Increased Farm Efficiency Through Intensive Educational Campaign
Wartime Manitoba agricultural committee launches an intensive campaign across press radio and lectures to boost farm efficiency and aid wartime obligations. The program promotes drought prevention diversified cropping improved stock breeding and reduce waste while encouraging cooperative purchases of machinery to cut prices and replace worn equipment.
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Manitoba
Committee On Agriculture
Manitoba Federation of Agriculture
Grain Exchange
Canada
Saskatchewan
Norwegian Engineer Leaves 150 000 for Village Culture
The Philadelphia based Norwegian born construction engineer Henrik Von Zernikowloss bequeathed 150000 dollars to improve the cultural life of Christianssand, Norway. He died June 28 1938 at 77 while on an annual visit home. He wanted to aid citizens harmed by his father's firm failure but could not identify them or amounts.
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Philadelphia
Henrik von Zernikowloss
Norway
United States
Christianssand
von Zernikowloss
British Soldier Confined After Imitating Air Raid Siren
A British soldier with an "uncanny talent" for mimicking barnyard noises and trains was confined in the guard house for an indefinite period after attempting to imitate the air raid siren. Troops responded with action stations as anti aircraft guns were manned and a convoy hastened to guard a nearby town.
No News Today a Quiet World of Good News
A Christian Science Monitor meditation on how newspapers reveal human good through small acts, everyday progress, and unseen positive stories. The piece argues that even routine shipping, schedules, and neighborly deeds form a tapestry of kindness behind front page headlines.
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Simeon Strunsky
Christian Science Monitor
Princess Pat Opens London Officers Club Host by Lady Ramsay
Lady Patricia Ramsay officiated the opening of a residential club for Canadian Expeditionary Force officers in central London. She was greeted by Canadian high commissioner Hon. Vincent Massey and reviewed a guard of honor of Canadian ex-servicemen before touring the club premises.
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London
Patricia Ramsay
Princess Pat
Ramsay
Vincent Massey
Religious Instruction Gaps Highlight NYC Population
In New York City about 1.2 million children receive no religious instruction in chapels, churches, or synagogues. Additionally upwards of 4 million people of all ages have no relationship to any religious organization, Protestant Catholic or Jewish.
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New York City
Blink of an Eye and a 400 Mile Drive
Blinking at one fifth of a second equals a 33 mile gap on a 400 mile trip at 40 mph. A man travels 33 miles with eyes closed during the blink, illustrating rapid perception gaps.
Nutrition advances in domestic animals and human diet
Dr J M Swaine notes progress in animal and human nutrition linking disease and feeding. Young forage and fresh cut cereal grasses enrich hay and milk with carotene and vitamins. Finnish methods retain vitamin A in winter milk through green cut clover and lucerne processing. Radio transmission makes sound travel at 186000 miles per second vs 12 miles per second.
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J. M. Swaine
Science Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Royal Society of Canada
Beet Sugar Cultivation by British Farmers Before War
Fourty thousand British farmers grew beet sugar on about three hundred fifty thousand acres before the war.
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Britain
Jamaica Sugar Planters and Unions Agree to Arbitration
Sugar planters and labor unions in Jamaica have agreed to submit future disputes to arbitration, aiming to reduce industrial friction and speed resolution. The pact signals coordination between agricultural employers and workers groups to seek neutral adjudication.
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Jamaica
Chinook Winds Theory Challenged By Swiss Instructor
Bruno Engler, a Swiss ski instructor in Banff, disputes the idea that the Pacific current alone warms Alberta’s Chinooks. He argues friction from wind passing through funnel like mountain valleys generates heat, noting similar Swiss winds called soon winds. Engler warns that winds can be trapped in valleys and mountains, then heat is produced by friction.
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Rockies
Alberta
Banff
Bruno Engler
Bruno
Switzerland
Alps
Engler
Prehistoric Axe Head Hoax at Cambridge Museum
Major Gordon Fowler claims a Sedgwick Museum tale of a 4000 year old skull and a buried four inch axe head is a prank. He says the axe head and skull are real but found separately and the skull was altered as a joke. The hoax originator died two years ago and Fowler won’t reveal the full story until five years after death.
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Sedgwick Museum
Cambridge
Gordon Fowler
Major Fowler
Bee colony circumnavigates earth for honey haul
The bee community must travel about 28,000,000 miles to produce 60 pounds of honey, a distance more than a thousand times around the planet, illustrating the vast effort behind a single batch of honey.
Wheat rust epidemics banished by scientists work
The article notes rust resistant bread wheats developed by Canadian and U S researchers. It highlights the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory Winnipeg and teams at Brandon and Saskatoon, with new varieties Renown Regent Apex Thatcher and ongoing efforts to end rust losses in prairies.
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J. M Swaine
Science Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
United States
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
Dominion Experimental Farm
Brandon
Man
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
National Research Council
Prairies
Ottawa judge commended for drif drunk driving case
A Montreal Star editorial praises an Ottawa judge for sentencing a well known former city figure to 30 days in jail and a two year license suspension for drunk driving. The piece notes the police and judge fulfilled their duties and anticipates a reduction in impaired driving.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Montreal Star
Healing Spring Found in Harrowgate Police Station Basement
A spring with purported healing water was found in the basement of Harrowgate Police Station in England. The discovery, details and potential implications for local health claims are under police review.
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Harrowgate
England
Queen Mary’s Treasures Moved From Marlborough and Sandringham
Antique royal items have been removed from Marlborough House and from Sandringham and placed in storage for the duration. The transfer aims to protect the collection during uncertain times.
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Queen Mary
Marlborough House
Sandringham
Modern infantry gear comprises eighty four items
A contemporary foot soldier carries 84 articles of equipment costing around £20 in total.
Hunt Sea Lions Pur Farms
The Dominion Fisheries Dept endorses a trial to use sea lion carcasses as food for fur farm animals. Fishermen will shoot sea lions and deliver carcasses for icing and freezing at a factory. Officials will monitor risk to sea lion herds before deciding on licensing.
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Pacific
Dominion Department of Fisheries
Fisheries Department
Still Going Strong at Indianapolis License Office
The article recounts Jerry Patterson, age 106, confirming identity to obtain his first driver’s license in 1940 and leaving with tags. A neighbor says Patterson is alive and working, helping a man pull up tree stumps. The piece closes with a note that Cycads, ancient Jurassic plants, have modern representatives.
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Patterson
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Hammond
Division of Chemistry
Division of Chemistry, Science Service
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Alice Brooks
Davenport
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave. E
Animal
Bingay
Detroit Free Press
New York Times
Kipling
Flanders’ Fields
John McCrae
Rupert Brooke
Munich
THE
Yankees
Joe McCarthy
St. Petersburg
Fla
New York Yankees
Pur Farms
Indianapolis
Lawrence J. Secton
Jerry Patterson
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