Canadian Boys and Girls Swine Clubs Boost Marketing Efforts
The Canadian National Railways supports Boys and Girls Swine Clubs across Western Canada boosting bacon hog quality and marketing. Clubs teach swine judging and breeding, with prizes and interprovincial contests at Royal Agricultural events, while Manitoba shows yield and price gains from 1921 to 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Western
Canadian National Railways Agricviterai Department
Jassear
Toronto
Manitoba Points
Fire Point
Dominion and
Provinial
Ecriculture
Canadian National Railways
Eam
Lays’ and
Siirls
Siirls’ Swine Club
nold te@iais
Canadian National Kaffeeys
Ontario
W. PD. Robe
Lady Dillon Emerges in Law and Letters
A noblewoman known as a baroness and peeress in her own right rises in the legal field. She excels in law examinations, placing first, and earns income as a journalist with sharp insight into Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Paris
Reginald Explains Baptism Covenant to Reginald’s Teacher
A teacher asks Reginald to name the necessary elements of baptism. He answers clearly, saying water and baby, confirming the child’s baptismal rite in a Sunday lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesson
Reginald
Manitoba Farm Land Sales Signal West Comeback
Manitoba's eight month report to April 30 shows 240000 dollars from provincial land sales and prior sale payments. The data indicate renewed farmer interest and improved agricultural outlook, suggesting a broader economic revival in western farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
Department of Agriculture of
Manitoba
Encr
Sarnia
Canadian Observer
Stay On the Farm The Advantages For Country Youth
A rural perspective argues that farm children perform well in work and business, challenging claims that city schooling is superior. The author cites one room schools and fees as issues while defending the value of staying on the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olenn Birkell
The
Atlantic Monthly
Sugar Beet Production Growth Expected in Canada in 1923
Canada produced 154 200 tons of sugar beets in 1923 valued at 1 422 668 dollars from 41 17 acres. The 1922 granulated sugar yield from beets reached 29.49 percent at 160 pounds. A new sugar beet factory in Southern Alberta spurred a surge, with over 6 600 acres planted this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Suger
Alberia
Fall Wheat Prospects Across Regions Warn of Higher Yields
Fall wheat to be harvested totals 797 900 acres this year, up from last year. The April 30 1925 condition figure shows 160 percent of the ten year average 1915–1924, with Ontario at 106 Alberta at 1 and British Columbia at 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Alberta
British Columbia
No Change Quote Reveals Reliable Tedger-Keeper
A member of a firm describes a new tedger-keeper as reliable noting you can always tell what he is going to do next. The partner asks for clarity and the reply is simply Nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frm
Salt Ration Noted As Vital in Roman Soldier Pay
Fragmentary historical note shows salt given as a small portion of soldiers’ pay in ancient Rome, indicating its value and role in provisioning. The text emphasizes salt’s scarcity and its separate allocation within military compensation.
Canada’s Forests as Backbone of Industry and Jobs
The Natural Resources Bulletin argues Canada’s forests power industry and provide work for about 32,000 mill workers earning $72 million, with mills and timber limits worth nearly $600 million. It links forest development to farmers and other trades, urging protection from fire as a duty of all Canadians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Witawa «Ay
Piper
Ufe
Coun
British Columbia
British Women Farmers Eye Canada Mobility Study
Emily Pinder, Leeds University experimental farm graduate, travels to Winnipeg for a year studying Canadian agriculture. She aims to spark a movement of English farm girls to Western Canada, arguing Englishwomen pursing farming could fund and aid western development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Pinder
Leeds University
Winnipeg
Canada
British Isles
England
Miss Pinder
Blue Fox Farm Planned on Mary Island by Frank Buckley
Lumber man Frank Buckley has secured a lease on Mary Island to start a blue fox farm. Initial stock is fifty pairs, with plans for large scale expansion to breed and supply pelts for the world market. Mary Island lies 130 miles north of Vancouver and offers ready wagon-road access from its cached logging era trails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Buckley
Mary Island
Vancouver
Birth rates fall in Canada’s registration area in 1924
The Bureau of Statistics reports a Canada wide birth rate decline in 1924 for the registration area excluding Quebec, at 23.1 per thousand, down from 23.7 in 1923 and 25.1 in 1922. Ontario held at 22.2 while other provinces posted decreases with varied figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Quebec
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Bruns Wick
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Epidemic Of Fairs Sweeping Germany Highlights Cologne Exposition
Germany sees a wave of fairs with Cologne hosting its third exposition in two years. Across cities like Leipzig, Berlin, Breslau, and Danzig, heating and energy devices dominate displays. The Cologne show attracts buyers from Belgium, Holland, Germany, and France as firms showcase heat saving technology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Europe
