Farm Experts Wrestling With Agricultural Problems In Western Grouth Areas
Dr E S Archibald head of the Dominion experimental farm system spoke to Regina Kiwanis on a major western Canada reclamation project. Work includes stripping the soil to stop drift, testing grasses for drought, water schemes, and new stations at Mortlach and Swift Current.
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E. S. Archibald
Ottawa
Regina Kiwanis Club
Grouth
Prairie Provinces
Archibald
Canada
Mortlach
Swift Current
Nova
Saskatchewan
Truro
Two Windsor Women Clash Over War Petition
In Windsor a woman asked to sign a war petition dismisses it as an election dodge. She recalls two brothers killed and another wounded, and her husband still suffers from his wounds, illustrating personal cost of conflict.
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Windsor
Windsor Daily Star
Temperament Joke From A Little Girl
Patsy asks about temperament and receives a wry reply from her mother who defines it as a temper with a ruffle on it. The anecdote captures a child’s curiosity and a mother’s quick wit.
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Patsy
Mother
Royal Winter Fair Ends With Record Attendance and High Sales
The Dominion’s Royal Winter Fair closed after an unequivocal success with larger entries and crowds. Exhibitors kept stock on farms until judging, livestock sales were brisk, a cow sold for 1800 dollars and a bull for 1000, champions fetched 3000 and 1250 dollars.
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Dominion
Chicago
Horse Palace
Famous Pigeon Dies in Honolulu Aged 17
The world’s most famous pigeon died in Honolulu at 17 years 11 months. John hatched January 1918 on a French battlefield and braved bombardments while delivering messages for the U S Army. He was wounded when a shell near him exploded and reached headquarters with injuries before being stuffed for Wright Field museum.
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France
United States Army
Honolulu
John
Aeronautical Museum
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Canada October Auto Production Reaches 1929 High
Automobile output in Canada for October rose to 8313 vehicles, the best October total since 1929, up 120 percent from October of last year. The gain reflects strong demand and manufacturing expansion across major plants.
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Canada
Decree Links Cooking Skills to College Admission in Germany
The Montreal Star reports Germany’s Education Minister Bernhard Rust issued a decree requiring sixteen year old female students to pass an exam on fundamental duties of housewives before college admission after spring 1937. Mothers must teach them, aiming to link domestic training with higher education access.
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Hitler
Germany
Bernhard Rust
Dry Area Water Plan Draws Prairie Residents Interest
The water development committee under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act reported widespread resident interest in drought area irrigation at a Regina meeting. Since the start of the year the committee has received 5,000 applications from individuals for private irrigation schemes including dug-outs stock watering dams and small irrigation projects.
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Prairies
Water Development Committee
Regina
Quotable Exchange About Horses From A Visit
A guest asks about a husband’s knowledge of horses and the wife quips that he knows the winner the day before a race and knows why it failed the day after. The wry remark suggests uncanny intuition about racing outcomes.
Nature's light versus man's illumination compared for vision
The article contrasts natural daylight at about 16 000 footcandles with common indoor lighting. It explains footcandles and how reading and sewing benefit from higher light levels while typical office and factory lighting fall far short. It notes four factors for visibility and how more light can offset small sizes or low contrast, including faster recognition of signals while driving.
Famine Fears Grip Bessarabia as Winter Looms
Citizens fear famine in the prairies near the Russian border as granaries run dry. The interior ministry admits the crisis and calls for aid to stave off malnutrition and starvation in the vast Bessarabian region. Drought last summer killed livestock and crops failed, leaving bread scarce and peasant diets reduced to ground barley and weed seed bread. Censorship once blocked such reports in Romania.
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Bessarabia
Priarie
Romanian Ministry of Interior
Rumania
March Of Progress Alberta Premier Promises Social Credit
Premier William Aberhart of Alberta arrived in Montreal to discuss finances with R. J. Magor and his study of the province, accompanied by Alberta officials C. Cockroft and W. A. Fallon. He said Social Credit will come as progress replaces old tech, likening candles to electric light and ox carts to automobiles.
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Quebec
William Aberhart
Alberta
Montreal
R. J. Magor
Aberhart
C. Cockroft
W. A. Fallon
Neither drives they coax the second hand car
A man asks if he and his wife drive the second hand automobile. The friend replies that neither drives it, they coax it along.
Bathurst opens world’s cheapest golf course
A new nine hole golf course in Bathurst South Africa is claimed to offer the lowest green fees in the world with a six cent charge for a round surpassing other clubs in price and novelty.
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Bathurst
South Africa
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Errth Columbia
Victoria, B.C
Times
Automobile Production
Montreal Star
Tweedy
Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
March of
Social Credit
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