Queen Mary’s vast radio system deems world’s most powerful liner
The Queen Mary is described as a floating Radio City with 500 state rooms and a full wireless network. It features 70 kilowatts in a dedicated power plant, 14 radio men, multiple high speed transmitters, and 32 radio bands. The setup includes emergency battery power and wireless lifeboats, enabling private, press, and stock quotes messages from across the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ltie
Radio City
Globe
Stock Exchange
St. Thomas Times-Journal
New Theory on Timber Decay by Cardiff Expert
Dr. E A Rudge of the Technical College Cardiff argues the root of timber decay is chemical. In a London Timber Exchange lecture he cites calcium bicarbonate in water as the initiator, after analyzing wood from a 1714 Thames conduit, a blast furnace site, and farm gate posts.
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E. A. Rudge
The
Technical College
Cardiff
Timber Exchange
London
Rudge
Allspice Myth and Island Trees in Jamaica Origin
A fragment notes that allspice is the fruit of a Jamaican tree, not a true blend of spices, with trees yielding large crops and about one third of the crop entering the United States. It also references a quip about Rup Van Winkle and a satirical line on neighbors and a landlord.
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Jamaica
United States
Beautifying Home Grounds of Canada promotes planning and planting
The Horticultural Council of Canada releases a handbook on landscape architecture for home and farm grounds. It covers arranging lawns and gardens with easy to follow plans, rock gardens, and a complete list of suitable trees and perennials by province. The piece also notes a 1,000,000 acre rise in sown grain area mainly in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Bread making is described as an old household art with modern industry origins in the last two decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Horticultural Council of Canada
Victoria Street
Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Origin of Many Garden Flowers Grown in Canada
The National Revenue Review notes most spring garden flowers in Canada are not native. Tulips came from Constantinople to Europe and Holland. narcissi from Central and South Europe. primroses from Swiss Alps. hyacinths from Greece and Asia Minor. crocuses across Europe North Africa and Asia. From April 1935 to February 1996 Canada imported florist stock valued at 573052 with tulip bulbs from the Netherlands totaling 334? Note: values given for tulips totaling 170752 and 163500 from the Netherlands.
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Canada
Nional Revenue Review
Europe
Constantinople
Holland
Mediterranean
Asia
Swiss Alps
North America
Ethiopia
Java
Greece
Asia Minor
Africa
Netherlands
Toronto Globe
Moving Gold Shipments to Fort Knox Aims at Vault Transfer
Hearings before a House appropriations subcommittee disclosed plans to move about 6 billion dollars in gold bullion from New York and Philadelphia to the federal vault at Fort Knox Kentucky. Bureau official C W Cram Jr said the transport will cost about 1.42 million dollars with 104,440 dollars allotted for guards. A separate note mentions chemists boosting coal power by using a synthetic chemical Dowtherm A to replace water in steam boilers.
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New York
Philadelphia
Federal
Fort Knox
United States
House of Representatives Appropriations
C. W. Cram, Jr
Bureau of the Mint
Modern Spring Tonic Rhubarb Boosts New York Crops
State Agricultural Commissioner Peter G. Ten Eyck promotes rhubarb as New York State's first new vegetable crop to market under the modern spring tonic label. He touts its tart flavor as a sauce or meal finish and rejects the acid forming claim, noting rhubarb provides health elements such as phosphorus for teeth and bones and the essential vitamin C.
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Peter G. Ten Eyck
New York State
Ten Eyck
Most Beautiful Dialects Shropshire And Border Scots
Miss Elsie Fogerty of the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art rates Shropshire and border Scots speech as the most beautiful in the British Isles, with Oxfordshire next. A set of 12 double sided records of dialects has been completed and will be presented to the British Museum to preserve these dialects for ever.
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Shropshire
British Isles
Elsie Fogerty
Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art
London
Oxfordshire
Britsh Isles
British Museum
Hawaiian delicacy and rare woodpecker noted
The octopus flesh is described as a great delicacy by Hawaiians. The ivory billed woodpecker is identified as one of North America’s rarest birds.
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North America
Contention Is Warranted On Pedestrian Fatalities View
The Buffalo Courier-Express discusses Carl F. Ziegler's view that pedestrians cause about 85 percent of deaths caused by motorists. It argues both sides err, urging drivers to exercise all precautions since cars are the agents of death while noting enforcement leans toward blaming pedestrians.
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Carl F. Ziegler
Ziegler
Buffalo Courier-Express
Mind Direct Drug Eases Postoperative Pain Say Ford Doctor
Dr Thomas J Heldt of Henry Ford Hospital described a new hypnotic薬 called X used in 100 major operations to relieve pain directly through mind conditioning. The drug supposedly reduces reliance on morphine and opium, with nurses and patients unaware of its identity.
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American Psychiatric Association
St. Louis
Thomas J. Heldt
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit
Ford
Heldt
Man Urges Lending Money Questioned by Elderly Reply
Dialogue reveals a man pressing for a loan with the elderly respondent warning against lending. The exchange underscores distrust and caution in handling suspected predatory requests.
New Kind Of Farmer Rearing Butterflies In England
A Port Arthur reader quotes a British press piece describing a half acre butterfly farm at Bexley Heath England. The operation breeds hawk moths tiger moths and other insects for collectors gardens labs and research bodies. Thousands of caterpillars are reared and sold to New Zealand and Cambridge University along with several thousand butterflies sent abroad. The venture is profitable but the writer notes most will stay with grain and dairy farming.
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Trish Cobbler
Port Arthur
Ontario
News- Chronicle
Bexley Heath
England
New Zealand
Cambridge University
Cold Sensitivity Linked to Drowning Risk Found
Mayo Foundation researchers at the AMA exhibition in Kansas City report a human chemical mechanism behind cold hypersensitivity that endangers swimmers. They describe skin and blood pressure changes, with a simple remedy of five minutes in 50 degree water daily for six days improving or reversing the condition.
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Mayo Foundation
American Medical Association
Kansas City
B. T. Horton
G. BE. Brown
Grace Roth
Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research
Rochester
Sina
All Had Some Name Wood Wedding in Bellingen NSW
A wedding in Bellingen NSW featured three Wood families with the bride Dulcie Wood and groom James Wood. James Wood was best man and Marion Wood bridesmaid with Rev Gordon Wood officiating and his wife playing the wedding march.
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Wood
Bellingen
New South Wales
Dulcie Wood
James Wood
Marion Wood
Gordon Wood
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