Leipsic
Ruhr
Germany
Belgium
Holland
Erland
France
Brains in Rural Areas Claim Against City Stereotype
British Minister of Agriculture E F L Wood told a Gloucester audience that country residents are more intelligent and capable than city dwellers. He argued agriculture requires greater enterprise and grip than urban work, challenging urban prejudices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. L. Wood
Mr. Wood
Gloucester
Irrigated Land Figures From Dominion Water Report
The Dominion water power and reclamation service reports that over 42 000 of 77 000 irrigable acres in the C P R Lethbridge project were irrigated with 937 water users and crop value reaching about 1 000. In Taber irrigation district of 17 000 irrigable acres crops were good in the third year and district finances show a surplus near 8 1 over the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service
C.P R. Lethbridge
Taber
Government Motion Pictures Advertising Canada’s Nature Resources
The government motion picture bureau plans to promote Canada by film. Milton Sills and a company will travel to Bouchesne Creek about 246 miles north of Ottawa to shoot lumbering scenes in Nerih cn Ontario for national advertising and capital attraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motion Picture Bureau
Canada
Milton Sills
Motion Pictue Eeter
Bouchesne Creek
Ottawa
Nerih
Cn Ontario
Prince of Wales Comforts Cape Town Child at Parade
During a Cape Town visit the Prince of Wales noticed a young girl wearing medals at a parade. He asked who they belonged to and learned the father had been killed in the war. The Prince then lifted the girl in his arms and kissed her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felexing
Prince of Wales
Cape Town
Daddy
Tense Lesson Sparks Confusion in Classroom Exchange
A teacher explains tense by contrasting past and present in a dialogue with Susie. The exchange highlights how saying My father had money uses past tense while My father has money indicates present tense. The lesson calls this present tense form pre tence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susie
Detroit woman believed to have longest hair in the nation
Miss Jackie Walls of Detroit Michigan is described as having hair measuring seventy six inches long and is thought to possess the longest head of hair among American women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackie Walls
Detroit, Mich
United States
Ice Cream Consumption Skyrockets in Britain
It has been estimated that ice cream consumption in Great Britain has increased 1,000 percent in two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Two
British Columbia to get first interior ice plants
Vernon and Revelstoke will host the province’s first interior artificial ice plants. Charles F. Roland, ex Winnipeg industrial commissioner, says his company will set up facilities in Vernon for pre cooling and cold storage of fruit as arrangements are finalized in Vancouver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Vernon
Revelstoke
Charles F. Roland
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Life expectancy in United States rises to 56 years
The average life length in the United States reaches 56 years, up 15 years since 1878, reflecting notable gains in longevity over the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Courier editor plans to attend Winnipeg convention
MacDonald editor and proprietor of the Unity Saskatchewan Courier and Saskatchewan Division head hopes to attend the Annual Convention in Winnipeg on June 24 25 and 26 after recent illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Has. MacDonald
The
Courier, Unity, Sask
Saskatchewan
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
MacDonald
Winnipeg
Canada a Safe Investment in a Slump Time
Agnes Laut writes in Forbes that Canada, like post Civil War America, is a safer bet as capital flows in during the afterwar slump. She notes Canada’s improving exchange, per capita trade, wheat and pulp exports, and large pulp lands as signs of value and growth for investors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Canada Rabbitt
Knockers
Boosters
Morgan, Sr
United States
United Stats
Agnes €. Laut
Forbes Magazine
Seed Wheat Pools Approve Interim Payments in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers' Co operative Association executive approves interim payments for all seed wheat pools. Payments are 4.00 for first generation Marquis, 1.76 for second generation, 1.50 for third, and 1.49 for fourth generation. These nets cover earlier advances. freight and handling are absorbed by the association. Other pools such as barley flax and sweet clover will be settled similarly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers’ Co-operative Association
Asso
Marquis
Association
Law Enforced as Doukhobors Pay Fines
The Doukhobors at Neleon have paid their fines and pledged to send the youth to school. Congratulations to all parties, especially the Doukhobor children. The editorial argues that defiance of the law cannot stand when enforcement is backed by public sentiment and determined officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ottawa
Dominics
British Columbia
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Province
Deaminion Statistician
Neleon
Edmonton Bulletin
Cobbler Arrested for Wife Desertion Found in Bigamy Case
A cobbler accused of desertion was revealed to have committed bigamy. The court noted irony stating he should have stuck to his last. Local authorities pursued the case amid ongoing investigations.
