Canada Boy and Girl Farm Club Contests Grow
The Royal Winter Fair at Toronto will host national club contests on November 19 with 32 teams from all provinces competing in six projects dairy cattle beef cattle swine poultry seed grain and seed potatoes. Provincial eliminations are underway with Prince Edward Island British Columbia Nova Scotia and Quebec completed and others to come. The Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work and officials from CPR CN Rail and the Dominion Department of Agriculture organize the event.
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Canada
Dommon Department of Agriulture
Toronto
Canadian Council On Boys
Prince Edward Island
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Growing In Importance Commercial Value Of Soya Bean Oil
The piece notes rising commercial value of soya bean oil with about one sixth of annual 37.2 million pounds used for edible purposes. Refined oil supplies vitamins A and D, is used mainly as a salad oil substitute, often blended, and has recently expanded into mayonnaise production.
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Scientific American
Bootshop Owner Faces Lost Returns After Credit Sales
Wilkins the bootshop owner extended credit to customers, hoping for timely payments. He attempted to collect but returned home empty handed, and his wife pressed him about Hawkins. He learned Hawkins had paid him nothing and had kicked him out with his own boots.
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Wilkins
Hawkins
Boss controls my vacation plans at work and home
A wry quotation reveals a worker who says his boss dictates when he can take leave and his wife decides where they travel. The exchange highlights tension between professional constraints and domestic life.
Revive Apple Trees With Boracic Acid Injections
The department of agriculture reports boracic acid injections in tree trunks as a potential cure for Kelowna apples afflicted by corky-core breuth-spot and die-back. In 1933 and 1934 forty trees were treated and bore normal fruit this year, though officials warn injections should not replace good overall tree health practices.
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Department of Agriculture
Kelowna
B.C
Great Bear Route Closed For Season Early
The open water air route to Great Bear Lake is closed for the season a week earlier than last year. Pilots Stan McMillan and Marlowe Kennedy of Mackenzie Air Service were forced to turn back on Oct 9 after partial progress in a blizzard.
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Great Bear Lake
Far North
Stan McMillan
Marlowe Kennedy
Mackenzie Air Service
Polite Quip Sparks Prize Banter Between Eddie and Bessie
Eddie ribbed Bessie about winning a prize. She retorts by noting the award was earned for politeness, calling him a simple idiot in a playful exchange.
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Bessie
Eddie
Dried tears and balloons tally household duty tale
A mother’s shopping trip prompts a humorous ledger from a statis tician father who cared for the children. He lists dried tears, tied shoes, balloons purchased per child, and cautions not to cross streets, concluding with a vow that he will do this again zero Saturdays.
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Housewife’s Association of
South Australia
Famous Southdown Flock at Sandringham Export Records
The Southdown flock on King George's Sandringham estate, famous since 1866, exported sixty two head for breeding last summer. Eleven shearling rams and ram lambs went to New Zealand, ten shearling ewes to Canada, one shearling ram and ten ewes to South Africa. Rams averaged 120 dollars each.
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Southdown
King George's Estate
Sandringham
New Zealand
Canada
South Africa
Modern superstition of wine spills as bad luck
A writer traces the shift from good luck to bad fortune attached to spilling wine, noting tablecloth use and revenue tricks by dishonest tavern keepers in earlier times. The piece highlights how spill mishaps were manipulated to prompt more orders and imagined wealth.
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France
Chance
Inventor’s Self Righting Lifeboat Idea Sparked by Water Crack
While helping a woman lift a heavy vessel, William noticed a floating crack that kept righting itself. The observation inspired his concept for a self righting lifeboat as a solution to capsizing danger.
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William
German 400 Dollar Four Passenger Car Designed for Hitler
At Hitler's request German engineers designed a compact four passenger automobile priced around four hundred dollars. The project aims to create an affordable vehicle for widespread use in Germany, reflecting the regime’s transportation ambitions.
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Hitler
Germany
Economy in the Home Shows Frugal Living Practices
Two women discuss income and expenditure amid unemployment. They study a model household famed for thrift, saving fats for cooking, reusing materials, drying peels as kindling, sifting coal ashes, and meticulous kitchen and tool management to prevent waste. Bride Broder in Toronto Mail and Empire.
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So-and-So
Toronto Mail
Empire
Prague Dummy Earns From Standing Still In Windows
Rudolf of Prague works as a living tailor’s dummy at a shop window, standing motionless for three hours while shoppers pass. The job pays well as he advertises a challenge to see if he is living or wax. Even smiles in the window do not trigger a blink until the time is up.
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Prague
Rudolf
Experiment A Successful Air Mail Eggs to Australia Hatching
An air mail experiment sent Rhode Island Red eggs from Lord Greenway at Stanbridge Earls to Australia. Fifteen days after despatch, two settings produced 48 sturdy Rhode Island chicks hatched by Australian hens, observed by F. P. Finney of the Poultry Club of New South Wales.
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Australia
Rhode Island
F. P. Finney
The
Poultry Club of
New South Wales
Lord Greenway
Stanbridge Earls
Romsey
Hampshire
Medals Returned by Rear Admiral Pini Over Africa Campaign
Rear Admiral Gailiano Pini announced he was returning British medals awarded for Italian aid to the British forces in the 1902 04 African campaign. He cited the current attitude of British statesmen as making his action necessary.
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Gailiano Pini
Neighbor Cost Snags Savings Says Wife and Husband
A humorous exchange contrasts how neighbors spending habits thwart saving efforts. The wife asks why savings are hard and the husband cites the neighbors’ unaffordable activities as the main reason.
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Lord Tweedsmuir
Royal Empire Society
London
Dominion
Sir W. Goodenough
Robert Bingham
United States
Lady Tweedsmuir
Earl of Athlone
Queen Mary
King George's
University of Toronto
U. of T
Cam” Gray
Bob Coulter
Gus Greco
Gray
Coulter
Economics
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