Bumper wheat crop seen despite lower acreage in Canada
Ottawa reports a projected bumper wheat crop despite reduced planted area as Canada eyes possible gains over 500 million bushels, with exports near last year’s level. Foreseeable strong world harvests and U S competition temper sales outlook, while carryover stocks near 975 million bushels if targets hold.
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Ottawa
Canada
Washington
India
Japan
Italy
Germany
Turkey
Bureau of Statisltica
Wheat Review
Howe
Commons
United States
U.S
Argentina
Australia
Tobacco chewing bantam rooster in Sheffield story
In Sheffield Massachusetts a bantam rooster named Nicodemus, kept by Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Reed, was known for chewing tobacco and fighting mood. He disliked hens, preferred his boxer dog friend Charlie, and enjoyed children and martial tunes but soon fell ill despite antibiotics.
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Sheffield
Mass
Nicodemus
United Press
C. C. Reed
Charlie
New Scout Jamboree Commemorative Stamp Issued
Canada to issue an August 20 1955 commemorative stamp for the 8th World Boy Scout Jamboree at Niagara on the Lake Ontario designed by Laurence Hyde Ottawa engraved by Canadian Bank Note Company Ottawa green and gold in panes of 50 ordered through the Philatelic Section Ottawa.
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Designec
Canada
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Ontario
Laurence Hyde
Ottawa
Canadian Bank Note Company
International Boy Scout Movement
Philatelic Section
Financial Branch
Post Office Department
Perfect summersundress pattern with bolero for many sizes
Vintage sewing ad promotes pattern 4606 by Mne Hboloos for a summersundress with yoke and cover-up bolero. It highlights fit for shorter fuller figures, sizes 14 through 24, fabric yardage, and easy illustrated instructions. Send 35 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto.
Arctic Grayling and Mongoose Use in Northern Waters
Arctic grayling found in Canada’s northern waters like red bait and may be caught at certain times with a cranberry on a hook. A mongoose is valuable for killing poisonous snakes.
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Canada
Canadian statistics report shows higher provincial revenues and spending
A Weekly Review notes Canada’s ten provinces expect net general revenue to rise by 47 million in the year ending March 31 1956 while net combined ordinary and capital expenditure increases by 152 million. Construction tops 5 billion for the first time with about 8 percent growth. Industrial production in April is 6.6 percent higher than a year earlier led by minerals and utilities gains.
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Canada
Site of Indian village at time of Christ near Vancouver
Dr. Charles E. Borden, University of British Columbia archaeologist, reports a 1950 year old charcoal sample from a Marpole test pit near Vancouver, indicating a flourishing Indian village at the time of Christ. Volunteers assist as construction of a new hotel looms, with artifacts including a bone waterbird carving.
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Vancouver
Marpole
Charles E. Borden
Canadian Press
University of British Columbia
Andrew Charles
Sally Green
Outdoor Home Workshop Barbecue Patterns
A design feature pattern set shows a sliding grill and locked storage bins with a saw-back table and benches to match a fireplace unit. Patterns 279 and 243 cost 35 cents each with extra mailing charges, and orders are sent by Day Order to Department P.P.S. Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver.
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Department P.P.S
Home Workshop Pattern Service
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Farm machinery research expands at Lacombe station
Don Dew appointed agricultural engineer at Lacombe Experimental Station to direct expanded research in farm machinery buildings water use and control. Studies cover tillage equipment including subsoilers ridgers plows rotary tillers discs cultivators and weeders with deep tillage at Vegreville substation. Harvesting equipment self propelled combines swathers straw saving devices and straw cutters to be examined. forage crops hay equipment to improve. Soil erosion remains vital, receiving increased attention as western farming advances.
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Don Dew
Lacombe
Dew
University of Saskatchewan
Internatonal Harvester Company
Saskatoon
North Battleford
Edmonton
Vegreville
Formosa Reports Notable Literacy Across Schools
Formosa boasts a 65 percent literacy rate, high by Asian standards. Total enrolment in the island's more than 1,250,000 students spans about 1,500 schools, including one university and eight colleges.
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Formosa
The Two Fatigue Limits and Cheese in Athlete Diets
Athletes face two fatigue limits mental and physical, with endurance built by pushing past early tiredness. Chris Chataway cites persistence as key. Regular routines beat late sleep. Canadian and U S trainers favor daily cheese for protein calcium phosphorus iron vitamins A B2 and easy digestion.
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Chris Chataway
Canada
United States
Beginning of Modern Chemical Warfare With Chlorine Gas
The text notes chemical warfare traces to 500 B.C. and marks 1915 as when Germans used chlorine gas, signaling the start of modern chemical warfare.
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B.C
Rainfall Effects on Wheat Protein Content Studied
Western Canada faces a wet spring recalling a 14 year study 1927 1940 that links rainfall to wheat protein. The data show rainfall accounts for about one third of residual protein variance with April May and late July rain having a stronger impact. Authorities warn drier summers needed for average or better protein.
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Western
Canada
Saskatchewan
Howeever
Poem contrasts joy and sorrow with life’s solitary path
The poem weighs how laughter and success attract company while grief and pain isolate. It asserts joy can draw friends but cannot ease life’s end, and only solitary suffering remains after the pleasures fade. The piece ends noting Galileo initiated attempts to measure light’s speed.
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City
Christ
Clark Gable
Kay Williams
Hollywood
Farm Machinery Research
Peggy
By Chuck Thurston
Lieyd “Ace
Percival
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Galileo
Steeth
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