Hides and Leather Industry Faces Shifts in Supply Sources
A report by Canada's National Resources Intelligence Service notes that leather production hinges on meat demand and draft animal use. It cites limited wild hides, outlines domestic and world markets, and discusses heavy versus light leathers and the potential for artificial substitutes amid rising imports and static cattle ranges.
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Arctic
Liverpool
Nateral Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Quebec
Canada
Canadian Graduates and U S Residency Share
The piece notes 21 101 living graduates from eight Canadian universities with 4 132 living in the United States. It critiques complacency about Canadian intellectual culture and cites a trolley conductor joke about petty money.
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United States
Unech
Sam
Canada
Predicts Big Discoveries University Head Says Science on Verge of Amazing Finds
Max Mason president of the University of Chicago tells Milwaukee researchers that physics may yield a super Newton equation linking motions of electrified particles. He says actions here relate to distant events, with Mars and Earth responding to distant reactions.
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Max Mason
University of Chcago
American Society For Ricel
Milwaukee
Great Chinese Wall In Remarkable Preserved Condition
Observers note the Great Wall of China remains in near perfect condition along much of its length. Parapet bricks stay firm, paving is smooth enough for bicycles, and granite facing blocks fit as when built over two millennia ago. The wall runs about 1,400 miles, is 22 feet high and 20 feet thick, with towers every 100 yards at about 40 feet tall.
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China
North
Movies and Juvenile Delinquency in Montreal Probe
Judge La croix told the Royal Commission on the Laurier Palace Theatre disaster that youth under sixteen should be barred from cinemas. He linked juvenile crime to lurid film plots and boys imitating villains while girls copied heroines fashions. The disaster cost 78 children’s lives on January 9.
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Lacroix
Montreal Juvenile Court
Royal Commission
Laurier Palace Theatre
Canadians Lead World In Egg Consumption Per Person
Canadian Life Stock Commissioner notes Canadians eat about 28 dozen eggs per person annually, a rise from 16 dozen before grading regulations. He cites strong domestic consumption and exports of only 1 percent, praising the poultry industry and national health policy.
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Canadian Life Stock Commissioner
Motherwell
Origion
Mr. Motherwell
The Frog and the Snake In Ceylon Lodgings Tale
British producer Lew Leslie tells a yarn set in Colombo Sri Lanka about a traveller in a hotel who asks for a frog to kill cockroaches a snake to eat the frog and a club to kill the snake for a good night’s rest The tale uses absurd lodging advice as comic fiction.
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Ceylon
Lew Leslie
Colombo
Becoming Important Industry Supplanting Imported Seeds
Seed production in Canada is steadily becoming an important and profitable industry. The exportable surplus includes wheat oats barley peas alsike red clover alfalfa sweet clover blue grass brome grass brown tea or Rhode Island bent grass and flax. Vegetable seeds production is increasing and proving their excellence by supplanting imported stocks in Canada’s home markets.
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Canada
Rhode Island
Why Trees Grow Straight In Close Forest Stands
The passage explains that firs and larches grow straight when crowded, as individual trees push upward to reach daylight. In dense stands competition for light drives a direct ascent, making trees tall and upright in a race for illumination.
Voters Shipped by Air in Manitoba Election Roll Transport
For the first time in Manitoba election history registration lists were flown to outlying mining areas in the Ruperts Land constituency. The documents traveled from Long Lake to Lac du Bonnet in about 45 minutes, replacing days of overland travel by the Northland plane from Winnipeg.
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Manitoba
Ruperts Land
Long Lake
Lac du
Amateur radio set travels 4000 miles to England
In Woodstock Ontario a home built transmitter by Charles Shedden Jr. was heard in England. A card from F N Baskerville confirms his May 13 message was received and read clearly from Altrincham Shropshire. The ether trip marks a notable long distance broadcast by CN.V. station and its operator.
