Growing Future For Canada
Maurice Tillier of Paris, MD of French Steamship Line, foresees a growing Canada as the company inaugurates a new north Pacific service via Los Angeles and the Panama Canal to Havre, France. The fleet’s flagship, the Winnpeg, will enter Vancouver harbor, signaling strong France-Canada ties and a need for a robust navy to protect shipping. France currently nears prewar economic levels with low unemployment and favorable public sentiment toward England following the armistice.
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Canada
Maurice Tillier
Paris
France
French Steamship Line
Vancouver
Ottawa
Los Angeles
Panama Canal
Havre
Tillier
Mr. Tillier
London
England
Cost Of Raising Calves At Lethbridge Experimental Farm
The Dominion Department of Agriculture experimental station at Lethbridge Alberta calculates the cost of raising a calf into a thrifty heifer at 32 73 dollars from nine calves aged average thirty eight days to thirteen months. Total feed costs for nine calves totalled 294 60 dollars with milk valued at 140 dollars per hundredweight and skim milk at 25 cents per hundredweight. Additional costs include calf mixture vats ensilage alfalfa salt and pasture charges with daily rates for pasture and stubble grazing noted.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Lethbridge
Alberta
Gdynia rises as Poland’s first modern seaport
The insurance man at a club lunch asserts cargo insurance to Gdynia, a port many readers doubt. A London Chronicle correspondent recalls researching the Baltic locale, noting Gdynia’s rapid transformation from a 300 inhabitant fishing village five years ago to Poland’s sole modern seaport.
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Gdynia
Baltic
London Daily Chronicle
Dantzig
Gdansk
Poland
Not Liable To Change
A policeman stops stalled motorists for an hour in a dispute over a red signal. The motorist insists on waiting for the traffic light to turn green, while the officer warns of a long wait and mentions the red light is on a fire box.
Mother and child clash over nurse in Madrid dialogue
In a Madrid scene, a child blasts the nurse as unkind and expresses a desire to pinch her cheek, echoing a harsh household dynamic. The exchange includes a remark about being sick the night before a journey and a suggestion to depart earlier.
Building Up Bee Colonies With Package Bees
Dominion Apiarist C. B. Gooderham promotes package bees as a safe Canada wide method to build strong colonies in a single season. They can ship without comb to prevent diseases and require ready hives and steady food until colonies establish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Gooderham
BSA
Dominion Apiarist
Department of Agriculture
Canada
Prairie
Frozen-Pack Strawberries Prove Viable in Cold Storage
Experiments on cold storage of strawberries show Canadian berries grown in June in British Columbia maintain freshness when frozen. The berries were washed graded sealed in sugar packed in barrels and stored at 15 degrees Fahrenheit above zero. Last year 2100 barrels were produced and later traded as first class fruit.
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British Columbia
Ontario
New Land Map Shows Crown Land Availability Nationwide
The Department of the Interior releases a new land map detailing total available Crown land by township along with Dominion Land Offices and railway facilities. It lists cities towns and villages and can be obtained free from the Natural Resources Intelligence Service in Ottawa.
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Department of the Interior
Dominion Land Offices
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Ottawa
Johnnie Hurries as Safety Council Secretary
A child asks his mother to fix a watch quickly because he is the Safety Council secretary and must take minutes at the teacher's instruction tomorrow. The dialog conveys a child's pride and sense of responsibility.
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Johnnie
Mother
The
Safety Council
Gave Her Credit
A girl meets an old flame at a social event and greets him with a polite apology for not remembering his name. The exchange ends with the amused ex lover noting her effort to recall him.
Arabs Begin Long Journey With Bread Dates Rations
Arabs setting out on a long journey carried rations of bread dates, a sugary variety that keeps indefinitely, according to the report.
Spider thread weight claim in brief
A note states that twenty five miles of spider thread would weigh eight ounces.
The Story Of Mike From the Junior Red Cross Hospital
An In dian lad named Mike from the North wilds visits Edmonton Alberta and tells how he arrived at the Junior Red Cross Hospital. He learns to read again while recovering from illness in a clean white cot as hope rises for a brighter future.
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Red Cross
Edmonton
Alberta
Mike
The
Providence
Hope Springs Eternal
Girl organist plays Notre Dame great organ for first time
Renee Nizan, a 16 year old girl and noted organist, becomes the first woman to play Notre Dame Cathedral’s grand organ, an instrument two centuries old once used at Napoleon’s coronation. No prior record shows a woman touching the organ during Revolution sacking or the Commune.
