Polar Ice Cap Shrinks Says Commander MacMillan After Arctic Trip
Commander MacMillan reports the polar ice cap is receding and possibly smaller than previously measured. He notes the cap covered 700 square miles in five arcs with depths up to 3,000 feet, and that four glaciers fed the bay. Photographs will be compared with next summer’s shots to confirm changes.
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Cognita
Probiaber? Bay
Hadson Streit
Donald BP MaMillan
Hts
Actic
New Fingland
Mount Washington
MacMillan
Wiscasset
Cape St. George
Newfoundland
Kenneth Rawson
Frederick H. Rawson
Chicago
Frank Henderson
Fernald
Wounded Soldiers Live With Bullets in Their Hearts
Hospital records from the war show soldiers surviving with bullets in the heart some even for two months. The report notes cases where bullets contacted and injured the heart yet life continued. A casual newsroom scene ends with the editor telling the reporter to limit the piece to a column.
Pulp and Paper Industry Leads Canadian Manufacturing In 1928
Canada’s pulp and paper sector posted production worth 255 535 326 dollars, up 14 million from the prior year and 54 275 822 above 1924. It tops gross and net values, wage distribution, and salaries, while ranking second in total capital and employees behind electric power and saw mills.
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Canada
Smart Kashmir Jersey Jacket Suit for Women
A green Kashmir jersey jacket suit with tuck-in wool blouse appeals to college, school, and business wearers. It features a box-plaited skirt, pointed yoke, raised waistline belt, double-breasted blouse, fitted jacket with pockets, and sizes from 16 to 42 inches bust. Different color pairings offered and pattern price 25 cents.
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Paton
What is college bred, Pop asks in a Winnipeg snippet
A small town boy asks what college bred means and the father explains it as the flour of youth and the dough of old age. The text features a quip about growing up and a stray line about aluminium chloride used in gasoline production. A stray line mentions a baby swallowing matches and a cigarette lighter offered for use.
Sugar Craft Locomotive Model At Chateau Lake Louise
Novel centerpiece created by Chateau Lake Louise chefs uses a sugar Countess of Dufferin as the tender and crafted candy floss smoke. The exhibit honors E. W. Beatty and the Canadian Pacific Railway during a west inspection tour. The Countess relic from Winnipeg’s Red River era is shown beside CP’s 5900 class giants in the Rockies.
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C. Anderegg
O. Westerlund
Lake Louise
Canadian Rockies
Winnipeg
Red River
British Empire
Canadian Pacific
Rockies
Selkirks
Respect for the flag and war memorials facts cited
The Border Cities Star and Stratford Beacon-Herald urge Canadians to salute or show respect when passing a regiment with the Union Jack and at war memorials. The editors argue this practice is declining in Canada, while England treats it as routine. The Lindsay Post notes wild duck breeding grounds are in Canada’s Prairie Provinces.
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Border Cities Star
Windsor
Stratford
Lindsay Post
Co Operation In Saskatchewan Co operatives 1929 Figures
Saskatchewan hosts 285 local co operative associations mainly supplying farm needs. Of 216 reporting groups, 13 819 shareholders held 569 829 in paid up capital and 1 638 139 in assets as at April 30 1929. Supplies valued at 3 621 256 were moved in the year. Eleven associations moved 1671 cattle cars worth 240 767. Total sales 3 879 775 with net earnings 135 963. Province wide bodies for grain livestock poultry posted 176 640 000 in sales for 1928 29 season.
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Saskatchewan
Forces At Work To Bring About More Amicable Relations Between Britain and U3
Demand from the southern hemisphere for Canadian seed and table potatoes prompts orders from Argentine buyers to the Canadian Department of Agriculture. Arrangements to connect Canadian shippers with Argentine importers are underway. Negotiations continue for shipments to South Africa and the Netherlands East Indies. Canadian wheat export reached 47 countries last year.
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Britain
U3. 5
Buenos Aires
Department of Agriculture
Markets Extension Division
Fruit Branch
Canada
South Africa
Netherland East Indies
Great Britain
United States
Navy
May Try Grafting Crossing With Northern Species
The article notes raspberries and gooseberries may be improved by grafting with northern Manitoba species after a Hudson Bay expedition. Scientists Knowles Ryerson and colleagues spent a month between The Pas and Churchill assessing fruit varieties, finding abundant raspberries and large smooth gooseberries along the Churchill River.
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Manitoba
Hudson Bay
Knowles Ryerson
Bureau of Foreign Plant Introduction
Washington, D.C
Pas
Churchill, Bay
Churchill River
Irrigation Boosts Hard Wheat Yields in Southern Alberta
Reports show irrigated wheat in Southern Alberta grades No 1 and yields high. A 140 acre field produced 6,160 bushels at 44 bushels per acre of Marquis wheat. Another farmer threshed 14,000 bushels from 400 acres. Irrigation supports alfalfa sugar beets corn sunflowers and fodder crops.
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Alberta
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Commander MacMillan
Karikaturen
Oslo
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Caloa
McDermot Ave
Ske
Fred
Prairie Provinces
Southern Hemisphere
Wetherlands Sart
Leland Unteo
K'Ooe
Ctnuana Cormant
Owed Stares
Orway Swromwar
Australia
Japan
Ervey
Aut Vail
Waite
Thor
Gerald
Sarah
Asia
Vienna
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