Canada Offers Opportunities To Immigrants From Old Land
A Montreal Gazette report counters a Glasgow MP's claim that Canada exploits farm workers. It cites Canada’s notable leaders born abroad, including John A Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, and Donald A. Smith, arguing opportunities for industrious newcomers remain strong despite past hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Jobs Wheatley
Glasgow
Dominion
Wheatley
Scotland
John A. MacDonald
Dominion of
Macdonald
Alexander Mackenzie
New World
Donald A. Smith
Hudson's Bay Company
Northwest
East
London
Selkirk
Montreal
England
Ireland
John Wheatley
M.P
Charles Dunning
Robert Forke
Peter Heenan
Mr. Wheatley
Montreal Gazette
Opportunities Are Waiting in The British Empire
A letter to The Sunday Express urges young Englishmen to seize chances instead of lamenting scarcity. It asserts that belief unlocks potential and casts the Empire as full of undeveloped Eldorados both at home and abroad. The Hudson's Bay Co. is noted as 258 years old while a Prison Chaplain sermon discusses "The Freedom of a Christian."
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The
Sunday Express
Dominions
Hudson's Bay Co
Gemutliche Sachse
Leipzig
Not Merely Descriptive The Meaning of Maru in Japanese Ship Names
The Brandon Sun explains that the Japanese term Maru attached to ship names has deeper meaning than mere description. It denotes beloved or treasured, and sometimes a castle image, with historical masculine use for a firstborn, unlike the female pronoun in English ships. Warships generally do not use Maru.
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Brandon Sun
Maru
Japan
Adorable sheer printed crepe frock with molded bodice
A simple styled frock features a molded bodice swathed girdle and youthful front box-plaits with a soft scarf bow. Pattern No. 242 comes in sizes 16 to 42 bust and offers options in printed silk crepe and related fabrics. Pattern price is 25 cents.
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Canton-Faille
Coyote Fur Farm Raises Coyotes As Domestic Fur Source
Two boys from 90 miles northwest of Edmonton started a coyote farm in 1827 by digging up young coyotes and confining them. They raised 140 animals and sold mature skins for 12 dollars each. The prairie wolf is noted for not attacking humans or other animals and gained distinction only as a captive fur source.
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Edmonton
Canadians urged to adopt intensive farming methods
Paul Forte Daument, Coucy laville mayor and French chevalier, after a stay at Jasper Park, praised Canadians as capable farmers but urged them to increase yields through intensive cultivation. He favors mixed farming and admires Western large scale operations while noting Orientals have a god for every ailment.
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Paul Forte Daument
Coucylaville
France
Legion of Honor
Order of Agricultural Merit
Jasper Park
Daument
West
Western Canada tobacco growth boosts national supply
The text notes tobacco can be grown on the prairie plains expanding in Southern Manitoba Southern Alberta and the Okanagan Valley British Columbia. It cites leaf yield quality and a rapid industry expansion from 1926 to 1927 with tripling of cured leaf production and a rise in acreage exports and crop value.
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Canada
Manitoba
Alberta
Okanagan
British Columbia
Garden party mix up and a late editorroom scolding
A young reporter recalls a garden party remark about Brig Gen Blazer and is summoned to the editor after a line about prettiness. The piece notes an old Persian art of writing with a fingernail and mentions Brantford 1874 as the birthplace of the modern telephone in Canada.
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Brig.-Gen
Blazer
Canada
Brantford
Victorious Canadian Athletes Return Home
Canadian athletes return from the Olympic Games to welcome receptions in Montreal and Toronto and plan city celebrations. The photos show Joe Wright Jr with his parents, Lou Scholes and the Wrights, plus Ethel Catherwood and four relay team members Myrtle Cook Jane Bell Ethel Smith and F Rosenfeld. Joe Wright Jr displays his Henley trophies and the gold cup.
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Canada
Montreal
Toronto
Joe Wright
Henley
Joe Wright, Jr
Ethel Catherwood
Saskatoon
Amsterdam
Myrtle Cook
Jane Bell
Ethel Smith
F. Rosenfeld
Explosions From Dust Highlight Hidden Fire Hazard
An expert warns that combustible dust in air can ignite from simple heat. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils data show over 300 dust explosions with heavy losses and wide industrial exposure affecting 23,000 plants and 1.3 million workers.
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David J. Price
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
University of Pennsylvania
The Use Of the Swather In Western Agriculture
The swather reduces waiting time between binder and combine harvesting, allowing swathes 16 to 24 feet wide to be threshed later with a combine. It helps when crops ripen unevenly or with green weeds, sawfly damage, or frost, but costs more than straight combining and risks sprouting if swaths stay out in warm wet weather.
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Swift Current Experiment Station
Hobbs and Dobbs Dialogue Sparks Tense Exchange
A brief exchange between Hobbs and Dobbs reveals personal strain as Hobbs laments not speaking to his wife for over a month and Dobbs responds with dark humor about the inevitability of one’s turn.
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Hobbs
Dobbs
Man
Men Speak Up When Treated Poorly
A recurring report shows men recounting grievances about how they were treated unfairly by others, often sharing personal experiences and seeking validation or redress.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Coyote Fur Farms
Western Canada Tobacco
H. H. Sheldon
New York University
Middlesex
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