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Notre Dame Cathedral
Renee Nizan
Notre Dame
Reason
Liberty
A Prayer For Motorists from The Christian Register
The Christian Register prints the Harry McCreary verse urging drivers to stay in lane with courtesy and caution. It asks to preserve brake lining and resist intruding on others, to heed traffic signs, keep alcohol from engines and stomachs, and avoid risky passing on narrow roads.
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The
Christian Register
Harry McCreary
Perpetual Motion Joke Returns as Success
A humorous quip notes that an article on perpetual motion keeps returning after submission. The exchange frames the piece as a self-reinforcing joke about inevitability and publication feedback.
Fun is Like Insurance Costs as You Age
A wry proverb notes that enjoying life becomes pricier with age, implying growing expenses and trade offs as time passes. It frames youth as cheap fun and aging as heightened cost to maintain enjoyment.
Pompeian Company Sold to Noted Trade Group
Announcement states the Pompeian Company, formerly part of Colgate Palmolive Peet, has been bought by a group led by Harold F. Ritchie and the Shoemaker brothers. Management shifted March 1, 1930, with plans for a larger sales and advertising push and expanded operations. The firm originated in Cleveland and rose to prominence with Pompeian Massage Cream and allied toiletries.
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Harold F. Ritchie
F. M. Shoemaker
Colgate Palmolive- Peet Company
Pompeian Products To Expand Under New Company Setup
Pompeian Products will be made in Elmira New York and Toronto Canada with Pompeian and Ritchie Groups handling production and sales in over fifty countries. The new company will operate offices in New York Elmira and Toronto with branches in Paris London Berlin Sydney Wellington Shanghai Tokyo and Cape Town. Officers include F M Shoemaker Harold F Ritchie and James H Anderson with Chas M Henning as controller. The firm has built a 30 year reputation for high quality toiletries through strong advertising.
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New York
N.Y
Madison Avenue
34Th Street
Elmira
Toronto
Canada
Paris
London
Berlin
Sydney
Australia
Wellington
Shanghai
China
Tokio
Japan
Cape Town
Africa
F. M. Shoemaker
Harold F. Ritchie
James H. Anderson
C. S. Shoemaker
Guy S. Shoemaker
Chas. M. Henning
Hans Schmidt, Jr
Edward H. Letchworth
Herbert H. Klein
H. Holmes
Family physician role gains value from early disease control
The article argues that early diagnosis and treatment improve outcomes for infantile paralysis and tuberculosis, suggesting that a family physician who knows patients over time can be more useful than ever. It notes preventive measures and ongoing familiarity with patients' histories enhance care.
Granny Humphries Takes Three Mile Train Ride at 102
Granny Humphries aged 102 in Australia rode a three mile train ride for wanderlust and returned home contented. She came from Ireland with her pioneering husband and lived in the backwoods until curiosity led her to ride the train. her three bachelor sons aged 72, 75 and 77 deplored the escapade.
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Granny” Humphries
Australia
Ireland
If Methuselah Invested One Dollar at Six Percent
The piece jokes that compounding one dollar at six percent would yield about 7.71579e22 by death, noting that even then finding a dollar to invest was as hard as today. It uses the hypothetical to mock savings, comparing past and present effort.
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Methuselah
Preparations for Canada’s 1931 decennial census
Preparations are underway for Canada’s 1931 census to employ about 15 000 people and cover the country from Atlantic to Pacific. Under the Bureau of Statistics, enumeration begins in June 1931 with classifications on population births and deaths migrations sex age nationality occupation and social statistics across 36 main headings and 57 sub sections.
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Canada
New France
Atlantic
Pacific
International
Arctic
Government
Bureau of Statistics
United States
Dominion
Dog footprints on Roman brick thrill London historians
Excavators found prints of a dog’s feet pressed into a large Roman brick unearthed from a wall. The brick, 17 by 12 inches and two inches thick, dates nearly two millennia, with two close footprints suggesting a chase.
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London
Guildhall
Thames
Peru Accepts Invitation to World Grain Exhibition 1932
The Peruvian government through the minister of foreign affairs accepts the invitation to participate in the Worlds Grain Exhibition and Conference to be held in Regina in 1932. Details of participation are referred to the department of works and communications for action. A scientist notes that many animals laugh when observing humans.
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Regina
Lima
Peru
Department of Works and Communications
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Eperimental
Gutierrez
Madrid
W. N. U. 1829
New Land
Pompeian
Colgate- Palmolive-Peet Company
Harold F Ritchie
Harold F. Ritchie and Company, Inc
Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd
Pompeian Company
Cleveland
Stecher
Otto F. Leopold
W. W. Wheeler
Harold F. Ritchte
Cross Lake
Pas
Manitoba
Margaret of Mary
Florence
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