Manitoba Starts Popping Corn Industry This Year
Manitoba enters a new industry with popping corn as Hutterite settlements along the Assiniboine river grow the crop. Previous western efforts failed due to climate concerns, but Medicine Hat's JG McGee produced several carloads last year and Winnipeg buyers paid $2,700 per carload.
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Manitoba
Canada
Western
J K. May
J. G. McGee
Medicine Hat
Winnipeg
Washington
Newcastle
Assiniboine River
Prizes Raised for 1937 International Live Stock Show
Directors announce increases in prizes across cattle divisions including Aberdeen Angus Shorthorns and Herefords at the Chicago exhibition, with smaller changes in sheep Hampshire premiums and major adjustments in horse classes. Separate breed contests and a grand champion carload feeder cattle award are planned, while several Shire classes are removed and prize money redistributed.
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Aberdeen
Hampshire
Turgeon Grain Inquiry Advances Western Marketing Debate
The Turgeon Royal Grain Inquiry Commission finishes western sittings and plans an autumn eastern phase possibly including Britain. It may issue an interim report to guide next year's legislation, aiming to boost Western farmers' incomes without political bias.
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West
Commission
Western
Canada
Dominion
Sun Moon Size Difference Revealed
The sun measures about 400 times the moon’s diameter yet appears similar in size from Earth due to the moon’s 239000 mile proximity. The sun’s actual diameter is around 92,900,000 miles, contrasting with the moon’s smaller scale.
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Earth
Willing To Give Two
A millionaire pressed a reward on the young man who saved his daughter. The hero declined, then accepted a week later when the father telegraphed that he had bought the Westend Golfer's Club and was negotiating for the Sunnyside Links.
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Westend
Sunnyside Links
Novel Address by Burpee Opens Toronto Royal Society Talk
President Lawrence J. Burpee of the Royal Society of Canada delivered a novel address in Toronto using an animated map. The talk traced Canada’s discovery and early exploration through quoted words from explorers’ narratives, presented in an animated cartoon style.
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Lawrence J. Burpee
Royal Society of Canada
Toronto
Canada
Two to make a quarrel four to play bridge
A brief quip notes social habits with a whimsical line about bridge players. The fragment names no people or places beyond a stray line about a pane and scene.
Carter's Little Liver Pills Adclaims Bile Flow Remedy
An old advertisement urges readers to wake up the liver and bile with Carter's Little Liver Pills. It claims the liver fails to move bile, causing gas, constipation, and poor digestion, and promises safe relief without calomel or mercury for 25 cents.
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Carter
Lord Tweedsmuir Addresses Guelph on Agriculture
In an address at Guelph Lord Tweedsmuir spoke of fulfilling a long cherished hope and his rural lineage. He praised Canada’s agricultural issues and called the OAC the Empire’s leading agricultural college, urging applied science to prevent mischief and improve affairs nationwide.
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Lord Tweedsmuir
Guelph
Lord Twedsmuir
Canada
O.A.C
Empire
Commonwealth
Expedition seeks higher peak than Everest in Amne Machin range
Robert C. C. Winthrop organizes a $200,000 expedition to prove Amne Machin rises 31,000 feet above sea level, compared with Everest. A land party triangulates from lower levels while aeroplane flights scout the area northeast of Tibet. The team lands in China at Lan Chow, Kansu, and cites J F Rook and Gen George Pereira as authorities.
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Mt. Everest
Himalaya
Robert C. C. Winthrop
Amne Machin Range
Tibet
Everest
Winthrop
China
Lanchow
Kansu
J. F. Rook
National Geographic Society
George Periera
England
India
Selected Recipes 1 21 Mix Dates and Corn Starch Dessert
Scald dates with milk then whisk Benson's Corn Starch and salt into a paste with cold milk. Add to the hot mixture and cook until thick. Beat egg yolks, blend with Crown Brand Corn Syrup, then temper with hot mixture. Return to heat for 3 minutes, cool, add vanilla and nuts, mold, chill, and serve with orange sauce or Crown Brand syrup.
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Crown Brand
Benson
Crown
Getting It Right On Train Joke
A traveler describes visiting San Jose and a man corrects the pronunciation. He says in California all J sounds become H. She replies she visited in Hune and Huly, highlighting the humorous mispronunciation.
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San Jose
San Hosay
California
Hune
Glycerine as a Lubricant Compared to Oil
The note states glycerine lubricates egg beaters food cutters and juice extractors better than oil, claiming it is tasteless and harmless. It then shifts to a moral lesson: the worst enemies are those who cheer a man when he is wrong.
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation effort eyed as long term plan
John Vallance federal rehabilitation officer spoke to the Western Stock Growers Association in Calgary. He said a tenth of Canada's population and significant portions of arable and cultivated land fall under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act. The program shows progress with abandoned lands revived and water development advancing, including potential dam storage of 39,000 acre-feet this year.
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Department of Government
John Vallance
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Calgary
Canada
Mr Vallance
British Guiana diverse population mirrors world races
British Guiana stands as the only country where all major racial divisions are extensively represented in the population. Europeans Indians Hindus Mongolians and Negroes mix across the society reflecting a global racial mosaic.
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British Guiana
Rheumatism Relief With Kruschen Salts
A reader reports three months of Kruschen Salts eased knee rheumatism. Swollen knees, difficulty rising and kneeling improved. author can now run stairs and work vigorously. Ingredients claimed to dissolve uric acid and stimulate internal organs to expel it.
Fatal Accidents By Age In Ontario Six Year Study
A six year Ontario study shows youth ages 18 to 24 are involved in 23.5 percent of all accidents but account for 25.6 percent of fatalities. Ages 25 to 40 drive 46.3 percent of accidents yet 42.7 percent of deaths. Ages 41 to 54 show 21.8 percent of accidents and 21.6 percent of deaths. Seniors 55 to 64 and those over 65 have higher fatal rates relative to their share of incidents.
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Ontario
Alberta cattle policy aims to improve export stock quality
Hon. D. B. Mullen announced Alberta's plan to the Western Stock Growers' Association in Calgary. The policy would grade cattle for export and domestic use, with low grade cattle processed at Calgary and Edmonton abattoirs for fox feed, while higher grades head to northern Alberta for finishing before export.
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Alberta
D. B. Mullen
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Calgary
Mullen
Edmonton
Hydrogen to Helium: Tiny Water Teaspoon Powers Energy Burst
A teaspoon of water contains hydrogen that, if converted into helium, would release about 100000 kilowatt hours of energy or a $10000 worth of electrical current.
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the Grain Inquiry
Nature
Drouth
New Alberta Cattle Policy
Coleman Lamp
AMD Stove Co., Ltd
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