Norwegian Seafaring Link Shared by One in Fifty
A historical note states that seven men out of every 106 in Norway rely on fishing or the sea for their livelihood, highlighting the strong coastal dependence in the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevemeen
Norway
Western Canada emerges as premier dairying region
Western Canada has moved from dairy import dependence to export ready butter production. The Western Canada Dairymen Association now unites 166,000 dairymen across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia with aims to improve conditions secure markets and raise quality. Alberta and Saskatchewan show rising exports with butter to Japan and markets in the British Isles while alfalfa and fodder crops expand. Superb dairy herds and modern silos become common as the sector intensifies and develops nationwide prominence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Canada
Western Provinces
Regina
Western Canada Dairymen’s Association
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Central Association
Canada
Japan
Vancouver
British Isles
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Western
British Empire
Care Of Asparagus Through First Three Growing Years
Instructions for asparagus: cultivate surface soil in summer, avoid eating first year's shoots, burn tops in spring of year two, apply two to three inches of well rotted barnyard manure, then surface cultivate. From year three, apply light manure and never dig around plants, burning tops yearly to control pests.
Broadway Temple Campaign Reaches Goal For Skyscraper Church
Broadway Temple directors secure the remaining funds to complete a $2,000,000 underwrite, finishing a drive that began with a Rockefeller gift and aimed toward a $4,006,000 complex with church and community welfare offices in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Broadway Temple
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Broadway
Developing New Flowers and the Dream of a Blue Carnation
The piece argues that florists should pursue impossible blue carnations despite nature’s limits. It contends that artful breeding and flower hybrids enrich gardens beyond strict naturalism and compares fantasy blooms to celebrated varieties like Madame Chatney and General MacArthur roses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Chatney
General McArthur
London Daily Telegraph
Gee, You Have a Lot of Bum Jokes in This Issue
A humorous exchange about jokes in the issue ends with a quip about stoking the fire with bum jokes. The back and forth highlights lighthearted editor humor and playful banter.
Japan Retires Hundreds of Officers Amid Size Reduction
The Pittsburg Post reports Japan has retired 489 army officers including 36 generals and plans to recruit 5,000 enlisted men to shrink the service. The move signals a major reorganization rather than a wartime pullback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Pittsburgh Post
Hudson's Bay Railway Campaign Presses for Extra Vote
Advocates of the Hudson's Bay Railway urge the government to include a further vote for the railway in supplementary estimates. Support centers on government endorsement of Andrew Knox's resolution giving the railway priority over other public works. Informal discussions occurred with no official conferences yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Knox
M.P
Early British Wool Dominance Through History
The passage traces Britain’s wool prestige from ancient times, noting Roman era use for imperial cloth and the emergence of woollen manufacture in England around 1325. It cites John Kempe and artisans from Flanders as introducers of weaving, marking a key shift in English textile production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Island
Winchester
England
John Kempe
Caterpillar Dining and a Deaf Question from 19th Century
A naturalist claims caterpillars eat about 600 times their weight in a month. An elderly, somewhat deaf woman asks, Where boy did you say he was, humorously interrupting the discussion in the Christian Advocate.
Crossing With an Elderly Lady
An old woman asks for help crossing the street and a polite reply confirms assistance. The brief dialogue notes the waiting person’s question about how long they have waited for someone to help.
Miss Miriam Hamilton Elected Director of Federal Insurance
Miss Miriam Hamilton daughter of Isaac M Hamilton founder of the Federal Insurance Company of Chicago has been elected a director of the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam Hamilton
Isaac M. Hamilton
The
Federal Insurance Company of Chicago
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Annual Agricultural Statistics
Crroness
Wn. U. Age
C. A. Dunning
Natural, Resources Bulletin
Wes
Lumberman
Saskatchewan Association
Robson Black
Canadian Forestry Association
London
New York
H. B. Road
Seoul
Wadam
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