Western Outlook for 1934 Signals Moderating Western Slowdown
Industrial Commissioner John Sweeting outlines a cautiously hopeful Western Canada outlook for 1934, with trade upturns and optional industrial expansion. Agriculture remains the slowest path to prosperity, though better grain and meat production, mining gains, and oil and gas drilling in Alberta and surrounding provinces are anticipated to boost activity.
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Canada
John Sweeting
Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
Sweeting
West
British Columbia
Manitoba
Ontario
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Prairie Provinces
Device clocks athletes within one hundredth of a second
Dr E L Harrington of the University of Saskatchewan claims a new timer can clock to 0.01 second using a 12 toothed wheel between magnets on Saskatoon's power system. The device, 20 times more accurate than a stop watch, reads by impulses from AC power and a speedometer style counter.
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E. L. Harrington
Department of Physics
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Dr. Harrington
English Channel attempt yields lone successful swimmer
Of eighteen attempts in the summer by swimmers including nine women, only one swimmer succeeded in crossing the English Channel. The report notes that four women were among the attempts, with a single victor emerging from the group.
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English Channel
Walter Wellman remembered as polar flight pioneer
Chicago memories recall Walter Wellman, veteran airman, whose 1906 1909 1910 attempts to reach the north pole and cross the Atlantic in a lighter than air craft inspired future aviation progress. His failures were braved by hope as aircraft later crossed both poles and the Atlantic.
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Walter Wellman
New York
Oldtimers
Chicago
North Pole
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Elephants as Security For Government Loan Proposal
An American showman offered three elephants as mortgage security for a government loan to rehabilitate his circus. Cleveland officials examine a poorhouse’s books showing 24,000 gallons of gas used in 11 months across six small cars. Detroit News notes a cleaner tied to the case.
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Cleveland
Detroit News
Milburn's H. N. Pills Promoted for Vital Strength
A vintage advertisement urges readers to stop and consider health signs like shortness of breath during stairs hills or long walks and credits Milburn's H. N. Pills with toning and strengthening vital organs to prevent disease. Consumers are advised to ask their druggist for Milburn's H. N. Pills.
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Milburn
King Solomon's Mine Report Claims Vast Find
A Broken Hill prospector in Northern Rhodesia reports finding King Solomon's mine while tracking a wounded buck. He refuses to reveal the exact site beyond stating it lies in a central mine concession. The tale recalls centuries of search for the legendary treasure and the fears and hearsay surrounding it.
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Broken Hill
Northern
Rhodesia
How Mrs. Kruschen Salts Helped Woman Lose 32 Lbs
A reader shares her experience weighing 178 pounds 18 months ago and shedding 28 pounds in ten months with Kruschen Salts, reaching 146 pounds in six more months. She cites health gains, energy, and documentation via weight tickets. Kruschen contains six mineral salts found in European spa waters and aims to improve body function and vitality.
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M. P. Kruschen
Wales Taps Canada for Steel Supply to South Wales
The Guardian notes Wales imports Canadian steel billets for tinplate conversion as competition with Belgium Germany France and Sweden. The Grey County carried 3600 tons of Canadian billets into Newport with more cargoes expected. Despite high foreign steel duties South Wales imports about 18000 tons weekly. Canada ordered 1,000,000 boxes of Welsh tinplates and seeks reciprocal trade with the Dominions.
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Canada
Guardian
South Wales
Belgium
Germany
France
Sweden
Grey County
Newport
Dominions
Increased Demand For Rubber Resources for 1933 car parts growth
American engineers note yearly rubber tree output must rise from 30 to 40 trees to feed tires tubes and components for each modern car. In 1925 cars used about 3 lbs of rubber besides tires and tubes while 1933 models carry 30 to 60 lbs of rubber parts across 11 or 12 classes from spark plug caps to engine mounts. More than 90 percent of cars use 30 to 40 lbs of rubber parts.
Fishermen Die in Storm Off Kwantung Coast
Eight hundred fishermen were drowned when a storm off Kwantung province sank 300 fishing junks. A Chinese customs cruiser rushed to the scene and picked up a number of survivors. Kwantung is China southern coastal province including Canton and Hong Kong with Swaton seaport near the northern border.
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China
Kwangtung
Kwantung Province
Canton
Hong Kong
Swaton
Nervous Suitor Learns Father’s Pension Question
A humorous exchange unfolds as a nervous suitor proposes marriage after five years with the daughter. The father bluntly asks if he expects a pension, highlighting comic tension in a domestic interview.
