Privy Council Hears BC Freight Rates Probe and Trade Posts
The Canadian Privy Council is expected to discuss British Columbia freight rates on January 25. J W Collins becomes New Zealand trade commissioner in Canada. Canada eyeing new steamship links to boost trade abroad. Ottawa land purchase funds approved for Washington legation and offices. Oriental immigration to British Columbia in 1928 totals 573, matching last year. Canada to take 3000 farm workers next year. Dr Augusta Stowe Gullen honored by Toronto alumnae for pioneering medical degree. Hugh Morrison named Alberta Rhodes Scholar for 1929 from four candidates.
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Washington Foreign Service Buildings Commission
Ottawa
British Columbia
J. H. Thomas
Toronto
University of Toronto
Academy of Medicine
Hugh Morrison
Edmonton
Judge Morrison
Alberta District Court
Morrison
Alberta
Air mail pickup device could cut schedules on routes
The American Air Transport Association says an in-flight mail pickup and release system tested at Youngstown Ohio and aboard the S S Leviathan could halve to an hour the time between airports. It uses a 75 foot cable and a V shaped ground trap to seize bags and transfer them to the plane. Similar sea tests are underway to enable in flight mail exchanges along routes.
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American Air Transport Association
Youngstown
Canada’s Forest Areas Estimated Total and Usable Lands
Canada’s total forest area is estimated at 1,151,454 square miles, including 82,260 square miles of forest on agricultural land. About 1,100,000 square miles are essentially forest land suitable for best use under forest management.
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Canada
Manitoba Tourist Industry Gains Revenue and Convention Visitors
Manitoba's tourist industry reported 5.667 million in provincial revenue, up about 1 million from the previous year. Convention visitors reached 37,000, an increase of 8,500 over 1928, reflecting growing tourism activity.
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Manitoba
Quotations From Pages Gates About Men Women
A fragment notes gender contrasts in strength and stamina and recalls a past relationship. The excerpt mentions chocolates and benzine used to remove grass stains, attributed to Pages Gates, Yverdon.
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Gates
Telephonic Transatlantic Link Opens With Leviathan In Service
ATandT marks a new era in sea travel communications by inaugurating telephone service between New York and the liner Leviathan 200 miles offshore. President Walter Gifford rings Captain Cunningham to launch the first commercial message from Atlantic City. Rankin chats with Sir Thomas Lipton, the first paid customer, as rates set at 21 dollars for three minutes plus seven dollars per extra minute.
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New York
Leviathan
Europe
Walter Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Captain Cunningham
Atlantic City
William H. Rankin
Thomas Lipton
Rankin
America
Pedestrians Wear Lights Amid London Traffic Congestion
Pedestrians equip themselves with rear lights to warn motorists as traffic in London grows denser. A common setup uses an electric light and reflector on a luminous card worn on the back, suspended from the shoulders by a cord.
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London
Canada’s Highways Grow In Economic Role And Mileage
Canada’s highways are becoming increasingly important in the national economy as heavy traffic grows. By end of 1928 Canada reported 64,121 miles of surfaced roads, linking major cities and towns.
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Canada
Four motorists collide in Birmingham at same time
Four drivers collided simultaneously in Birmingham, leaving a chaotic scene as pedestrians watched. Investigators traced the incident to a shared moment on the street, with no further details on injuries or causes released.
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Birmingham
Mince Meat Filling From This Week's Recipes
Recipe lists a mincemeat filling using lemons apples currants raisins chopped nuts butter sugar and spices. Directions include grinding peel and apples, sieving, mixing with remaining ingredients and storing in jars for turnovers and pies.
Holiday Luncheon Sardine Platter Craft
Prepare a festive cold sardine platter by arranging sardines on a platter with a parsley or watercress wreath. Garnish with flower shaped radishes and lemon wedges. serve very cold.
Fruit Men Study Conditions In Prairie Markets
Representative fruit men of British Columbia have traveled to the Prairies to observe crop handling and gauge consumer and retail trade attitudes.
