High Grade Tires to Be Produced in British Columbia
The Gregory Tire and Rubber Co of British Columbia plans to market tires and tubes within two months. The firm, financed by Canadian capital, builds on decades of rubber-industry experience, emphasizes BC road conditions, and holds Canadian patents for a new compound. The Port Coquitlam site covers 11 acres with a 37,000 square foot main factory.
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Gregory Tire & Rubber Co
British Columbia
Canada
United States
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
India
Morton Gregory
Gregory
Port Coquitlam
Spokane Firm Wins $30 Million California Tunnel Contract
Spokane contractor Frederick Wilson and A. C. Dennis win a $30,000,000 deal to bore a 10 mile rock tunnel for the San Francisco aqueduct supporting the Hetch Hetchy water system. Dennis, veteran of Rogers Pass tunnel work, opens California HQ in Groveland Tuolumne County.
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Frederick Wilson
A. C. Dennis
Spokane
Washington
Dennis
Rogers Pass
Canadian Pacific Railway
Groveland
Tuolumne County
California
Hat joke triggers sharp reply in Glasgow millinery
A Glasgow woman brings her young daughter to a millinery salon and asks for a hat. The saleswoman suggests a sailor for the daughter and the mother protests, calling the remark impudent and jokingly retorting about a soldier for herself.
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Glasgow
Gendarme Wounded in Unusual Self-Inflicted Shooting
A gendarme in Constance was shot by a dead man who had just killed himself. The man, a young tradesman near bankruptcy, died in bed with the revolver still in hand. The gun discharged as the body was moved, wounding the gendarme in the lung before he was hospitalized in serious condition.
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Constance
Jarmé
Donations List From Canadian Collieries Picnic Prizes
The Employees' Picnic Committee of the Canadian Collieries Limited reports donations from wholesale houses used as prizes in a grand drawing. The list includes gifts such as razors, mirrors, electric irons, shoes, rugs, compasses, and cash, with donors from Vancouver Victoria Seattle and beyond. A joke exchange closes the piece.
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Picnic Committee
Canadian Collieries
Dunsmuir), Limited
Alcock, Downing & Wright
Vancouver
Bogardus, Wickens & Co
Canadian Explosives, Ltd
Victoria
Gillette
Canadian Westinghouse Co
Begg Motor Co
Barrett Co., Ltd
Gee, Cradock & Co
Canada Metal Co
Dominion
Douglas, Mackay & Co
Evans, Coleman & Evans
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T. E. Bate
Cumberland
P. O. Box
Thos. Weeks
Nanaimo
Chevrolet
Dodge
Chalmers
Hudson
Cadillac
Republic
Thomas Hudson
Union Bay, B.C
Silver Spring Brewing Company
Victoria, B.C
B.C
Ssdvau
Simon Leiser & CO. Ltd
Mumford and Walton
Grocers, Cumberland
Frazer
Gillette Razor
Giant Powder Co. of
Van
Couver
Great Western Smelting & Refining Co
Link Belt Co
Seattle
McLennan, McFeely & Co
Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co
Mr. Jones
Mrs. Jones
Electric Blue Print & Map Co
Gordon & Belyea, Ltd
Gutta Percha & Rubber Co
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear
Simon Leiser & Co
Macey-Abell Co
Northern Electric Co., Ltd
National Drug & Chemical Co
Victtoria
Pacific Waste Co
Stoneland Co
Storey & Campbell
N. Thompson Co
United Typewriter Co
Western Hardware & Steel Co
Weiler Bros., Ltd
E. G. Prior & Co., Ltd
Pacific Coast Pipe Co
H. H. Sanderson
Sullivan Machinery Co
United Grain Growers
B. C
Moore, Whittington Lumber Co
Freddy
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