Salt Used In Roadmaking For Canadian Fields
Salt plays a growing role in agriculture and roadmaking. Canadian experiments initiated in Nova Scotia led to nationwide trials in Ontario, Quebec, and the United States. Roads use clay bonds with minerals and salt to boost density, reduce shrinkage, and curb cracking as they dry.
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Canada
Nova Scotia
National Research Council of Canada
McGill University
United States
Ontario
Quebec
A. F. Gill
Natonal Research Council
Origin of Sterling Silver The Name and Standard
The term Sterling comes from Easterling coins minted by Hanseatic towns in the twelfth century. English traders used these dependable eastern coins for trade, forming the basis for a fixed silver fineness of about 92 to 1000. Over time sterling became the standard for English money and high quality solid silver.
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Germany
Hanseatic League
Britain
Value Of Poetry Criticism In Canada
Canadian critics were accused of parochialism that retard ed the advance of poetry in Canada by A M Stephen Vancouver poet and lecturer who addressed the Canadian Authors' Association in that city He emphasized the need for competent criticism and sketched the Dominion s changing history s influence on its poetry He said poetry was the most important factor in Canadian literature Also mention of bodily fussing and a Niagara Falls Review quote Then note England paid 2345000 age pensions last September including contributory and non contributory
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Canada
A. M. Stephen
Vancouver
Canadian Authors’ Association
Dominion
London Town Planning Then and Now
Town planning for London grew popular as Sir Christopher Wren’s post fire plan aimed to crown St Paul’s as the city’s focal point. It envisioned straight thoroughfares and new churches at set distances, including St Mary Le Bow and St Clement Danes.
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England
London
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's
St. Mary le Bow
Abbey of
St. Cole
Church of St. Clement Danes
Strand
World's Most Peaceful Spot Found by Ex-MP Applin
Col. R V K Applin, former British MP, reports finding the most peaceful spot in the world in an African country between Natal and Basutoland. He and his wife describe a remote farmhouse at 6,000 feet, two miles from a neighbor, 24 miles from the store, with a Zuʻu runner delivering a letter across the veldt to a tiny post office.
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Col
R. V. K. Applin
England
Africa
Natal
Basutoland
Drakensberg
Tries Different Path After College Choices Change
A Chicago Tribune quote describes a man who abandons selling stocks and bonds for a different life. He hides his fraternity, packs away his sweater, discards classical and math studies, and contemplates selling gas at a local station.
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Chicago Tribune
Thirty Million Gas Masks for British Population
The British Government plans thirty million gas masks for civilians. Women at home are urged to ensure children carry masks when going out to guard against poison gas in modern warfare.
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Montreal Gazette
King Edward Remembers Vimy Ridge and Front Line Quiet
The King often toured the sector during the war and made unscheduled front line forays that unsettled security chiefs. An English writer recalls the Prince as he stayed in a dug-out near Queant with General Farmar, declining a brick fireplace for the hut.
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Edward
Vimy Ridge
Daily Sketch
Tommy
Queant
GSO. 3
Prince
Farmar
Inventor of Picture Postcard Lived Quiet Life
Herr Alfons Adolph the inventor of the picture postcard died last year at Passau Germany in his eightieth year. He derived no great financial benefit from his invention and spent most of his life in a small Government post. Born in Huchenburg Rhineland he studied phototype in Vienna and Saxony. He created the first picture postcards in 1879 at Lobau and built a cellotype process at Zittau that spread worldwide. Early examples are in the Reichspost Museum Berlin. Fish cannot exist in the Dead Sea due to extreme salinity.
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Alfons Adolph
Passau
Germany
Adolph
Huchenburg
Rhineland
Vienna
Saxony
Lobau
Zittau
Reichspost Museum
Berlin
Poison Ivy Care Tips For Summer Visitors
Health officials warn poison ivy is common in summer and advise travelers to learn the plant’s leaf threes and leathery leaves. Use cold thoracic or cold epsom salts solutions and weak sugar solutions for soothing relief, and apply 1 percent potassium permanganate to isolated patches twice daily, with gentle soap and water to remove stains.
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Health League of Canada
Four Holstein cows set provincial herd record in BC farm
On a British Columbia government farm, four Holstein cows topped all four classes for 265 day milk and butter, with two year old Colony Sadie Colantha leading by producing 18 155 pounds of milk and 8 225 pounds of butter. Lord Tweedemuir criticizes overuse of the word reaction and ponders a reaction to the word contact.
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British Columbia
Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada
Colony
Sadie Colantha
Smallest Lobster Specimen Caught In Net in NS Exhibit
A one and a quarter inch lobster, claimed as the world s smallest, was pulled up at Livingston s Cove on St George s Bay and shown by W Gerald Harris. Marine biologist Dr A F Chalsson notes such tiny lobsters are rare and puzzling to scientists. A marked black and red lobster displaying a back line is also in the collection, a rare pigment freak noted as more common than tiny lobsters.
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Nova Scotia
W. Gerald Harris
Antigonish County
N.S
Livingston's Cove
St. George's Bay
Harris
George Mason
Wedgeport
Yarmouth
A. F. Chalsson
Chaisson
British Army to convert Cavalry into mechanized division
London report says the cavalry division will rapidly become a motor division with no mechanized brigades and one cavalry light tank regiment. A single armored car regiment and motor cavalry unit will replace the former structure. Critics question cavalry value in modern warfare and warn elimination dulls romance in war history. Premier Baldwin notes no time for tone in the next war.
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London
Egypt
War Office
Baldwin
Winnipeg Tribune
King Edward appoints pilot captain of the king's flight
King Edward I appoints Flight Lieutenant E H Fielden as captain of the king's flight, making air travel a permanent royal duty. Fielden previously piloted the king when Prince of Wales and on occasional flights since accession, with other royal household changes announced.
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Edward
England
E. H. Fielden
Lieut
Fielden
Prince of Wales
England to introduce four pips time signal for calls
The Postmaster General says a new automatic signal will warn long distance callers their time is nearly up. The four pips will play 12 seconds before the end of each three minute period. Separately Moscow is to be rebuilt within ten years per the Russian government plan.
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England
BBC
Moscow
How To Preserve Cut Flowers At Home Advice From Lethbridge Station
Practical guidance on keeping cut flowers fresh discusses optimal times to cut, with morning or evening work for roses and gladioli, and full bloom notes for dahlias. It covers slant cuts, immediate cold water soaking, long soaking for thick stems, stem preparation, underwater recutting, disinfectants, and container materials including copper vases.
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Lethbridge
Dominion Department of Agriculture
King's Flight Chooses Safe Condi tions for Royal Travel
Flight-Lieut E H Fielden, the King's personal pilot, holds final authority on whether flying conditions are safe. Known in the RAF as Mouse, he has the most responsible job in the Royal Household. Fielden is reputed as the safest RAF pilot, described as short, dark, and quiet.
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RAF
E. H. Fielden
Fielden
Royal Household
Royal Air Force
London
Nova Scotian Captains Torpedo-Proof Battleship Claim
Captain Will Horton, a Nova Scotian master mariner living in Truro, stated he would travel to England to pursue potential acceptance of a $100,000 prize offered by the British Admiralty for a torpedo-proof battleship. Horton claimed he designed the new battleship type while living in Truro.
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Will
Horton
England
Admiralty
Truro
Horetom
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