Level Crossing Protection Fund Expands in Canada
The Dominion government allocates 2,000,000 over ten years for level crossing improvements. Dunning announces the first instalment of 299,000 and a remaining 1,965,994.74 from the 4,000,009 fund. Railways and municipalities have spent heavily this year, and 102 grade crossings are aided this year, bringing total aid to 1,080 since 1909. The fund, managed by the Dominion Railway Board, now allows up to 100,000 per crossing at 40 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tever
C. A Dunnty
Dunning
Canada
Dominion Railway Board
Eckener Reverses View on Zeppelin Captain’s Opposition
An intimate friend recalls Dr. Eckener once doubting airships. A visit by a Count Zeppelin to his Baltic home led Eckener to Friedrichshafen, where he witnessed the craft and afterward became a strong advocate for the Zeppelin idea. Canada praised for resources and power. U S machinery aids water power development. Europe’s oldest woman doctor Mathilde Theyssen, Freiburg, turns 90, once treated Franco Prussian War wounded. An inherited fortune is cited as another intelligence test.
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Zeppelin
Eckener
Atlantic
Count Zeppelin
Baltic
Friedrichshafen
Canada
United States
Europe
Mathilde Theyssen
Freiburg
Germany
Predicts large influx of American settlers to Western Canada
John Ryan a traveling colonization agent for the Ozuna Gan Pacific Railway predicts the 1929 will see the greatest emigration of American farmers to Western Canada yet. He cites weed pressures poor crops high US taxes and Canada’s bumper wheat crop as drivers and notes many families plan to move after amassing capital.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
John Ryan
St. Paul
Ryan
Mr Ryan
United States
Canaada
Coal to Power Industry of Future, Says Arthur D. Little
Arthur D. Little argues coal will be the main energy source as oil use rises yet coal offers abundant, low cost power and by products. He notes mine gas yields and by products, including benzol and ammonia, supporting integrated mining for efficiency and distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur D. Little
Cambridge
Mass
Anglo-American Society of the Chemical Industry
Dr. Lite
Coi
Smetts
Cna
Fractured School Banter in a Farm Lesson
A playful interchange unfolds at a school where Bobby imitates a classroom remark and a farmer asks about farming challenges. The Dad questions the boy about a remark while a teacher quips with a farming pun and a student venturing the 5 am wake up as the hardest lesson.
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Bobby
Milking Herd Profit Varies With Feed Costs in 1927
A Lacombe Alberta Experimental Station report tracks weekly milk production from eight to thirteen cows in 1927. It shows feed costs per 100 pounds of milk ranged from 63 cents to $1.30, with costs under one dollar per hundred from late April to early October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacombe
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Army Demonstrates Parachuted Gun Crew at Brooks Field
A six man machine gun crew and a spare weapon dropped by parachute from a bomber at Brooks Field Texas to demonstrate rapid deployment from air to ground. Major General Summerall observed as the crew set up the gun and opened fire on an imagined target within three minutes.
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Summerall
Air Corps
Brooks Field
Texas
Oficers
Liner to Visit Tristan da Cunha in Atlantic Cruise
The Duchess of Atholl, a 20 000 ton liner on a South American Africa cruise, will make a brief call at Tristan da Cunha the farthest outpost of the British Empire. The voyage departs New York on January 22 1929 for 44 days.
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Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic Ocean
Buenos Aires
France
Tristan
West Indies
South America
New York
Tristan da Cumha
Great Britain
Africa
Duchess of Atholl
Rio de Janeiro
Capetown
Drurban
South Africa
Dar-es-Salaam Yanzbar
Mombaza
Egypt
Mediterranean
Paris
London
Montreal
Rise of D. C. Coleman to Western CPR vice presidency
D. C. Coleman, born 1879 in Carleton Place, Ontario, rose through CPR ranks to become Vice-President of the Western Lines after a career starting as a clerk in Fort William. He held posts in Nelson, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Montreal, and later became Western Lines chief in 1918. An avid historian collector and fluent speaker, he is noted for able leadership.
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D. C. Coleman
Canadian Pacific Railway Lines
Port Arthur
Carleton Place
Ontario
Coleman
C.P.R
Fort William
Nelson
Weater Lines
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Calgary
Western Lines
Grant Hall
West
Montreal
Early Wood-Pulp Paper Use and Global Notes
Reported origins of wood pulp in Canada about a century ago with rag fiber dominating before 1860. A satirical tale covers a beggar's plea and a divorced laundryman, and a note on Hankow, China aiming to become a hub for commercial air routes.
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Canada
Hankow
China
Roses in Alberta Growers Tap Central Hardiness Varieties
The Lacombe Alberta Experimental Station reports 1927 rose varieties by hardiness. Kugosas require no protection. Persian Yellow, Harrison Yellow, Grootendorst, Austrian Copper hardy with some winter risk. Hybrid Perpetuals and Polyanthas are more tender. Best protection is burying the bush in a trench with a tied, bent framework and earth covering to create an air space and reduce mildew.
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Lacombe
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Different Silages For Dairy Cows
A Dominion Experimental Station study in New Ontario compared sunflower silage with a oats peas and vetches mix for dairy cows. Ten milking cows were observed over five years, with production averaging 24.83 and 24.52 pounds daily for sunflower and oats mix respectively, and feed costs of 1.63 and 1.78 dollars per 100 pounds of milk.
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Dominion Experimental Station
New Ontario
Kapushesing
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Beef Scrap Beats Buttermilk for Winter Egg Production
A Central Alberta Station experiment with white Wyandotte pullets ran from November to April. Both groups received the same ration except one group was fed buttermilk and the other beef scrap. Eggs per day were higher with beef scrap, saving 1.6 cents per dozen. the station report details broader poultry studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacombe
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Central Alberta
He Refuses Medicine After Lucid Moment Insults Doctor
A hospital scene records a husband regaining lucidity and sharply insulting his wife’s physician. The patient refuses treatment, calling the doctor an ass in the exchange. The moment underscores tensions between patient autonomy and medical care.
Digging Ditches For 2.50 Kroner A Day
In Stockholm Strix notes a Sondags nisse exchange about work and pay with a grim view of the ditches. The cartoon implies low wages and harsh conditions as the worker questions the value of the labor.
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Sondagsnisse-Strix
Stockholm
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Bia
Napoteon
Buen Humor
Madrid
George
Queen Mary
England
Fc SS. “Duchess of Atholl
Tristan da Conta
Native Home
Canadian Pacific Railway
Globe Trotter
The
Occident
Darky
Sam
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