Good Agricultural Land Near Hilson Bay Railway Revealed
A federal expert reports a large tract of healthy agricultural land along the Hudson Bay Railway from Hudson Bay Junction to Deer River in Manitoba. He notes clay belt soils from Mile 137 to 327, growing crops, garden produce, fruit trees, and early dairy farming potential, despite limited settlement and muskeg drainage challenges.
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Ontario
Manitoba
Hilson Bay Railway
Federal Department of Agriculture
Maniitoba
Experimental Farms
Department
Northern Territory
Hudson Bay Junction
Hudson Bay
Pas
Garnet
Renard
Ceres
Marquis
Minden
Alaska
Gopher
Banner
Victory
O.A.C
Mile 137
Hugh Gray
Gray Homestead
George Cowan
Mile 185
Reward
Deer River
Western Canada Saline Lakes Show Potash Potential
Geologists and chemists study saline lakes in Saskatchewan with plans for large sodium sulphate plants. Expanse near Lake Johnston and Horseshoe Lake deposits attract investment as federal investigations reveal many lakes across Western Canada contain substantial hydrous sodium sulphate deposits.
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Saskatchewan
Lake Johnston
Horseshoe Lake
Moose Jaw
Federal Department of Mines
Canada
Regina Daily Post
Mountie Relishes Arctic Life On Nine Year Furlough
Sergeant F Anderton of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police spends his first furlough in nine years. He traveled to Vancouver on the police schooner St Roch after fifteen months patrolling from Herschel Island to Cambridge Bay. Anderton has 17 years in Arctic service and calls the life the only one offering freedom and outdoor work. The St Roch is a 90 foot two masted auxiliary schooner built for Arctic duty.
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Anderton
F. Anderton
Roya Canadian Mounted Police
Arctic
Vancouver
St. Roch
Herschel Island
Cambridge Bay
Canada
Territories
Dominion
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Arctic Service
Why the Horse Chestnut Got Its Name
The sixteenth century botanist Gerardo claims the tree is named for use in treating horses with coughs and breath problems. A second theory notes a horse shoe mark where the leaf stem attaches, complete with nails.
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Gerardo
Alberta Oil Output Rises in 1928 Totals 489531 Barrels
Alberta produced 410623 barrels of crude naphtha, 70734 barrels of light crude, and 8174 barrels of heavy crude in 1928 totaling 489531 barrels, up 47 percent from 1927. Over 14000000 cubic feet of natural gas were consumed in the year.
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Alberta
Radio shortages echo through generations in distant memory
A reflective, terse dialogue questions if radios existed in the speaker's boyhood. A somber woman endures profound suffering, contrasting with the lighter reminiscence and hinting at harsher life within the same era.
Placing Poultry Production in Manitoba on Profitable Basis
The Manitoba Co operative Poultry Marketing Association Ltd reports growth over seven years from 1,009 to 11,000 producers in Hartney Manitoba. In 1928, 34,000 live birds weighing 141,013 pounds netted producers 13 to 15 cents per pound, with total sales of 19,788 dollars. Dressed poultry totaled 1,231,326 pounds worth 356,998 dollars, from 73 cars. Six egg stations shipped 54,172 cases valued at 489,880 dollars. Average producer prices ranged from 19 cents per dozen for cracks to 27 cents for extras.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Cooperative Poultry Marketing Association Ltd
Hartney
Extension Service
Department of Agriculture
Many Countries Buy Canadian Wheat and Flour
A recent report shows eighty three nations as customers for Canadian wheat and flour. Great Britain led imports as Canada ground over 94 million bushels of wheat into commercial flour in 1928, up eight million from the prior year. Total flour output reached about 20.9 million barrels, up nearly two million barrels.
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Great Britain
Giant prehistoric footprint reported near Limpopo River
An enormous footprint imprint, claimed by an Italian scientific expedition, suggests a prehistoric man of unparalleled size. The find, near the Limpopo River, also shows several ape-like characteristics, indicating a previously unknown human form.
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Limpopo River
Untouched Lunch Sparks Different Parental Reactions
A man leaving his lunch untouched is blamed on lack of care, while a child replicating the act is attributed to natural wickedness. The remark highlights divergent moral judgments based on age and gender.
Smith Leads CP Rail Colonization Construction Branch
The Superintendent of the Colonization Construction Branch at Canadian Pacific Railway has 23 years with the company, 18 in farm development. He supervised 95 percent of cottages on 1500 improved farms developed by the firm. This year the Branch handles cottages under an overseas settlement scheme with the British Government and the Department of Colonization and Development.
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Colonization Construction Branch
Canadian Pacific Railway
Smith
Overseas Settlement Committee
Department of Colonization and Development
Grain export hopes from Peace River raise Pacific trade prospects
Preliminary estimates place the 1928 exportable Peace River wheat surplus at 16,000,000 bushels with much of it aimed at Oriental markets via Pacific Coast ports. Naoki Iwasaki, a Japanese flour mill representative, visited Peace River and his company is seen to plan large purchases from several northern district elevator operators. Iwasaki’s firm buys about 15,000,000 bushels annually and runs 12 mills in Japan.
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Peace River
Oriental
Pacific Coast
Naoki Iwasaki
Vanishing Windmills Mark Berlin Landmarks
Berlin holds only two windmills and water wheels of old fame. A 300 year old water wheel remains near Tiergarten last run in 1837. The Zehlendorf windmill survives twenty feet from the road in fair condition, its blades idle for decades.
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Berlin
Tiergarten
Zehlendorf
Weight range of whales from pounds to 150 tons
The text notes whales vary from a few hundred pounds up to 140 or 150 tons. It states the heaviest whale on record weighed 147 tons.
Proposal for a World English Academy to Stabilize Language
A. P. Garland argues in the London Daily Express for forming an English Speaking Academy. A British American body of scholars and authors would set standards, guide teachers and grammars, and coordinate changes to avoid divergent English across Britain and America.
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Great Britain
America
British Isles
Wigan
Sussex
Thames
Hudson
Britain
A. P. Garland
London Daily Express
New Modish Model Dress Pattern in Canton Crepe
A fashionable dress pattern, Style No. 714, features a violet canton crepe scarf tie, sheer velvet trim, crystal buckle bodice, and a back flutter skirt with draped left front. Available in sizes 16 to 42 bust with options in black crepe satin and various colored crepes. pattern price 25 cents.
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Petunia
Ami
Reforestation Plan for 640 Acre BC Coastal Zone
British Columbia announces a province wide reforestation scheme under Minister F P Burden. The 640 acre area 20 miles south of Vancouver along the Pacific highway will be replanted and preserved as a forest. About 50 acres will house nurseries to grow trees for transplanting to other zones along the coast.
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Green Timbers
Pacific Highway
Vancouver
F. P. Burden
Marquis Wheat Harvest at Coaldale from 17 Acre Field
Frank Knapp harvested Marquis wheat on a 17 acre Coaldale field. The yield was 52 bushels per acre from seed sown in late April. The straw reached about five feet and grew evenly.
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Coaldale
Frank Knapp
Father and son discuss donkey marriages by the sea
A seaside exchange has a boy asking if donkeys have wives and the father confirming that donkeys do have wives. The joke underscores a light moment about animal relationships.
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Bertram
Ancaster
Hamilton
Dora Virtue
Montreal
B. P. Bellong
Winnipeg
Ada Mackenzie
Virginia Wilson
Chicago
United States
Europe
Japan
India
China
Newspaper Union
Tabado
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnnipeg
B.C
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