Look Ahead And Prepare For Western Canada Weather Shift
The prairie provinces, especially southern Saskatchewan, receive rain easing drought and boosting crops and fodder. While prospects look favorable, prudent long term planning is urged to conserve moisture and build reserves against future bad years, with emphasis on frugality, prudent investment, and preparation for inevitable future droughts.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Joseph
Canadian seed potato shipments reach 1.33 million bushels in 1934
Total certified seed potato exports from Canada in 1934 amounted to 1 328 745 bushels with 728 682 shipped January through May and 600 163 from fall through December 31. Exports of canned fruit to Great Britain rose 28 percent from January 1 to March 16, 1935 versus 1934, led by apples pears and peaches.
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Canada
Great Britain
Giant black mound near Lac La Plonge sparks oil gas theories
Regina Leader reports a giant dome shaped mound of black substance near Vermette Lake southwest of Lac Niéa in northern Saskatchewan. The material, described as tar like with a bubbling salt spring, was showcased by Attorney General T C Davis after an aerial tour, with theories ranging from geyserite deposits to potential oil or natural gas.
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Saskatchewan
Lac Nie A
Crosse
T. C. Davis
K.C
Lake Athabarca
Davis
Vermette Lake
Lac la Plonge
Regina
A Marvel At Languages Man Retires At Eighty One
George E. Hay, aged 81, retires as proofreader for a London firm handling foreign publications. He knows about 500 languages, focusing on Oriental tongues, and corrected proofs in Sanskrit Sindhi Persian Punjabi Gujarati Marathi Urdu Hindi Bengali Oriya Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam Sinhala Burmese Siamese Lao Tibetan Arabic Coptic Armenian Ethiopic Ancient Egyptian also Chinese Syrian Greek and Hebrew. He learned largely by evening classes and reading in museums and the London School of Oriental Languages, aided by a remarkable memory. Even in retirement he studies languages, while millions know only one.
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George Borrow
George E. Hay
London
Fim
Hay
London School of Oriental Languages
Science Service says Lake Superior larger than Victoria Nyanza
The News-Chronicle recalls a debate over lake sizes noting that Lake Superior remains the world’s largest freshwater lake, surpassing Africa’s Lake Victoria Nyanza by about a thousand square miles according to Science Service figures.
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Science Service
Superior
News- Chronicle
Lake Superior
Lake Victoria Nyanza
Africa
Victoria Nyanza
al Science Service
Port Arthur
Motor-Bandit Stopper Stops Speeders in Bolton
A Bolton policeman unveils a motor bandit stopper a speed ball that bursts into six foot spiked arms when thrown before a speeding car. The device is claimed to tear through the toughest tires.
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Bolton
England
Kruschen Salts Restores Use of Right Hand
A woman suffering severe rheumatism in arms and hands reports a dramatic recovery after three weeks of Kruschen Salts. She previously could not sleep or perform housework or sew. The product is claimed to dissolve uric acid crystals and aid their expulsion through natural channels.
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Kruschen
J. H
German liners Bremen and Europa eye blue ribbon Atlantic run
Hamburg dispatch says North German Lloyd ships Bremen and Europa may challenge Normandie for the Atlantic speed crown. The Boerzen Zeitung notes Rex or Bremen or Europa could surge with unused horsepower, having held back on regular runs to pursue competition with Normandie or Queen Mary.
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Bremen
Europa
Normandie
Boerzen Zeitung
Hamburg
Rex
Germany
Monkeys and Bears Provide Entertaining Playtime
Monkeys at the London Zoo stage games from dining at a table to polite meals, while bears thrill watchers with a chase on ice. A whaling ship crew once saw two bears push and tumble on a floe, tumbling into the water before scrambling back for another round.
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London Zoo
Town Sees Double in California Twin Contest
Long Beach drew five hundred pairs of twins for a citywide contest. The youngest were Patricia Gale and Gale Patricia La Forte at 11 weeks, the oldest H. E. and A. L. McArden aged 85. A twin marriage ceremony drew 71 pairs of twins as bridesmaids and another pair as flower girl and ring bearer. Also a farmer, D Read of Bashaw district, hatched hawk eggs under a turkey hen after robbing nests, producing a brood of sky battlers.
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California
Long Beach
Patricia Gale
Gale Patricia la Forte
H. E
A. L. McArden
Hale
D. Read
Bashaw
Read
England invents bed extending keyboard and ill pianist piano
An English invention features a keyboard extension for beds and a piano playable by someone lying ill. The device enables a patient to play music without moving from bed, aiming to aid therapy and comfort.
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England
The Queen's Mind Shines In Quiet Kindness And Wit
The Jubilee profile portrays the Queen as thoughtful and reserved at first contact yet warm and memorable in conversation. She remembers everyone she meets, shows extraordinary kindness, and values Princess Elizabeth as a charming, unspoiled child despite her high status.
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Nie
Elizabeth
Rome expels Chicago Tribune Rome correspondent David Darrah
The Italian government expelled David Darrah and his wife from Rome for writing anti Italian articles. The press bureau ordered immediate departure and banned New York Times copies in Italy over an editorial linking Baldwin and Mussolini. Similar bans had targeted English papers and the Voelkischer Beobachter.
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David Darrah
Rome
The
Chicago Tribune
Darrah
New York Times
Italy
Baldwin
Mussodini
Times
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
Benito Musaolink
New York
Manchester Guardian
Voelkischer Beobachter
Silver Boom At Mayo Yukon Sees Influx Of Miners
Oldtimers and newcomers rush to Mayo Yukon Territory as rising silver prices revive activity at the camp. Every house, cabin, and shack is taken. Large operators ready equipment, while individual claim owners begin shipping ore for summer.
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Mayo
Yukon Territory
Silicon gel air conditioner described to Toronto engineers
W A Stark of Cleveland presented an air conditioner idea to the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers in Toronto. It uses a porous sand called silica gel to absorb water vapour and poisons from the human system.
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American Society of Meating and Ventilating Engineers
Toronto
W. A. Stark
Cleveland
Hair count facts about scalp and hair
The article notes the scalp holds about 1000 hairs per square inch with the head averaging 110000 hairs. It states women have a higher average than men while red heads average about 90000 hairs.
It is wonderful to have a friend but it is still more wonderful
A concise reflection on the value of friendship emphasizing that giving and receiving friendship enriches life more than possession. The sentiment highlights loyalty, companionship, and mutual support as core virtues of true friendship.
Testing Device for Safer Wheel Shimmy Elimination
A spinning wheel tester from Popular Mechanics shows a portable device that mounts a wheel on a motor shaft carried on a dolly. The motor accelerates wheels to eighty to one hundred mph to identify shimmy by a violent shake, indicating imbalance and need for truing without removing the car from the shop.
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Popular
Mechanica
Choir Boys Praise Chocolate Milkshake On Tour
Twelve young choristers from the London choir school toured Canada and the United States and returned with epigrammatic opinions focused on food. A standout remark praised the chocolate milkshake as a marvelous drink comparing it to possible offerings back home.
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London Choir School
England
Canada
United States
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