Meteorological Conference urges broader Canadian service expansion
At a Winnipeg meeting November 5 and 6 the Meteorological Conference urges extending Canada’s meteorological service to western agriculture. It backs more observation stations greater data variety faster distribution more staff and new research projects plus a consultative board without policy change.
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Meteorological Service of Canada
Winnipeg
Meteorological Service of
Canada
Meteorological Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Western
Manitoba
Department of Marine
New Use For Honey Unveiled In Domestic Quarrel
A Munich resident Meggendorfer Biaetter tells of a novel complaint about her husband’s drunken returns. She notes the ongoing noise disturbs her and recalls her late husband, highlighting domestic tensions.
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Meggendorfer Biaetter
Munich
Winter shelters prove pigs thrive without costly buildings
Experiments at Indian Head Experimental Farm show fall pigs can be raised outside in inexpensive shelters. Banked cabins and straw shelters yielded faster weight gains and lower costs per pound than farm piggery setups over 119 days. Curtain drapes added warmth in extreme cold.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
Indian Head
Indian Head Experimental Farm
Manitoba honey candy to boost farm product market
Local manufacturers, urged by the Industrial Development Board of Manitoba, plan to market a honey candy this week using large amounts of Manitoba honey. The move follows rising U S demand for similar products and aims to expand regional farm product markets.
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Manitoba
Industrial Development Board of Manitoba
United States
Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife and the Towed Piano
A lighthouse keeper on a remote South Seas island marries and invites his wife to live with him. To relieve monotony he orders a piano. A boat arrives but the crew ask, Is the piano coming. They answer, We’ve got it all right. We’re towing her.
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South Seas
Depression as Economic Burden Notion Defied
The remark argues that there is no economic low mood, asserting that a depression proves most uneconomic. It frames mental state as a factor impacting productivity and costs, challenging the idea of a thriving economy during downturns.
Curious History of the Catapult Reemerges in Flight Trials
The catapult once a war engine used by Romans at Carthage in 146 B C has returned to use on the battlefield. At Farnborough England a nine ton bomber was launched into the air in under three seconds. The original propulsion method using rope sinew or hair is now lost though.
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Carthage
B.C
Farnborough
England
Women control more than forty percent of wealth says Atlantic Monthly
Albert Jay Nock says women own and control over forty percent of the nation's wealth. The Atlantic Monthly reports independent verification. Investment bankers in New York and Chicago note women millionaires are common and women inherit larger shares. Most stockholders in major corporations are women.
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Albert Jay Nock
Atlantic Monthly
Mr. Nock
New York
Chicago
Local Flood Not Global Say Excavations Near Euphrates
Archaeologists led by Dr. C Leonard Woolley report findings at Ur of the Chaldees suggest the Noah flood was a local event. They uncovered 4000 to 5000 BC strata with similar artifacts above and below the silt, implying later inhabitants resumed prior life. Woolley questions Noah’s presence and notes Jews arrived in Mesopotamia around 1931 BC, adopting the legend from Assyrian tablets.
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Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Leonard Woolley
Woolley
University of Pennsylvania
British Museums
Noah
B.C
New Paint Keeps Refrigerator Cars Cool Under Aluminum Roofs
The Cold Storage News Letter notes aluminum roof paint used by Canadian National Railways tests lowers roof surface by about ten degrees versus red paint. Further work may yield silver and black freight cars described as pretty and cool.
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Cold Storage News
Federal Dairy and Cold Storage Branch
Canadian National Railways
Three of a Kind on the Canadian Pacific Railway
In Windsor Street Station Montreal a three generation Stevens crew rides a CP locomotive. W L Stevens has 44 years of service, G W Stevens 19, and Clifford H Stevens aged 12 eyes a future on the rails as father and grandfather smile.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Windsor Street
Montreal
W. L. Stevens
G. W. Stevens
Clifford H. Stevens
Clifford
Danger In High Speeds Car Driver Should Learn
At a U S Society of Automotive Engineers meeting a speaker presented a table showing stopping distances for speeds 20 40 and 60 mph on various surfaces. Concrete requires 15 feet at 20 mph while 40 mph needs 60 feet and 60 mph 135 feet. Gravel wet wood block and creosoted wood increase distances dramatically, explaining why higher speeds raise fatal accident risk.
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U.S Society of Automotive Engineers
Plan to Restore Spending Through Advertising War Effort
Havana Post publisher Carl Bycir outlined a wartime advertising alliance to rebuild consumer spending. The Association of National Advertisers approved a structure with divisions in Advertising Films Public Speakers Church Work Foreign Born Local Organizations Women’s Work Still Pictures Labor Statistics News and Industrial Organization. The campaign would be war-time in tone with a drive like every man buying a suit on a set date.
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Washington
Carl Bycir
Havana Post
Tolstoi predicts end of Soviet rule and rise of republic
Count Ilya Tolstoi, son of Leo Tolstoi, told the Derby Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter that the Bolshevists cannot kill the Russian soul. He warned the longer the Soviet Government lasts the worse its fall will be, with a possible brief dictatorship before a czar returns not to rule.
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Ilya Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoi
Russia
Church features devil exit door in Cornwall custom
A Cornwall church preserves a devil door used for the exit of converts. In England, Ripon Cathedral drew about a thousand visitors in cycling and hiking attire for a recent service. A quote notes starting a business from intelligence with small means.
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Cornwall
England
Ripon
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Nevermber
Emily Murphy
British Empire
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