Complete Destruction Of Canada's Spruce Timber Threatened By Insect Pest
A vast gaspe to nova scotia timber belt faces ruin from a spruce sawfly outbreak. Government and private groups deploy 1,400 workers to detect the pest as researchers breed parasites in Belleville Ontario to curb it. Forestry officials warn spruce, vital for newsprint, may follow larch patterns toward recovery after heavy losses.
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Canada
Gaspe Peninsula
Nova Scotia
Temiskaming
Gaspe
Department of Agriculture
Ito
Belleville Ont
Sir Edward Beatty Seeks Private Competition for Efficiency
Sir Edward Beatty, president of Canadian Pacific Railway, urged better markets for farm products including Canadian wheat and private competition as a driver of efficiency at a University of New Brunswick convocation held with the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists. He opposed the belief in a permanent drift toward state direction and warned against public extravagance funded by taxation.
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Sir Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Sir Edward
University of New Brunswick
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Indians and island salesmen in colonial trade myths
The piece notes that Peter Minuit paid for Manhattan in 1626 with firewater and trinkets from Canarsies Montauks and Rockaways, while the real sellers were the Raritans who allegedly sold Staten Island six times. It contrasts quaint colonial tales with a London Crystal Palace detail, illustrating a tolerant era in a pithy collage.
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Staten Island
Manhattan
Peter Minuit
Long Island
Peter
Collier's
Word Growing Obsolete In Language Purists Debate
A reader recalls red underlining of gotten in a Marketing page to argue the word is archaic yet euphonious. The correspondent cites Oxford on gotten as obsolete, compares it with eaten written and forgotten, and remarks language and humans alike meet obsolescence.
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Kirkwood
Mr. Kirkwood
Nonagenarian Victoria Gardener Pursues Prize Roses
W F Salsbury a 90 year old Victoria British Columbia gardener says he would stop playing golf to help his roses. He believes good drainage and patient care matter most and describes his 42 inch deep beds with sods leaves vegetable cuttings earth and barnyard manure layered over bones to coax prize blooms.
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W. F. Salsbury
Victoria
B.C
World's Tallest Man Raises Height and Weight in Six Months
A bespectacled 18 year old, claimed as the tallest man in scientifically recorded history, grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 5 inches and added 33 pounds to reach 425 pounds. Despite heat, he continues to add stature and mass amid fluctuating theater counts in China.
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Wislow
Aron
Sumnot
Secret Ray Invention From Buckinghamshire Lights Rooms
Charles Alexander claims a secret ray that warns a householder of intruders by lighting a room, activating bells, and locking doors. The device supposedly detects human proximity, triggers a mirror display, opens flashes of Bella ring color, and even photographs intruders while remaining invisible to the eye. He says a patent was bought two years ago and further testing completed the concept.
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Charles Alexander
Alexander
Iver
Buckinghamshire
England
Whitehall
Industrial Revival Hits Britain With Record Output
Britain shows broad gains in production and wages five years after prophecy. Iron and steel goods set a quarterly record, textiles reach highs since 1928, coal output tops March quarter 1989, and overall manufacturing at 95 percent of last year. Wages rise by over 15 million pounds annually while savings grow across post offices, savings banks, and building societies as spending increases. Fidelity insurance query closes with a domestic note on securing a husband’s coverage.
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Britain
Board of Trade
Post Office
Trustee Savings Banks
Building Societies
Disease Resistance In Plants and Canadian Progress
Disease resistance in plants offers farmers opportunities to reduce losses from diseases. Complete, partial, and apparent immunity are discussed with examples in potatoes, wheat, and turnips. Advances include rust resistance in wheat at Winnipeg’s Rust Laboratory and Wilhelmsburger turnips showing club root tolerance in contaminated soil.
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Canada
Prince Edward Island
Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Horses Replace Motors in Newton Suburb Mayor Praises Draft Power
Newton, a Boston suburb with about 65,000 residents, plans to sell motorized municipal equipment and buy horses. Mayor Childs says 30 more horses will haul sidewalk plows next winter, performing better work than the eight tractor plows bought last winter for 1600 dollars each. Our Dumb Animals.
