Nations Tour Canada Shows Poultry Congress Progress
A 125 member delegation from eighteen countries completed a four week inspection trip across Canada for the Worlds Poultry Congress. They toured Ontario and western provinces by rail and road visiting Kapuskasing Vancouver Hamilton and Niagara Falls. Delegates praised Canadian education and agricultural facilities and returned home as advocates of international goodwill.
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Poultry Congress
Poultry Congresa
Canada
Ue Cenation National Exhibition
Toronto
Rell
Ouawa Ob
Kapuskasing
Western Canada
Vancouver
Victoria
Canadian Pacific
Hamilton
Niagara Falls
Canadian National Railways
Great Britain
United States
Bermuda
Egypt
Australia
Dominion Reindeer opens Saskatoon branch in meat venture
L. T. Howls announces Dominion Reindeer Company moves headquarters from Vancouver to Saskatoon to base operations near Great Slave Lake feeding grounds. Prince Albert was considered as a site. Hudson Bay line expansion underpins transport and packing plants planned soon.
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Dominion Reindeer Company
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
L. T. Howls
Dominion
Vancouver
Great Shave Lake
Prince Albert
Campins
Catare
Cannibal Cow Spooks Staffelstein Parish
A peculiar report from Weser Zeburg describes a cow in the village of Staffelstein near Bromes that eats geese before a barn shipment. The incident involves a cow chewing a legible crate scene and surprising farmers, amid odd parishioner chatter and references to medicines and distant lands.
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Staffelstein
Bromes
Health education proposed as essential Canadian curriculum
Dr M M Seymour deputy Minister of Health for Saskatchewan urges ten minutes daily health lessons in schools. Gorton Bates notes sex hygiene may be omitted. home education text books exist for parents. Advocates say adult health education is also vital, costly to adults but cheaper via schools. Preventable disease causes major economic losses with 99 000 Canadians ill daily and 10 500 000 lost workdays yearly, costing 270 million pounds.
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Canadian Social Hygiene Council
M M_. Seymour
Saskatchewan
Seymour
Gorton Bates
Comet
Mis
Dominion
Russian Illusion Shapes Moscow Hopeful Trade Deals
The article argues Russian leaders see governments as puppets of big business and seek favorable ties with major firms to influence policy. It cites deals with Standard Oil of New York and Vacuum Oil to raise cash and embarrass Britain, aiming to sway England and America through corporate access.
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Usatof
Russia
Standard of Company of
New York
England
Stalin
America
Alberta Coal For Eastern Canada Would Save Huge Sum
Mayor Foster of Toronto says Alberta coal could cut national coal import costs by about $100 million annually. He cites a possible seven dollar freight rate to Ontario after discussing with Alberta Premier Brownlee in Toronto. Householders in the city currently pay about $16 a ton for imported anthracite.
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Foster
Toronto
Alberta
Ontario
Brownlee
Canada
Uses of Adhesive Tape in Household Repairs
A guide explains reinforcing waders and gloves with adhesive tape to cover cuts. It recommends taping the forefinger and thumb when peeling fruit and vegetables. Tape is advised to seal seams on storage boxes for furs or woolens and to hold together broken china parts until dry.
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China
Plan To Fight Grasshoppers In British Columbia
Measures underway in British Columbia locate egg beds of grasshoppers to apply poison bait next spring. Without timely action, the Chilcotin cattle country faces a severe outbreak. Fears of a grasshopper plague in Peace River country were relieved this year when heavy rains washed away millions of nymphs just before hatching.
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B.C
Chilcotin
Peace River
Umbrella mix up sparks awkward lending tale
A peddler confronts a man who lent an umbrella to a friend. The friend denies loaning it back, while the owner insists the umbrella must be returned, creating an awkward misunderstanding about the original lender.
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Piper
Jazz at Mealtime Ruins Digestion Warns Cleveland Scientist
Dr. Charles M. Newcomb cites jazz as a national menace as radio spreads the habit of listening during meals. He argues nerves controlling digestion get excited by jazz provoking uneven food processing and stressed digestive ducts. He admits some find jittery effects may be beneficial if it diverts attention from eating.
