New Rust Resistant Wheat Available To Farmers By Spring
Wheat stem rust epidemic threatens Prairie provinces as breeders report progress in resistant varieties. Dominion researchers, with tests at Brandon and Indian Head, anticipate seed ready for several thousand bushels by spring 1957 to supply two to four bushels per farmer after extensive milling and disease tests.
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Prairie Provinces
Canada
Newman
Dominion
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion Experimental Farms
Brandon
Manitoba
Indian Head
Saskatchewan
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
National Research Council
Faculties of Agriculture
Departments of Agriculture
Sweden backs royals despite socialist winds at Ingrid wedding
The Swedish royal family, exhausted from a busy season, proved their staying power as large crowds gathered in Stockholm for Princess Ingrid and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. Workers and royalists alike packed the streets, waving handkerchiefs and showing approval for the monarchy amid socialist sentiment.
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Sweden
Ingrid
Frederik
Denmark
Stockholm
Ostrich Camouflage and Fame Meet in Glasgow
The article notes how ostriches hide by sinking and huddling among stones, their smoke grey feathers resembling surrounding boul ders. It also reports the death of world famed topmaker James Gordon Gray in Glasgow, where he taught applied physics at Glasgow University and specialized in the gyrocope, with the US offering him a Washington appointment.
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James Gordon Gray
Glasgow
Scotland
Glasgow University
Andrew Gray
United States
Washington
Tanaka seeks Japanese dye and cellulose breakthrough
Dr Soul Tanaka reports to the Japan Chemical Society on a process to lessen imports by producing dyes and cellulose domestically. He highlights intensive research into dye stuffs and cellulose, aiming to meet industrial needs for independence. The text notes the Bible mention of a dog many times while the cat is not mentioned.
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Japan
Soul Tanaka
Japan Chemical Society
Tana Tka
Rice Holds Dominant Place In Japanese Economy
The 1933-34 International Institute of Agriculture report notes Japan’s economy hinges on two main products rice and silk. Home-grown rice dominates tastes and prices, with imported rice used mainly in famine years. colonial rice from Korea and Formosa pressures the domestic market while rice purchases absorb up to 23 percent of poor households' budgets.
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Canada
Japan
International Institute of Agriculture
Korea
Formosa
Bicycles Licensed Rapidly in Capetown District
In Capetown South Africa over 300 bicycles are licensed daily with recent totals surpassing 900 across two days. An estimated 6000 bicycles remain unlicensed as Wynberg and Claremont districts see peak activity, with traffic depots in these areas nearly overwhelmed by inspection and licensing demand.
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Capetown
South Africa
Wynberg
Claremont
Peninsula
Highest Death Rate in World Cited in China Survey
A National Health Administration survey from Nanking reports six million deaths annually in China with an average age of ten, a population around 450 million, and vast annual costs for armaments totaling about 12.5 billion dollars. It also notes 1,400,000 people paid tolls at London rail platforms last year without boarding trains.
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China
National Health Administration
Nanking
Allway
London
The Most Popular Toys That Encourage Work and Play
A survey in America finds children favor toys that allow doing work such as painting, building, or reading. Dolls must be manipulable to interest girls, while expensive mechanical toys often lose appeal. Children from economical homes show more imagination, crafting their own creations from limited resources.
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America
Chango
World’s Hardest Job Feeds Birds at Bronx Zoo
At the New York Bronx zoo attendants vow to feed hummingbirds every fifteen minutes. Three birds from Venezuela recently arrived, weigh three ounces in total, and the four have died or are in care as staff manage the rapid energy needs due to constant wing flapping.
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New York Bronx Zoo
Venezuela
Youthful Russian drivers learn to operate tiny cars
Juvenile motorists aged 12 to 14 in Russia will be taught to drive using miniature cars with 1.5 horsepower engines and a top speed of 25 miles per hour. This program aims to introduce young learners to basic driving concepts with safety considerations.
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Russia
Buccaneers and the origin of dried beef rations
A dietitian writes that buccaneers who ruled the Spanish Main ran meat shops between treasure raids and created bouccan or dried beef. Dried beef served as a high energy emergency ration on long voyages, later adopted by modern explorers alongside chocolate.
