Farm Notes on Wool Quality and Feeding Practices
Wartime emphasis on wool purity notes thirty percent of annually marketed wool is unfit for top grades due to seeds, burrs, and tar. Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa recommends slat-fronted V shaped feed racks to reduce contamination, regular trimming to avoid dung and urine stains, and careful plant management including burning burrs and using branding paint that can be removed in scouring.
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Central Experimental Barm
Ottawa
S. B. Willams
Animal Husbandry Division
Dominion Experimental Farms Service
Canadian Leather Production in 1939 Hides and Skins Used
The article lists principal Canadian leather types including cattle and horse hide upper leather calf-skin upper leather oak-tan sole leather patent and grove leathers. It states 1939 usage totals of 4 289 508 cattle hides 2 444 787 horse hides 3 185 267 calf hides 45 528 dozen pickled sheep skins and 4 407 dozen woolen sheep skins weighing 40 979 961 pounds in total.
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Canada
Engineer Says Bridge Might Have Been Saved
Dr D B Steinman an expert on suspension bridges told the Brooklyn Engineers Club that if trucks had been parked on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge the day it buckled in the wind the collapse might have been prevented.
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Tacoma Narrows
D. B. Steinman
Brooklyn Engineers Club
Axis Leaders Meet Amid War Strain and Global Tensions
The fifth Hitler Mussolini conference struggles amid battles in the Mediterranean and Britain. Key topics include saving Italy, repairing supply lines, US entry, and timing a possible invasion. US moves to aid Britain with lend lease while Japan warns and US-Soviet ties ease. Canadian farmers unite under wartime stress. Ontario leaders push currency reform and provincial power.
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Axis
Virginio Gayda
I Giornale d'Italia
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Mediterranean
Britain
Vtaly
Associated Press
Dewitt Mackenzie
Hitler
Mussolini
America
Italy
Greece
Sicilian
English Channel
Voice of the Press and War Time Diphtheria Talk
The piece notes 17 000 new positions created for Dominion government since the war and hints at an election. It quotes the Windsor Star praising toxoid inoculations for schoolchildren and a Peterborough Examiner remark on Toronto deaths. It closes with a reflection on living through tumultuous eras from the Guelph Mercury.
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Dominion
Peterborough Examiner
Toronto
Windsor Star
Europe
Spain
Napoleon
Guelph
Saving Ontario's Natural Resources
A Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology essay notes museums preserve artifacts for future generations. It highlights the passenger pigeon as a case study, detailing extinction, private collectors like Paul Hahn, and the urgent need to salvage specimens before they vanish.
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Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology
North America
Paul Hahn
Toronto
Hahn
Life of Winston Churchill II Highlights Early Journalism
The narrative traces Churchill’s start as a war correspondent in 1898 with the Thirty-first Punjab Infantry during India campaigns and the Boer War in South Africa where a train capture at Pretoria altered his path. It notes his shift to politics in 1900, his bus top campaigning for Oldham, and his eventual election at age 26.
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Winston Churchill
Thirty-first Punjab Infantry
India
Pathans
Churchill
Pretoria
Churchill's 1908 milestones: board of trade president and marriage
In 1908 Winston Churchill achieved prominence by being elected president of the board of trade and marrying Clementine Hozier. The Churchill family expanded with four children: one son and three daughters.
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Churchill
Board of Trade
Clementine Hozier
Churchills
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D. C. Finlay
Finlay
Royal Air Force
Balkan
Balkans
Romania
Soviet Union
Turkey
Thrace
United States
Frank Knox
United States Secretary of the Navy
House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
House
U. S
Henry Stimson
Franklin Delano R Roosevelt
Japan
Tokyo
East Asia
Great Britain
U.S
Indo-China
Thailand
Matsuoka
Pacific
Russia
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Atlantic
Hepburn
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Bank of Canada
William Aberhart
Alberta
Aberhart
OF the Press
By Fred Neher
G. C. Toner
Federation of Anglers
Eis
South Africa
Par
Liament
Oldham
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