Research Council oversees crop disease studies nationwide
National Research Council funds and coordinates agricultural disease research across Canadian universities and federal departments. Projects cover grain disease causes, milling and baking quality of wheat, wire worm life cycles, inheritance of starch in corn, and frost resistance. Tuberculosis research is also advancing with a full report due next autumn.
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Federal
Department of Agriculture
North American
Tme
University of Alberta
Liberatory
The
Research Council
Federal Department of Agriculture
University
University of Saskatchewan
University of Manitoba
Robert Newton
Newton
E. H. Strickland
F. H. Roberts
A. H.R. Buller
A. T. Cameron
Canada
A. G. Klugh
A. Lloyd
A. &. Cameron
F. J. Lewin
I Ft Fryer
W. S. Thompson
EB. S. Hopkins
W. Sadler
One piece slip on dress with V neck and bow trim
Describes a ladies dress pattern with a V shaped neck finished by bands and bow, circular side insets, darted perforated short sleeves, sizes from 16 years to 42 bust, and a 31 yard 40 inch fabric option for size 3G. Priced 26 cents for the pattern in Qur Fashion Book.
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le Rudder
Takaialeer
Privy Council Likely To Uphold Canada Duty Ruling
The Privy Council appears unlikely to overturn the Board of Customs decision imposing a 25 percent duty on periodicals that are largely fiction and lack substantial critical or descriptive content. The Wholesale News Dealers Association appealed the ruling, but Parliament remains the only body with power to overrule the board. The majority of affected periodicals originate from the United States.
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Privy Council of Canada
Board of Customs
News Dealers Association of Canada
Privy Council
Canada
United States
Customs Board
Parliament
Wheat pasture Outperforms Rape in hog feeding trial
Rosthern Saskatchewan Experimental Station reports hogs fed on wheat pasture gain 0.17 pounds daily at 0.8 cents per pound less than those on rape pasture. Hogs on wheat show a better finish per the 1927 Department of Agriculture summary from Ottawa.
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Rosthern
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Society Editor Ponders El Dorado Nuptial Trend
A local society editor muses on a man from El Dorado who has wed three women in nine years. Each wedding brought a different candy gift to the desk a bonbon box a plain candy box and a sack of popcorn prompting reflection on love and press coverage.
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Society
S.e
Vitamins For Growing Chicks Help With Leg Weakness
Growing chicks suffer leg weakness unless given direct sunlight or a vitamin rich diet. Cod liver oil at 1 2 percent of mash, egg yolks, canned tomatoes, yellow corn, green seeds, immature clover and alfalfa hay boost vitamins. Feed should be mixed fresh in portions for three to four days to preserve vitamin quality.
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Dominion District
New Brunswick
Pemmican For the Eskimos From Wainwright to Akjavik
A shipment of 1038 buffaloes from Wainwright elevates the Mackenzie River District quota. Pemmican from buffalo meat, processed at the park abbatoir, is being sent to eastern ports for Eskimo communities near Akjavik. Coal quality improves with age, sported by a scientist’s note.
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Wainwright
Mackenzie River
Park
Alberta
Arctic
Akjavik
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Union
Pattern order details from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union list pattern numbers and sizes. Includes address 174 McDermon Ave Winnipeg and fields for pattern number size name town. The readable fragment suggests mailing instructions for customers.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermon Ave
Winnipeg
New Marketing Co Operative Formed In Eastern Canada
Eastern Canadian millers form a cooperative marketing association after a Dominion Millers Association meeting endorses the plan. The move follows the success of the Canadian Wheat Pool and aims to extend cooperative marketing to new farm products. The article notes its novelty in the Canadian farming sector.
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Canadian Wheat Pool
Canada
Dominion Millers’ Association
Rocky Mountain Guides Drop Chaps for Riding Breeches
Guides around Banff Springs Hotel move away from traditional shaggy chaps to common riding breeches amid flattery and jokes about their costumes. The change aims to please visitors, while guides continue to protect riders on trails and manage camps, keeping parties safe on early-season treks.
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Rocky Mountains
Banff Springs
Rocky Mountain Guides
Heppy
Promine Canadian Educationist Praises High Standards Of Life
Dr. E. A. Hardy of Toronto, president of the Canadian Teachers' Federation, addressed the National Education Association convention in Afia heapalis. He highlighted Canada’s high life standards, democracy, cooperation, and its growing imperial and world outlook as part of national life and the teaching profession.
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E. A. Hardy
Toronto
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
Canada
United States
Afiaheapalis
Cornelia Adair
Richmond
Hanly
Dominion
Sy. Fardy
Religious Education Council of Canada
Y.W.C.A
Dr. Hardy
British Empire
League ‘of Nations
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
Council of the ‘League
Canada Aids Forest Reforestation Efforts Across Nations
The Canadian Government Forest Service operates a major seed extraction and processing plant in New Westminster British Columbia. Since 1921 the program supports imperial forestry by supplying Sitka spruce, Douglas fir and other seeds to Great Britain and other nations. Seed collection began in 1917 and now aids reforestation in New Zealand and additional countries.
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North America
New Westminster
Hrithan Columbia
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Imperial Forestry Commission
British Isles
British Columbia
Great Britain
New Zealand
Seeking To Preserve Big Grazing Tracts
Study at Manyberries under dominion field husbandman BE Hopkins aims to save three million acres in Alberta by reviving native prairie grass and discovering grasses suitable for seeding. Researchers plan deferred and rotated grazing to restore feed and sustain ranchers facing dwindling cattle.
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Alberta
Dominion
Hopkins
Manyberries
Rockies
Building contracts in Canada hit second-highest monthly total
Can ada awards of building contracts in June 1928 totaled 59 926 106 dollars, second only to May and 14.7 percent higher than June 1927. For Jan 1 to Jun 30, 1928, Canadian building contracts reached 256 257 499 dollars, 33.9 percent above the same period last year. Eight Crusades were conducted into the Holy Land.
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Canada
Dominion
Baird Demonstrates Color and Movement Television
Jd L Baird shows two advances in his television process, transmitting movement in daylight and colored views. The innovations enable broadcasting of open air event action and color scenes.
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Jd. L. Baird
Teuleyvision
Shipping Clerk Faces Blunders in Heaven Matchmaking
A shipping clerk bungles a set of flawless matches as rumors swirl about celestial matchmaking. The misfiled orders cause delays in heavenly shipments and uneasy trust among angels.
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National Research Council
Jonson
Vikingen
Oslo
Trin
Baffinland
Bnethic
North Sydney N.S
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Greenland
Effinland
Bache+Peninsula
America
G. P. Mackenzie
Eskimos
North
New Marketing Organization
Ennoreland
Promine
J. C. Sutherland
Transportation Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
E D. Cotterell
Manitoba
Mr. Sutherland
Calgary
Holy Land
Peter
Osly
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