Prominent Agriculturists To Meet In June In Winnipeg
Manitoba and Winnipeg host a gathering of Planta Breeders Of Canada Canadian Seed Growers Canadian Technical Agriculturists and Western Canada Society Animal Production for eight days starting June 15. discussions cover seed naming registration alfalfa cross fertilizing crops Marquis wheat and judging of barley and field crops with notable speakers from University of Edinburgh Cornell and Kansas. official luncheons dinners and a motor excursion to Morden accompany the meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Planta Breeders of Canada
Canadian Technical Agriculturists
Western Canada Society Animal Production
Seed Growers Association
H. G. B. Strange
T. J. Harrison
Europe
F. A. E. Crew
University of Edinburgh
W. L. Williams
Cornell University
Alfred Savage
Manitoba Agricultural College
Williams
H. B. Humphrey
United States Department of Agriculture
W. E. Grimes
Department of Agricultural Economics
Kansas Agricultural College
M. J. Dorsey
Urbana
Ill
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Department of Agriculture
H. B. Co
Bracken
Canadian Wheat Pool
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Royal Alexandra Hotel
T. Eaton Company
Dominion Experimental Farm
Morden
World Happenings Briefly Told
Plutarco Calles former Mexican leader retires from politics. Manitoba veterinarians plan their semi annual Brandon meeting during the summer exhibition week. Canada to sow 22 million acres to wheat this year up 1 million from last year. Dominion gold reserves total 75 221 160 with 40 million more held by Canadian banks. A Moscow to New York flight via Alaska is planned by the Soviet airway commission with four crew. Frank Carrier a Meadow Lake farmer convicted of hanging is reprieved and commuted to life. Aleutian crew member Manuel Corras dies when the liner sinks after striking a rock near Kodiak. Dominion tax take since 1916 reaches 742 128 162 with 19 226 127 cost to collect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Treasury
Moscow
New York
Alaska
Soviet Airway Commission
Dominion
W. B. Euler
National Revenue
Cancer Fight Needs Doctors To Prevent Ills
Sir Arbuthnot Lane argues British medicine must shift to prevention to beat cancer as death rates rose from 1911 to 1926 and eightfold in a century. He says doctors should focus on keeping healthy people well to curb the disease. Detroit News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Arbuthnot Lane
Great Britain
Sir Arbuthnot
Detroit News
The Pessimist Proposes A Queer Misstep
A playful line features a speaker asking a beloved for a name with affection but a typo shifts to an odd phrasing. The quip rests on language mix ups and romantic intent in a humorous context.
Off on Pleasure Bent Ends in Peculiar Scene
A brief quip captures a traveler departing for leisure with lighthearted irony. The exchange hints at a relaxed mood and financial mood, suggesting a tale of leisure misadventure without further details.
Sunspots and Rabbits in Hudson Bay Company Pelts
A Dominion Observatory study notes rabbit pelt receipts from Hudson's Bay Company vary with sunspot cycles. On average, rabbit pelts triple in the year before sunspot minimum compared to sunspot maximum. Also a cartoon caption about a car running out of gas appears in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson's Bay Company
Dominion Observatory
Ottawa
Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Antacid Ad
An advertisement extols Phillips' Milk of Magnesia as the standard antacid for 50 years. It promises rapid relief from excess stomach acid, noting one spoonful neutralizes many times its volume and leaves the stomach sweet within minutes. It urges buying genuine Phillips' Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians.
Canada’s First Passenger Train Opens Era of Rail Travel
On May 16 in Toronto the first Canadian passenger railway train departed from Front Street opposite the Queen’s Hotel for Aurora. The 24 ton engine Lady Elgin pulled a box and a passenger car, with Alderman John Harvie as conductor. Tickets cost $1 each way and the two hour trip marked a shift from horse drawn coaches to rail transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Queen's Hotel
Front Street
Toronto
Aurora
Ontario
John Harvie
Lady Elgin
Foundation Of the Farming Industry
The cow underpins farming by supplying milk products and meat. It provides leather from hides and hair for plaster, glue from hoofs, gelatine from joints, and bones ground into fertilizer when other parts are removed.
Will Trek To Alberta A Hutterische Brudergemeinde Move
A plan unfolds as the Wolf Creek group of about 150 Hutterische Brudergemeinde members treks from Freeman South Dakota to Alberta. They have secured an option on 5 400 acres of improved land via A W Harper a Minneapolis banker who intends to sell the property in 160 acre tracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman
South Dakota
Wolf Creek
Alberta
A. W. Harper
Minneapolis
How to Measure a Tree with Shadow Geometry
Use a vertical stick and a plumb line to establish perpendicularity. Compare the shadows of the stick and the tree to form a proportion: the shadow length to the stick length equals the tree height to its shadow. Solve the height by cross multiplication.
Rechabites Test in Jeremiah Lesson on Wine Prohibition
The Sunday school lesson centers on Jeremiah 35 1 19 with the Rechabites who refused shelter and wine to follow ancestral vows. They dwell in tents and keep strict rules, contrasting with corrupt northern kingdoms and illustrating steadfast faith in a temple setting.
