New rust resistant wheat promises Western Canada security
Ten years of research and 600000 dollars yield a new rust resistant wheat. It can be multiplied at government farms for widespread seed distribution to Western farmers by 1937 with government control to prevent private exploitation. Field tests show the grain matches Marquis and Renard in milling and baking quality, with strong straw and high yield, offering protection against rust and possibly other diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
West
Western Canada
Marquis
Renard
Radios and nickel production figures cited in England and Canada
A newspaper card notes that eighty percent of new radios in England were bought on time and that ninety percent of the world's nickel supply is produced by Canada, highlighting consumer credit and resource dominance.
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England
Canada
Empress Waizeru Mennen Submits Ethiopean Heritage Claim
The article portrays Empress Waizeru Mennen as Haile Selassie’s wife and trusted adviser, citing her claims of descent from Queen of Sheba and Cleopatra. It notes their long marriage, monogamy, knitted alliances, and her exalted status among Ethiopians, while detailing her education, bearing, and royal titles.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Waizeru Mennen
Mussolini
Emperor Haile Selassie
Waizeru
Sheba
Cleopatra
Judah
Dionne Quintuplets Birthday Bowl Gift Offer
A commemorative cereal bowl honoring the Dionne Quintuplets is offered. Made of chromium and six inches wide, it features a sculpture of the quintuplets and engraved names Emile Annette Marie Yvonne Cecile. Send two Quaker Oats trademarks plus fifteen cents to The Quaker Oats Company in Saskatoon to receive the gift.
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Emile
Annette
Marie
Yvonne
Cecile
Quaker Oats
Quaker Oats Company
Saskatoon
Sask
Heaviest Air Passenger Booked by Omaha Airline
County Judge A. W. Dulweber weighed four hundred pounds making him the heaviest passenger the United Air Lines office had ever faced. The booking clerk pondered how to handle one ticket for such a large man while avoiding offense. The airline chose to carry him at no extra charge to mark the historic moment.
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A. W. Dulweber
United Air Lines
Omaha
Tapton City the Queerest Small City in England
A strange Derbyshire curiosity near Chesterfield features Tapton City with eight houses and 25 inhabitants. There is no church shop post office or public house and no utilities only oil lamps. Believed founded on the ashes of four Roman camps, origins remain a mystery.
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England
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Tapton City
Sun Spot Temperature Less Than Surrounding Surface
A reported sun spot measures about 4700 degrees Celsius, roughly 1000 degrees cooler than the sun’s unspotted surface, according to the source.
New Type Flying Boat Parachute Kite Lifts Four Tons
A Soviet trial of a passenger and freight parachute kite achieved a four ton lift using a 65 foot diameter dome parachute. The system, called a parachute train, uses longer ropes to control ascent and descent and could carry a gondola for passengers. Prof. Grokhoffsky of the experimental institute says it could reach the stratosphere and is the safest form of air travel due to always open parachute descent.
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Prof
I. Grokhoffsky
Experimental Institute of the Commissariat of Heavy Industry
Grokhoffsky
Transatlantic German TV Test Via Gildenhall Broadcast
A new television transmission from Witzleben to Gildenhall Germany covering sound and vision reportedly worked well over nearly 50 miles. Dr M Hadamowski head of German broadcasting addressed labor camp workers and news pictures were transmitted with satisfactory results.
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Witzleben
Gildenhall
Germany
M. Hadamowski
German Broadcasting Service
Four Feet Wide Building Planned in Philadelphia
A four foot wide building to be built in Philadelphia will be the narrowest in the United States. The site is the remaining corner plot after street widening. The steel structure will house a restaurant with a removable summer front.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
Seventeenth Century Bishop Debates Moon Travel by Flying Chariot
A science-minded English bishop in the 1600s discussed the idea of reaching the moon using a flying chariot. The dialogue reflects early speculative thought on space travel and propulsion.
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England
Stipendiary magistrate offers prize for new word for dole
J R Macdonald of Hull invites submissions for a replacement term for the word dole and has offered a 2.50 prize. Scores of letters arrive yet no suggestion qualifies. One writer sent a list of 65 alternatives.
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J. R. Macdonald
Hull
England
Dole
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