Canadian gold mines play vital role in national credit
The St. Catharines Standard notes gold mining in Canada now yields over a million dollars weekly, supports payrolls and supplies, and is forecast to boost output to $100 million annually within a decade. Ontario dominates dividends, with Lake Shore alone paying $4.8 million this year.
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Canada
Sir John Aird
Companion
Champlain
Nova Scotia
Fraser River
British Columbia
Yukon
Prince Edward Island
Porcupine
Kirkland Lake
Benny Hollinger
Sandy McIntyre
Jack Wilson
Hollinger
McIntyre
Ontario
League of Nations
North
Lake
St. Catharines
New Turnip Grades Issued At Ottawa
Canada introduces revised government grades for table turnips with a single quality Canada No 1 and size based classes from 2 to over 4 inches. The rule includes a new shapely measure defined as one and a half times as long as diameter and requires firmness and lack of damage.
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Philadelphia
New England
Canada
Canada No. 1
Governor-General Salutes Language Heritage in Ottawa
In Ottawa the Governor-General of Canada praised language as a glorious inheritance and heritage worth preserving. The public reaction is expected to mock the idea, with some labeling the language as AI and implying it is a hollow claim.
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Governor-General
Canada
Ottawa
Fashion Patterns with Size Details and Yardage
The passage lists several sewing pattern numbers and descriptions for garments in varied sizes. It specifies bust measurements, yardage for 39 inch and 35 inch fabrics, and contrasts. It notes all patterns cost 25 cents in stamps or coin and instructs wrap coin carefully.
Candle fish torches used by British Columbia locals
Indigenous groups in parts of British Columbia still use candle fish or oolichan as lamps. After drying, they ignite the head or tail and burn the carcase as a torch producing a bright steady flame. In contrast, machine-age methods dominate vineyards in northern Africa.
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British Columbia
Africa
Austrian innovator uses motorized feather wings on bicycle
An Austrian inventor mounts a gasoline powered motor to feather wing propulsion on a bicycle. The device aims to lift and propel the rider, showcasing early aviator ingenuity and experimental flight attempts.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern ordering guidance notes a Winnipeg based service at 175 McDermot Ave. The Pattern No field appears incomplete, suggesting a missing reference or catalog number for buyers seeking specific design patterns.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Going After Business Expansion Pays Off For Jeweler
A jeweler shifted from high priced wares to cheaper jewelry and sent salesmen to new territories. Results were strong, turning the first half loss into a profit for the year to date. California’s tallest redwood tree is 364 feet tall.
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California
Canadian Bees for Orient Shipments to China
Ten million Canadian bees aboard the Express of Russia head to China in 48 cases. Stored at 45 degrees on the Canadian Pacific liner, the bees are to be kept as nuclei with Italian queens in 1,200 colonies. S. George Reidel, a major Canadian honey producer, ships from Taber Alberta and will spend five years teaching bee culture in the Orient. The shipment includes breeders Grover Reidel and Winfred Gear.
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China
Russia
Orient War
Taber
Alberta
S. George Reidel
British Empire
Reidel
California
Orient
Grover Reidel
Winfred Gear
George Reidel
Radium finds in Mackenzie region promise Canada as radium source
Reports from the Mackenzie district describe pitchblende deposits near Great Bear Lake yielding forty tons of ore with two to two and a half grams of radium per twenty tons. If Canadian ore proves rich and mining cheap, North American radium supplies could outpace foreign sources and boost steel testing and medical use.
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Great Bear Lake
Mackenzie District
Canada
South Africa
Belgian Congo
Mackenzie
Gilbert E. Doan
Lehigh University
Engineering Foundation
Pitchblende
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington
Canadian Eggs For Export Estimate For This Year
Canada expects to export about 20 000 cases of eggs this year to Great Britain with 30 dozen eggs per case. Earlier exports in 1930 reached roughly 6 500 cases, while over 8 000 cases have already shipped from British Columbia via the Panama Canal. Remaining exports from Prairie and Eastern Provinces will depart Montreal before month end, by either Montreal short water route or Panama Canal. All shipments are graded and inspected by Dominion officials to assure quality for UK arrival. Canada’s per capita egg consumption runs about 372 annually.
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Great Britain
Canada
British Columbia
Panama Canal
Prairie
Montreal
Dominion
Rare Haydn Discoveries Unearthed by Vienna Archivist
Dr Karl Geiringer of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music reports five previously unknown Josef Haydn compositions have been found and are set for publication. The manuscripts include two nocturnes in F and C major with orchestral accompaniment and feature a lira organizzata, an obsolete Neapolitan instrument.
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Josef Haydn
Karl Geiringer
Vienna Society of the Friends of Music
Geiringer
Detecting Renovated Stamps In Irish Trial
In Lurgan Ireland John Blaney faced trial for using 29 reissued insurance tax stamps. A government expert showed violet rays and an acid test to reveal cancellations erased from the stamps. Blaney was found guilty of possessing and using the altered stamps.
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Lurgan
Ireland
John Blaney
Blaney
A Frugal Groom and Fashionable Wedding Tale
The bridegroom lacked visible means beyond his father but the wedding appeared stylish. The preacher leads the couple in a vow to endow each other with worldly goods while the father jokes about the bicycle disappearing.
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Martha
Western states see higher annual vehicle miles than rest
In the eleven far western states motor vehicles average about 500 miles more travel per year than cars in the other states. This indicates a broader pattern of higher mobility in the region compared with nationwide averages.
Sugar-based plastic deemed unburnable for films
A new plastic material derived from sugar resists burning and is expected to become valuable for use in X-ray and photographic films due to its stability and potential imaging quality.
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New Zealand
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Greenings
Gravenstein
Baldwin
Dominions
Toronto Globe
Doan
New York Sun
Haydn
Fliegende Blaetter
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