Northern Mining Prospects in Saskatchewan Rise
The Toronto Star reports vast mineral possibilities in northern Saskatchewan as exploration expands at Rottenstone Lake and Lac La Rouge. Negotiations may create a 5,000,000 share subsidiary merging Manitoba Basin and Ventures Limited to consolidate claims near Hall Brothers property and support a new eastern copper refinery and zinc plant.
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Toronto Star
Saskatchewan
Rottenstome Lake
Lac la Rouge
Canadian Pacific Railway
Manitoba Basin
Lindsley Enterprise (Ventures Limited
Ventures
Rottenstone Lake
Hall Brothers
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Manitoba
Too Much Speed In Modern Life Warns Toronto Pastor
Rev Ward Whate of Toronto laments excessive speed in daily life. He cites hurried routines from washing and shaving to meals and golf. He argues home life suffers and urges calmer pace to improve well being.
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Ward Whate
Toronto
Absent minded master jokes at rain drawn image mishap
A rain heavy scene has a drawing master chasing a taxi but finds the cab driver pointing to his own horse. The master quips to redraw the horse as he plans excavation for a new barn. A farmer interrupts with a barn project and an airplane’s recent site excavation note.
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Me ‘Orse
Townly
Fatal Refusal Ends Tragic Romance Fifty Years Ago
A man pleaded for acceptance on his knees sixty years ago and died last week after a reluctant response from the woman. The events remain a somber historical note in local memory.
Insect Powder Box Sparks Witty Chat in Charleroi
A fragment from Moustique in Charleroi notes a box labeled insect powder described as a pennyworth. A marginal punchline suggests the product is not worth using and should be applied directly.
Women Lead Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool
The Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool, a farmers wives run cooperative with 19000 members, markets eggs and poultry to Eastern Canada and the US. Mrs John Holmes of Asanth serves as president with a largely female board. Headquartered in Regina, it charges a joining fee and stock share, profits returned to members.
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Cassada
Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Producers, Ltd
John Holmes
Asanth
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool
Canada
United States
One-passenger Taxicabs Stir Constantinople Debates
Recent dispatches report Constantinople Turkey adopting one passenger taxicabs. Men welcome the novelty while women of the harem protest for two reasons privacy and having to sit beside the driver. Madame Fatima particularly complains of lack of privacy for Turkish cigarettes.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Fatima
Canada Fur Pelts Output Rises With Rabbits and Squirrels
Canada produced 4,289,233 pelts in 1926 27, up from 3,686,148 in 1925 25. The gain stems from 807,283 more rabbit pelts and 60,654 more squirrel pelts, while other pelts changed little.
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Canada
A Profitable Industry in Canada 1928
The 1928 Canadian fishing industry enjoyed peak profitability since the war due to favorable weather, abundant fish, and strong market conditions. Total yield estimated at 50 million dollars with a capital of over 50 million and direct employment for about 80,000 people. Inland waters contribute 7 million dollars annually, mainly from the Great Lakes, with 1.5 million from Prairie lakes, and Lake Athabasca yielding around 1.7 million pounds.
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Fshing
Canada
Great Lakes
Prairie Lakes
Lake Athabasca
Sulphur in Gases Valuable From Canadian Smelters
W H DeBlois reports in a Canadian Engineering Institute talk that Canadian smelters waste about 1500 tons of sulphur daily. Canada imports roughly 200000 tons of sulphur worth about 3 million dollars per year, mostly used by pulp and paper mills. Proposals include recovering sulphur from smelter gases and making liquefied sulphur dioxide for paper mills.
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Canadian Engineering Institute
W. H. DeBlois
Canada
Dominion
Steel With a Skin by Nit riding Process Unveiled
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh announces a steel skin produced by nit riding. The steel is placed in ammonia gas at 1000 degrees, forming a thin skin that is described as extremely hard, tough and rust proof.
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Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Pittsburg
Aviation progress in Canada nine year figures show large gains
Civil aviation data from the national defence department highlights 1928 as a landmark year with about 40 000 hours of flying time and nearly 3 000 000 miles of passenger travel. Freight grew from 6740 pounds in 1920 to 2 500 000 in 1928 while mail tonnage rose from 1 221 pounds in 1924 to 284 163 pounds in the latest year.
