Protection of Game Supply in Northwest Territories
Government efforts to defend wildlife in the Northwest Territories include five protected preserves totaling 241,200 square miles and prohibitions on white settlement within them. Activities against wolves, including expeditions east of Great Slave Lake, have yielded 135 wolves in 1922 23 and 136 wolves plus 2 wolverines in 1926, reducing losses of caribou and pelts to trappers and illustrating wildlife protection benefits.
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Department of the Inferior
North West Territories
Yukon
Great Slave Lake
Great Sieve Lake
Fort Smith
Northwest
Motor traffic to British Columbia rises with foreign cars
Government figures from Victoria show 106 176 foreign cars entered BC last year through nineteen points. The 656 711 passengers compare with 75 081 cars and 444 405 passengers the year before as road mileage nears 17 020 miles and total investment in roads bridges and ferries reaches 56 690 000 pounds.
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British Columbia
Victoria
B.C
Muunicipal Roads
Mountain Lions Drawn by Catnip in Colorado Study
A biologist in charge of the precatory animal control department of the Colorado Fish, Game and Forest Protective Association conducts an experiment with catnip to lure mountain lions. He notes the cats react like domestic cats, rolling in patches of food soaked with catnip oil. The study compares wild lions to pet cats in their intoxication response.
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Colorado Fish, Game and Forest Protective Association
Optical Motonomester Stuns Visitor at Shop
An elderly colored man visits an optician and, in awe, asks about a curious device on a table. The optician explains it as an optical motonomester, prompting the man to whisper fearfully that this was exactly what he had dreaded.
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Ross
Reporters Seek Protection Badges From Paris Authorities
Press reporters in Paris have asked for small protective badges to distinguish themselves during riots after police clubs have repeatedly struck the wrong targets in unrest. The request aims to reduce danger and safeguard media workers.
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Paris
Starting Early Plants with the Amateur Gensons Hotbed Guide
A practical guide outlines building a hotbed or cold frame for early plant starts. It covers frame dimensions eighteen inches high at back ten inches at front, sunk pits or surface frames, and fermenting manure heat. It emphasizes manure quality, turning, moisture, and using warm water or poultry manure to initiate heating.
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Marety
Peculiar Swiss Cheese Registers Record Family History
In the cheese regions of the Alps Swiss couples receive a register cheese at their wedding. The cheese holds carved records of births marriages deaths and notable events. Some records date to the mid seventeenth century and cheeses 180 to 260 years old are shown at the Gessenay agricultural fair. The oldest cheese on display comes from 1669 belonging to a country squire near Gessenay.
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Switzerland
Gessenay
Buffalo Bison Studied By Professor William Rowan In Canada
Alberta University zoologist William Rowan describes a season in the Slave River country where large wild buffalo were pursued on Salt River plains. A bison specimen measured five feet nine and three quarters inches high, sixteen feet nine and a half inches long, and weighed 3 200 pounds after being shot with eight bullets.
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Salt River
Canada
William Rowan
Slave River
Alberta University
Harr
Parry
Food Value Of Candy For Energy Rations
The article lists various candies and portions that provide about 106 calories. It notes chocolate creams, caramels, almonds, chocolate almonds, marshmallows, and several other confections as sources of energy, with specific ounce or fraction amounts.
Easy Marks Ease for Petitions in Public Notices
The Portland Oregonian reports that petition signers are often easy marks whether high or low in status. A plausible propagandist can secure many signatures for almost any public petition, while those listed as suckers for quick riches are equally susceptible.
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Portland
Oregonian
Yukon Garden Riot? Mrs Black Calls Yukon Her Garden
Mrs George Black wife of Yukon member to the Canadian Parliament loves flowers and the northern home she lives in. She calls the Yukon her garden and since 1898 has collected 460 varieties of wild flowers in the district. Dawson sweet peas reach sixteen feet high with rich soil that seems to laugh with harvest.
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George Black
Yukon
Porter Retires After 55 Years of Service
A Pallman porter retired after 55 years with the company and was never reported to his superiors. He advised never quarrelling with a fool, a philosophy noted by the Detroit Free Press.
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Pallman Porter
Detroit Free Press
Very Obliging Shopkeeper and the Soft Hat Request
A shopkeeper recalls a polite customer who asked for a hat to fit his head and walked out after being shown a soft style. The incident highlights courteous service and the subtle clash between expectation and product fit.
Windmills of Holland Face Decline Amid Modern Power Shift
The piece notes Zaandam as a windmill heartland but warns Holland’s mills are vanishing. It traces transitions from water and wind to steam and electricity, and reports Dutch efforts to preserve and repair remaining windmills, preserving landscape images.
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Holland
Zaandam
Low Countries
Mild Winter Boosts Alberta Stockmen Outcomes
Alberta stockmen report a very mild winter with livestock thriving and in good condition. Many cattle have not needed hay, forage comes easily, and lack of snow has reduced feeding needs.
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Alberta
Lamb export surge from Canadian yards in 1925
Lamb exports rose to twenty six thousand head in 1925 from nine thousand in 1924. Mutton and lamb exports surpassed one and a half million pounds, up from under two hundred thousand pounds the previous year.
Ontario first all cattle transatlantic ship marksnew era
The Livestock Steamships Limited launches the SS Ontario the first all cattle vessel sailing from Saint John to Glasgow with 1168 Canadian cattle. The ship features five steel decks arranged with stalls for four cattle each and turbine ventilators ensuring air changes every six minutes. Aimed at expanding Canada’s cattle exports and improving pricing against Irish rivals, the Ontario will make a 27 day round trip and will be followed by three more ships.
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Canada
The
Livestock Steamships Limited
Great Britain
H. P. Kennedy
Livestock Producers of Canada
Dominion
Kennedy
Ontario
Jack Miner Crow Controversy Sparks Bird Theft and Migration Claims
A long, disputed piece argues Jack Miner altered wild Canada Goose routes and argues for cull of crows. It cites past claims, interviews, and sanctuary actions to support Miner’s controversial conservation stance.
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Jack Miner
Jack Miller
Pineapple Fibre Cloth Could Create New Fabric Trend
French research develops pineapple fibre fabric resembling a silk cambric mix. The material resists disintegration better than cotton and uses skilled processing to yield superfine cloth. Africans long used the fibre for fish nets, indicating a historic basis.
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France
Africa
New London Button Service Lifts Two Women Nearby Bank
A small London business sewing on buttons for bachelors is thriving in a single room near the Bank of England. Two women run the enterprise, discovering landladies often refuse needlework for lodgers, so they provide the needed service themselves.
Untold Domestic Chat Sparks Laughable Comment
Mrs Sound remarks on alleged husband laziness. Mrs Pound notes a postcard on his desk unreadable due to being upside down. The exchange highlights domestic wit in a lighthearted moment.
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Mrs. Sound
Mrs. Pound
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Catnip
Buffalo Country
Stave River District
Eve
the Porter
U.S. “Ontario
Saint John
Glasgow
Crow
Dy Egerton Rupert White
Niagara Falls
Arctic
J. B. Harkins
Haven Lloyd
Department of Interior
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