Reindeer Plan Brings Eskimos Toward Ranching Life
A Canadian social project aims to shift Eskimos from nomadic living to a settled ranching lifestyle by introducing 2500 to 3000 domesticated reindeer to Kittigazuit near the Mackenzie River. The herd travels from Alaska via Yukon, with Laplander families guiding Eskimo youth in mission schools to adopt settled, owned life. The government hopes to catch them young by apprenticing Eskimo youths to reindeer herders to foster a new generation open to settled routines.
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Kittigazuit
Mackenzie River Drita
Yukon Territory
Kotzebue Peninsula
Alaska
Andrew Bahr
Terrtory
Arctic
Kittigatuit
Canada
Iike
Northland
Relative Heating Value Of Canadian Woods From Ottawa Study
The Forest Products Laboratories in Ottawa prepared a table on the fuel value of Canadian woods. Equal weights of woods yield similar heat, with heavier woods giving more heat per cubic foot. A standard cord of seasoned maple or beech weighs over 4000 pounds, while softwoods weigh less. Two pounds of wood approximate the heat of one pound of anthracite coal, though coal can burn more efficiently. about two pounds of wood are needed to match a boiler output of one pound of coal. Further data are available from the Forest Products Laboratories in Ottawa.
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Canada
Forest Products Laboratories
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
A Puzzle On How Soap Removes Dirt
The article notes chemists puzzled by soap action in dirt removal. It explains soap decomposes in water into an alkali and fatty acid. The alkali dissolves grease, while the fatty acid neutralizes excess alkali to protect the cleansed surface from attack.
Death of Herbert Thincker Herr, Pittsburgh inventor
Herbert Thincker Herr, 57, vice president of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, died. He was the inventor of locomotive air brake equipment and turbine improvements, with notable work on engines and remote control for steam turbines used in electro propelled battleships.
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Herbert Thincker Herr
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Pittsburgh
Herr
London Traffic Stopped For A Bird In The Street
A London street scene at the Lord Mayor’s Mansion House stops traffic as a young starling halts autos buses and pedestrians. A bank clerk uses his hat to save the fledgling, prompting reflection on daily choices between haste and mercy in a crowded city.
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London
Lord Mayors Mansion House
St. Thomas
Escape Velocity and Earth Satellite Theory
A noted calculation states that an object launched from Earth at five miles per second would become a satellite of Earth. If speed rises above five miles per second the trajectory becomes an ellipse widening with speed until seven miles per second, at which point the object would escape Earth’s gravity on a parabolic path and orbit the Sun.
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Earth
Hong Kong Sees 3 Million Arrivals Departures Last Year
Hong Kong China with a population of 900000 recorded about 3 million arrivals and departures in the last year reflecting busy mobility.
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Hong Kong
China
Califorate Warm Wisters Revealed By Cajun Pass
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology explain that Cajun Pass near San Bernardino acts as a natural heating plant, turning desert air into warm Santa Ana winds and shaping Southern California winters. The process creates a home grown climate, with sea breezes cooling in late spring and beaches maintaining a coastal atmosphere.
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Irving P. Krick
Guggenhem Laboratory of Aeronautics
California Institute of Technology
Pacific
Cajun Pass
San Bernardino
California
Nature
Professor Krick
San Bernadino Mountain
Santa Ana
Pacific Ocean
Christian Science Monitor
Birthplace dispute over scalding of cream sparks debate
A tangled claim between Devon and Cornwall over where the scalding of cream originated is noted alongside other oddities. The report also mentions fourteen million herring caught off Lowestoft Scotland in two days, and a aphoristic remark about equality and hospitality.
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Devon
Cornwall
England
Lowestoft
Scotland
Slimming Bias Cut Bodice with Attached Panties Pattern
The text describes a bias cut, slimming undergarment style designed to flatten the heavier figure. It combines a bust-fitted top with attached panties, replacing a bra and offering a cost saving. Style No. 535 fits sizes from 14 to 44 inches bust, uses crepe de chine and crepe satin, requires 3/14 yards of 39 inch material for size 36, and costs 20 cents in stamps or coin.
Patterned eggs found in Falkland Islands raise notes
Eggs described as large as dinner plates, laid by a black-browed albatross, are reported from the Falkland Islands. Germany announces a plan to devote nearly 75,000 acres to flax cultivation while diamond cutting in the Netherlands continues to expand.
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Falkland Islands
Germany
Netherlands
Napoleon Planned Pacific Invasion Of Canada Says Archival Find
Three century old books in Ottawa archives reveal Napoleon considered invading Canada by the Pacific route. The French translations of Mackenzie voyages were studied by Bernadotte and smuggled to gauge North American terrain. Napoleon eventually abandoned the plan as impractical, with the volumes ending in St Helena and later the Canadian archives via Mrs Heald.
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Dominion
Ottawa
Napoleon
Canada
Pacific
Alexander MacKenie
France
Europe
St. Helena
England
British North America
Mississippi
Bernadotte
Sweden
Alexander Mackenzie
London
MacKenzie
North America
Mexico
Bernadette
Louisiana
St Helena
Bernard Heald
Midhurst
Fairy Flag of Dunvegan Castle Moral Tale of Duty
A fragment notes Dunvegan Castle in Scotland famed fairy flag of the MacLeods as the clan’s most popular relic surpassing a Prince Charlie waistcoat and hair locket. Tradition says the flag, gift of a fairy, aids battles and fishers, may be waved only three times for its owners, has helped twice, and will do so again before the fairy spirits it away. London is noted for children’s beauty shops.
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Canada
United States
Royal Bank of Canada
Dominion
North America
Europe
Dreuth
Dunvegan Castle
Scotland
Prince “Charlie
Dunvegan
Weigall and Tutankhamen Curse Linked by Deaths
London obituary notes Curator Weigall aged 55, former inspector general of antiquities for Egypt, who helped unveil Tutankhamen's tomb. His long illness sparked talk of the curse as other expedition members including the Earl of Carnarvon and Woolf Joel died after visits to Egyptian tombs.
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Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Egypt
London
Tutankhamen
Weigall
King Tut
Earl of Carnavon
Woolf Joel
Valley of Kings
J. F. Cellsrier
Prospective Buyer Seeks First Class Second Hand Car
A buyer expresses a wish to view a first class second hand car while the proprietor responds with a distracted remark. The terse dialogue captures a casual inquiry and light interaction over a vehicle purchase.
Production in France Steady Since July Thirty Two
With the exception of August, production in France has given steady since July 1932. Large cotton and woolen mills are being built in South China.
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France
Leing Bult
South China
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