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Boston
Newton
Childs Anid
Paris Napoleon Tomb Regilded With Gold Leaves
The tomb beneath the Invalides in Paris where Napoleon lies buried has been regilded. Gold leaf was applied across nearly half an acre, using 253000 individual leaves in the restoration effort.
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Paris
Napoleon
Colorful Cutwork Charms The Eye to Colorful Cutwork
Colorful cutwork motifs for scarves and cloth feature tulips lilacs and daisy stitches. Pattern 5608 includes multiple sized motifs with color suggestions and required materials. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 5608.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winipeg. Se
Experimental Flights Over Atlantic Skyway to Begin
Return of Hon C D Howe from an inspection highlights pending experimental flights over the Atlantic skyway linking Canada and the United Kingdom. First giant amphibian monoplane test flights have left the factory with survey work and night beacon installations underway. Trans-Canada airway work continues and commercial service may not start before 1938 with initial mail and express runs, followed by passenger service once safety records improve.
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C. D. Howe
Canada
United Kingdom
Tt Ia
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Azores
Bermuda
New York
Imperial
Pan-American Airways
United States
San Francisco-Manila
Pan- American
Soviet announces massive 1936 children’s book program
The central committee of the Young Communist League outlines plans to publish 35 million children’s books in 1936 including fairy tales by Grimm and Andersen. Ten million books for preschoolers will feature tales by Pushkin and Tolstoi. Older children will get Russian and world classics plus Soviet works and science texts. A Perm printing and binding plant will be built with annual capacity of 120 million books.
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Central Committee
The
Young Communist League
Grimm
Anderson
Soviet Union
Pushkin
Tolstoi
Marshak
Chukovski
Railway Anniversary Celebrating a Century in Canadian Railroading
A replica 13 foot Dorchester steam engine retraced the original 16 mile July 21 1836 route from Montreal to St Lambert and St Johns evolving with CN Steam era progress. Crowds cheered as the anniversary train moved behind CN 6400 along Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway lineage through LaPrairie en route to Laprairie.
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Dominion
Canadian National Railways
Montreal
St. Lambert
St. John's
Que
Champlain and
St. Lawrence
National
Dorchester
Laprairie
New Stamps To Feature King Edward Image In Canada
Ottawa reports the post office has received an approved photograph of King Edward to appear on upcoming Canadian stamps after the coronation next May. A later photo may replace it if needed. The rest of the item mentions severe sunburn cases from actinic rays in high Arctic mountains, with facial skin peeling quickly.
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Ottawa
King Edward
Canada
Arctic
Riley Used Ben Johnson Pseudonym Early In Career
The poet James Whitcomb Riley at one time used the pseudonym Benjamin F. Johnson, heard in historical notes about his early writings and pen names.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Benjamin F. Johnson
Indifferent Farming In Regina Area
The Regina Leader-Post notes variations in crop prospects across nearby fields in Sanaccnewan and Regina areas. It attributes differences to farming quality rather than soil or rain, arguing well managed land receives timely care, weed control, and proper nutrients, while poor farming yields uneven growth.
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Sanaccnewan
Regina
Canada
Queensland towns tally heavy rainfall in 10 weeks
In northern Queensland more than seven feet of rain fell in ten weeks with Tully reporting seven feet and Innisfail and Babinda over six feet. Mackay logged about a yard and a half, while several other towns neared six feet, threatening to surpass the average rainfall.
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Queensland
Australia
Tully
Innis
Babinda
Mackey
Nts
York shire council abolishes No 13 dwellings amid superstition
The Yorkshire council in England has removed the number 13 from estate queries after rent collectors failed to find tenants for those homes. A tenant recalls years of bad luck, while a neighbour’s football winnings are noted in a brief, quirky aside about superstitions and ordinary daily life.
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Rumuwell
Yorkshire
England
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