Why wetting hands saves a caught trout from death
Harvard scientist Dr. Ran C. Keys explains fish physiology behind handling deaths and how salt balance in blood governs freshwater and saltwater fish. He details kidney efficiency in freshwater species that conserve salt and the challenge for seawater fish to expel excess salt while obtaining drinking water.
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Harvard
Rancel Keys
Harvard Fatigue Laboratory
Keys His
Boulder Dam
Keys
Make Good Pioneers From the Cockney Spirit
A London Evening News piece extols Cockney settlers as the finest pioneers due to quickness adaptability and stubborn humorous courage. It lauds resilience and an exceptional tolerance to misfortune that helps overcome difficulties more able rivals would fail to endure.
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Dominions
Kent Road
London Evening News
A Fair Exchange a Manicure Set and a Freezer
A chatty wife plans a manicure set a rose bowl and a hearth rug for their wedding anniversary. She asks her husband what he will give her. He responds he plans to give her a safety freezer instead.
Canadian Turkeys Win Praise For England Shipments
Canada ships turkeys to Britain chilled not frozen after plucking and dressing. Each bird is graded by Canadian Agriculture inspectors with colour coded tags. A Leeds buyer praises the Canadian authorities for excellent preparation and grading of first grade birds for Christmas trade.
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Canada
England
Canadian Department of Agriculture
Leeds
London
Memorial Cane used as mace at Calgary old-timers meeting
During the Southern Alberta Pioneers and Old-Timers Association gathering in Calgary, donor John Hayes placed the Memorial Cane on the table as a mace. The cane honors 59 pioneers who came to Calgary before 1883, with it resting in the Calgary museum except when used as mace at the annual meeting.
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Southern Alberta Pioneers and
Hayes
George Murdoch
Nose Creek
Calgary
Pudding of Balliol College Breaks Window
An undergraduate fined for throwing a plateful of pudding through a Balliol College window. The plate broke, but the pudding proved sturdy as onlookers retrieved it undamaged.
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Balliol College
Oxford
Thawing Frozen Fruit Impacts Quality at Ottawa Farm
The Central Experimental Farm reports thawing methods affect frozen berries sold in Ottawa. Frozen at 32 F preserves colour aroma and firmness longer, while room temperature thawing spoils quality in about five hours but still exceeds canned fruit. Raspberries tolerate thawing better than strawberries, with less handling risk.
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Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Dominion Horticultural Division
Harvesting costs drop with new combine efficiency
Experiments at the Dominion Experimental Station in Swift Current Sask show harvesting cost per bushel fall from 15.1 to 7.2 cents due to reduced labour with the use of the combine harvester.
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Dominion
Swift Current
Sask
Canadian hog industry shows rising output amid price surge
Ottawa Agriculture reports efforts by Canadian hog producers to boost output after a sharp price rise fueled by heavier shipments to Britain. Despite a long-term decline since 1931, December May 1933 34 production intentions rise 8.8 percent year over year, with hogs on farms at Dec 1 8 5879 00 head down 5.5 percent since June and 15.9 percent since Dec 1 1932.
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Ottawa Department of Agriculture
Canada
Britain sees 640 million more motor miles in 1933 so far
In the first ten months of 1933 British motor vehicles traveled 640 million miles more than in the same period of 1932, signaling a notable rise in road use despite economic conditions.
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Britain
Remarkable Soya Bean Gains Ground in Agriculture
Dr. J B Phillips of McGill University lectured in Montreal on the soya bean’s versatility and global rise. The crop, long known in China, is growing in Canada with a yield of about 20 bushels per acre and potential to replace oats in crop rotation while its flour and oil find wide industrial uses.
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J. B. Phillips
Chemical Department
McGill University
Montreal
United States
Europe
Phillips
Great Britain
Manchuria
Japan
Korea
Canada
Sarnia
Mild Vancouver Winter Sets Record for Sunshine
Vancouver enjoyed a milder than average winter with an average temperature around 42.6 degrees. The Dominion Meteorological Bureau notes 130 hours of sun since October, the most since 28 years, with only 13 days dipping to 32 degrees or lower.
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Vancouver
E. B. Shearman
Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Smith Seeks Lawn Mowers for Two Neighbors
Smith enters a London store and asks for three lawn mowers in the gardening department. The puzzled assistant questions the quantity as Smith reveals he needs them for two neighbors, not a vast estate.
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Smith
London
Broadway Length in New York About Fifteen Miles
A description states that New York City's Broadway spans roughly 15 miles. The note highlights Broadway as a famed thoroughfare known for theaters and historic sites along its route in Manhattan.
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New York
Broadway
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