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Cleveland
Charles M. Newcomb
Geography of the Pacific Explored at Conference Opening
Sr. Herbert F Gregory of the Bishop Museum spoke on the vast Pacific at the conference opening. He described the ocean as enormous in area and volume, spanning 9 300 miles from the Bering Strait to Antarctica and 19 000 miles along the equator, larger than all continents and lands combined.
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Herbert F Gregory
Bishop Museum of Polynesian Research
Honolulu
Pacific
Gregory
Pacific Ocean
Bering Strait
Wilkes Land
Antarctic Circle
Equator
Atlantic
Canada
Sehore
Nervous impulses as high speed chemical reactions
Dr. A V Hill reports in Popular Science Monthly that nerve signals are likely chemical in nature, not heat driven. He measured minute heat changes during nerve reactions with a highly sensitive device.
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A. V. Hill
Cornell University
Popular Science Monthly
Hill
Bureau of Standards Rolls Out Artificial Typhoon System
A new invention from the U S Bureau of Standards creates controlled wind events from gentle breeze to 180 mph hurricane force. The device uses a large scale smoke stack model with curved elbows to simulate storms for aviators designers builders and architects.
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Bureau of Standards
Department of Commerce
Young deer charms Banff Springs Hotel guests
A baby deer wandered onto the lawn of Banff Springs Hotel in the Rockies drawing worldwide attention. Uninvited yet welcomed, the animal enjoyed freedom of the hotel as guests photographed it, signaling a notable debutante moment before a possible fall retreat to the woods.
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Banff Springs Hotel
Deer
Standards Of Thrift: Plant Bulbs For Future Bloom
The piece argues thrift requires planning for the future, not fear or denial. It contrasts worrying with sensible preparation, using a Japanese proverb about success and happiness growing from thrift rooted like bulbs. It warns against living beyond means and neglecting fundamentals, noting flowers depend on bulbs.
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Lfe
W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
The Dignity Of Work Guiding A Life Of Purpose
A timeless exhortation to find happiness through diligent labor. Emphasizes humility, thorough preparation, and the elevating power of work as a means of character building and personal dignity. Urges artful commitment and steady progress toward better outcomes.
Natural Fly Killer Found In Castor Oil Plant
A British Medical Journal note reports accidental fly control when a castor oil plant was placed in a Troon window. Flies swarmed in but died on contact with the plant’s leaves, which release a toxic essential oil.
Canada’s Mineral Resources Show Rising Output and Potential
A new Canadian publication from Price-Green details rising mineral production from 1925 to 1926, with exports of pulp and paper surging to 172 million dollars and foreign trade leaping to over two billion. It highlights the pre Cambrian Shield’s vast, largely unsurveyed wealth, naming copper gold and silver finds across Quebec Ontario Manitoba and beyond, predicting continued phenomenal discoveries.
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Canada
Dominion of Canada
Price-Green
F.rgs
Department of Natural Resources
Canadian National Railways
Dominion
Labrador
Mackenzie
Quebec
Sudbury
Cobalt
South Lorrain
Miller Lake
Gowganda
Porcupine
Kirkland Lake
Manitoba
Thunder Bay
Rainy River
Pas
Empire's manganese ore deposits profiled for empire congress
Sir Robert Hadfield outlines vast manganese ore resources in the Empire at the Sydney meeting, noting deposits in India and Africa as larger than any other nation. Canada had no major deposits but once produced about 1500 tons from the Maritime Provinces.
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Robert Hadfield
Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress
Sydney
N.S
Abe
Canada
Sly Robert
Institution of Civil Engineers
London
Ngland
Sir Robert
Brivlats
Iac
Afric
Cjold Cozet
Rusela
Georgia
Brazil
Maritime
Farce in the Austro-Hungarian Split Story Tensions
A humorous anecdote recounted by M. Briand the French Prime Minister about two Austrian officers stranded in the fragmented Austro-Hungarian Empire. They joke about passing the day with a walk across the empire and planning an afternoon, illustrating light political wit amid collapsing states.
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Austria
M. Briand
M. Betand
Empire
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