Slats Diary covers a week of quirky family life
Friday at the Pitcher show Slats xplains being scolded for dropping gum on a seat. The week includes a neighbors wedding, a fat woman discussion, dieting talk, a doctor visit, a baby visit to the Killox family, a classroom tree lesson, and Emmys sister in law couple spending their savings on a divorce.
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Tonite & Pa
Ben
Ahe Neiborhood
Killox Tonite
Pug
Jake
Elsie
Sarah
Jane
Aotto
Equalized Freight Rates and BC Support for John Oliver
A BC political call rallying June twentieth to back Liberal John Oliver and his government. It argues for equalized freight rates, canal access, regional representation, and growth through government policy, urging voters to elect Oliver to advance prosperity in the province.
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Dominion
Canada
John Oliver
Ottawa
British Columbia
Oliver
Panama Canal
Victoria
Grain shipments and farming outlook across western provinces
Grain shipments from Grande Prairie and Peace River districts totaled 2 471 000 bushels of wheat and 1 700 500 bushels of other grains via the Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway. A long train of red cedar edge grain shingles left Vancouver for Chicago and the Eastern States. The Hunting Merritt Lumber Company will ship similar trains soon. Canada’s acreage to be seeded this year rises toward 14 000 000 acres with provincial allocations: Manitoba 4 450 400, Saskatchewan 3 954 190, Alberta 3 472 315. Boots and shoes exports to March 1924 reached 304 913 dollars, mostly to the United States. The Empress of Canada completes a round-the-world cruise docking at Vancouver May 24. Canada’s fiscal year ending March 31 1924 saw imports totaling 508 385 491 dollars and exports of 1 045 141 056 dollars, with total trade up about 210 000 000 dollars from the prior year.
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Grande Prairie
Peace River
Edmonton, Dunvegan and
British Columbia
Vancouver
B.C
Chicago
Hunting Merritt Lumber Company
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
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Rity
By Ross FarQuhar
Mackenzie King
Bowser
General McRae
London
Professor Carlyle
E. P. Ranch
Bac
Prince of Wales
United States
Japan
Empress of Canada
Robinson
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