Bought and Paid For Idea in Prairie-West Debate
A Ottawa House of Commons debate reveals Western Canada’s protests against Eastern claims of ownership over prairie wealth. The piece traces a long memory of Hudson’s Bay Company rights and 1867 Confederation debts, arguing the West has funded and built Canada’s growth, not just subsidized it.
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Canada
Confederation
Prairis
House of Commons
Ottawa
Western Canada
Dominion
Prairie
Charles 11
England
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson Bay
Rupert's Land
Cei
Mantic Littoral
Pacific Seaboard
Prairies
Italy to Build Three Large Fighting Ships Under Treaty
Italy plans to construct three large battleships similar to the French Dunkerque design. Vessels to be completed by 1949 at an estimated cost of 85.9 million dollars, financed under Mussolini's Washington Treaty expansion. Premier says 70 000 ton limit will guide the program, with total expenditure around 1 billion lire plus modernization of older battleships through 1940.
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Italy
Mussolini
Ely
Life-Saving Ducks Rescues Duck From Mud Turtle
A Minnesota man recalls ducks rescuing a distressed duck trapped by a mud turtle in a lake on his farm. The flock formed a support circle, tugging and lifting to keep the animal afloat until a rescue was completed. The incident showed ducks’ calm, collective behavior under danger.
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Minnesota
Flying boats vie for air travel lead with three nations
The article notes Russia building the Maxin Kori flying liner for 70 passengers with a six crew, including a moving picture auditorium and a gun tower pilot’s perch. Britain prepares the Suite with 39 passengers and five crew plus a smoking compartment. The United States follows with the 842 airliner from Sikoraky in Bridgeport Connecticut, carrying 32 passengers and five crew, featuring a 1250 mile non stop range and capacity for 1000 pounds of freight.
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Russia
Moscow
Maxin Kori
Great Britain
United States
Bridgeport
Not Fat People Live Longer, Says Doctor
A noted physician told the American Academy of Medicine that persons who aren’t fat live the longest. He argues fat crowds and weakens organs, strains the heart, and causes illnesses. He promotes Kruschen Salts as a daily remedy to reduce fat and restore energy and normal body functioning.
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American Academy of Medicine
Tuberculosis vaccine trials progress in cattle in Ulster
Experiments with the Spahlinger vaccine continue in Northern Ireland under official auspices. Vaccinated calves resist high doses of tubercle infection and thrive, while untreated calves die. The UK pursues a national dairy herd cleanup to eradicate TB, with Ulster results promising an economical immunisation method.
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Ulster
Dwarfs Form Global Congress Under Nazi Facial Purity Creed
Report claims dwarfs in Hungary form a National Union of Hungarian Dwarfs and invite dwarfs worldwide to a 2 Dwarf Congress to be held probably in Budapest next year. They seek dwarf race purity, ban marriages with regulars, and demand lower fares and smaller homes. The group’ s leader is described as a 30 inch tall figure likened to Hitler.
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Dwarfs
Hungary
Budapest
Hitler
Invention for Radio Fans by Dr Hopkins Named Televates
Dr Nevin M Hopkins of New York University debuts a new device called the televates, claimed to let a listener transmit instant reactions to a station during a broadcast by pressing a button. Also notes that all tree squirrels build nests of twigs and leaves among branches.
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Nevin M. Hopkins
New York University
Peter Scott paints bird life in Bond Street show
Twenty two years after Captain Scott urged his infant son to love natural history Peter Scott now a celebrated painter opens his second exhibition in Bond Street London. The works depict curlew redshank and other marsh birds amid dawn light and tidal flats reflecting a life spent watching waves mudflats and the shore.
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Scott
Antarctic
Peter
Peter Scott
Bond Street
London
Grasshopper Campaigns Gain Momentum Across Prairies
The 1933 Canadian entomology review notes widespread poisoned bait campaigns in most areas reducing vast numbers of grasshoppers and crop damage. July and August brought extensive dispersal flights across infested regions, with open prairie land in three provinces now affected. Eastern Manitoba saw a hopeful reduction, while authorities plan a comprehensive 1934 campaign as outbreaks are expected to intensify.
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Dominion Entomological Branch
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Dredging For Gold On River Pek Frontier
Modern miners plan dredging of the Pek River bed on the Jugo slav Romanian border where gold has collected for over two millennia. Traders from many nations bid for dredging machinery as operations are expected to be extensive. Alexander reportedly found gold there for his 328 B.C. expedition.
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Pek
Jason
Black Sea
Alexander
B.C
Firma
Germany Guards Radio Controlled Airplane Experiments
Germany closely guards tests of radio controlled airplanes with successful crewless flights directed entirely by radio. Details are withheld as officials maintain maximum secrecy.
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Germany
Dialogue on Jane Engaged Couple Sparks Family Talk
Two speakers discuss Jane and her fiancé, judging neither is suitable. They claim to have consulted both families. The world is wide yet many are narrow, the exchange hints at social pressures and matchmaking tensions.
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Jane
Still Works At Ninety Partnership Dissolves In Worlington
Kemp and Son, a Worlington England blacksmith partnership, dissolves by mutual consent as Samuel Kemp age ninety steps aside trusting his son James to carry on. Samuel Kemp continues to work with skill, having completed seventy years at the forge, shifting from hammer blows to soldering kettles after the dissolution notice.
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Kemp and Son
Worlingtonworth
England
Samuel Kemp
James
Canada Agricultural Revenue in 1933 Falls Slightly
Canada reports total gross agricultural revenue for 1933 at 762,302,000, down 4,492,000 or 0.6 percent from 1932. Increases occur in farm animals dairy products wool fur honey clover and grass seed while declines appear in field crops fruits vegetables poultry eggs maple products tobacco and flax fibre.
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Canada
Riches rise for Hyderabad’s Nizam under Roosevelt era
The Nizam of Hyderabad, once valued at 500 million, now holds a gold hoard estimated at 800 million after a 60 percent rise in gold prices driven by U S policy. The treasure remains secured in his strong room, reflecting vast wealth linked to wartime monetary moves.
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Roosevelt
Nizam of
Hyderabad
United States
Zoo student Kennth Johnson keeps eight pets in dorm room
Kenneth Johnson, a University of California student aiming to zoo keeping, keeps eight pets in his bedroom including a black widow spider and a Gila monster. He trains them via mazes to study how to improve their happiness and intelligence while the room remains under regular animal control.
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Kenneth Johnson
University of California
Johnson
Dreams Of A Startling Future From Nikola Tesla
The Buffalo Courier notes Nikola Tesla claims four new inventions with wireless power transmission commercialized. He envisions flying machines with unlimited range, electric power shaping daily life, and vast future prospects from his discoveries.
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Nicola Tesla
Tesla
Buffalo Courier
Belgium S Hinging On Defence Policy Amid Armament Push
Belgium joins nations abandoning disarmament and fixing on national defence. In the past year and a half it has spent 50 million dollars defending its German border. Europe moves toward larger armaments, aiding production and raising the threat of widespread death.
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Belgium
Europe
Islands Drift Downstream As River Currents Erode Ends
A concise note explains river island migration with upstream erosion creating deposits downstream. It asserts natural island movement is continual unless rock outcrops halt it, illustrating how current shapes landforms over time. The remark closes with a wry comparison about sermons and examples.
Good Friend To Horses Policeman M Elwood Faces Court
Policeman M Elwood, 20 years on the London force and keen lover of horses, prosecuted John Hill a grocer for cruelty to a pony. The case marked Elwood's hundredth equine welfare effort in court.
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M. Elwood
John Hill
Elwood
London
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