Space Will Be Annihilated By Jubilee World Broadcast Plan
The plan for Canada’s Jubilee celebration will feature the longest remote broadcasting feat. A Marconi beam will relay the King’s message from Yamaska to London, then Europe, while the Canadian network distributes the program across the Dominion and United States. Signals reach London to Vancouver in about one third of the globe.
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Canada
Themoet Atebliouw
Tly
Fromtowa
England
Drummondriftie
Que
Marconi
London
British Broadcasting
Great Britain
Europe
Drummondvile
Yamaska
Drusmondile
Ottawa
CNRC
Dominion
United States
Montreal
Toronto
Halifax
Winnipeg
Calgary
Vancouver
Drummondville
Canberra
Preserving Fruits and Vegetables Storage Tips
A Dominion Department of Agriculture bulletin advises cool dark dry storage for home preserved produce. Heat fosters bacteria and rust on jar fastenings. light fades contents. dampness promotes moulds. Wrap jars in paper if no dark storage and boil canned vegetables briefly before use. refrigerate after boiling for salads.
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Dominion Department of Agriculure
Femme
Depth of Ploughing Summer Fallow Yields Best
Experimental results from Scott Saskatchewan over 11 years show ploughing summer fallow to four inches in June yields the best second crop profits. Deeper first ploughings reduce the initial crop, while four inch fallow followed by six inch backsetting in September boosts eleven year average returns by about 6.5 bushels per acre.
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Scott
Saskatchewan
Million Box City boosts Kelowna fruit brand slogan
Western Fruit Centre Kelowna adopts the Million Box City slogan after shipping over one million fruit boxes last season. Kelowna canneries processed 9 041 tons of produce including tomatoes beans pumpkins cherries plums plums apricots apples crab apples and more. Train traveler exchange notes a conductor confirming the train will wait.
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Kelowna
Bacon Hogs Number and Value of Select Hogs Marketed
The document estimates a financial benefit of 3,400,212 dollars to producers from the bacon hog inspection system since 1923. It notes the number and value of select hogs marketed across provinces over the four-year period but does not provide the full figures in this excerpt.
One Piece Slip On Dress for Ladies No 1162
Practical stylish dress with fitted collar tight sleeves and belt. Sizes 24 36 38 40 42 bust. size 36 requires 24 inch bordered fabric or 3 34 yards plain. Book on fashion designs offered for home dressmakers at 10 cents.
Mussolini Enters Wheat Crop for National Prize
Mussolini personally sowed wheat that is now hailed as the region’s best crop. The Ministry of National Economy offers cash prizes for the largest percentage yield increase over local averages, with past celebrations led by Mussolini in Rome.
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Ministry of National Economy
Rome
Mussolini
Poultry venture yields income for Manitoba farm lad
Jackie Ross of the Oatfield district north of Winnipeg found poultry farming profitable after joining Manitoba approved flocks. Starting with hatching eggs from a provincial flock and performance records, his flock peaked under 100 birds but earned $430 in a season. Fifty trap nested hens averaged 20 eggs in March and another hen laid an egg daily.
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Jackie Ross
Oatfield
Winnipeg
Manitoba
A. G. McCulloch
Dominion Poultry Promoter
Lamb popularity rises as careful farming praised
Col. Robert McEwen president of the Canadian Co operative Wool Growers says Canadian lamb consumption is rising due to better farming. He adds that the appeal of spring lamb could be harmed only by restaurants misusing the term.
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Robert McEwen
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers
The British Empire Compared to Rome and the United States
The British Empire is seven times as large as the Roman Empire at its peak under Trajan and four times the size of the United States proper. It would cover about 65 Germanys and has grown by roughly one million square miles in the last fifty years.
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British Empire
Trajan
United States
Germanys
Switzerland
New South Wales
Australia
Europe
Lehen
England
Palestine
Lord Allenby
Western
Asia
Canadian Wheat Growth Prompts British Cooperative Debate
W. Waldron, Saskatchewan markets commissioner, sees Canadian wheat expansion boosting cooperative movements in Britain. He notes fears of an American trust forming to curb prices but argues Canadian wheat quality and cooperative marketing justify slow consumer impact. Waldron suggests a visit by Canadian wheat pool officials to Britain to explain aims and gain sympathy from Co operative Wholesale Society leaders.
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Elateg W. Waldron
Saskatchhewan Markets
Iran
Europe
Saskatchewan Livestock Commission
Whitch
Waldron
Maneler Fug
Coperative Wholesale Society of
Great Britain
Spagie
American Trust
Weldron
Mr. Waldron
Canadian Wheat Pool
Co-operative Wholesale Society
Consumers Movement
Conference on exhibitions for colonies and Toronto 1928
In London the conference of colonial governors and representatives of the Colonial Office and Empire Marketing Board discussed participation in annual trade exhibitions. Delegates favored colonies exhibiting where possible and noted potential Empire participation with a Toronto show in 1928.
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Protectorates
Colonial Office
London
Toronto
Empire Marketing Board
Kentucky Farmers Move into Southwestern Ontario Tobacco
A number of farmers from Kentucky have moved into Southwestern Ontario to engage in tobacco growing. The influx centers mainly in Norfolk county where a sizable land area suits fine cured tobacco. Land here is much cheaper than in the older tobacco districts.
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Kentucky
Ontario
Norfolk County
Tractors Arrive by Train to Aid Saskatchewan Farms
A large shipment of tractors from the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Saskatchewan, promising easier farming for many farms. While unlikely to replace horses entirely, farmers with tractors are said to be ahead of neighbors, marking a notable shift in western agriculture.
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West
Elaborate Bank Defences and Ancient Wheat Wonders
A study of Bank of England style fortifications describes reinforced concrete blocks and interlocking steel wire systems with alarms for vault protection. The piece also surveys mummy wheat myths, ancient seeds, and the debate on long term seed viability, noting Egyptian and Stone Age links and recent Australian claims. It mentions Alberta sugar beet acreage rising to 6 500 and missionary views on Hindu calf reverence.
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Foriny
England
Bank of England
Thre
Bath
London
Alberta
Saya Ty George Wood
Canadian Sugar Factories, Limited
Calgary
Edmonton
Cal
Enraged Poles Smash Radio Near Vilna
Polish farmers attack a district school teacher after believing his new radio caused the heavy rains harming crops. They beat him and smash the radio set, blaming demonic origins for the music. He predicts the event will lead to a court action over Darwinian theory around 2127.
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Vilna
Purgatory
Poland
Germany to Boost Food Production With 50 Million Loan
Germany plans to cut imports by expanding farming. The Reichsbank and the Ministry for Food and Agriculture will raise 50 million dollars to aid farmers at 4 percent. Funds target improving lands, draining low areas, and irrigating dry regions to raise tillable acreage and yields. Plans and funding routes are being arranged through the central bank and money markets.
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Germany
Reichbank
Ministry For Food and Agriculture
Reithsbank
Will Tre
Dolaestile
Birds For Alberta Seek New Game Stock
Attention focuses on restocking Alberta woods with game birds. Calgary's Fish and Game Association plans imports of Russian cock of the wood from Estonia, English pheasants, and Bobwhite quail as part of a broad effort to boost western Canada’s game stock.
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Alberta
Calgary
Fish and Game Association
Madagascar port Tamatave faces ruins after century’s 100th cyclone
Shipping firms push for a less vulnerable harbor as the port’s destruction remains evident. In Canada tests show hemp for fibre grows well in many regions.
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Tamatave
Madagascar
Canada
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
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Boas
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Ita
Gary
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