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Cn.v
Charles Shedden, Jr
England
Worn Tone in Opinion Notes Challenges Women Speech
The text contrasts expectations that women struggle to speak freely with the notion that a strong man easily asserts himself, highlighting gendered views on voice and authority. The piece argues speech freedom for women remains constrained by social pressures.
Cause of Crime: Desire for Gain Without Work
Ontario prison report highlights rising crime linked to materialistic drive and lack of work ethic. Deputy H M Robbins argues crime grows as material development outpaces moral growth, urging early home training and spiritual values to curb it. Toronto Globe note included.
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Inspector of Prisons
Public Charities
Ontario
H. M. Robbins
Cits
Toronto
Robbins
Toronto Globe
Feeding a nursing sow with middlings and oats Oats Bran Shorts Mid dlings
A pamphlet by G R Rothwell Dominion Animal Husbandman recommends a warm slop of ground oats bran and middlings as a primary nursing sow ration. Start feeding warm slop, gradually increase, ensure sow exercise, and dilute with milk products. Also suggests roots clover hay bran in springs and winters and adding earth and wood ashes to pen corner to attract piglets.
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G. TR. Rothwell
Dominion Animal Husbandman
Pamphet No. 74
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Rothwell
Long-Lived Creatures and Odd Relics Mentioned in Historic Tales
The text notes that some animals such as the elephant and eagle appear unusually long-lived, citing a 1497 carp in Suabia believed to be at least 267 years old. It also includes a comicLost Property exchange and a laundry sign parody, preserving quirky historical and social vignettes.
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Suabia
Frederick II
Wild Horses Not Wild Says Curator Gidley
Dr James W Gidley of the United States Field Museum argues that extant horses in America are domesticated descendants of imported stock not wild. He notes ancient real wild horses existed but went extinct before humans reached the continent.
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James W. Gidley
United States Field Museum
America
Purops
Asia
Gidley
Clown Circus Banned From Speaking German in Polish Upper Silesia
In Kattowitz a circus refused to let performers speak German, forcing clowns to use Polish French English and Italian. The German majority audience stayed away, cutting revenue and curtailing the show. Experimental rein deer import to Baffin Island failed per Hudson's Bay Reindeer Company report.
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Upper Silesia
Polish
Kattowitz
Baffin Island
Department of Interior
Hudson's Bay Reindeer Company, Ltd
CPR Observation Car Introduces All Weather Features
A new Canadian Pacific Railway observation car replaces the open top model on fountain journeys. The flat roof and tall central windows provide protection from showers and enable passengers to view the mountains from an observatory like section during trips through the Rockies this summer.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Rockies
Canadian Pacific
Rockies
Canadian race must be recognized in census say Canadians
The Manitoba Free Press argues that Canadians should be allowed to identify as Canadian on the census, noting mixed origins and long histories in Canada. It cites English and European lineages, stressing that genealogy and birthplace should define national identity. Lethbridge Herald.
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Manitoba Free Press
Canada
England
Holland
William of Orange
Bentincks
Keppels
Tuke of Portland
Earl of Albemarne
Great Britain
Lethbridge
John Fitch Honored for Steamboat Invention at Bardstown
The United States and Kentucky honor John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat, with a Bardstown monument as Governor W J Fields urges textbooks to credit Fitch over Fulton. Records include a Fulton letter acknowledging Fitch as inventor and note Fitch’s 1787 steamboat trial on the Delaware River.
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U.S
John Fitch
W. J. Fields
Bardstown
Kentucky
War Department
Fitch
Fulton
Congress
Robert Fulton
East Windsor
Down
Valley Forge
Delaware River
Cake criticism sparks domestic debate in playful quip
A husband doubts the cake while the wife cites a book as proof of perfection. In another quip a listener asks what father said about men leaving him, and the reply notes he adjusted with a good cigar.
Survival of the Fittest Amid Undertaker Banter
An undertaker jokes that he does not believe in the survival of anybody, quipping about the harsh logic of evolution in a dark witticism. The exchange plays with themes of life and death and the inevitability of fate.
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Fitteat
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