Exporting Raw Material Highlights Canada's Farm Dominance
The Toronto Globe notes Canada’s 1974 exports valued at 1.915 billion dollars with 43.4 percent raw materials and 26.7 percent to the United States. It emphasizes agricultural products as main exports, employing over half the workforce and supporting a population of 114,000,600. It argues skilled labor underpins farm outputs versus city industries.
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Canada
United States
Ferthermore
The
Toronto Globe
Wembley Exhibition Bakery Delivers Bread Day and Night
A 100000 rolls daily bakery at Wembley serves visitors and local cafes. Sixteen steam ovens with smokeless coke fires heat hermetic water tubes for cooking. Electric bread buttering machines slice and butter 20000 bread per day while potato peeling lines process a ton hourly.
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Tno
United States Annexes Swain's Island in Pacific
The United States annexes Swain's Island about 206 miles north of Africa as part of the Tokelau group. Britain has not asserted sovereignty over Swain's Island. The move aims to provide lawful order for a small population unable to govern itself, while far from nearest British rule.
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Swain's Island
Africa
United States
Tokelau
Britain
Swain
Fakaofa
Manners at Intersections Delights Kingston Standard
The Kingston Standard notes a social discrepancy where pedestrians let women cross first, while drivers in cars often honk and pass, showing gendered behavior differences at street intersections. The piece observes contrast between foot travel courtesy and automobile impatience.
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Anyon
Kingston
New Profession for Women in the West
Growing covenants in the West show women entering new roles. Miss Nettie Hamel-Smith, an English woman, calls this the ideal life. She employs sixty native laborers and manages over a hundred acres devoted to cocoa and cacao trees.
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West Indies
World egg production shifts reshape poultry markets
A country by country review shows a long term decline in shell egg imports and a surge in domestic production. China leads exports with 99.9 million dozen while the U S output climbs from 1.29 billion in 1910 to over 2.2 billion in 1924.
Healing Concrete Cracks Outlasts Original Strength
Prof Duff A Abrams of Lewis Institute reports that cracked concrete healing after eight years moisture exposure yielded over two and a quarter times the original strength. Cracks largely disappeared before retesting and a bridge slab showed many old cracks not reopening under extreme load.
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Duff A. Abrams
Lewis Institute
Abram
Prof
Abrams
Problem Of Earth's Age How old is the earth
The Committee on the Determination of Geologic Age Through Atomic Disintegration explains how radioactive decay fixes rock ages. Uranium to lead dating estimates an Ontario deposit at least 1.3 billion years old and a Wyoming deposit at about 32 million years, with broader world age implications.
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Rational Research Council
Lusk
Wyo
Ontario
Canada
Cattle Shipments To Britain Reach New Level
Since the British cattle embargo ended on April 1 1923 Canada has shipped 156875 head of cattle to Great Britain through May 31 with an estimated export value of 14135715 dollars, according to the federal department of agriculture.
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Great Britain
Canada
Federal Department of Agriculture
Manitoba Pioneer Frank Burnett Abroad Again for South Sea Voyage
Veteran traveler Frank Burnett, 73, recounts his South Sea exploration by yacht with a Polynesian crew after farming failures. He recalls cannibalism among Papuans, head-hunters, and a 1910 Solomon Islands visit, where seven traders were killed and eaten. His souvenirs were donated to the University of British Columbia. He plans another tropical voyage this fall.
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Maritehe Pleoneer Mae
South Sea Islands
Canada
Frank Burnett
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Mr. Barnett
Honolulu
Mr. Burnett
Burnett
University of British Columbia
Monkey antics draw crowds at Bronx Gardens Zoo
At the Bronx Gardens in New York a Sunday crowd gathered before a Javanese monkey family cage. People watched a gray-coated male seize a flapper’s hat, try it on, and tear it to pieces to share with his long-tailed companions.
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Hamburg
London
Amsterdam
Paris
Bronx Gardens
New York
Meredith to Succeed Richardson as League of Nations Secretary
Sir George Foster announced Lieut.-Col. C. P. Meredith will assume the duties of secretary of the League of Nations Society of Canada on the retirement next month of H. G. Richardson who has held the post for two years.
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George Foster
League of Nations Society of Canada
Col
C. P. Meredith
The
Canadian Engineers
H. G. Richardson
Explorer Gabriella Dassi Returns From Congo Expedition
Gabriella Dassi completes a journey through the French Congo visiting regions previously untouched by white explorers. The mission highlights remote areas and adds to knowledge of local geographies and cultures.
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Gabriella Dassi
French Congo
Weed Control in Three and Four Year Farm Rotations
The Dominion field husbandman advises on weed management within three and four year rotations. For inter tilled crops the land should be thoroughly prepared and the crop cultivated. In four year rotations timothy sod may be ploughed by August 1 while in three year rotations ploughing shifts to about September 1 after two clover cuttings. Early ploughing is key where couch grass or other deep rooted weeds are present, followed by harrowing then discing at weekly intervals until the sod rots enough for the cultivator.
