Wild Buckwheat Now More Prevalent in Saskatchewan
Ottawa reports wild buckwheat has risen across Saskatchewan over the past decade due to 2.4-D herbicide use and favorable weather. It interferes with harvests and lowers grain yields, but trials at Scott, Saskatchewan show promise from two 2.4-D ester treatments. Timing in early leaf stage helps, with field choice depending on crop.
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Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Canada Department of Agriculture
Scott, Sask
Fresh Women on Chicago Election Board Ordered to Remove Girdles
Strictly Fresh women on Chicago's election board were ordered to remove girdles on certain days to facilitate lie detector tests linked to a scandal. Officials claimed girdles alter breathing, a key measure in the machine. The remark about girdles and lies underlines a broader tension between investigative methods and personal appearance.
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Chicago
Election Board
Community Pasture Program Expands Western Canada Grazing
The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act era program in western Canada converts liability to asset by expanding pasture units to over 1.6 million acres, caring for about 106000 cattle in 1954. The 870 purebred bulls and 20521 cows underscore federal provincial collaboration to rehabilitate submarginal land through reseeding and grazing services.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Government of
Langford
Beaver Hills
Grazing Association
Press drill double disk seeding best in wheat trials
Wheat seeded on summer fallow with a press drill or double disk drill yielded more than seedings with a one way disk or disker. Six year trials at Swift Current Exper Farm show averages of 25.8 and 25.2 bushels per acre for press and double disk drills, compared with 23.8 and 21.6 for the other methods. Seed depth and uniformity influenced emergence and final yields.
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Ottawa
Swift Current
Canada
Department of Agriculture
A. Wenhardt
Treherne club wins Exchange calf trophy
The Winnipeg Livestock Exchange trophy goes to the Treherne 4-H Beef Calf Club led by Eric Green and Jim Hird with 12 members. Boissevain is reserve champion, Shoal Lake third. Manitoba 4-H Beef clubs set a 1955 record with 124 clubs and 1,725 members. 21 inter club shows yielded an average calf price of 19.71 per cwt and 258,000 total value for 1,067 calves sold. Rene Maguet of St Rose du Lac earned the top carcass score of 98 percent and a 50 prize for his Angus steer.
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Winnipeg Livestock Exchange
Treherne
Frank Muirhead
Treherne Club
Eric Green
Jim Hird
Boissevain Club
Shoal Lake
Manitoba
Rene Maguet
St. Rose du Lac
Winnipeg Livestock Exchange Trophy
Dauphin
Boissevain
Basswood
Carberry
Rapid City
Cypress River
Turtle Mountain
Birtle
Manson
Tinted Windshields Darken Night Driving
Regina report shows tinted automobile windshields reduce nighttime visibility by 10 to 45 percent. A University of California bulletin notes drivers must slow up to 30 percent to stop at the same distance, especially in critical driving conditions.
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Regina
University of California
Highway Traffic Board
Indoor rumpus room games and lazy susan project
The article describes making a shuffleboard court on floor or canvas, plus patterns 408 and 422 for games and holiday centerpieces. A packet of five patterns costs $1.50 and Pattern 422 lists a 35 cent price. Order via Home Workshop Pattern Service in Vancouver, B C.
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Susan
Thought drowned, 78-year-old woman returns after 45 years
At Sydney Central Railway Station, Mrs. Margaret Leroy, long believed dead since the Waratah disaster of 1909, reunited with four sisters and two brothers after 45 years missing. She had sailed to Perth in 1910, later marrying in West Australia, and only recently contacted relatives with the discovery she was alive.
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Central Railway
Sydney
Australia
Margaret Leroy
Waratah
Indian Ocean
Leroy
Perth
West Australia
Katoomba
Melbourne Express
Muriel Tighe
Mrs. Leroy
Mrs. Tighe
Polynesian spirit wardens guard Samoa parliament
The Pacific Islands Monthly notes witch doctors in Samoa stand guard over democracy, casting out evil spirits before legislative sessions. Clad in lava lava and ula, they perform cleansing rites to allow representatives to proceed. Similar rituals opened daily at West Africa's constitutional convention.
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Witch Doctors
Samoa
South Pacific Archipelago
South Sea
The
Pacific Islands Monthly
Polynesian Islands
Hawaii
Hollywood
Africa
Free Tube Shaving Cream Sent on Magazine Ad Claim
The J. B. Williams Co. mailed a free shaving cream tube to an Ashford England reader who had clipped a December 1922 National Geographic ad. The gesture followed despite the age of the clipping and the ad’s origin in an old issue.
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J. B. Williams Co
Ashford
England
National Geographic Magazine
Glowing future for housewives featured by Doblin
Jay Doblin of Illinois Tech told the Tech Women's Club about a home of tomorrow with kitchens whose cooking becomes a hobby and beds with radio frequency heating that warm the sleeper automatically. He predicted a compact RF cooking unit in homes within ten years and beds that clean themselves when folded away.
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Dublin
Used Tire Classified Ad From Edmonton
Classified notice offering guaranteed used factory tires with sizes and prices such as 6.70x15 7.00x16 and 8.50 6.1x16 Winter Grip Tires. It lists grades including 10 ply and 32.50 to 42.00 price range and directs readers to Tapps' The Sales at 9708 104 Ave Edmonton Alberta with phone 28860 5P-3179-83.
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T.lorig
Ave
Edmonton
Alta
Alice Brooks Needle Craft Catalogue Ad
Plainly write your Name Address and Pattern Number order Alice Brooks Needle craft Catalogue Enjoy pages and pages of exciting new designs knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novelties Send 25 cents for your copy of this wonderful book now You'll want to order every design in it.
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Anne Adams
Department P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks Needlecraft
Prize Definition Sealed in London Newspaper
A London exchange reports a prize for the best definition of money. The winning definition declares money as an article serving as a universal passport to everywhere but Heaven and a universal provider of everything except happiness.
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London
Jainism: a religion guiding noninjury to all life
Jainism teaches followers in India to abstain from harming any living being guiding ethical conduct and daily practice.
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India
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