Population Trend Shows Canada Becoming More Canadian Born
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada’s population at 10,835,000 as 1995 begins, up 185,000 from last year. Immigration restrictions over four years coincide with more Canadians staying in, reversing earlier U.S. immigration patterns and shifting growth to natural increase. The period 1911–1930 saw a 3 million rise, while 1930–present shows slower gains as controls limit entrants.
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Canada
Cansae
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Heavy Water's Mixed Fortunes In A Toronto Bet
G H E Carter a Toronto government employee offers 50 or any part to bet he will drink a nimbleful or glass of heavy water a compound valued at 10 000 a quart and suffer no ill effects. The heavy water discovered by Dr Harold C Urey has been linked to aging and cancer concerns. Carter notes heavy water is two atoms of deuterium and one of oxygen and is used mainly by research chemists despite potential therapeutic claims.
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G. HE Carter
Toronto
Harold C. Urey
The British Isles Mystery Islands Count
The poem notes that counting every rocky projection yields more than five thousand islands around the British Isles. Most lie off Scotland and Ireland where the Atlantic has fractured the coast. The Hebrides number about five hundred, most uninhabited, with over fifty inhabited Shetland and Orkney islands and about one hundred fifty nine uninhabited ones.
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British Isles
Scotland
Ireland
Hebrides
Shetlands
Orkneys
Studying Cereal Diseases In Winnipeg Scientist Goes To England
Dr Frank Greaney of the Rust Research Laboratory Winnipeg travels to Rothamsted Experiment Station England for a year to study cereal root rot and fertilizer effects. His work builds on years of cereals disease research and soil science. 1964 financials note Amerton Exhibition Association fair revenue totaling 13981 dollars as context.
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Frank Greaney
Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
England
Rothamsted
Drought Punishment Ceremonies Referenced in Madras Districts
Acute drought in several Madras Presidency districts sparks religious rites to appease God. Processions drag effigies of a great sinner named Kodumpapi through streets as mourners beat their breasts. In Dharapuram, Muslims march barefoot to pray for rain, and that night the first rainfall in eight months occurs.
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Madras Presidency
Dharapuram
Dharaparam
Instinct From Prolactin Reported By AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced a discovery about instinct in hens. Scientists Oscar Riddle Robert Bates and Ernest Le Labr at the Carnegie Institution in Cold Spring Harbor New York reportedly identified prolactin as the powerful chemical behind readiness to cluck and egg-related behavior, offering new explanations of animal behavior and consciousness.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Oscar Riddle
Robert W. Bates
Ernest le Labr
Carnegie Institution of Washington Station For Experimental Evolution
Cold Spring Harbor
N.Y
Football Fatalities Prompt Action From Schools
Prof. Floyd H. Eastwood of New York University reports a four year survey showing college and athletic club fatalities decline, while high and preparatory school deaths rise as a share of total. This year’s share is 96.5 percent versus 36.3 percent in 1931, urging stricter safety measures.
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Floyd H. Eastwood
New York University
Eastwood
American Football Coaches Association
Return To Native Land Chinese Immigrants Depart BC
Hon. G. S. Pearson announced that a group of Chinese workers unable to find employment have begun returning to China at the British Columbia government’s expense. The migrants chose voluntary repatriation to join relatives and be better off in their homeland, with the government expecting future support costs to end and noting no barrier to future returns when financially able.
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China
British Columbia
G. S. Pearson
Pearson
King Died Happy After Races At Goodwood 1830
King George IV lay dying as Goodwood race results reached Windsor Castle. He had postboys stationed to carry race results between Goodwood and Windsor. One entrant Fleur-de-Us influenced the outcome. the king died content. A separate note mentions one fifth of US homes lacking kitchen sinks.
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George IV
Goodwood
Hit
Windsor Castle
Fleur-de- Us
Montreal Doctor Leads Anti Paralysis Vaccine Hope
Medical authorities in antiquated reports discuss a vaccine by Dr. Maurice Brody in a Montreal lab aimed at preventing infantile paralysis. He cites proof awaiting epidemic-area studies while noting potential links to a preventive approach for sleeping sickness in rats. the work centers on immunity from vaccination and the future for curbing the disease.
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Montreal
Maurice Brody
Pittsburg
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Ottawa
Icater Arancenei
Senseless War Talk Criticized by General Smuts
General Smuts condemns senseless war talk and faults pacifists for scaremongering. He argues repetition makes people fear another war and notes pacifists relentlessly proclaim the brink of war according to the Belfast Telegraph.
