Britain Faces High Car Taxes and Fuel Economy Push
The St. Thomas Times-Journal notes Britain has one private or commercial motor vehicle per 27 people, with high license fees and taxes. British engineers push fuel efficient motors to offset costs as Canada and the US adapt mass production and roads spending nears $400 million.
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Ars
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Britain
Dominion
Ontario
St. Thomas
Seven Foot Wheat Grown From Ancient Indian Seed
The Vancouver Sun reports India's 5,000 year old Mogul tomb yielded a handful of wheat seeds. Planting one ounce in England produced plants averaging seven feet tall. The piece notes this ancient wheat surpasses 1934 scientific wheat and could boost future yields, while humorously wishing for a tomb with selling secrets.
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England
India
Vancouver Sun
Rare Barosaurus skull found in Wyoming swamp
The skull of a long-necked Barosaurus, a 140 million year old semi aquatic dinosaur, was recovered from Wyoming swamps. The find was announced by T Trubbe Davison of the American Museum of Natural History. The species is noted for its extremely elongated neck vertebrae.
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Valley of Death
Wyoming
T. Trubbe Davison
American Museum of Natural History
Grant
Franz Joseph Land
Glass battleships proposed to evade sighted pursuit
An inventor argues glass ships could be made invisible from sea and air by using melted glassware including beer bottles. He aims to win Navy interest for immediate construction. A schoolmaster pieces a student’s Friday remark and a boy’s defiant reply.
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United States Navy
Archaeologists Discover Stone Marker Nearby Moses Tomb
Archaeologists report finding a carved stone linked to Moses tomb within a ruined church at Mount Nebo, suggesting a historic religious site near the biblical landmark. The discovery is being studied to confirm dating and origin, with authorities coordinating further excavation plans.
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Moses
Mount Nebo
Old Archie Seeks Letters at Post Office Daily
In a small town a desolate 83-year-old Archie waits each day at the post office hoping for letters from his scattered children. He marks the town paper for relatives and leaves empty handed, yet he endures, a quiet image of aging and longing. The piece contrasts his loneliness with the bustling lives of his grown children.
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Archie
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Retort Courteous: Squabble on the Street Car
A stout woman struggles to board a street car while a rider laughs. The fat lady retorts that if the other were half a man she would help her, and the passenger replies if she were half a lady she would not need assistance.
Bank Capital Debate Sparks Father Son Quip
Dialogue between a father and son uses a bank capital joke to illustrate caution about finance. The exchange highlights ethics and prudence in economic matters with a rural, homey tone.
Editors and preachers should swap jobs now and then
A Toronto minister proposes editors and preachers exchange roles occasionally to avoid dull sermons and newspaper errors. The Border Cities Star retorts that swapping would only risk readers dozing through papers and sermons.
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Toronto
The
Border Cities Star
Port development foreseen for Greater Vancouver harbor
Major W. G. Swan of the Engineering Institute of Canada outlined a vision for Vancouver’s inner and outer harbor and the Fraser River mouth. He urged unified port authority for Vancouver, New Westminster and North Fraser, plus integrated rail and road access, and distinct zones for deep sea, coastwise, industrial and recreational waterfronts to ensure rapid emergency service access.
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Greater Vancouver
W. G. Swan
The
Engineering Institute of Canada
Vancouver
Fraser River
Swan
New Westminster
North Fraser
Gradual approach to change in minds across ages
The piece contrasts a 73 year old Indian in British Columbia who faced modern marvels with a century old mind. It argues for gradual transitions to new facts and conditions, noting immature minds resist change and often burden relatives, while the man accepts his jail term as a novel adventure.
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British Columbia
Vancouver
City
Alberta Homestead Entries Rise in 1933–34 Year
The lands branch reports 3 706 homestead entries from April 1 1933 to March 31 1934, up from 3 499 a year earlier. First homesteads total 2 984 and second homesteads 696 with 26 soldiers grants and 1 011 entries by women. Canada-born entrants reach 1 208 led by Alberta 580 and Ontario 276.
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Alberta
Lands Branch
Canada
Ontario
Night Repair Keeps Deaf Convention On Schedule
In the Hotel Pennsylvania banquet hall an amplifying system failed before a major event. The chief electrician and crew labored through the night and restored the mikes just hours before the National Association of the Deaf convention began.
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Pennsylvania
National Association of the Deaf
The
New Yorker
Radium Power Could Lift 28,000-Ton Vessel 100 Feet
A single gram of radium is described as having enough power to elevate a 28,000 ton ship to a height of 100 feet, illustrating extraordinary energy density and potential applications in propulsion or lifting mechanisms.
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