Fireside Canoeing Routes Through Canada’s Lakelands
The article surveys canoe routes across Canada from Lake Winnipeg north to Port Newton via Churchill River and from Prince George to Peace River, detailing long trips, scenic regions, outfitter access, and the National Resources Intelligence Service guidance on camping, trekking, and maps for summer cruising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fnally
Lake Winnipeg
Explorer
McMurray
Pas
Churchill River
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Port Newton
Hudson Bar
Prince George
Pritieh Columbia
Peace
Peace River
British Columbia
Columbia River
Stuart
Takia
Babine Lake
Cotzsa, Winters
Tetachuck Lakes
McPherson
Yukon
Rat
Tell
Porcupine
Dominion
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Canada
Forget How To Fly The American Cacies In Vienna
Two of them and other family members are kept in small cases at the former Imperial Yeo in Schoenbrunn gardens. The Liapeborgs favored them but the Republican regime built a large house for them. Eagles condors and vultures flutter in their space but fail to fly. Some birds were born in captivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Schoenbrunn Gardens
Liapeborgs
Toronto Plans $5 Million Hotel With Four Thousand Rooms
The Financial Post reports Toronto will host a new hotel project valued at 5,000,400 dollars with 4,000 rooms. The venture is led by Canadian interests and a New York syndicate led by Equitable Trust Co. Edmund Seymour & Co will absorb the first mortgage bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Financial Post
New York
Equitable Trust Co
John’s Sports Day Ad lib Returns in Rural Reel
A compact, humorous exchange captures a boy named John improving with reading and rising spirits. The dialogue shifts to a playful misquote about running, wrestling, and ragtime, reflecting local flair and lighthearted rural wit.
Night Winding Silent Watches Remind of Forgotten Time
A reflective note on how quiet hours reveal what we neglect to wind. The passage invites readers to consider discipline, memory, and the passage of time through metaphor.
Institutional Saskatchewan Farms Report Record Crop 1933
The provincial institutional farms in Saskatchewan harvested the largest crops in their history in 1933. Wheat, oats, and potatoes led yields with Marquis wheat placing fourteenth at the Chicago show. Wheat from 2328 acres yielded 45,455 bushels, oats from 903 acres yielded 54,755, and potatoes from 151 acres yielded 21,616 bushels. A system later may optimize crop rotation to fit farm needs.
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Saskatchewan
Province of
C. M. Learmonth
Croop
North Battleford
Chicago
Ancient Tower of London Key Ceremony Heard Across Isles
Radio listeners across the British Isles heard the nightly key ceremony from the Tower of London as the fortress locks its gates until dawn. The program, transmitted with six mics placed at the tower, recalls centuries of prison life and executions on Tower Green.
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British Isles
Tower of
London
Keye
Tower Green
Henrys
Cloody Mary
Eddystone
Orkneys
Tower
Judging Prize Grain Definition for Seed Quality
The judge must define good seed grain as free from weed seeds and inert matter, bright and free from mustiness, with good color, plump and uniform in size, undamaged by twisting or other causes, and showing no signs of disease.
Artificial Light For Plant Growth Demonstrated At Atlantic City
R. L. Zahour, an illuminating engineer, told delegates at the New Jersey State Horticultural society convention in Atlantic City that artificial light can double plant growth for flowers and vegetables. He notes plants need rest periods and suggests artificial light for only about five hours each night.
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R. L. Zahour
New Jersey State Horticultural Society
Atlantic City
Rivals for World Radio Trade Dominate Markets
The United States and Great Britain, the leading radio equipment exporters, show divergent strengths in 1925 trade. US exports reached 9,903,857 dollars with Canada Latin America and Asia as main markets. UK exports totaled 6,486,532 dollars with Europe Oceania and Africa its top destinations.
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United States
Great Britain
Canada
Latin America
Asia
United Kingdom
Europe
Oceania
Africa
Christmas Tree Origins and Ancient Egyptian Symbolism
The article notes the Christmas tree as a modern symbol, traces its popular Germanic origin, and cites an Egyptian predecessor. It describes the palm tree producing a new branch monthly with a twelve shoot spray used at the winter solstice to symbolize the completed year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Egypt
German Doctor Successfully Photographs Stomach Interior
A German doctor has achieved the first successful photograph of the stomach interior. The groundbreaking image marks a milestone in medical imaging and diagnostic capabilities.
Biographers Miscast Poe Sibling Figures in Confused Portraits
Researchers Harvey Allen and Thomas Olive Henry Poe argue that biographers mixed Edgar Allan Poe with his elder brother Henry. They assert Henry, born 1807 in Boston and died 1831, shared talents and looks but led a wilder life, drinking, socializing, and dying young.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Harvey Allen
Thomas Olive Henry Poe
Boston
Edgar
Henry
Average family faces tight budget in 1930s
Miss Ima S. Lindman of Muncie Indiana told the American Farm Bureau in Chicago that the average American family needs $1513 yearly with $79 left after basic supports. A survey of 25000 homes finds a 4.88 person household requires $1434 annually. Plating the Blame: Professor and student exchange a witty line.
