Great Bear Lake Mineral Field Poised to Lead Canada in Radium
J C McNabb, engineer with Canadian Pacific Railways, hails Great Bear Lake as a vast radium and mineral field. He notes an Ottawa reduction plant has yielded 97 to 98 percent radium extractions from ore, with cheap ore shipping vs acid transport. He argues the Ottawa plant could become world leading, reducing Belgium and Czecho-Slovakia dependence, and predicts a 250-year radium supply, boosting Canada’s global standing.
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J. C. McNabb
Canadian Pacific Railways
Great Bear Lake
McNabb
Canada
Dominion Department of Mines
Ottawa
Great Bear
British Empire
Belgium
Czecho-Slovakia
Refrigerator Troubles Prompted by Open Door Misconception
A New Yorker piece recounts a cook describing a refrigerator that seemed to overconsume electricity. A service man inspects wiring and tests bills with no fault found. The twist: the cook notes the unit cools the kitchen simply by leaving the door ajar.
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the New Yorker
British Colombia sees 25 percent rise in early year gold output
In the first half of 1932 BC gold production climbed 25 percent with placer mining engaging about 5,000 men. Total value of all minerals in the period reached 14,336,060 dollars. Blagray’s 300 year old Glasgow farmhouse is slated for demolition for new construction. Indigenous beaver pets noted in local observations.
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British Columbia
New University of London Buildings Planned in Bloomsbury
The University of London plans a 15 million pound expansion to create new facilities in Bloomsbury under Charles Holden. Foundation stones to be laid next year, with partial completion hoped for 1936 celebrations. The project involves thousands of drawings and will take years to finish. London’s largest university sits largely unrecognized by many residents.
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London
Bloomsebury
Bloomsbury
University of London
Charles Holden
London University
Europe
Pocket radio tested for Brighton police unit
Tests of a pocket wireless device for police use concluded it can receive spoken messages clearly like a telephone within fifty miles. Weighing 1 lb 12 oz, it measures 6 in by 4 in by 1 in and fits a tunic breast pocket. Inventor C I P Dean of Slough led the British Home Office backed trials with plans for broader adoption.
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Brighton
Home Office
C. I. P. Dean
Slough
Buckinghamshire
How To Order Pattern Address in Winnipeg Paper
Winnipeg readers learn how to order sewing patterns from the local newspaper office at 116 McDermott Ave. The notice outlines steps for submitting orders and selecting patterns through the Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Fewer Giants and Dwarfs Rise as Medical Progress Changes Stature
The death of Vlado Velokovitch, a 23 inch man near Belgrade, highlights a trend toward fewer extremes in height. Giants like Machnow spurred by today’s science, while dwarfs grow rarer, with nine foot eight inch statures noted in history.
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Vlado Velokovitch
Ljubljana
Belgrade
Acarce
Viado
Machnow
Madinow
John Middleton
Service
Canadian Troops Trade Emissaries With France
Canadian soldiers who served in France acted as trade emissaries for Canadian products. Col. H. Barre says in a recent interview that troops shared their cheese and jam rations with French people, who developed a liking for these foods. Demand for Canadian cheese and jam has grown, especially in northern France.
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France
Col. H. Barre
Dominion
High Price Of Golf and Briand Premiership Tale
In a golf clubhouse a member consoles a dismissed colleague by recalling Briand once losing his premiership for golf absences. The 1922 Cannes match with Lloyd George is cited. Briand, new to golf, performed poorly as the press mocked. France reacted with indignation at Briand’s perceived blunder.
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Cing Feor Pilayer Coat Brisad
France
Briand
Lloyd George
Cannes
Pressemn
Centenary of the Lawnmower Celebrates a Century
A hundred years since Edwin Budding, a textile engineer, created the first lawnmower to trim cloth nap rather than lawns. The original device, roughly car sized, sparked riots in weaving districts before Budding adapted it for lawn use and improved on size in later models.
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Edwin Budding
Budding
Airplane Delivers Newspapers to Remote Lookout
A fire lookout at Frazier Peak California receives daily papers by air with a small crowd watching as an airplane drops a San Francisco paper en route to Los Angeles and a Los Angeles paper northbound. Engineer Jess Hart has a note from A L Bilis, Tehachapi range lookout, praising the service.
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Frazier Peak
California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Jess Hart
A. L. Bilis
Tehachapi Range
Durum Wheat Research Laboratory Planned in Canada
The Associate Committee on Grain Research expands work on durum wheat quality at Manitoba with a new durum testing laboratory. Equipment includes experimental mill and purifier, macaroni machinery, and a spectrophotometer to measure carotene in semolina and assess bleaching effects. Studies cover durum varieties and environment on macaroni making quality.
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Associate Committee
Associate Committee On
Associate Committee On Grain Research
Department of Agricultural Chemistry
University of Manitoba
Canada
Short surnames and places wrap world in brief letters
A correspondent notes the world’s shortest surnames include O in French Paris and Ek in Ireland, with O again in Honan China as a place name. Holland claims Y as a bay name in the Zuyder Zee, while in Scotland Inverness-shire features the River E feeding the Gaurag and Foyers into Loch Ness.
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Paris
Sweden
Honan
Holland
Zuyder Zee
Inverness-shire
Mousdhbnath Mountains
Gaurag
Foyers
Loch Ness
The Sergeant Instructor and the Fine Sight
A sergeant-instructor scolds Private Smithers for misapplying a fine sight in a musketry drill. Smithers nervously claims the opposite, then defines a fine sight as a large ship full of sergeant instructors sinking in the Atlantic.
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Smithers
Atlantic
Lodger and landlady clash over windmill soup request
A humorous exchange has a lodger asking for soup and the landlady offering windmill soup. The banter pivots on a pun about wind turning the mill to produce soup, ending with a quip about getting soup if it goes round.
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Lodger
Britain’s Largest Station and Odd Fact Snippets
Britain’s Waterloo handles 1400 trains daily across 23 platforms and Clapham Junction sees over 2000 trains per day. A physicist notes men in a room hear better than women due to clothing absorbing sound. Pelicans’ song is mentioned and a quirky chain letter ambition is cited. A Stockholm gag ends with a waiter ejecting and recalling the drunken patron.
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Great Britain
Waterloo
Claphare Junction
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B.C. Gold
Blagray
Glasgow
Scotland
Darling
Sondnign
T v
Winnings Newspaper Union
Buitor
Humorist
England
Advance of Medical Science
Lonely Fire Lookout
University of Chicago
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Antarctic
Naree
Sir Walter Scott
National Gallery
Edinburgh
Scott
St Giles’ Cathedral
Princess Street
Waverley Novas
Britain
Stockholm
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