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Spanish Main
San Francisco Chronicle
America
Fragmentary Text From Arctic Garden Notes
Disjointed OCR passage mentions flower beds and cooling devices with scattered phrases about Pomona Peart and a sacred Frog. The sky described as clear with a hot sun and rising temperature, but most details are garbled and hard to parse into a coherent event.
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Daten
Pomona Peart
Fealy
Surpassing Sun Heat Seen With New Schenectady Camera
A Schenectady laboratory unveils a camera that measures extreme arc temperatures by recording sound waves in burning gas. Carbon arcs reach 9,400 degrees, tungsten 11,300, welding cores 10,300, with sparks spiking over 13,000 degrees. Dr. Chauncey Guy Suits developed the method to capture exposures at two millionths of a second.
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Schenectady
Chauncey Guy Suits
Travel tale of a Surrey estate breakfast quiz
A traveller back from the Motherland recalls a weekend at a large Surrey estate with parks stables and prize cattle. The maid quizzes him on breakfast choices asking tea and Assam milk then Jersey Guernsey or Alderney, in a humorous exchange highlighting hospitality and locale.
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Raveller
Surrey
Ceylon
China
Assam
Jersey
Guernsey
Alderney
New Yorker
Savings Bank Deposits in Post Office Bank in Canada
As of end May 1935 deposits in the post office savings bank stood at $22,201,048. May deposits totaled $187,085 with withdrawals of $214,652. Interest paid to depositors during May was $1,322 as reported in the Canada Gazette.
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Post Office Savings Bank
Canada Gazette
France Honors New Orleans Waiter for War Service
Albert Feugas a 47 year old waiter in a French quarter New Orleans restaurant receives the Legion of Honor from France for his World War I service. Crown Prince Alexander later King of Yugoslavia visited the front line trench when Feugas saved him from danger in 1918 during the war.
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France
Atlantic
Legion of Honor of France
Albert Feugas
New Orleans
Alexander
Jugoslavia
Feuges
Biale
Ingenious window dressing to try dresses in street
A Shaftesbury avenue shop window uses a cabinet with a frock and an optical illusion so onlookers appear to wear the dress. Unused table butter bears Queen Charlotte’s signet ring for next meals. Canadian cheese holds a premium in the Scottish market. An anthropologist notes men have fewer wisdom teeth issues than women.
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Shaftesbury Avenue
London
Queen Charlotte
George VII
Electrical hazards on farms and basic resuscitation
The article explains electrical shock danger from farm wiring and equipment, noting paralysis and potential death, but that resuscitation is possible with immediate aid and trained helpers. It stresses clearing contact, insulating the rescuer, warming the patient, and continuing artificial respiration for hours until breathing returns and signs of rigor cease.
Canadian youth pedals 8000 miles for health morale
Hubert Smith, 20, unemployed farmhand from Amherst Nova Scotia, set out May 13 for a Canada wide cycling tour. He rode 3750 miles to Vancouver on an 80 pound pack and plans to ride to Vancouver Island, then return by harvesting season. He spent about 50 dollars, slept outdoors nightly, avoided speed records, and aims to offset costs with work. A separate Soviet monument in Leningrad honors dogs used in physiological experiments for human health.
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Hubert Smith
Amherst
N.S
Canada
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
Winnipeg
Duluth
Amerst
The Boy Who Chopped Gooseberry Bushes
Billy lies to avoid punishment and is sent to study George Washington. He vows to follow the example but rushes to tell his father he started a cherry tree tale. Unable to find a cherry tree he confesses he chopped down all the gooseberry bushes.
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Billy
George Washington
Taste Bandsman and Daughter Mischief Cited
The bandsman notes the mouth-piece of his cornet tastes funny as he prepares to practice. His daughter reveals she used the mouth-piece to fit a lamp since she could not locate the paraffin funnel, a surprising household misusage.
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Ostrich
Spithead
His Majesty's Royal Navy
Mediterranean
Arctic
Herschel Island
Savings Bank
Un‘employed
Nova Scotia
Dog
Institute of Experimental Medicine
Leningrad
Ussr
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