Scenic Canadian Route Bridges Prairie and Pacific
The Western half of the Trans-Canada Highway links Winnipeg to Vancouver via Banff and Yoho Parks with stops at Banff Lake Louise Moraine Emerald Yabo Valley. Pending the Big Bend stretch, autos may be shipped by rail Revelstoke to Golden for a daylight Revelstoke Golden train in 1935, June 15 to September 15, carrying cars and passengers with no delays.
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Prairie
Pacifc
Banff
Yoho National Parks
Lake Louise
Moraine Lake
Emerald Lake
Yobo
Winipeg
Vancouver
Selkirk Range
Golden
British| Columbia
Revelstoke
British | Columbia
Selkirks
Winnipeg
Mars Fact Sheet Highlights Extreme Climate And Scarce Water
A summary of early Mars traits notes extreme surface temperatures due to a thin atmosphere and potential nightly equatorial frost. Mars has about one third Earth's gravity, a diameter of 4 215 miles, and a year lasting one Mars year plus roughly ten and a half months with seasons twice as long. The planet hosts an atmosphere and clouds, but far less dense than Earth and water is far scarcer.
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Mars
Nature Magazine
Earth
Palace Telegrams Mark King’s Silver Jubilee Replies
News of the World reports the Court Post Office at Buckingham Palace sent over 10 000 telegrams of congratulation to the King for the Silver Jubilee. The task required a numbered reply system. the King approved 15 distinct forms of response for different message types.
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Buckingham Palace
News of the World
Only Three Used as Names Among the Months
The author notes that among the 12 months only three serve as first names. May and June suit girls, August works for boys, and April for girls while March suits boys. The piece ponders why more months are not used as given names.
Scotland’s Noblest River Tweed Inspires Canadian Governor
The Vancouver Province reflects on the Silver Tweed’s fame as Scotland’s noblest river. It notes its modest length of about 100 miles, its scenic boundary role between England and Scotland, and its historical sites such as Melrose Abbey, Dryburgh, Abbotsford, and Berwickshire. It ties the river to Baron Tweedamuir, Canada’s governor-general, deriving his title from the parish of his ancestors and Scotland’s storied past.
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Canada
Baron Tweedamuir
Scotland
Clyde
Thames
George Borrow
Tweed
Pesblechire
Tweeds- Muir
Peebleshire
Selkirk- ‘Hire
Roxburgshire
Berwickshire
Northumberland
Berwick
England
Tilden Hill
Scott
Fildon Hills
Melrose
Abbey
Edward I
Valley of the Tweed
la Abbotsford
Walter Scott
Bemerayée
Lord Haig
Vancouver Province
Hottest Star Discovered By Amateur Russian Astronomer
An amateur astronomer, Prof. Boris Voronsoy Vellaminov of the Moscow observatory, claims the newly found star Nova Herculiy is six times hotter than the sun. Months of study with telescopes and photographic equipment support the assertion.
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Errth
Boris Voronsoy Vellaminov
Moscow Astronomical Observatory
Noah on the Ark as Told by a Schoolmaster
A classroom quip has a teacher prompting children to guess how Noah spent his time on the ark. Freddie answers with a joke about fishing, saying Noah couldn’t have done much because he’d only got two worms, provoking a round of lighthearted correction.
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Seppe
Noah
Freddie
Canada’s 1934 agricultural revenue up 16 percent
The total gross agricultural revenue of Canada for 1934 is estimated at 931,347,000 dollars, up from the revised 1933 figure of 802,946,000 dollars. The rise equals 128,401,000 dollars, with increases across all farm sectors, notably in old crops, farm animals, and dairy products.
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Canada
Makes It Taste Better Fry Syrup Takes Bad Flavor Out Of Medicine
Cherry syrup masks bitter medicine tastes at a quarter the cost of proprietary preparations. The American Pharmaceutical Association, at the Canadian and American Medical Association meeting, promotes this grandmother era practice in Atlantic City New Jersey. The syrup coats iodine preparations given to children, making the medicine taste like cherry and sugar.
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American Pharmaceutical Association
American Medical Association
Atlantic City
Taking Things Easy London Physician Preaches Patience
London physician Dr J E H Roberts urged taking it easy at an international surgeons congress in New York. He rushed from Waterloo to Southampton for a timely arrival but missed his train, chartered a fast car, chased a departing liner, and a stormy night capped his dramatic, cautionary journey about modern life’s hurry.
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London
J. E. H. Roberts
New York
Southampton Water
How To Treat Poison Ivy Remedies From Dominion Pamphlet
The Dominion Department of Agriculture warns remedies for poison ivy including a three percent potassium permanganate solution to prevent staining, iodine edges to prevent infection, and compresses with aluminium acetate or sugar solutions. Avoid rubbing after blisters form and keep air exposure to relieve symptoms. In persistent cases ointments may be used and washed off later.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Advice by Curran on loyalty and witness aid
The text recounts a historic lawyer Curran advising a client in a gold dispute to deposit fifty pieces more and bring a witness, then withdraw yesterday's deposit and finally retrieve the remaining gold with the witness present. It closes with a note about rice farming on dry land in Manchukuo.
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Curran
Manchukuo
Beauties Of Coral Reef In The Bahamas
The coral barrier reef near Andros Island in the Bahamas spans about one hundred miles along the eastern shore. Submerged cliffs drop more than a mile into the Tongue of the Ocean, while glass bottom tours reveal sea gardens and coral castles. Gorgonians and sea fans house tiny polyps, green yellow pink or white, forming living networks beneath the outer crust.
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West Indies
Andros Island
Baamas
Bahaman Archipelago
National Geographic Society
Fort Wellington a well preserved historic site in Prescott
Visitors flock to Fort Wellington in Prescott Ontario as part of the upper St. Lawrence region’s attractions. The fort, once a functional defense with cannon, now stands preserved under National Parks protection. Its enduring state and yearly repairs reflect decades of Dominion stewardship and public interest in Canada’s military past.
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Wellington
Prescott
Ontario
Upper St. Lawrence
Canada
Fort Wellington
Brockville
Ireland to Import Seedlings for Free State Tree Drive
Ireland's Department of Lands in Dublin announced an order for 1,750,000 transplants and seedlings for this year's tree planting. The list includes larch pine Norway spruce Japanese larch silver fir beech birch ash and oak as domestic nurseries cannot meet the demand. Seedlings are being sourced from multiple countries while notes on global rotation and eastward travel are tangential.
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Free State
Irish Free State
Department of Lands
Dublin
Annual medical examinations urged for public health
St. Thomas Times-Journal argues for compulsory annual medical inspections as a public health safeguard. Dr HM Harrison notes pain signals serious disease and early detection eases cure, comparing health checks to car maintenance. The piece envisions state medicine and saves lives and dollars, urging routine doctor visits.
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Public Health Ass
HM. Harrison
Briteh Columbia
Alberta
St. Thomas
New 900-Word Paper Aims to Help Foreign Born Readers
Elaine Swenson, leader of a New York sponsored eight page paper in a 900 word vocabulary, distributes to New York elementary schools, prisons and libraries. The effort grew from Seattle teaching, Kitsilano High School and Vancouver links, to aid foreign born readers. Modern cattle rustlers target Cody Wyoming as cattlemen from four states unite for brand exchanges.
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Vancouver
New York
America World
Major King
Kitsilano
B.C
Language Research Institute of
Miss Swenson
New York Evening Schools
Seattle
Cody
Wyoming
Colorado
Montana
South Dakota
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