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Dominion
Mr. &. & Hopkins
Meat Spectacle as Alaska Town Sells Beefsteak
A Klondike era camp in Alaska witnessed a 10 pound beefsteak arrive from 250 miles away selling for 48 dollars per pound. Miners gathered in force to view the exhibit and a raffle for slices raised 480 dollars for a miners hospital without incident.
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Alaska
Klondike
Ancient Door Key Presented To Prince
The Prince of Wales spent his 31st birthday in South Africa and was told he would receive the ancient door-key to his own palace of St James. The relic, once owned by Queen Charlotte Finch and passed through Lady Finch to a Pietersburg relative, was presented to the Prince in a South African made casket.
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Prince of Wales
South Africa
Pietersburg
Northern Transvaal
St. James
Lord Denby
George Ill
Charlotte Finch
Miss Lawrence
Canadian Honey Crop Figures for 1924 Released
An official BC report on apiaries and honey yields shows a 1924 total crop of 329 percent tons, up from 21644 tons the prior year. It records historical figures: 1920 about 113 tons, 1919 around 172 percent tons, 1921 just over 15444 tons, and 1922 a bumper year at 355 percent tons.
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B.C
Letter Delayed Thirty Years Reveals Unclaimed Salary Rise
A 1896 letter from Hudson's Bay Company manager Ewen Macdonald granting Peter Gunn a substantial salary increase reaches Edmonton decades late. The note, found discarded near Dunvegan, confirms Gunn’s long-ago approval but leaves the size of the increase undisclosed, leaving the sheriff amused by the wait.
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Sherif Peter Guen
Edmonton
North Country
Mr. Gunn
Ewen Macdonald
Peace River District
Hudson's Bay Company
Peter Gunn
Lesser Slave Lake
Macdonald
Gunn
Sheriff Gunn
North
Sleep Depth Measured By Sounds And Touch
Scientists classify how deeply individuals sleep by responses to stimuli. Methods include dropping a steel ball at increasing heights until awakening occurs and lightly touching the sleeper with an electric wire to gauge reaction to stimulus intensity.
Miner Rescuer Faced Harsh Final Message From Cavern
A mine superintendent reached imprisoned workers after a cave in asking a miner if he was married. The reply came in a somber voice saying no and that this was the worst fix he had ever been in.
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George
Nossuh
Dyes Used to Trace Subterranean Streams in Mammoth Cave
Subterranean streams in Mammoth Cave Louisville Kentucky are being traced by placing dyes in the water. The program aims to map water flow and connections within the cave system.
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Mammoth Cave
Louisville
French-Canadian Teachers Begin National Educational Tour
One hundred teachers from the University of Montreal depart Windsor Station in July for a three week trip across Canada. Mayor Duquette of Montreal and university leaders lead the group as Canadian Pacific Railway executives greet them and wish God speed. The voyage marks the first all French-Canadian institute to undertake such a cross country run to Victoria and Vancouver and back. A parallel expedition by the Teachers' Federation of Canada leaves Toronto July 26 to cover Ontario to the Pacific coast.
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University of Montreal
Windsor Station
Mayor Duquette
Montreal
A. V. J. Piette
E. Montpetit
University
E. W. Beatty
The
Canadian Pacific Railway
Grant Hall
A. D. MacTier
Eastern Lines
J. J. Scully
C. E. E. Ussher
Canada
Victoria
Vancouver
MacMillan Plans Arctic Mapping and Norse History Study
Commander Donald B MacMillan will continue Arctic work and investigate Norse presence in Greenland Labrador and Turnevik sites. He hopes to compare ancient ruins behind Disko and Turnevik with Bakimo legends while mapping under 66 degrees north where daylight lasts all day.
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Donald B MacMillan
Labrador
MacMillan
Polar
Disko
Greenland
Eric the Red
Turnevik
Synthetic rubber on the horizon as chemists study formula
The Detroit News discusses the ease of growing rubber and how synthetic methods could emerge from persistent experiments. It notes rubber's long-standing cheapness, wartime demand, and Germany's supply cut, suggesting price rises may spur discovery of synthetic rubber.
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Germany
Detroit News
Why Queen Victoria Disliked Weymouth
A historical note recalls Weymouth's role in Victoria's life after the Duke of Kent died there. Local creditors delayed his burial in London, forcing Victoria and her family to stay, shaping her lifelong displeasure toward Weymouth and a plea to avoid the town.
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England
Queen Victoria
Duke of Kent
Weymouth
London
Princess Victoria
Editors to Visit Western Canada by Special CP Train
The American Agricultural Editor Association with about one hundred large farm journals will tour western Canada in September. The group represents journals with a combined circulation exceeding eight million copies and will travel to the coast aboard a special Canadian Pacific train.
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American Agricultural Editor Association
United States
Canada
Germany’s Dry Campaign Triggers Nationwide Petition Drive
Promoters of local option place 466000 votes on the Reichstag speaker’s table in a ten day postal card canvass across Germany. The petition seeks enactment of a law to place Germany in the dry column.
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Prohibition
Reichstag
Germany
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