China Developing Resources and Chinese Canadians in Canada
The article quotes Dr Teghi Heeb and Mr Hsieh on China’s awakening and the role of Chinese Canadians. It notes historic debt to enter Canada and suggests leadership will come from Chinese community members, including laundry workers and restaurateurs, who are political refugees shaping a renewed China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Teghi Heeb
Windsor
Haeteh
Caesbridge
England
Comwal-Genera
Australia
Inter
Geneva
Arrow
Maanager
Chinese Trade Bureau
Boston
Wi- Hameport Institute of Politics
National
Chung Hwa News Association
Shanghai
Hsieh
China
Mining Developments Boost Manitoba Industries
Hon. D. G. McKenzie says Manitoba industries gain large stimulus from mining growth. In 1929 over 12 million dollars spent on supplies and wages. Gypsum exposure at Gypseumville totals 130 million tons with coal deposits in Turtle Mountain around 160 million tons. Cement output in 1928 reached 693 250 barrels valued at 1 685 084 dollars serving Dryden to Moose Jaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. G. McKenzie
Winnipeg Board of Trade Mining Bureau
Manitoba
Gypseumville
Turtle Mountain
Dryden
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
New Microscope Uses UV Light to Image Living Cells
Francis F. Lucas of Bell Labs described a microscope that uses ultraviolet rays to photograph the interior of living cells. He told the National Academy of Sciences in Washington that the tool could aid cancer research by revealing obscured cellular abnormalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Academy of Sciences At
Washington
Francis F. Lucas
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Lucas
Old Type Canoe in Rochester Museum Exhibition
An elm bark Iroquois canoe, single sheet construction, likened to Six Nations pre contact craft, is featured at Rochester municipal museum. Claimed to be the last remaining example by the Iroquois who stopped making them in the early nineteenth century. Then a stray quote from Nagels Lustige Weit in Berlin appears as unrelated filler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester Municipal Museum
Ringling to Open Sarasota Art Museum The United States’ grand art center
The Ringling museum in Sarasota Florida is nearing public opening as John Ringling plans a national art hub with a 26 million dollar complex. The site features a Doge’s palace style building 400 foot wings sunken gardens and Italian stone columns. A crypt will house patrons Mabel Ringling and John Ringling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarasota
Florida
John Ringling
King
Sarasota Bay
Bilding
United States
America
Europe
John and Mabel Ringling
Jangling
Italy
Father Tiber
Father Nile
Vatican
Angelo
Mabel Ringling
Geath
A Wonderful Limousine for the Shah of Persia
A newly built limousine for the Shah of Persia features a body with white and gold stripes, gold fittings, champagne silk upholstery, imported wolf hound fur rugs, and solid gold cigarette case and lighter encrusted with diamonds, plus jeweled door crests and panels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Alarm clock with light may wake sleepers
A German clock maker created an alarm clock with an electric light bulb on an extension cord that switches on when the alarm rings. The bulb can shine directly in the sleeper’s face to jolt them awake. A politician quips that he has no time to think because he must talk.
Sun Spots Said to Signal Apple Harvest Quality
Acadia University physicist Professor Richard Hamer argues sunspot activity may forecast Annapolis Valley apple yields. He notes times of maximum sunspots align with larger crops of fair quality, while minimum sunspots bring smaller crops but better quality, aiding farmer planning and crop focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Hamer
Acadia University
Wolfville
N.S
Hamer
Joseph
Annapolis Valley
Beef Grading Policy Expands Coast to Coast
Six months into operation the Dominion Department of Agriculture beef grading policy grows rapidly across the country. Packing houses brand beef and consumers seek Red and Blue Brand quality. Each cut in the carcass bears the brand, letting shoppers see the guaranteed quality at a glance. Branded beef is popular where beef counts and better shops carry it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Department of Agriculture
One Man Jazz Band Alarmed by Hungarian Invention
Hungarian musician Francis Szeheres develops a one man jazz setup that replicates all band sounds. A letter signed Desperate Jazz Players Hungary threatens bombing his home to halt production. An alabaster mine in Italy has been worked since Etruscan times over two millennia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungary
Francis Szeheres
Szehere
Italy
First Electric Telegraph Inventor Unearthed at Museum
The Science Museum in South Kensington displays a copper cable fragment from early electric telegraph experiments. In 1816 Sir Francis Ronalds, a noted meteorologist, invented the electric telegraph and offered it to the Admiralty, who dismissed telegraphs as unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Science Museum
South Kensington
Francis Ronalds
Admiralty
Ronalds
Greenhouse Heated by Natural Hot Springs in Nome