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British Columbia
Prairies
Wardrobe for Dolly: dress patterns from remnants
A cheerful doll gift showcases a complete wardrobe created from scraps. It features a pale blue chambray dress with a royal blue hat, batiste waist drawers and slip, and pajamas in chambray or striped percale. Pattern No. 856 fits dolls 18 to 26 inches long.
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Dolly
Daughter
Batiste
Safety drive yields lost time free year at Canadian plant
A Canadian National Carbon Company plant in Toronto celebrated a full year without lost-time accidents, awarding a bronze bar to the safety shield as years without incidents accumulate. Executives from union and industry groups attended a banquet for 400 employees, with remarks from leaders including Mr. Morley and Mr. Moran. The Eveready Dance Band performed as CKNC supplied broadcast entertainment. The note closes with a quirky walnut: a bell audible far under water and a remark on tribal customs about a mother-in-law.
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Canada
Canadian National Carbon Company, Limited
Toronto
Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation
R. B. Morley
Ontario Industrial Accident Prevention Association
P. Moran
National Carbon Industrial Works
Niagara Falls
N.Y
James Moran
Dominion Oxygen Company, Limited
W. H. Winans
New York
H. E. Pollock
W. B. Pritz
National Carbon Co., Limited
Cleveland
Ohio
Eveready
CKNC
Jai Singh S Observatories Of India A 18th Century Ruler
The ruler Maharaja Jai Singh II of India created five observatories to record celestial motions. Delhi Jaipur Ujjain Benares Mathura housed metal and massive masonry instruments up to 90 feet tall. He died in 1743 and his science perished with him.
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India
Maharajah Jai Singh
Delhi
Jaipur
Ujain
Benares
Mathura
Thirsty Cities and Fading Skills Across Nations
The article notes London residents use about 36 gallons per person daily, rising to 40 in heat, with Scotland's Glasgow Edinburgh regions consuming 37 gallons. Helensburgh tops the list at 81.7 gallons per head. It cites better supply as a reason for higher Scottish use, then shifts to a joke about sailors and a line on literacy in Egypt.
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London
Scotland
England
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Helensburgh
Dumbartonshire
British Isles
Canada’s Arctic Claim Unchanged Amid Norwegian Contest
Government circles in Ottawa reaffirm Canada’s ownership of the Arctic islands north of the mainland between longitudes 60 and 141. Premier Mowinckel of Norway challenged Canada’s right to mark sectors, arguing occupation is needed, but officials say Ottawa’s position remains unaltered and Norway is the lone challenger.
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Canada
Arctic Archipelago
Charles Stevwart
Ottawa
London
Mowinckel
Norway
Arctic
Bergen
Arctic Islands
Out of Place Decorum in House Sparks Debate
Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labor, faced disruption as Sir Frederick Hall pressed a question in the Commons. An uproar of shouts interrupted the exchange, prompting the Conservative to apologize and reframe his inquiry amid the modern conditions.
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House of Commons
Margaret Bondfield
Frederick Hall
Sir Frederick
Frederick
Saskatchewan CP Rail Lands Sale Totals 111,892 Acres in 1929
Canadian Pacific Railway land department reports 111,892 acres sold in Saskatchewan during 11 months of 1929. 627 settlers purchased the land, most in the province's northern region. Nearly all farms went to new settlers, a notable feature of the sales. Greenland remains enveloped by ice more than a thousand feet thick.
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C.P.R
Saskatchewan
Land Department
The
Canadian Pacific Railway
Saskatoon
Greenland
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Privy Council
J. W. Collins
Department of Industry and Commerce
New Zealand
Tourist Industry
W. N. U. 1816
A. Mittchester
Radiological Society of North America
Betty Barclay
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Santa
Price
F.o.b
John A. Chantler & Co., Ltd
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
Big Eastern Concern
Egypt
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