Science fuels industry from Galileo to Millikan
Dr. Frobert A. Millikan tells New York Chamber of Commerce that pure science underpins modern industry. He traces progress from Galileo and Newton to radio and aviation, arguing one discovery leads to the next. The talk appears in The New York Times with emphasis on science guiding economic growth and future potential.
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Scence
Galileo
Newton
Frobert A. Millikan
California Institute of Technology
New York State Chamber of Commerce
New York Times
Millikan
Bishop Usher
Dr. Millikan
Dredging Firm Plans Medicine Hat Work
A Medicine Hat based company with 90 miles of riverfront aims to begin gold dredging as soon as equipment arrives. G L Holmes, a California dredging engineer, conducted a two weeks inspection here and reports suggest strong potential.
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Medicine Hat
G. L. Holmes
California
Newspaper refuses high bid for Lincoln assassination Herald
A Columbus News Company collector declines a $300 offer for the April 15 1865 New York Herald that reported Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The issue originally sold for three cents.
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Shomson
Columbus News Company
Columbus
Ohio
New York Herald
Abraham Lincoln
Western Canada Farmers Hold Cars and Gasoline Tractors
A recent analysis finds 38 of every 100 western Canadian farmers own a motor car while 18 of every 100 farms have gasoline tractors. The Aztecs believed in gods linked to disease and healing knowledge.
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Western
Canada
Penguin daily. Falkland Islands gains new newspaper
A Morning Post report notes Port Stanley’s Penguin daily newspaper funded by the governor Sir Arnold Hodson. It has 22 pages printed by copying machine, costs a penny a day or 2s a month, and carries wireless news notes, warship visits, golf and rifle sport, a Ladies’ Page and a poem by the Governor urging steady play.
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London Morning Post
Penguin
Port Stanley
Falkland Islands
Arnold Hodson
CMG
Nothing Modern In Scientific Equipment
An old McClure's magazine interview with Ralph Waldo Trine quotes Henry Ford claiming ancient civilizations possessed advanced science and machines. Ford asserts reincarnation shaped moral sense, says ancient peoples may have had automobiles radios and aeroplanes, and predicts future interplanetary knowledge.
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Henry Ford
Ralph Waldo Trine
McClure’s
Detroit
Trine
Ford
Cornstalk Paper Featured In Danville News Special Edition
The Danville Commercial News published a 100 page special edition printed on corn stalk paper from nearby farms. The process, completed in six hours, used corn stalk pulp made by a Danville company and paper by a Kalamazoo mill. Dr Beladorner of Hungary is credited with the discovery, while Prairie Farmer also issued 260000 copies on cornstalk paper in a farm oriented move.
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Danville
Commercial News
Kalamazoo
Beladorner
Hungary
Prairie Farmer
National Farm Magazine
Chicago
Grazing Leases in Western Canada Reach Vast Areas
In 1927 the Dominion Government issued about 9,777 grazing leases covering roughly 6,607,183 acres of public lands in Western Canada. More than 500,000 cattle sheep and horses were pastured on these lands.
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Dominion
Canada
Automobile services replace coolie packing on highway project
Automobile services are expected to replace traditional coolie packing along the highway under construction in Amoy district, China. The change marks a shift toward mechanized or organized transport functions amid ongoing infrastructure work.
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Amoy
Chins
Colonel Cockshutt’s Career and Ontario Governorship
Colonel Cockshutt, born in 1868 in Brantford, rose from secretary treasurer to president of the Cockshutt Plow Company. He also led Brantford as mayor in 1899-1900 and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1921 to 1927. He held directorships at the Canadian Pacific Railway and Bank of Montreal and led the Canadian Manufacturers Association in 1896.
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Colonel Cockshutt
Ontario
Canadian Pacific Railway
Bank of Montreal
Cockshutt Plow Company
Brantford
Ignatius Cockshutt
Board of Trade
Canadian Manufacturers Association
Province
Granary of Europe Becomes Bessarabia Wilderness Amid Famine
The famine stricken region of Bessarabia reports wheat crop failures for two consecutive years. Extreme heat drought and heavy snowfall devastate fields. Mortality rises as peasants eat roots and herbs. The Maniu government funds relief and orders road labor, while Romania records its lowest wheat exports.
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Bessarabia
Europe
Roumania
Maniu
Amundsen contrasts North and South Poles in Nomad piece
Roald Amundsen explains polar differences in Nomad magazine. He notes the North Pole as drifting Arctic ice about 15 000 feet deep ocean and the South Pole as an 18 000 foot high continent with a 10 000 foot interior plateau. He describes animal life, temperatures of minus 75 and minus 80, and the absence of human inhabitants in Antarctica.
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Roald Amundsen
Nobile
Amundsen
Nomad
North Pole
Arctic
South Pole
South Polar
North
Antarctic
Impostor at Party Claims Thought Reading Skill
A boastful young man at a party pretends to read minds and tests a lady guest. She questions him and he backtracks, apologizing for any unintended offense.
Saskatchewan to buy world's champion Holstein cow
Minister M. Hamilton announces Saskatchewan will purchase the world's champion Holstein cow from Ben H. Thompson of Boharm for $10,000 to prevent losing the prized animal to the province. A humorous aside about a tablespoon dosage appears in the fragment.
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M. Hamilton
Saskatchewan
Ben H. Thompson
Boharm, Sask
Canary Korndyke Alcartra Stay In Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan government will purchase the world record Holstein cow Canary Korndyke Alcartra for 10000 from Ben H. Thomson of Boharm. The animal will remain at Braeburn farm near Moose Jaw under Thomson’s care as officials note her high production and growing interest from dairy groups to keep her in the province.
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Ben H. Thomson
Boharm
Saskatchewan
C. M. Hamilton
Hamilton
Thomson
Braeburn
Moose Jaw
Mr. Hamilton
United States
Chambers of Commerce and local papers boost growth
Chambers of Commerce are blamed for not sending literature abroad. Those who complain could help by distributing literature through their own newspapers. Editors and publishers are deeply invested in community growth, benefiting as the town grows.
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Chambers of Commerce
Ford predicts era of giant aeroplanes with no mechanical limit
Henry Ford, billionaire automobile manufacturer, told reporters in Washington that aeroplanes could become as common as cars within ten years. He asserted there is no limit to airplane size and no mechanical drawbacks to making them larger.
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Henry Ford
Washington
Ford
Nelsons First Commission Recalled In Room Chat
An American tourist and a guide discuss a historic room where the young Nelson allegedly received his first commission, noting the encounter as a vivid reminiscence of naval lore.
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Nelson
Proposed Zuider Zee drainage to reclaim land and restore channels
A plan to drain the Zuider Zee in Holland aims to reclaim 500000 acres and prevent further halting of fresh water channels. In the fragmentary dialogue a woman mentions buying a dress by instalments while a man asks which dress she wears.
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Zuider Zee
Holland
Puzzled Man Questions Exercise About Double Chins
A talkative lady teases a professor about what puzzles him. He admits one puzzle: if exercise reduces flesh, how do so many women end up with double chins.
London Street Gains Automatic Lights in Barnes
A Barnes street in London S W now uses automatic lamps for the past year. Each lamp contains a silenium cell that activates the light in response to twilight or fog conditions.
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Barnes
London
S.W
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Gazete
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Lustige Kolner Zeitung
Cologne
N. UW
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Danville Holinois
Col
Henry Cockshutt
North Polar
Explorer
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Baby Chick Association
Giles
Meggendorfer Btaetter
Muzich
Canary
Seaside
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