Ottawa urged to allow herring reduction on Vancouver Island coast
A Vancouver conference urged Ottawa to permit the reduction of herring in pilchard plants from October to January at Barkley Sound and points north. White employees from six Barkley Sound plants would gain steady work June to February, aiding homesteaders and stabilizing the saltery industry, with products shipped globally.
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Ottawa
Barkely Sound
Vancouver
A. W. Neill
Comox-Alberni
J. A. Motherwell
British Columbia
Barkley Sound
Sechart
Toquart
Ucluelet
Hocote
Kildonan
San Mateo
Shelter Arm
Sidney Inlet
Ahousset
Matilda Creek
Nootka
Hsperanza Inlet
Hecate
Cachalot
Quatsino
Vancouver Island
Orient
Alaska
Mt. Neill
Puzzle Corner Word Play Fragment
Incomplete puzzle text presents gaps where a word fits first blank and its first letter omitted fits second blank. Phrases reference cannibal and missionary, a wife described as g0 .4, water depth for horses, Madam you should understand, selling, gate for prisoners, night closure, and a line about going to the dogs.
Puzzle No 206 Travel Time Tale in Joytown and Pleasantville
Wearle Willie and Dusty Rhodes leave Joytown and Pleasantville respectively and meet at a point where Willie is eighteen miles farther along. Afterward Willie takes 13.5 hours to reach Pleasantville and Dusty 24 hours to reach Joytown. Determine distance between Joytown and Pleasantville.
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Wearle Willie
Joytown
Pleasantville
Dusty Rhodes
Willie
Dusty
Joystown
Puzzle wordplay previews hidden Crocodile spelling
Puzzle No 207 guides letter changes to spell CROCODILE by adding and removing elements from clues. Puzzle No 208 requires six to eight incremental English word changes to transform seed to corn, white to black, bush to tree, lead to gold, sorry to happy, hill to dale.
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Bush
Tree
Sorry
Happy
Hill
Dale
Puzzle No 209 Heidelberg drinking bout between Red Caps and Blues
In a Heidelberg drinking bout less than twenty four students attended. The Red Caps drank 108 more steins than the Blue Caps. Determine total beer consumed. Later puzzles and answers will appear next week in this column.
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Heidelberg
Blues
Puzzle Answers Reveal Lot Size and Pole Count
The note explains Mr McManus lot dimensions as 150 by 150 feet totaling 22 500 square feet. It states 190 poles and computes shortages if placed two feet apart or two yards apart. No 201 Calico plus Bear minus.
Puzzling Wordplay Phrases From The Papers
The text presents a series of wordplay puzzles and playful equations between letters and numbers. It features operations like COB minus EAR plus FORT etc, a No 202 puzzle about SHEARS and L, and a Tommy's problem asking for a hidden pattern in arithmetic substitutions.
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Fort
Horn
Thor
Mart
California
Ears
Lad
Shad
Tommy
Dogs Have Modes of Speech, Says J R Towse
J Ranken Towse in The Reasoning Faculty in Dogs argues dogs communicate beyond hunger. He recounts a bull terrier and a Skye pairing tracking a yellow dog, with the Skye signaling aid through an apparent intelligent speech. The tale ends with Towse inviting others to judge the mechanism.
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J. Ranken Towse
Scribner's Magazine
Hotspur
Skye
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Royal Candy Store
Geo. Mason
Cumberland Electric Lighting Co., Ltd
Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc
Bureaus of Water and Boiler Inspection
Cumberland and Union Water Works CO. Limited
G. W. Clinton
Star Livery Stable
Alex. Maxwell
Cumberland, B. C
Messrs. C. Newman
John
Cumberland
McBryde
White
Courtenay Sawmills Ltd
Pemberton & Sonblished
Investment Bankers
Victoria
B.C. R
Mabee
John Inglis
Courtenay, B. C
Asserts J
Home Brews
Frank McCoy
Home Brew
Amalgamated Breweries of
Vancouver Breweries Ltd
Rainier Brewing Company of Canada, Ltd
Westminster Brewery, Ltd
Silver Spring Brewery, Ltd
Victoria Phoenix Brewing Co., Ltd
The
Liquor Control Board
Government of
Ship
British Columbia Telephone Co
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