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...China Medical Board Inc. got $10,000 for further digging in the now famed caves at Chou-Kou-Tien whence came the fossil remains of "Pekin Man," generally considered by anthropologists to be the oldest human type ever discovered. C. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, got $61,200 to start and maintain for five years Canada's first university training school for prospective civil servants...
Joggins, Nova Scotia...
...schooner, the Gypsum Queen, sank off the Irish Coast during a storm. The crew took to boats, were picked up by a freighter without loss of life. Fifteen years later the owner and captain, Freeman Hatfield of Nova Scotia, bobbed up with the story that the Gypsum Queen had been torpedoed by a German submarine. He claimed indemnity and in 1931 finally got from the Canadian Government $71,276,72. Year later Captain Hatfield abandoned the sea, went to the U. S.. opened a small chicken farm in Candia, N. H. An old seafaring friend of his lived there...
Although it has long been known that the same species of shrimp found in Norway is to be found also along the coast of North America from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, fishermen have not generally known of its abundance, or, knowing it, have not attempted to develop a market. Consequently when Dr. Hjort came here last year as a guest of Harvard, and also of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (of which Professor H. B. Bigelow is director), he set about at once to learn whether the shrimps are as abundant here as they are in Europe...
...Grande Valley, sharp-eyed Dealer Vahlsing makes money on Bonita carrots, advertised by radio's homiest housewife, Martha Deane. Says he: "Martha Deane, she's my carrot. . . ." From his bleak warehouse office on Manhattan's Warren Street, Dealer Vahlsing sends a man up to Nova Scotia early in July to make contracts with landowners and woodcutters. In October Vahlsing's man rounds up about ten crews of four or five men each, starts them cutting the most symmetrical young firs they can find. The cut trees are piled in the forest, covered with leaves to keep...