An article from Nome Alaska describes a greenhouse heated by seven natural hot springs near Baker Hot Springs seventy five miles north of Nome. The site at Sawtooth Mountain sits fifty feet above sea level with springs reaching 160 degrees Fahrenheit in winter and summer. Water feeds a 320 acre farming tract and G D Schofield, lessee, built a greenhouse over one spring aiming to grow cucumbers onions radishes lettuce and tomatoes. Ice lies around the springs to unknown depths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nome
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Baker Hot Springs
Sawtooth Mountain
G. D. Schofield
Lessee
Unavoidably Detained in a Mission Drive
An elderly woman selling a monthly magazine at a Woodstock Ontario bank is stopped by a purchaser who questions her. She calmly explains she has been detained by snow and rain while aiding a small Illinois mission. The August 1929 issue is cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodstock
Ont
Canadians at World Grain Show face seed registration gaps
Exhibitors from many countries skip seed registration for the World Grain Exhibition and Conference. Some varieties like Reward wheat and Gopher oats are not eligible for registration in Canada, though they are expected to appear as exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Full dinner pail replaced by gas tank conundrum
The remark contrasts past promises of a full dinner pail with present concern over a full gas tank. It captures economic anxiety and shifting priorities in a concise, era‑tone line.
Canadian National to Launch Three Pacific Coast Steamships
The Canadian National Steamships plan three turbine steamers built at Birkenhead for the Pacific route including Vancouver Victoria Seattle and Alaska. They will be 384 ft 6 in long 57 ft wide with 16 ft 6 in draft and carry 334 first class 70 third and 1500 deck passengers. Deluxe and single rooms will provide 20 twin bed baths and showers plus 20 single beds with showers. Wireless receivers loudspeakers room telephones and 45000 cubic feet cargo plus 4370 insulated space and 30 automobile spots. Service begins summer 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian National Steamships
Birkenhead
Pacific
Vancouver
Victoria
Seattle
British Columbia
Alaska
Prince David
Prince Henry
Prince Robert
Igloo Construction Reveals Arctic Architecture and Skill
Eskimos build hemispherical igloos with a single snow-knife using blocks cut from firm snow. Two builders form a 12 to 15 foot circle and add tiers inward until a curved roof and top keystone emerge, then a side aperture allows block transfer. Inside, a snow floor, a Gothic arch doorway, and a small ice window complete the cozy dwelling once lamps glow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Arctic
Profit In Turkeys If Care Is Taken
Article by A G Taylor from the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa outlines essentials for profitable turkey breeding. It emphasizes clean soil free of previous poultry droppings, mature breeding stock, proper feeding, free range, and separation from other fowls to prevent egg loss and disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A G. Taylor
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Turkey
Museum at Berlin Tempelhof Showcases Early Flight Machines
The Berlin Tempelhof airport museum surveys aviation from its dawn to now. Exhibits include original Wright brothers aircraft, Grade powered planes, and the Rumpler Taube. Visitors view post war models and a dedicated airship construction section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin-Tempelhof
Germany
Wright Brothers
Grade
Rumpler “Taube
Canada Gypsum Introduces Zonolite Roofing Material
The Canada Gypsum Company's East Calgary plant now produces zonolite a roofing material claimed to be as fireproof as asbestos lighter than cork frost resistant with minimal expansion or contraction when mixed with asphalt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada Gypsum Company
Calgary
Hatchery Business Boost Predicted by Dominion Poultry Team
The field staff of the Dominion Department of Agriculture Poultry Division report solid hatchery activity this year. They note chick sales track weather conditions, with good weather boosting demand and approvals rising, foreseeing higher egg production for the winter market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry Division
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Superstition fueled smoking cures in 1665 England
The great plague’s arrival led to various remedies, including smoking as a preventive. Historians note that children at schools were punished for not smoking, with boys reportedly whipped more than ever for abstaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Porcelain Portrait as Bitter Impulse in Cologne
A German column notes a quirky dialogue where an offer of poison is refused and replaced by presenting a portrait of the mother in law. The brief exchange captures dark wit in Cologne and hints at social satire of the era.
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Sas
Sas Dr
Hateh
D. G
McKenzie
Berlin
Woedertel Museum
Bett By Ringling
Shah of Persia
Nowa Scotte
Illinois
NEW Canadian National Steamships
Turkeys
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