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Ima S. Lindman
Muncie
Indiana
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Lindman
It Is Sometimes Easier To Stay Married Than Divorce
A concise aphorism notes that avoiding the matrimonial circuit can be simpler than exiting it, reflecting a cautious view on separation and social hesitation toward divorce.
First White Description of Lake Winnipeg Comes to Light
The Geographic Board of Canada notes Europeans learned of Lake Winnipeg about a century before a white visitor. Nicolas Jeremie first described the lake in 1720 and named it Michinipi. The first known white visitor was Jean Baptiste de la Verendrye, who founded Fort Maurepas in 1734 on the Winnipeg River near its mouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake
Winnipeg
Geographic Board of Canada
France
Nicolas Jeremie
York Factory
Hudson Bay
Amsterdam
Jeremie
Fludson Tay
Nelson
Hayes
Churchill
Lake Winnipeg
Winnnipegosis
Ouentpigouchib
Jean Baptiste de la Verendrye
Fort Maurepas
Winnipeg River
Weather forecaster predicts severe winter and harsh summer
Cold winter forecast by Herbert Janvrie Brown, long range weather forecaster, argues North American winter will be among the most severe ever and next summer will resemble the summerless year of 1816. He cites solar radiation and ocean current heat absorption as key factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Janvrie Brown
North American
Did Not Recognize Princess at Kiel Meeting
A four year old girl presented roses to Princess Irene of Russia at a Kiel Fatherland Women’s Club gathering. The child expected a crown and ermine robe, saying Princesses wear such regalia, before realizing the royal visitor was indeed a princess upon being assured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene
Russia
Kiel
Fatherland Women's Club
Hanneliese Bunsen
Turkish tobacco grown in Alberta beats Turkish crop claims
Edmonton man Mr. Baker says Turkish tobacco grown in Alberta is superior to that grown in Turkey or Greece. He produced 1000 pounds from a three quarter acre plot testing ten varieties including Turkish White Barley and Orinoco. Harvest occurred before frost and he plans eight acres next year.
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Alberta
Turkey
Greece
Baker
Edmonton
Alberta Wheat Acreage Surges with New Settlers
The Alberta Department of Agriculture reports wheat area up by over 1,000,000 acres in five years. Acreage rose from 4,853,967 in 1921 to 6,056,000 in 1926 while barley yields and bushels more than doubled, driven by influx of new settlers.
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Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Bulletin
Italy to bar American films over merger plan
Italy plans to restrict film showings to Italian made productions if a recent merger of motion picture companies proceeds. Foreign films would be barred from exhibition under the policy.
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Italy
Dunblane Bridge Opens Spanning South Sasksichewan River
The Dunblane Bridge near Saskatoon opens November 15 linking Regina Moose Jaw and Saskatoon trading areas. The concrete steel structure carries rail traffic on the upper deck and a 17 ft 6 in wide highway on the lower deck with ten spans and about 3500 tons of steel. Sir Henry Thornton, H W Newlands and J G Gardiner attended the ceremony with CN officers and engineers crediting W Walken for design.
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Regina
Moose Jaw
Saskatoon
H. W. Newlands
J. G. Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Henry Thornton
Canadian National Railware
Canardian National Railway
W. Walken
Canadian National Railways
Splendid Work Of Red Cross Society
The Red Cross, founded in 1867 to aid sick and wounded, is praised for its quiet, extensive humanitarian work beyond war. Major Davy cites its peace time contributions and its recognition by the League of Nations covenant Article XXV. to encourage health, disease prevention and relief.
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Red Cross
Central Council of the Canadian Society
Tironto
Red Cross Society
League of Nations
Major Davy
League
Canadian seed extraction boosts British and New Zealand reforestation
Canadian Forest Service operates four seed extraction plants in western provinces to obtain conifer seeds. In winter 1925-26 they produced about 25 hundredweight of seeds, supplying the British Forestry Commission for reforestation in Great Britain and shipping seed to New Zealand. The New Zealand Forest Service is led by a Canadian with Canadian forestry training.
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Great Britain
New Zealand
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Canada
Forestry Commission of the
British Isles
Forest Service of
Dominion
New Zealand Forest Service
Ploughing Depths Compare Yields At Ottawa Farm
The Dominion Field Husbandman reports four years of shallow and deep ploughing at the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa show similar corn and oats yields. Four inches deep yield for corn after sod is 21.71 tons and oats after corn 69.2 bushels, while seven inches yields are 21.45 tons and 65.4 bushels. Last year oats after corn reached 95.5 bushels at four inches and 738.6 bushels at seven inches.
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Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Dominion Field Husbandman
Burbank Birthday Greeting Published Widely
The late Luther Burbank sent a birthday greeting to friends that has appeared in most English newspapers. It urges loving thoughts toward all beings and the world and promises happiness and health as a result of kindness and service.
Turn Plague to Useful Purposes
A British firm advised Argentina it will buy large quantities of locusts for use as fertilizer. The locust bodies allegedly contain high percentages of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, making them valuable for agricultural use.
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Argentina
Manager questions jobseeker’s government work past
A manager asks a jobseeker’s friend if he ever worked for the government. The reply hints at close involvement, noting there wasn’t enough evidence to convict, implying a near miss on official work.
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John
W. N. UL
Tower of London
Fred
Irene of
Prussia
Albera
Dunblane
Sask
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