Petroleum Firm Offers Over 300 Product Varieties
A company markets more than 300 petroleum products across its range, highlighting extensive diversification. The firm emphasizes breadth in fuels lubricants and related supplies to meet diverse consumer and industrial needs.
Agricultural Notes on Early Crops and Tomatoes in Canada
A survey of crops and agricultural trends touches on beans in South America seen by Columbus, spinach arriving via Persia, wood-made sugar in Mannheim, and tomato spread after the Civil War. It notes maple taps in Eastern Canada, ancient cabbage uses, a cold-resistant wheat strain, sugar beet outlook, canning yields, apple maturity tests, and Canada's 1933 tomato export of 1,359,725 cases.
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South America
Cuba
Europe
Persia
Spain
Mannheim
Germany
U.S
Greece
Rome
Canada
Agricultural Situation Bulletin
Dominion
Portugal
Provence
Paris
Livestock Shipments Western to Eastern Canada 1st 11 Weeks
For the first 11 weeks of this year and last year figures show hogs 57,995 (78,234), cattle 18,554 (5,921), calves 148 (19), and sheep 25,932 (21,480) shipped from Western to Eastern Canada.
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Canada
Farmers in Netherlands Welcome Crisis Fund Payments
Dutch farmers express relief as the government disburses payments from the agricultural crisis fund. Officials say the aid supports farms amid market pressures and regulatory changes.
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Netherlands
Agricultural Crisis Fund
Oyster egg diameter measures tiny at about one five hundredth inch
A historical note states that an oyster egg is extremely small with a diameter around one five hundredth of an inch. This precise measurement highlights the minuscule scale of early biologia observations.
European travel costs lower despite exchange rates
European travel costs this year are lower than in 1926, despite high exchange rates, per Cunard and Anchor-Donaldson Lines. Private car hires, hotel rates, rail fares and organized tours have all fallen, with Paris, Rome, London and Brussels showing notable percentage reductions, offsetting unfavorable currency effects.
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Cunard & Anchor-Donaldson Lines
Paris
Rome
Europe
London
Nice
Genoa
Naples
Lucerne
Interlaken
Heidelberg
Cologne
Amsterdam
Brussels
Holland
France
Poland
Switzerland
Prairie provinces seek examples of livestock pricing flaws
Government and agricultural leaders invite farmers to report cases where producers do not receive full market value for livestock due to trade practices or marketing defects. Submissions must include documentary proof and will inform a joint statement to Parliament. Livestock Association and Livestock Pool invited to provide data.
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Prairie Provinces
W. C. Buckle
Saskatchewan
Ottawa
The
Livestock Association
Livestock Pool
Buckle
Message From Siberian Tribe Reaches Leningrad
Izvestia reports a Christmas message addressed to the late Czar and his family arrived in Leningrad recently. The letter came from a Siberian tribe that had not yet heard of the Russian revolution.
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Izvestia R
Czar
Leningrad
War Memorial Pictures Criticized By Canadian Leader
Brooke Claxton vice president of the League of Nations Society in Canada spoke in Montreal at a women's meeting criticizing Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire for distributing war memorial pictures. He praised images of ruin like Ypres Cloth Hall but urged removal of others and urged Canadian children taught to think of peace.
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Imperial Order
Daughters of the Empire
National War Memorial
Montreal
Brooke Claxton
League of Nations Society
Canada
Ypres
Claxton
Denmark Prison Toy Makers Sellouts Boost Reform
Denmark's convicts make toys using imagination instead of factory labor. Toys are sold abroad. wages fund prison care, Prisoners' Aid Society, and dependents. Some funds reach inmates for canteen use. Many ex inmates pursue toy making after release.
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Denmark
Hans Christian Anderson
Carter's Little Liver Pills Adn Invaluable Sunshine Booster
An old advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills as a liver stimulant to restore energy. It warns against laxatives and mentions the product as purely herbal, safe, and reliable, urging readers to ask for the pills by name at druggists.
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Carter
January to March births linked to lower intelligence study
Dr. Rudolf Pintner of Columbia University argues that individuals born in January February or March tend to be less intelligent than those born later in the year. His conclusions come from studies of 26 000 school children.
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Rudolf Pintner
Columbia University
Soldier without a gun would be an officer says ex service man
A spoken quip in a classroom scene has an ex service man remarking that a soldier missing his weapon would be seen as an officer. The exchange centers on Jones and a teacher as the banter explores leadership and gear.
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Jones
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