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General Smuts
Smuts
Belfast Telegraph
Pea Canning Output Estimated at 42 Million Pounds
The Casauan paca or cannea peas of 1934 are estimated at about 42 000 000 pounds, roughly four pounds per year for every person in the Dominion. Ontario Quebec and British Columbia are the only factory pea canning provinces.
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Dominion
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Domestic Quarrel Cited In Curious Exchange Record
A fragmented quote captures Mrs Brown remarking she is married to her husband but he stays to himself. The neighbor notes the tension as Mrs writes about reasons for friction, reflecting a tangle of domestic relations and social propriety.
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Mrs, Brown
Minerals For Young Chicks Overfeeding As Bad As Underfeeding
The article explains that excessive minerals harm chicks similarly to too little minerals. Ohio experiment station tests show a standard mash with meat scraps and dry skim milk provides adequate minerals up to ten weeks. Meat scraps supply high calcium, while vegetable proteins require added minerals due to lower mineral content.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Villagers Charge Neighbor as Witch in Hospitalet Case
In Hospitalet, Spain a group of 35 residents filed a local judge complaint accusing a neighbor of witchcraft. They allege misfortunes foretold by the woman, a cursed horse death, a burned house, and unsettling ghostly activity including a figure in white, strange sounds, and a broom beating.
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Witc
Hospitalet
Spain
Barcelona
Abe
Snapshot Guilds and Movies A New Hobby
John Van Guilder shares his experience with amateur film making. He recalls a friend Bill who bought a pocket sized movie camera costing about 40 dollars, showing how simple it is to shoot full scenes on 8 or 16 mm film. He notes 16 mm color options exist and concludes snapshots remain charming but movies offer unique action and excitement.
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Bill
Turer
Au Nnion
Bil
Hollywood
John van Guilder
Climate turns milder as fifty year trend noted in Dominion
Records show a long term warming across Canada and Britain with Winnipeg Montreal and Calgary marking several degree rises while Toronto and coastal regions see subtler shifts. Denison attributes milder winters to stronger North Pacific storms and warmer ocean currents.
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Pacific
Napier Denison
British Columbia
Winnipeg
Denison
Toronto
Montreal
Alberta
Maritime Provinces
Calgary
Charlottetown
Pell
Pacific Coast
Fort St. James
Courage On The Farm Drouth Stifle Turkeys At Barnard
Courage on the farm amid drought, Mrs. Albert Schmidt near Barnard Kansas hauled water 15 miles daily for spring to fall. Despite bank refusal she secured 6000 from a Kansas City poultry dealer. Most of her 80 cattle were killed for government purchase to fund turkey feed, with 1000 turkeys sent to market for Thanksgiving and 2000 for Christmas trade amid high prices.
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Drouth
Uasu
Albert Schmidt
Barnard
Kansas
Banks
Kansas City
Detroit News
Turkey Pays Off Old Debt to Britain After 60 Years
Turkey completes final instalment of £6,000 on loans dating from 1874 Balkan wars era. Britain expresses satisfaction with Turkey's prompt and regular repayments, marking the end of a long financial obligation.
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Turkey
Britain
Great Britain
Trains ride smoother in heat as rails expand
Rail expansion in hot weather makes trains travel more smoothly as a 400 mile line grows by 388 yards. League of Nations records show global armament spending in 1983 reached 3.471 billion dollars. Romanian citizens are increasing bank savings accounts again.
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Allway
Canadian Paper Currency Destruction By Sewer System
The Ottawa river carries away about sixty million dollars annually as worn Canadian paper money is destroyed. Bills from last Parliament buildings are washed into the sewage, and the process continues as the currency wears out in nine to ten months. One and two dollar notes alone see forty million dollars discarded yearly. Government finance officials now bleach and mill worn notes via chemical obliteration before pulping them and sending to sewer lines.
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Ottawa
Department of Finance
Indians Blame White Man Over Caribou Vanishing
Indians from Fort Chipewyan in Alberta allege the disappearance of thousands of caribou their people once relied on. They attribute the drop to white hunters and an old superstition requiring spearing or shooting, not clubbing, with a recent incident of a hunter wounding a caribou and using the gun butt to finish it.
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Fort Chipewyan
Alberta
Edmonton Journal
Inventor Claims Portable Sleeping Gas Ready for Army
A New York state inventor describes a powerful sleeping gas that can put an army to sleep within a minute. A man with a small gas cylinder could render anyone within 300 feet unconscious with a single discharge. Victims reportedly stay asleep two hours and awaken unharmed.
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New York State
Untitled Note on a Bachelor’s Life
A reflective line frames a bachelor’s life as a sequence of unthreaded, unconnected moments. The speaker muses on personal identity as a tapestry of incomplete experiences, hinting at self pivotal growth through fragmented existence.
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