Britain Faced With High Car Tax Hurting Industry
The St. Thomas Times-Journal notes Britain has one private or commercial motor vehicle for every 77 people, far below Canada. US mass production helped the US dominate markets including Canada. Britain produced 71,38 cars ten years ago and 220,775 last year, with over a million in automotive work and taxes totaling about 837 million. Car taxes base on horsepower. the average car tax is about 150 dollars. British engineers seek efficiency with 40 to 50 mpg cars, while road and bridge spending nears 400 million. Britain, though small in area, rivals Ontario in road spending and auto importance.
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United States
Canada
Creat
Britain
Dominion
Great Britain
Ontario
St. Thomas
Ancient tomb wheat yields seven foot stalks, claimed
Seves-Feet Wheat Officials of the Indian government dug into a 5,000-year-old Mogul tomb and found a handful of wheat. They planted one ounce of it in England and the seeds grew to seven-foot stalks. The finding is hailed as ancient wheat superiority boosting modern agriculture, though a Vancouver Sun quip imagines selling ancient strain.
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England
Dia
Vancouver Sun
Fossil Skull of Barosaurus Found in Wyoming Swamps
A rare barosaurus skull from 140 million years ago was dug from Wyoming swamps. T. Trubbe Davison of the American Museum of Natural History announced the discovery, noting barosaurus as a semi aquatic dinosaur with exceptionally long neck vertebrae resembling stove pipe sections.
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Valley of Death
Wyoming
T. Trubbe Davison
American Museum of Natural History
Ita
The Retort Courteous
A plus sized woman struggles to board a street car while a passenger mocks her effort. She retorts that if he were half a man he would help, and he fires back that if she were half a lady she would not need help.
It Wouldn't Work Editors and preachers swap jobs
A Toronto minister proposes editors and preachers swap roles. The Border Cities Star quips about listeners dozing through typos from the pulpit. A schoolmaster asks a student what he has to say and Bobby replies he’s glad it is Friday.
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Toronto
Mople
The
Border Cities Star
Bobby
Stone linked to Moses tomb found at Mount Nebo ruin
Archaeologists uncovered a stone tied to Moses tomb within a ruined ebarch at Mount Nebo, suggesting possible historic or ceremonial significance amid excavations.
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Moses
Old Archie Haunts Post Office for Letters That Never Come
In Stratford, an elderly resident known as Archie visits the post office daily hoping for news from his children. He used to farm six miles out. after his wife died and the family dispersed, he lives alone with an acre near town. He cherishes any small town paper and hurriedly wraps letters for sending, though rarely any replies arrive.
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Archie
Stratford Beacon-Herald
A Budding Diplomat With a Clever Age Guess
A witty exchange shows a young man praised as wise beyond his years. A widow asks him to guess her age, and he pauses before delivering a clever remark about hedging between her hair and her intelligence.
Weary Of Life Sparks Push For Legal Right To Die
An 83 year old man inspires physicians to revisit the question of a doctor's right to end hopeless suffering. He recalls a life of Arctic exploration and now pleads for physician assisted death, though he opposes dying by his own hand.
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Franz Joseph Land
Arctic
Cape Grant
Amazon
London
Night work fixes hotel banquet hall for deaf convention
In the Hotel Pennsylvania, an amplifying system failed in the main hall. The chief electrician and crewWorked overnight to repair it before the National Association of the Deaf convention began the next day, avoiding a panic and ensuring sound.
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Pennsylvania
National Association of the Deaf
The
New Yorker
Port expansion foresaw for Greater Vancouver harbor
Major W G Swan of the Engineering Institute of Canada outlined future Vancouver harbor plans linking inner and outer facilities with the Fraser River mouth. He urged unified port authority for Vancouver, New Westminster, and North Fraser, plus rail and road access to speed freight and passenger movement and enable emergency services across the waterfront.
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W. G. Swan
The
Engineering Institute of Canada
Vancouver
Fraser River
Swan
New Westminster
North Fraser
Harbor Front
Do You Plan Singing Studies Or Not
A student asks about pursuing singing and is told the teacher warned it would require three years of hard work to reach the level the student already believes they have. A separate note states one gram of radium could lift a 28,060 ton vessel 100 feet.
Tragic Love Story From Roberval Voyage Emerges
A fragmentary historical tale recalls the 1542 voyage of Jean Franoia de la Hocque and Marguerite de Roberval. Gaston de Ruvert loves Marguerite, Marguerite bears a child on Demon Island, and both mother and child perish before rescue two years later.
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Canada
St. Malo
Jacques Cartier
Simple
Frank Andre Thevet
Cosmographie Universelle
Pierre la Huillier
Gaston de Ruvert
Damoiselle de Roberval
Marguerite
Demon Island
Gaston
France
Andre Thevet
Damienne
Apiculturist Says Bees Have Jungle Temperament
The U S Department of Agriculture explains that bees never truly know their keeper and can sting any handler. Apiarists note bees sting only in defense of the hive, and workers mostly act peacefully away from their hives. nervous handlers are more likely to be stung.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
James Hambleton
Bureau of Entomology
Good Word For The Farm From Exeter Times Advocate
A reflective piece defends farming as a noble, engaging pursuit despite recent criticisms. It argues agriculture blends hard work with personal freedom, noting farmers set own schedules and operate under market forces, while accepting ups and downs as part of the profession.
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Exeter Times-Advocate
Battleships Of Glass Invisibility Project Proposed To Navy
An ambitious inventor claims battleships could be built from glass making them invisible from sea and air and seeks Navy officials to begin melting all available glassware including beer bottles for immediate construction. Across the United States about 25 000 telephone connections are made or broken daily illustrating vast everyday activity. The final sentence hints at a warning that personal gullibility reflects the observer rather than the truth.
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United States Navy
Need Gradual Approach for Sudden Mental Shifts
A 73 year old Indian in British Columbia, unfamiliar with cities and modern inventions, is described as slowly adapting to new realities after a jail term. The piece argues for gradual transitions in consciousness, comparing immature minds resisting change to the man’s bewilderment at steamers, trolley cars, and large buildings. It cautions against forcing rapid facts and suggests patience with adaptation.
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British Columbia
Vancouver
City
Canadian style provincial police plan proposed for U S
Thomas W. S. Parsons assistant commissioner of the British Columbia provincial police urged at a Milwaukee ABA meeting that the United States adopt a Canadian system of provincial police in each state with a national police element. He also proposed a single national criminal law, extradition between states, and regional police training schools run by the federal government for officer instruction.
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Thomas W. S. Parsons
British Columbia
American Bar Association
Milwaukee
United States
Parsons
Alberta Homestead Entries Rise In Past Fiscal Year
The lands branch reports 3 706 entries April 1 1933 to March 31 1934 up from 3 499 in 1922 33. First homesteads totalled 2 984 and second homesteads 696 with 26 soldiers’ rants and 1 011 entries by women. Canadian born entrants numbered 1 208 of 2 705 with 580 from Alberta and 276 from Ontario. A stray joke about a bank capital ends the fragment.
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Alberta
Lands Branch
Canada
Ontario
Rabies Death Toll Highlights U.S. Danger
About 100 people die annually in the United States from rabies, underscoring ongoing wildlife exposure risks and the importance of vaccination and post exposure treatment.
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United States
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