Agriculture in School Debate Shapes Western Canadian Curriculum
Dr. R C Wallace at the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists in Edmonton argues that agriculture should be integrated into the school curriculum through science rather than as a vocational subject. He notes limited success of Grade IX X agriculture, praises 4 H and school fairs, and urges reliance on natural science principles to foster long term agricultural interest among rural youth.
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Canada
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Edmonton
R. C. Wallace
University of Alberta
Wallace
Arctic girl Marie Onraet finds city life empty
Marie Onraet, a 20 year old Gaspe woman, returns from Cameron Bay near the Arctic circle after two years. She recalls flying to Fort Franklin and touring mines with miners wary of women, noting Eskimo and Indian life and an Eskimo custom of wife barter followed by death for stealing another’s spouse.
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Marie Onraet
Gaspe
Montreal
Cameron Bay
Great Bear Lake
Arctic Circle
Marie
Queen's
Athabaska
Peace River
Lake Athabaska
Slave River
Great Slave Lake
Mackenzie
Great Bear Rivers
Fort Franklin
Gulls Change Cherries Diet in Salt Lake Valley
Gulls in Utah's Salt Lake Valley have adapted to a cherry surplus. Unable to perch on branches, they hover above trees and strike fruit with wings, then feast on fallen cherries. Some perch with outspread wings to eat reachables, a behavior linked to higher gull numbers and food competition.
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U.S. Biological Survey
Salt Lake Valley
Utah
Clarence Cottam
Wrong Man Mistaken for Lloyd George Noted in Glasgow
James Gray a Glasgow magistrate was mistaken for Lloyd George by an audience of 3,000. Gray earned cheers while Lloyd George arrived late after the crowd had spent much of its vigor. The incident occurred as the former prime minister spoke about his New Deal proposals.
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Lloyd George
James Gray
Glasgow
Scotland
Gray
Darling toddler coat and hat pattern for Winnipeg
Fashion notes describe a double breasted coat with snug neck buttoning and a matching hat in Copen blue diagonal worsted lined with wool silk crepe. Size 4 needs specific yardage and interlining details. Pattern No 303 includes coat and hat. patterns cost 15 cents. Mail orders to Pattern Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Summer Fashion Book offers more vacation clothes.
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Pattern
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Health Of The World Population Holds Up In Low Mood Years
League of Nations Year Book data show death rates in 27 of 30 reporting countries below the 1926 30 level and birth rates dipping but rising in five nations Germany leads with 7.1 per 1 000 population growth in 1933 and the United States at 5.7. the study notes mental illness has not risen since the low mood per the US National Committee for Mental Disease and the American Psychiatric Association Winnipeg Free Press reports.
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League of Nations
Germany
Great Britain
Ireland
Poland
Denmark
France
United States
United States National Committee For Mental Disease
American Psychiatric Association
Winnipeg Free Press
Boy Watches Erasmus Statue Turn Page Legend in Rotterdam
As a youth of eleven in Rotterdam, Hendrick Willem van Loon spent three days observing a statue of Erasmus to verify the tale that the bronze figure turns a page of his book each hour, a legend noted by the Dutch-American historian who has since begun a New York radio program.
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Hendrick Willem van Loon
New York
Rotterdam
Erasmus
Netherlands Navy Submarine Completes Ambitious World Trip
The K-18, under Commander G E Hetterzhy, sailed 25 000 miles from Helder to Amsterdam via Surabaya with 35 crew. It visited five continents and dived 230 times for 264 underwater hours. Professor Felix A Vening conducted scientific observations and made the deepest Atlantic sounding at 6700 metres between Dakar and Pernambuco.
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Netherlands Navy
Amsterdam
Surabaya
East Indies
Helder
Holland
G. E. Hetterzhy
Felix A. Vening
Utrecht University
Atlantic
Dakar
Pernambuco
Suitor And Sister Inquiry Sparks Upstairs Change
A terse exchange hints at a domestic moment as a suitor asks about his sister. Jimmy replies that she has run upstairs to change rings after seeing the caller approach.
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Jimmy
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