Radium Refinery Set Up In Ontario Town Port Hope
A historical look at Canada's first radium refinery at Port Hope Ontario as a complex plant processes pitchblend ore through vats, stairs, and tanks. Scientists extract radium into minute quantities for cancer treatment, with strict safety measures and precision weighing.
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Ontario
Great Bear Lake
Canada
Port Hope
Ont
M. L. Pochon
Paris
Chicago
Hollands Zuider Zee dam advances reclamation effort
The St Thomas Times Journal reports Holland’s 20 mile Zuider Zee dam is complete enough to drive across on a motor vehicle. The project links North Holland and Friesland and is part of a $400 million reclamation plan to create 550000 acres of new land. The first 5000 acre polder is in cultivation as work continues on massive locks bridges and transport routes.
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Holland
Zuider Zee
North Holland
Friesland
St. Thomas Times- Journal
New Player Credits Early Training For Hitting Skills
A new player explains his skill comes from early training with his mother on bargain days. A separate note mentions Guatemala coffee production last season totaling 567000 sacks.
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Guatemala
Hard Times Echoes From 1894 Drink Named Sin and Misery
A Wakonda South Dakota Monitor report notes wartime comparisons to modern hardship but finds no one sipping sin and misery coffee substitute. It explains the phrase origins from bread burned to black, steeped as tea, named for a neighbor’s remark that burning bread is a sin and drinking it is misery.
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A. E. Hatch
Hatch
Wakonda
S.D
Monitor
Cunning dress patterns for early children
A vintage fashion snippet describes a dainty yellow batiste dress with a French yoke and gathering options. It mentions blue ground dimity with posies, plus other sturdy fabrics like pique and gingham. Style No. 465 covers sizes 2, 4, and 6 with price details and pattern costs.
Secretary Mills outlines recovery program and Canada plan
The Financial Post reports Ogden Mills urges a balanced budget easy money policy debt settlement and world exchange stabilization including a return to the gold standard and lifting barriers He adds a Canada plan to balance federal and provincial budgets and cut local taxes.
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Ogden L. Mills
United States
Canada
Financial Post
Canadian Airways Reports 1932 Passenger and Freight Totals
Canadian Airways carried 8,963 passengers on other lines and 0 on mail lines, with 299,066 pounds of mail and 1,870,136 pounds of freight and express. The fleet logged over a million miles, including 287,372 on mail routes and 1,006,833 on other lines. An elephant’s daily hay, corn, and roots intake noted as 200 pounds.
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Canadian Airways
Warning on U S naval weakness sparks war fears
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett urged that the United States risks war by boasting of naval strength. Speaking to the Naval Academy Graduates Association of New York, he criticized the Washington treaty of 1922 and warned about Japan building a navy for Manchukuo, urging restraint and vigilance.
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United States
William A. Moffett
Naval Aeronautics
Moffett
Naval Academy Graduates’ Association of New York
Far East
Sam
Japan
Manchukuo
Radio Licenses Rise Sharply in Marine Department Report
The radio license program shows rising demand as buyers surge. In the ten months ending January total licenses issued reached 716,000, up from 598,358 for the full prior year. The report notes more than 100,000 additional licenses were issued already this year.
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Marine Department
Flying Hamburger: Germanys Fastest Train In Europe
A Diessel-motored express train called the flying Hamburger debuts on the Hamburg Berlin route, reaching 104 miles per hour with two 410 horsepower Diesel engines and two generators. It saves about an hour over standard trains, runs non stop Berlin to Hamburg in 2 hours 20 minutes, and could reach 100 mph with dedicated tracks.
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Hamburg-Berlin
Bremen
Lehrter
Berlin
America
Frederick Fuchs
Federal Railways
Hamburg
Paris
Fuchs
Germany
Hamburger
Public Misunderstanding Urged for Economic Attitude
Sir Norman Angell at the Oxford Luncheon Club urged laymen to adopt an economic perspective akin to that in preventive science to prevent societal chaos. He cited U.S. debt disputes, noting economists favor debt cancellation while voters demand full payment, warning that political fear of public opinion could stall settlement.
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Norman Angell
Oxford
Norman
United States
Manchester Guardian
Rats in North Caucasus require air power for relief
The North Caucasus reports a rat infestation so severe that authorities dispatched five airplanes to scatter poison. The aerial effort succeeded in eradicating the pests though the danger prompted urgent appeals for assistance.
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Hamlin
North Caucasus
Russia
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ZNY
Bolivia
Peru
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