Western Canada debates burn or hold grain amid rust and drought
The Canada Grain Board sets a minimum price for No 1 Northern wheat at 87 percent for Fort William, as rust and drought devastate western crops. Farmers weigh burning surplus grain against awaiting price spreads be announced, hoping for relief and a national partnership to salvage costs and morale.
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Canada
Canada Grain Board
Fort William
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
West
Flies Prefer Orange Color in University Study
University of California researchers report color bias in flies. Lester J. Berry supervised a three month test using a seven inch checkerboard showing orange, primrose yellow, carmine, blue, and red squares. Results counted thousands of flies on each hue, with orange drawing 10 572, primrose 641, carmine 428, light blue 348, and waste 2300.
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Talon
Rich
University of California
Univeritys Sallege of Agriculture
Lester J. Berry
Berry
New Ontario Scam Warned By Hamilton Chamber
The Hamilton Ontario chamber cautions residents about a scam letter claiming a relative died and asking for $30 to cover a certified copy of a will. Officials identify it as a Montreal origin racket and urge recipients not to respond.
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Chamber of Commerce of Hamilton
Ont
Montreal
Buried Eloquence at the New Hospital Wing Ceremony
The mayor had laid the foundation stone for a hospital wing as spectators awaited his speech. He exclaimed to his wife asking what more could be done, and joked I’ve laid the tone on top of it.
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Tve
Assur
Government employees’ condition betterment urged at Ottawa
Charles H. Bland, chairman of the civil service commission, expressed confidence that improved conditions for government workers will come with broader cooperation from civil service organizations and the civil service in general.
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Fux
Civil Service
Charles H. Bland
Civil Service Commission
Ottawa
Young guest imitates birds at party prompting crowd request
A party guest, eager to entertain, begins a bird imitation and asks guests to name a bird. When a homing pigeon is suggested, the moment pivots on his playful challenge.
Taxation problem as a comical farmer fable
A terse old quip notes that a fly travels 30 miles to shift the burden of food cost, illustrating taxation as comic and pervasive. The line frames tax as an unseen pressure carried by others while the speaker remains wary of fairness.
Safety Campaign Vital as Road Deaths Remain High
The London Daily Herald notes the road safety campaign continues to matter as fatalities and injuries stay below last year’s levels. Ministry of Transport data show age groups at risk. one third of the dead were over 55, half under 15, and only one sixth aged 15 to 54. The piece urges targeted education for the young and old to strengthen progress.
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British Isles
London
Her Ua
Ministry of Transport
Infant Prodigy Speaks 1100 Words At Twenty Months
Little Jackie Grub astonishes Dr Bryngelson of Minneapolis as he rattles 1100 words and sentences at age twenty months. The University of Minnesota speech clinic director declares the left handed child a distinct genius.
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Jackie Grub
Bryng Bryngelson
Mineapolis
Dr. Bryngelton
University of Minnesota
Three piece sult pattern for girls school days
A practical children fashion pattern describes a brown aqua angora jacket with detachable collar and cuffs and matching blouse. It lists fabric yardage for sizes 8 to 14 years, pattern number 930, 15 cents each, with mail orders through Winnipeg Newspaper Union pattern department.
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Pattern
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Palestine Parliament Plan Faces Jewish Opposition
A Jerusalem council in Palestine, described by Miraat-Rah-Shargan as a British Order in Council, sparks Arab leaders’ cautious stance while Jews in Palestine insist they will not accept a legislative council at this time.
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Council In
Palestine
Miraat-Rah-Shargan
Ite Ee
Bomb Shelter De Luxe Duty Of Parle Making Provision For Ale raids
Thirty feet under the ground in the Avenue Foch shelter construction in Paria is designed for air raids. The bunker, under a mansion, features a 8 feet thick concrete roof, 100 feet of earth, another concrete layer and earth. Two stairways lead to steel and concrete doors, with rooms for first aid, machine rooms for light and ventilation, storerooms, and its own generators and batteries to supply light if needed.
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T He Avenue
Foch
Paria
China Imposes Ignorant People Tax After May First
China announces a May 1 1936 start for a literacy law in Nanking. Persons aged six to fifty who cannot read must pay a fine and face compulsory teaching from a 1000 character primer. Police serve as examiners and may stop readers on the spot, with fines about half a cent.
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China
Nanking
Pilal
Hidden Faces In Michelangelo Works Revealed In Vatican
Rome priest Father Giuseppe Parroni and art critic claims Michelangelo hid hundreds of concealed faces in the Sistine and Pauline Chapels. Parroni used a scaffold to take detailed photographs supporting his discovery of enemies and friends among papal court figures.
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Achelangelo
Michelangelo
Sistine
Pauline
Vatican
Rome
Father Giuseppe Parroni
Father Parroni
Papal
Prince Launches New Fashion With Cannes Belt Display
The prince of wales sparked a male fashion craze by appearing at Cannes waterfront in a white sport suit sporting a pleated cord belt secured by a five inch anchor. Dealers flooded Paris wholesalers with orders for thousands of similar belts, reflecting high demand.
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Prince of Wates
Cannes
France
Paris
Jellyfish Sting Knocks Out Man Near Brisbane
Salvatore Cansarella, an Italian cane farmer, died after a giant Portugeuse Man of War jellyfish sting while bathing at Coo garra Beach near Brisbane. Companions saw him cry for help, he was revived and taken to hospital but died en route. Tentacle marks indicated a jellyfish attack rather than an octopus.
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Salvatore Cansarella
Brisbane
Coogarra Beach
Queensland
Lost Books Found Volumes Missing For 41 Years
Alderman G. H. Carr of Prince Albert learned two volumes of Stanley's In Darkest Africa had been found after 41 years. The books were traced to Admiral Peary's 1893 94 North Pole expedition and sent by the admiral’s daughter Mrs Edwin Stanford to the customs office for pickup.
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Prince Albert
G. H. Carr
Greenland
Admiral Peary
Carr
Stanley
Africa
North Pole
Peary
Edwin Stafford
Washington, D.C
Relic Horn of King Canute Sells in London
A Pusey Horn relic once owned by the Canute era king sold in London for 8500 dollars. It symbolized land tenure by horn or coinage and was a Pusey family heirloom. The horn was linked to the 1865 court dispute over its possession and was identified as the Canute artifact that conveyed the manor of Pusey in Berkshire 700 years earlier.
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Canute
London
Pusey
Berkshire
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