Prairie drought fight backed by federal provincial plan
Officials report the Federal Prairie Farms Rehabilitation Act sets a five year program to curb soil drifting across the three prairie provinces. The advisory board foresees dramatic water supply gains, while governments and farmers push cooperative experiments, including 4615 small dam and irrigation requests in Saskatchewan and related projects to revive ruined crops.
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Prairie Provinces
Board of Agricultural and Engineering Experts
Archibald
Experimental Farms
Ottawa
Regina
Water Conservation Committee
Saskatchewan
West
Whooping Cough Touted as Most Contagious Childhood Ailment
A claim states whooping cough is the most contagious of childhood diseases. The remark frames the illness as highly infectious among youngsters.
Canada Yields Record Wheat Oats Barley In 1935
Canada's 1935 wheat production stands at 273,971,000 bushels, two million below 1934. Oats reach 416,369,000 bushels, about 30 percent above 1934. Barley climbs 38 percent to 87,512,000 bushels.
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Canada
Germany’s drive to arm: a vast future military machine
Frederick T Birchall argues the German government’s latest act mobilizes all classes born in 1913 and 1916 for compulsory service. He warns this creates a huge reserve and an implicit nation in arms, outpacing France, Italy, and Japan in regional threat. The piece frames Hitler era prep as a global risk beyond the Rhine.
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Cabling
Berlin
Frederick T Birchall
New York Times
Europe
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Birchall
Germany
Reich
France
Italy
China
Rhine
New Zealand Labor Government Moves to Restore Wages
New Zealand's Labour government sworn in with Prime Minister Michael J. Savage pledging to aid the unemployed and restore pre 1931 wage levels. He plans to consult financial authorities including the reserve bank to mobilize real resources for development and reject long term borrowing abroad. Labour minister W H T Armstrong says a statutory minimum wage for men and women will be introduced with an arbitration court setting higher rates.
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New Zealand
Michael J. Savage
Reserve Bank
W. H. T. Armstrong
Women pilots debated by Harold Wilson and Kenneth Main
Harold Wilson of the Aero Club of British Columbia, a top Canadian instructor, rejects the view that women are poor pilots. Kenneth Main of the Toronto Flying Club argues women lack distance judgment. Wilson notes limited industry prospects for lady pilots beyond personal satisfaction.
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Harold Wilson
Aero Club of
British Columbia
Canada
Kenneth Main
Toronto
Wilson
Gift For Scouts Beacon Button Presented By King George V
The silver-gilt push-button lighting device used by the King to light the Jubilee Scout Beacon in Hyde Park was presented by King George V to Imperial Scout Headquarters. The stand bears the inscription noting the presentation to commemorate the lighting of the bonfire in Hyde Park on May 6 1935.
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King George
Hyde Park
Imperial Scout Headquarters
George V
Boy Scouts
Selected Recipes Chocolate Layer Cake and Frosting
Chocolate cake mix with unsweetened squares butter sugar eggs and flour plus baking powder soda salt and sour milk or buttermilk folded with vanilla. Bake 20 to 30 minutes. Frosting needs sugar water egg whites lemon salt and flavoring to a soft ball stage. Decorate with grated chocolate and walnuts.
Oldest Known Horse Records and Notable Veterans
R A Brown, secretary of the National Horse Association, notes the oldest reliably recorded horse is old Billy who died in Cheshire about a century ago at age 62 and whose skull is said to be preserved at Manchester University. Other veterans include Paramatta the Australian horse who died at 53 in 1874 and Tommy the Welsh pony who worked with a fruit hawker until his death at 52.
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R. A. Brown
National Horse Association
Old Billy
Cheshire
Manchester University
Paramatta
Tommy
Mick
Hull
London Answers
Employment Up In Canada Amid Steady Relief Costs
The Canadian welfare council reports unemployment at its highest since December 1930 while direct relief totals remain over a million. Public works boosted recent job gains and private business, but relief costs and dependent numbers show little relief, with urban areas widening in social vulnerability.
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Canada
Canadian Welfare Council
Welfare Council
Grough
Saskatchewan
Ontario Taxes Proposal on Central Bank of Canada
Hepburn argued Ontario may impose a corporation tax on the Central Bank of Canada. He called the bank a private institution and thus subject to corporate taxation.
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Hepburn
Ontario
Central Bank of Canada
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