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Jeremiah
Jerusalem
Jaasaniah
Jehovah
Israel
Elijah
Jonabad
Rechab
Jezebel
Ahab
Jehu
F. B. Meyer
Jereiah
Winnipeg and the Paulin Chambers Biscuit Factory Rise
The article traces Winnipeg from a trading post to a western metropolis, highlighting the 1870 Red River Rebellion exit of Louis Riel and the city’s early growth. It notes Paulin Chambers’ biscuit factory beginnings in 1876, its evolution, and expansions across Western Canada by 1926, with warehouses in Fort William Regina Saskatoon Calgary Edmonton and Vancouver.
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Winnipeg
Great West
Plains
Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
Red River
Louis Riel
Col. Wolseley
60Th Rifles
Fort Garry
Manitoba
Red River Dart
St. Paul
Hudson's Bay Company
Keystone
J. H. Chambers
W. H. Paulin
Hardy Pioneers
Selkirk
Western Canada
William Nassau Kennedy
Paulin Chambers
Europe
Scotland
Main Street
Union Depot
Salteaux
St. Peters
Lake Winnipeg
Spencer's Creek
Spencer Street
C.P.R
Western
Paul
Paulin Chambers Co., Ltd
Fort William
Vancouver
Paulin
Flank Steak Roast With Prune Stuffing and Suet Topping
A kitchen note outlines preparing flank steak with prune stuffing and suet topping. Brown the steak, fill center with a prune mixture, roll and tie, cover with hot water, and bake one hour. Thicken the juices to make gravy.
Rhubarb Orange Bisque in Pastry Shells
Wash and cut rhubarb and oranges, bake with sugar in dish for about one hour. Dissolve gelatin in cold water and fold into the cooled fruit sauce. Fill pastry shells with the sauce and decorate with whipped cream using a rose tube.
Rubber heart keeps cat alive in quick test
Dr. O S Gibbs of Dalhousie University reported at the Nova Scotia Institute of Science that an electrically operated rubber heart kept a cat's circulatory system functioning after the natural heart was removed. The replacement took five minutes and may serve as a drug-testing substitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. S. Gibbs
Dalhousie University
Nova Scotia Institute of Science
Gibbs
Paulin Company Empire of Quality Biscuits and Confections
Paulin, a Western Canada producer, runs 70 biscuit lines and 200 confectionery lines. The plant employs about 200 workers with a yearly payroll near a quarter of a million dollars. The firm touts empire-made products and says cooperation with customers has driven prosperity and trust in its home market.
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West
Paulin
Paulin's
Empire Made
Western
Canada
Conditions Improve in Britain Says CNR Official
P A Clews European Traffic Manager of the Canadian National Railways reports that conditions in Great Britain are materially better since the strike with marked coal trade revival. He notes Europe’s severe winter helped producers regain markets and that European tourist interest in Canada, especially Jasper National Park, is rising.
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Great Britain
P. A. Clews
Canadian National Railways
Canada
London
Europe
Clews
Rocky Mountains
Jasper National Park
First Air Wedding in Western Canada over Regina
Miss Muriel Stuart James and H Leighton Robinson were wed 2400 feet above Regina in a ceremony conducted by Rev J D Wilkie. Attendant Miss Margaret Nicks and pilot Jack Wright served as best man before the couple enjoyed a half hour honeymoon flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina
Western Canada
Muriel Stuart James
de James
Chaplin
H. Leighton Robinson
J. D. Wilkie
Margaret Nicks
Jack Wright
Ocean areas by vast seas in square miles
The text lists ocean areas with numbers: Atlantic about 24,536,000 square miles, Pacific 50,309,000, Indian 17,084,000, Southern 30,592,000, and Arctic 4,781,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
Indian
Arctic Ocean
Comic Exchange Highlights Schoolyard Ironies
A playful dialogue unfolds with a visitor asking about school and Tommy admitting a dislike for children. A Big Man offers his time at $50 an hour but caps it at four minutes, and a reporter notes the cash remark.
Going Upstairs Had to Sit Down Breath So Short
Mrs H Brousseau of Magog Quebec describes years of shortness of breath and four years of heart palpitations forced to sit and rest going upstairs. She says she read about remedies and seeks advice.
Box remedy relieves breath issues, seller offers mail option
The narrator recalls getting relief quickly after taking a box and then three more, reporting no shortness of breath since. Price is 50 cents per box, available at all druggists and dealers or mailed direct on return of price from The T Milburn Co., Toronto Ontario.
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T. Milburn Co
Toronto
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R. E. Cora Hind
Baby
Plutarco Calles
Mexico
Veterinarians of
Brandon
Prince Albert
Frank Carrier
Meadow Lake District
Manuel Corras
Alaskan Steamship Company
Aleutian
Horseshoe
Uyak Bay
Kodiak Island
Vowrns
Helen Wills
Court
Toronto Station
Uncle Henry
Daddie
Noah
Joan of Arc
Browning
Betty Barclay
California
Tommy
W. N. VI
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