match.
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Nikolaevskaya
Baku
Pittsburgh
Jaku
Moscow
Peary Idol of Men Shows Deep Care
Rear-Admiral Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, was idol to his men and risked himself for them. Donald B. MacMillan recounts a furthest-ice incident when he fell through at 59 below zero, with Peary rescuing him by beating ice from his bearskin and sharing his own shirt, saying he’d rather suffer himself than his follower.
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Peary
North Pole
Donald B. MacMillan
McMillan
Prickly Pear Invasion Ravages Queensland Farmland
Prickly pear cactus, introduced in Australia, now blankets twenty million acres of Queensland and grows by about one million acres yearly. The weed renders seized land utterly worthless while the government fights the pest with full powers.
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Australia
Queensland
Manitoba farmers seek loans from provincial board
The Manitoba Farm Loans Board has processed weekly loan applications around 300000. With one million dollars available, the board approved loans totaling 659000 while applications surpassed one million and total loans already issued reach 35000000.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Farm Loans Board
Paper And Envelopes Price Stable
No change in the price of paper and j envelopes as markets hold firm. Prices remain stationary with no reported jumps or discounts at this time.
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Geological Museum
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