Dairying In Western Canada Survey Aims To Cut Costs
The Financial Post outlines a provincial dairy survey in Saskatchewan under government auspices. It evaluates milk and butterfat production costs across farm types, from city milk supply to on farm butter making, seeking efficiency gaps and encouragements for dairying while noting drought risks and mechanization trends reducing dairy output in recent years.
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Saskatcheeen
Saskatchewan
The
Financial Post
Tourists Increase at British Columbia Ports in 1929
Trade Commissioner Vancouver reports 9.00 percent rise in tourist cars entering Canada from the United States through British Columbia ports in the first six months of 1929, with about 20 000 more passengers than the same period in 1928.
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Canada
United States
British Columbia
Trade Commissioner
Vancouver
Beauty Of Emerald Lake In Yob National Park
The Emerald Lake in Yob National Park British Columbia draws praise for its emerald waters showing many shades of green and a jade green forest lining its shores. The piece notes no blue tones in the water and emphasizes the thickly wooded shoreline enhancing the scene.
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Emerald Lake
National Park
British Columbia
Manitoba Fish Cannery Proposal Reported
The Canadian Fisherman notes a Manitoba fish cannery planned to pack local fish products and suggests using coarse fish and offal for fertilizer and stock feed. San Marino is cited as the oldest republic near Ravenna, Italy, and a quip about an ambulance and car parts appears from Il 420 Florence.
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Manitoba
San Marino
Apennines
Ravenna
Italy
Red Cross Welcomes New Canadians at Seaport Nurseries
The Red Cross in Quebec, St John and Halifax greets arriving immigrants with prepared nurseries and friendly services. Nurses register names, provide meals and care, and connect settlers with provincial Red Cross offices for follow up, reinforcing a peaceful welcome and health support.
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Red Cross Society
Quebec
St. John
Halifax
Canada
Red Cross
Seaport
Eye exercises urged by Mayo Clinic doctor
Dr. Charles Sheard of Mayo Clinic Rochester says morning eye exercises improve vision as body workouts do. He recommends eye rolling and other movements and notes modern life and driving cause eye strain while movies pose no harm. He adds short sighted drivers may be safer than risk takers.
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Charles Sheard
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Tie
Orkney Co-Operative Marketing Boosts Egg Exports
The Orkney Islands show strong cooperative gains with egg exports reaching 2 660 0000 dozen and value over twice the national total. The rise surpasses last year by over half a million eggs as local farmers embrace modern marketing. Remote producers remain active in farming trends and export markets.
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Orkney Islands
Phoenicians Pioneered Dental Prosthetics in Antiquity
Dr Roy L Moodie notes the first known false teeth were worn by a Sidon woman around 300 B C The Phoenician jaw with artificial teeth is in the Louvre Paris The two right incisors are bound by gold wire The Egyptians show no similar dental repair evidence and Phoenicians contributed to prosthetics alongside alphabets and discoveries
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Sidon
Phoenicia
B.C
Roy L. Moodie
Louvre
Paris
Egypt
Moodie
Manitoba Gold Output Surges in 1928
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Manitoba gold production in 1928 nearly doubles the sum of 1917 to 1927. The 1923 yield was 19 513 fine ounces valued at 409 571 dollars, while 1917 27 totalled 10 239 fine ounces valued at 211 653 dollars.
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Manitoba
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Manitoba Town Pioneer Sees 1929 Apple Crop Estimate
The Do minion Experimental Farm at Mor den Manitoba reports six thousand tons of apples for the 1929 crop. Morden, a Prairie Provinces pioneer in apple cultivation, is highlighted. A separate note mentions Portugal cork oak trees yielding up to 500 pounds of cork.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
Morden
Man
Prairie Provinces
Portugal
New Flat Map Promises Accurate World Scale
The Mercator projection distorts sizes with oceans and continents misrepresented. U S experts unveiled a true-area map after five years of work, keeping distance along equator parallels and central meridian lines accurate. Geographers say it may replace the old map for most uses except navigation.
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Gerardus Mercator
Mercator
Karl Vought
Popular Science Monthly
United States
Brazil
Sealier
North America
South America
Greenland
Australia
Department of Commerce
Work as a Necessity and the True Source of Joy
The piece argues that Amusements Secondary Work is essential to well being as eating and sleeping. It condemns idle amusement, praising honest work as a supreme good and the main justification for existence. Carlyle is cited to support work as a remedy for miseries. When work feels weary, the soul is lost.
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Carlyle
Mustry
World Grain Exhibition in Regina Plans Prize Awards
The World's Grain Exhibition and Conference in Regina 1922 will award over 200000 in prizes if current plans and the prize list are followed. The executive recently drew up the program and classification prizes. An appropriation of 70000 will prize wheat.
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Regina
Banks Open Only 84 Days This Year Worldwide
The report states that during the present year there are just 84 days when banks remain open globally. It notes widespread closures and irregular schedules affecting financial services across regions.
Trail Riders Explore Canadian Rockies Glacier Lakes
Over one hundred members of the Order of Trail Riders traveled from Banff to Castle Mountain Bungalow Camp in early August. They traversed Healey Creek Shadow Lakes and Twin Lakes enjoying scenery air and open life and some caught trout while a few even bathed in glacier fed lakes. Riders came from across Canada and the United States for this annual trek.
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Order of Trail Riders
Banff
Castle Mountain Bungalow Camp
Healey Creek
Shadow Lakes
Twin Lakes
Canadian Rockies
Canada
United States
Ten-Pound Steelhead Landed On Stamp River By Alberni District
A boy struggles to hold a ten-pound steelhead trout as his father lands the fish after a 45 minute fight on the Stamp River in Vancouver Island. The catch occurred on a July morning in the Alberni District about 140 miles from Victoria, reachable via the Canadian Pacific Railway. July August and September are noted as prime months for fishing in the area.
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Stamp River
Vancouver Island
Alberni District
Victoria
Canadian Pacific Railway
New Automatic Salesman Deceives User With Iron Washer
A dark youth in New York tried a change machine that promised five nickels for a quarter but dispensed an iron washer instead. This incident highlights the rise of robots in commerce as 250 manufacturers offer about 400 machine types, from wheat cake vendors to automated stores along Broadway.
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Broadway
New York
Frederic Tisdale
Popular Science Monthly
A New York Joke About a Bumptious Politician Defeat
Captain Robert Dollar of San Francisco told a Washington correspondent a club joke at the Willard about a conceited politician defeated in life. A witty reply suggested improving the situation with Maud Travers while noting a woman's teeth chatter as humor.
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Robert Dollar
San Francisco
Willard
Washington
Maud Travers
Maud
Roguing Seed Plots to Purify Grain for Better Harvests
J G Carl Fraser from Ottawa explains roguing as the careful removal of impurities in seed plots. He describes walking the drill lines to spot off type heads, pulling them by the roots, and returning on the same rows to catch more. Regular roguing before harvest yields purer seed and easier future crops.
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Ami
J. G. Carl Fraser
Ottawa
Domestic Cow Inspires So-Called Swiss Family Irony
A St Louis Dispatch item mocks a versatile use of dairy byproducts in a humorous note on a family cow and a chemist turning skim milk into useful goods. The column praises resourcefulness and evokes Robinson Crusoe style ingenuity from domestic science.
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Sang Stevenson
Federal Dairy Research Laboratories
Labortories
St. Louis Poot- Dispatch
Clay Industries in Canada and Manchuria Population Shift
The clay industries in Canada mainly produce brick structural tile and sewer pipe from surface glacial clays and shales. Chinese migration into Manchuria is reported at about one million people per year.
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Canada
Manchuria
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