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Canada
Civil Aviation
Department of National Defence
Nime
Perseverance as a virtue in life and work
The passage extols perseverance as the key to success, urging constant effort toward a fixed goal. It acknowledges varying abilities but asserts that determination and persistence overcome obstacles and defeat despair, claiming failure stems from surrender and distraction.
Long Walks Highlight Early Education and Medicine
The article recalls how in Michigan people walked long distances to education and to doctors in the past. It notes a twenty mile trek to a doctor aiding patient recovery and mentions a biographical detail of an actor who first joined a circus after a 32 mile hike.
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Michigan
Food fish culture gains emphasis in Canada since inception
Since its inception in Canada fish culture has focused on fresh water and anadromous food fishes. Recently attention shifted to propagation of game fish such as speckled trout in the east and cutthroat plus rainbow trout in the west.
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Canada
Money First, Then Guard It for Lasting Wealth
The saying urges prioritizing earning before securing saved wealth. It emphasizes building sustainable income streams and prudent protection to ensure long term financial stability. Focus on disciplined saving, smart investing, and risk management to preserve capital.
Ten rules for lasting prosperity from Bethlehem Steel head
Charles M. Schrrab, chair of Bethlehem Steel, shares ten rules to lasting prosperity. They urge high wages, treating labor as a partner, open business practices, sensible supply and demand, broad distribution of prosperity, openness to ideas, continual progress, economical operation, forward planning, and cheerful work aimed at human happiness.
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Charles M. Schrrab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
New York Herald-Tribune
World’s First Telegram Displayed in Oxford Exhibition
The earliest telegram is shown as a fragment of stone with a Coptic inscription reading He died to day The message was carried by an express messenger to friends of an unknown man about 1 300 years ago The Bodleian Library hosts the Oriental books and manuscripts exhibit. Also on view is a set of Indian playing cards from the 16th century with twelve circular cards to each suit bearing zodiac signs.
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International Congress of Orientalists
Oxford
Bodleian Library
Proposed new CN rail branches for prairie expansion
The Canadian National Railways seeks Parliament approval to build 695 miles of new track, 542 on the prairies, including a key Aberdeen to Melfort line. The plan aims to connect with existing and near completion lines and re4nforce feeders, with completion targeted in three years.
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Canadian National Railways
Prairies
Aberdeen
Melfort
Saskatchewan
Ridgedale
Hudson Bay Railway
Saskatoon
St. Walburg
Sask
Bonnyville
Alta
Hamlin
Glenbush
Neidpath
Swift Current
Alliance
Dobson
Bulwark
Alts
France to settle name for artificial silk rayon debate
A Paris cable reports French commerce minister studies renaming artificial silk. Europe splits on terms with Germany using giant stuff, Britain clinging to artificial silk, and France wavering before adopting rayon as a harmonious, international term. The column predicts France should adopt rayon to standardize across nations.
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Paris
Germany
Britain
France
Correcting the Pronunciation Pest in Social Quarters
A humorous note on people who correct others mispronouncing words. The article mocks pompous critics who themselves mispronounce simple terms like Salmon and Salmon as Sam-on, calling them chronic corregtors of mispronunciations a pest to the neighborhood.
Air travel safer than highways says Navy official
The assistant secretary of the navy in charge of the bureau of Aeronautics notes one fatal airplane accident per million miles flown in the United States last year. A study comparing last year’s fatal auto accidents and total motor mileage suggests air travel may be safer than highways.
Edmonton Utilities Post Record Surge in City Profits
Edmonton public utilities report a historic surplus of 507785 dollars, lifting the entire system including street railways power plant electric light city telephone and water works into the profit paying class.
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Edmonton
Dinner guest sparks old flames in quiet feud
In a tense exchange two spouses argue over inviting a former suitor to dinner. One claims the guest kissed the wife before marriage, while the husband admits a prior kiss but says he has moved on, suggesting the other may not.
Sewing circles fall out of fashion in Madrid humor
A Buer Humor item from Madrid notes dwindling sewing circles and a comic line about resisting abuse. The quip adds that the speaker will write to mamma to report an attempted strike.
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Madrid
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