Agriculture in School Aims to Ground Students in Science
Dr. R C Wallace argues agriculture belongs in curricula not as a mere subject but through science principles. He notes limited success of Grade IX and X programs and the value of applying scientific concepts to plant, animal, weather, and soil processes to build genuine agricultural competence.
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Canada
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturism
Edmonton
R. C. Wallace
University of Alberta
Wallace
Flying Fla Flying Fish Glide From Water to Air
The text explains flying fish do not flap their wings. They glide after gaining speed underwater, using wind currents and momentum to lift into the air. Once aloft, substantial speed and distance, often around 500 feet, are achieved.
Ontario festival distant sound carries over 500 miles
A festivalgoer in Ontario reported hearing mushcing from more than 500 miles away while seated near the bandstand. He could not hear the bend concert from his location and activated his radio from Chicago.
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Ontario
Chicago
Lites Life by The Arctic bee Girl Spreads Two Years in the Merth
Marie Onraet 20 of Gaspe recalls two years in Cameron Bay and Great Bear Lake north of the Arctic circle. She found city life empty after Montreal visits and plans to marry a mining engineer and return north. Her travels included railroad to Peace River and a hazardous trek by boat and plane to Fort Franklin, then mining trips near Cameron Bay. She observed Eskimo and Indian life, noting Eskimo cleanliness and barter of wives, with death as punishment for stealing.
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Bee Girl
Merth
Marie Onraet
Gaspe
Lfe
Montreal
Cameron Bay
Great Bear Lake
Arctic Circle
Marie
Queen's
Athabsaka
Lorient
Peace River
Lake Athabasks
Blave River
Great Slave Lake
Mackenzie
Great Bear
Fort Franklin
Abe
South Africa Celebrates Union and Crown Ties
St Thomas Times Journal notes South Africa marks both the king’s jubilee and the Union’s long history formed in 1910 by the Transvaal Orange Free State Cape Colony and Natal. It highlights Boer and British cooperation in World War I and praises leaders Smuts and Hertzog while detailing a two million white population split between Dutch and British and vast wealth from the gold belt.
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Union of South Africa
Transvaal
Orange Free State
The
Cape
Natal
Brn
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Paul Kruger
Canada
Germany
South-West Africa
Britain
South Africa
Jan Smuts
Hertzog
St. Thomas
Second woman senator from Saskatchewan among new appointees
Canada elevates Mrs Howard Fallis of Peterborough to the senate, making her the second woman to hold a senate seat and the only woman on the governing side. The article notes her eight years on a Saskatchewan farm and places her among pioneering women in Canadian politics alongside Mrs Calrine Wilson and Miss Agnes MacPhail.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Howard Fallia
Senate
Iva Campbell Fallis
R. B. Bennett
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
W. L. Mackenzie King
Calrine Wilson
Ottawa
Agnes MacPhail
Grey County
House of Commons
Grey
Ont
Gulls Adapt to Cherry Harvest in Utah Salt Lake Valley
Gulls in Salt Lake Valley Utah have altered feeding behavior to cherry crops. Unable to perch on branches they hover beat down fruit with wings then feed on the floor. Some roost atop trees with wings spread to devour fruit. Clarence Cottam of the Biological Survey notes this shift follows population growth and competition for typical foods.
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U.S. Biological Survey
Salt Lake Valley
Utah
Clarence Cottam
Wrong Man Mistaken for Lloyd George Delivers Speech
Glasgow magistrate James Gray was greeted with cheers as a crowd of about 3,000 mistook him for Lloyd George. Gray spoke on the former prime minister’s New Deal proposals before the real Lloyd George arrived and found the audience largely spent.
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Lloyd George
James Gray
Glasgow
Scotland
Gray
Loyd George
The Lonar Eclipse Observed In Moon’s Dark Passage
The lunar eclipse results from the sun earth and moon aligning so the moon travels through the umbral cone. The long duration of 1 hour 40 minutes and 18 seconds is due to the moon passing through a thick cone region about 226,000 miles from Earth.
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Earth
Last Evidence Of Zeppelin Havoc In London Vanishes
The final debris of Zeppelin raids on London disappears as a waste block near Ely Place Camberwell cleared for new buildings. Cleopatra's Needle embankment base remains pocked from 1917 air raids, near Parliament. A wooden spoon should replace metal for sieving, and the phrase reflects on where city leaders originated.
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London
Ely Place
Camberwell
Victoria Embankment
Tiny coats and hats pattern and cheese production totals
A Winnipeg pattern notice describes a double breasted coat and hat in Copen blue wool crepe with a quilted lining option, size 1 to 4 years, pattern No. 803. Mail orders to Pattern Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Also notes Dominion Bureau of Statistics cheese production in Canada rising to 11,996,248 pounds in 1934 after 1933 decline.
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Pattern Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Proof sought of Erasmus statue turning page tale
A Dutch American historian Hendrick Willem Van Loon began a New York radio program. As a boy in Rotterdam he spent three days watching a bronze Erasmus statue to verify the legend that it turns a book page hourly. A separate line notes a person asking about a sister named Jimmy and a ring change upstairs.
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Hendrick Willem van Loon
New York
Rotterdam
Erasmus
Health Of The World Population In Low Mood Years
The League of Nations Year Book shows most countries kept good health despite a low mood era. Death rates in 27 of 30 nations ran below the 1926 1930 prosperity average while birth rates fell overall. Germany led birth rate gains, rising 7.1 per 1000. the United States 6.7. Mental illness cases showed no rise per a US committee study.
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League of Nations
Ita Vic
Germany
Great Britain
Ireland
Poland
Denmark
France
United States
United States National Committee For Mental Disease
American Psychiatric Association
Winnipeg
Free Preas
Netherlands Submarine K-18 completes record voyage
The Netherlands Navy submarine K-18 returned to Amsterdam from Surabaya after a solo 25,000 mile voyage starting November 14 from Helder. A crew of 35 led by Commander G Hetterzhy visited five continents and logged 2380 dives for 264 underwater hours. Professor Felix A Vening of Utrecht University conducted scientific observations including the deepest Atlantic sounding at 6700 metres between Dakar and Pernambuco.
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Netherlands Navy
Amsterdam
Surabaya
East Indies
Helder
Holland
G. Jp Hetterzhy
Felix A. Vening
Utrecht University
Atlantic
Dakar
Pernambuco
Williams Lake Stockyards Map Cariboo and Chilcotens Reach
The stockyards at Williams Lake British Columbia sit at the heart of a vast region. Cattle from distant ranches require three weeks to reach the stockyards while cattle from the western side of the Chilcotten river take about ten days.
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Williams Lake
B.C
Cariboo
Childofen
Chilcoten River
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Hature
Prp
Ellen Worth
Jimmy
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West
Indica
Ula Aks
Lintiment
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