Early Pioneers Built Sod Houses on the Great Plains
A historical look at sod houses as essential West settlement dwellings. The piece cites Howard Ruede’s 1877 Kansas home cost and notes the hats for sod walls, plus the role of such structures in western conquest and the rare preserved letters. It also highlights Plant Physician Dr Cynthia Westcott forging a modern garden practice and her book The Plant Doctor.
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Columbia
West
Kansas
Columbia University Press
Howard Ruede
Bethlehem
John Ise
University of Kansas
Ruede
Ontario
Canada
Cynthia Westcott
Wellesley
Corelli
Europe
Westcott
Cornell
Misunderstanding Over Cornet Player at Inn
A commercial traveller spends a night in a country inn. In the morning the land lord asks about the music, and the traveller explains he pounded on the wall to stop the cornet player next door. The landlord reveals the cornetist believed the room’s applause was five encores.
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London
Starts New Industry in Southern Alberta Mustard Seed Farm
South Alberta farmers are growing commercial mustard seed, shipping 30 000 pounds east for processing. Two Warner farmers lead the effort to establish mustard as a new industry in the region, replacing the weed like tumbling and ball mustard with a market crop.
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Southern Alberta
South Alberta
Warner
Lethbridge
Get Something for Nothing Drives Mail Swindles
Chief postal agent K P Aldrich warns the public about mail swindlers, claiming annual losses reach one billion dollars. He notes this surpasses combined robberies and burglaries and urges vigilance against credulous victims targeted by schemes through the mails.
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Barnum
K. P. Aldrich
Ohio State Journal
Robins Build Nesting Towers At Bloomington School
A robin colony at Bloomington Indiana built 11 nests on a Bellflower grade school fire escape this spring. Nests rose in a stair like line with four completed, eggs laid in three, and one bird kept guard while others worked.
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Bloomington
Inl
Bellflower
Train Time at a Grade Crossing Slogan Recall
motorists are reminded of the railroad slogan It is always train time at a grade crossing as a safety reminder.
Coronation symbolism ties past to present across nations
The New York Times editorial praises the coronation as a universal symbol linking tradition and modern achievement. It notes the crown and regalia as more than sovereignty, signaling human mastery amid modern technology, while asserting shared heritage between Britain and the Americas and drawing parallels with constitutional loyalty in the United States.
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Americas
Europe
United States
Westminster Abbey
England
New York Times
Airship Service Considered After Beauvais Disaster
Montreal Star reports that after the B-101 airship crash at Beauvais on October 4 1930 Britain may suspend lighter than air tests yet questions linger about civil airship use. Rumors say an airship service could link England to St Hubert with routes to India and South Africa as the Air Ministry weighs civil aviation potential. Landlady joke closes the item.
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Beauvais
France
India
Great Britain
Montreal
London
the Star
Air Ministry
England
St. Hubert
South Africa
Montreal Star
Explanation Of Method Whereby New Wheat Varieties Resist Rust
Report discusses how stem rust infects wheat and how resistant varieties like Thatcher Renown Apex acquire broad resistance as they mature. It notes over 140 rust strains, the need for resistance to all regional strains, and contrasts Marquis as susceptible with Thatcher immune to many strains. It also covers the Windsor oak seedling afforestation ceremony in Ottawa.
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Canada
George
Windsor Castle
Tweedsmuir
Peace Tower
Parliament Hill
Ottawa
Queen Victoria
H. J. Keith Ottawa
Canadian Association “Men of Trees
Forest of Royal Oaks
Windsor Park
Marquis
Thatcher
Music and Women Inspiring Force Highlighted in Winnipeg
Dr Frederick Staton told the Women’s Canadian Club that women nurture music from lullabies to concerts. He noted most choral society members are women and that festival contestants are largely girls and women. A brief oddity about two blue sheep sent to Washington zoo ends with a note on the pink elephant seen but uncaptured.
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Frederick Staton
Winnipeg
Staton
Toronto
China
Washington
Crochet mesh gloves pattern from Winnipeg paper
Lace friendly crochet mesh gloves pattern 5846 offers a quick first project in cotton with frill edged cuffs. Includes small medium large sizes with material lists stitch diagrams and photo. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg for instructions.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
King's Champion Dymoke Guards Coronation Traditions
Frank Seaman Dymoke at Scrivelsby Court Lincolnshire, 74, heir to a five century duty as King's Champion, authorized by the Earl Marshal to bear the Standard of England at the Coronation. He guards medieval rites from his hermit seclusion amid 2000 acres of parkland and Gothic deer parks.
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Frank Seaman Dymoke
Scrivelsby Court
Horncastle
Lincs
George VI
Dymoke
Duke of Norfolk
England
American in London hotel meets Aberdonian in joke
An American staying in a London hotel is asked by an Aberdonian what country he belongs to. The American answers The greatest country in the world. The Aberdonian retorts that the American does not speak like a Scotsman.
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London
Sandy
Mass of the Sun Exceeds Earth by About 330000 Times
The sun’s mass is roughly 330000 times greater than Earth’s mass, highlighting the vast scale difference between the two celestial bodies. This comparison emphasizes the sun’s dominant gravitational influence in the solar system.
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Robins
Britain
Ples
Boarder
Lord Tweedsmuir
Alice Brooks
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