Experiments With Aerodynamic Trains Across North America
United States railways test streamlined trains between New York and Los Angeles at about 85 miles per hour, aiming for two days and two nights. Canadian officials, motive power engineers, and electric and roadbed cost debates frame a cautious forecast of feasibility and safety.
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United States Railways
New York
Los Angeles
Canadian Railway
Canada
Flyng Hamburger
Germany
High Costa
Praise For Modern Girl By Lord Duncannon Visit
Lord Duncannon, son of Earl Bess borough, visiting Montreal with the Ottawa Drama League, praises the modern girl’s preparedness. He tells Molly of the Montreal Herald that new fashions suit smarter women who meet today’s demands. He plans a coming-of-age party in Ottawa and sees politics as his future, with business first.
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Lord Duncannon
Earl Bessborough
Govenor-General
Montreal
Ottawa Drama League
Rome
Canada
Cambridge
Ottawa
Bobby
Good Sugar Beet Yield Leads Alberta Districts in 1933
Northern Irrigation District in southern Alberta leads sugar beet yields in 1933 with an average expected above 12 tons per acre. Turin tops at nearly 12 tons per acre, Iron Springs follows with 11.38, while Taber-Barnwell trails and has long held the high yield record prior to this year.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Turin
Iron Springs
Taber-Barnwell
Row Bush Surprises Owner in Georgetown Bush Mystery
Wilson Minshall of Georgetown British Guiana reports a surprising rose bush anomaly. After years of white roses, an isolated single red rose appeared among the white blooms, suggesting an unusual mutation or graft. The original tree supposedly bore white roses, adding mystery to the backyard garden observation.
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Bits
Wilson Minshall
Georgetown
British Guiana
Hedging Evaporation Observations At Swift Current
Observations at the Dominion Experimental Station Swift Current Bask show a Ceragana hedge five and a half feet high reduces evaporation to a distance of 75 feet along a north south direction. Wind direction affects effectiveness, sometimes clearly reducing soil evaporation and crop water loss.
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Swift Current
Dominion
Champion Woman Wrestler Misa Emine Seeks Challenger in Turkey
Champion wrestler Misa Emine travels across Turkey seeking a challenger to her supremacy. Weight near 400 pounds, she earns a living by strength displays, supporting a 50 pound wheat sack with four men on it or biting an iron bar while two men bend it.
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Misa Emine
Turkey
Mass production plan for $700 flivver aeroplane
Twenty two leading aircraft manufacturers, after talks in New York, backed Eugene L Vidal's proposal to develop a low priced plane to be produced on a mass production basis, bringing the dream of affordable aviation closer to reality.
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Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
New York
Eugene L. Vidal
Department of Commerce
Affable Passenger and Ditto Debate Husband's Occupation
In a terse exchange a passenger questions a man's career, while Ditto claims the husband is a prosperous produce merchant. A separate agricultural note estimates a common pigweed can shed up to 117000 seeds.
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Imposing Ditto
One Of The Strangest Lakes Walkable Pitch Lake
The Trinidad Lake La Brea is a vast pitch lake occupying a volcanic crater where bitumen banks remain hard enough to support horse drawn carts. Fresh deposits form at about 130 feet depth and the lake covers around 100 acres containing over nine million tons of bitumen.
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Lake
la Brea
Trinidad
Lake la Brea
Seed Wheat For Russia Sixteen Thousand Bushels
Saskatchewan seed wheat shipment of sixteen thousand bushels chiefly Garnet will depart Saskatoon for Siberia to supply early grain for the Soviet districts. Neil Stewart Dunblane, president of the Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers' Association, notes farmers received a premium over market prices. The seed, stored at Moose Jaw and cleaned there, is slated for February delivery in New York. some wheat was grown in Alberta.
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Siberia
Saskatchewan
Neil Stewart Dunblane
Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers’ Association
Stewart
Moose Jaw
New York
Alberta
Retaining Winter Moisture Boosts Wheat Yields at Swift Current
The Dominion Experimental Station at Swift Current reports a 42 percent yield increase in wheat on land where winter moisture was retained versus land where water runoff occurred. The experiments compared land in the same cultivation state with runoff prevented against similar land with runoff.
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Dominion
Swift Current
Sub-station near Princess Risborough run by same family for 93 years
A sub-postmaster near Princess Risborough England has managed the same family run post for 93 years. He holds a license from 1840 authorising selling stamps under historic statutes tied to William IV era measures against forged stamps and export rebates for Irish gold and silver plate.
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Princess Risborough
England
William the Fourth
Ireland
World Peace Flag Proposed by Toronto Author
A Toronto author, WK Dyer, advances a scheme to promote world peace. The plan includes a white oval flag with blue word peace, translated into multiple languages, to be shown in schools worldwide accompanied by a five verse song. The flag aims for League of Nations consideration after prints reach many nations.
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Toronto
WK. Dyer
British Empire
United States
League of Nations
League of Nations Society
Canada
Gen. Leva
Dyar
Dyer
Bricks in Color Introduce Multi Hue Rough Texture Bricks
Recent developments show multi colored rough texture bricks entering use with hues like Autumn Tints Cherry Red and Silver Grey. Ties also have at least ten color choices.
Prefers Human Beings: A Lion Shuns Lions, Fawns on People
Zoo attendants in Portland Oregon report a lion that avoids other lions and females in the same cage. The big male only relaxes when his keeper enters the cage, showing a bold king of the jungles with humans. A supposed oak shortage may stem from antique furniture production.
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Portland
Oregon
Private Writes King for Army Discharge Ends in Change of Posting
Private Sam Lee of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment seeks compassionate discharge by writing to King George. The CO informs him Privates cannot write to the King, then posts him to join the 1st Battalion in India. Lee accepts the army’s guidance and proceeds onboard.
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Sam Lee
Northamptonshire Regiment
C.O
High Seas
India
Leo
Poltely
Language Of The Bees At Beekeepers Convention
Mrs Ll Mlingsworth of Hertfordshire described a bee communication system at Cheltenham. A bee finding honey dances to inform the colony and can release a scent to guide followers if others do not respond.
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Ll. Mlingsworth
Hertfordshire
England
Cheltenham
Silver and gold basis proposed for Canadian currency
A plan to use silver alongside gold as the basis for Canadian currency will be debated at the coming session of Parliament. The issue will be introduced in the House of Commons by Thomas Feld of New Westminster, who has pushed a resolution on remonetization of silver.
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Partiamnszat
House of Commons
Thomas Feld
Lib
New Westminster
Buy German Parade Cheese Rolls Through Helin Streets
A 19 foot wide cheese from Tilsit East Prussia enclosed in wood rolled through Helin streets during a recent Buy German parade. The spectacle highlighted nationalist sentiment and cultural display in the city.
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Tilsit
East Prussia
Helin
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