Future Looks Encouraging from Canadian Economic Review
E W Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific, says railway earnings up 16 percent reflect a broader decline in Canadian activity and that wheat price improvements could lift the economy. He notes minerals surged from 10 million to over 210 million and recalls past depressions, stressing resilience and future leadership arising from rising industrial importance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific
Dominion
Beatty
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
West
Mr. Beatty
Learned Lesson From Child About Prayers For the Poor
A farmer who prayed daily for the destitute learns a boy’s blunt lesson when he gives away apples and potatoes. The child explains he was praying God to answer his father by supplying neighbors in need, prompting the farmer to help others directly.
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Boston
Peter
Advertising Push By Fisheries And Drug Trade In 1931
government plans to spend 25000 dollars on advertising to boost Canadian canned salmon consumption with equal private funding. Ontario Retail Druggists' Association launches a year long aggressive newspaper campaign to distinguish drug stores from others. Salmon packers in British Columbia seek new markets with government backed ads. Druggists aim to showcase professional services beyond retail image.
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Department of National Revenue
Department of Fisheries
Minister of Fisheries
Ontario Retail Druggists’ Association
British Columbia
Mathematics troubles plague New York high schools in 1929
The city superintendent reports that 1929 saw more failures in mathematics than any subject. In one school over half failed first-term algebra, and overall high school math failures reached 26.9 percent. In contrast music and domestic science failures were under 5 percent and English 13 percent, while foreign languages ranked second only to mathematics in demand.
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New York
Fur Farm Capital Skyrockets in Canada Ten Years On
The fur industry shows capital investment near four times 1920 levels. Silver fox leads with 14.9 million, up about 10.4 million. muskrat follows at 562,749 and mink at 328,928. The 1920 value was 4,723,105 for fur-bearing animals on Canadian farms.
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Canada
Sailor’s Charm: Sixpence Kept Between Teeth for Calm Crossing
A Scot crossing the Channel asks how to prevent sea-sickness. The captain replies by asking for a sixpence and suggests holding it between the teeth during the voyage, claiming it will help.
Do you call that thing in your hat a head
A terse exchange appears in a clipped dialogue with irony and sharp banter about headwear. The fragment hints at a mock confrontation between two speakers using taunting expressions.
Tax Return Letters Highlight Absurd Excuses
An Oriental claimant claims selling shoelaces could justify income tax, a newly wed seeks extension with a pun on vows, and a Scot asks for a $1.04 deduction for postage stamps on weekly pay in a quirky sample of tax correspondence.
Northern Manitoba emerges as a mineral producer region
With progress in railway construction mine development and exploration in northern Manitoba near the Saskatchewan boundary the area is taking its place among the mineral producers.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Not So Enthusiastic Friend and Japan Postal Savings
A jokey line contrasts an audience’s tepid reaction to a politician denying vote purchases with a note that Japan’s postal savings climb by 35 million dollars monthly, highlighting contrasting public attention and finance trends.
Canada Imports and Exports of Plants Rise in 1929-30
The 1929 30 fiscal year saw Canada inspect 48 044 656 imported plants and issue 15 806 permits with 9 316 inspections. 908 diseased plants and pests were detected, 60 refusals and 504 returns due to pest concerns. Mail parcel inspections and boat passenger finds added to activity. nursery stock exports surged 300 percent to 542 shipments.
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Federal Department of Agriculture
Canada
Europe
Smallpox Vaccination Across Centuries and Controversy
The article explains how Jenner’s cowpox method creates antibodies to prevent smallpox, detailing vaccine preparation from healthy calves, virus removal, and testing. It cites Dr Hastings and Dr Heiser arguing vaccination is safe, with massive prewar immunizations reducing smallpox deaths from tens of thousands to a few hundred.
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Edward Jenner
Europe
Jenner
Riley
Hastings
Toronto
Victor Heiser
Rockefeller Foundation
Social Hygiene Council
Philippines
Ontario Premier Advocates National Educational Guidance Plan
Premier George S. Henry urged Canada to form a national educational guidance movement at a Toronto dinner. He stressed trained populations, better job placement, and reducing misfits, noting potential for world reputation and strong domestic industries with Canadian youth directed to suitable livelihoods.
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George S. Henry
Ontario
Canada
Toronto
Henry
Addreses
Sherwood Fox
Western University
London
United States
Commercial inspection service safeguards Canada’s fruit products
The Fruit Branch reports 3,300 inspector visits to 414 canning plants, issuing 2,490 certificates and taking 694 samples last year. The service rates product quality for labeling on every can sold in Canada, covering items such as tomatoes and evaporated apples.
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Canada
Dominion
Federal Inspection Service
Dominion Fruit Branch Introduces Rhubarb Grades and Containers
The Dominion Fruit Branch sets three rhubarb grades for forced rhubarb Canada Fancy with at least three inches circumference Canada No 1 at least two inches and Canada No 2. It also specifies three standard container types twenty five pounds net per box twenty pounds net wrapped in wax or cellophane and twelve pounds net in a veneer box.
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Dominion Fruit Branch
Canada
Eggs per Bird Rise in Federal Contests Since 1919
The experimental farms branch reports a steady rise in egg production from ten years of Egg Laying Contests. In 1929, 5,256 birds averaged 176.5 eggs per bird, up 54 eggs from 1919. A quoted dialogue appears: Father asks about a kiss, and the youth deflects.
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Federal Department of Agriculture
Lighthouse Keeper Fired After Months of Service
A man employed to tend a coastal lighthouse along the Atlantic was discharged after three months without notice. He protested, saying he was a steady worker who never smoked or drank and only failed to light the lamp.
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Atlantic
Mie
Dominionagriculture offers breeding sows to farmers nationwide
Pure bred sows orders exceed 500 after Hon Robert Weir announced a new breeding policy in November. A A MacMillan reports the scheme operates across the Dominion with many inquiries as farmers adopt hog raising. Saskatchewan and Alberta lead in orders due to available feed. The program aims to boost exportable bacon and pork by improving breeding stock, supplying animals at cost plus half freight.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Robert Weir
A. A. MacMillan
Department
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
MacMillan
Travelled Long Distance Popul ar Army Tale in France
A wartime anecdote from France recalls a Black soldier challenged by a white general. The exchange ends with a humorous double take about rank. The piece closes by noting a new brake stopping a 70 mph car in twenty feet, likened to a telephone pole for impact.
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France
The Unattainable Mystery of Life Says Scientist
Vancouver Sun reports Professor C Lovatt Evans argues life origin and purpose remain unsolved by science. He notes humans display both ignoble and noble traits, with courage, sacrifice, and hope amid poverty, war, and striving for a glimpse of truth.
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C. Lovatt Evans
England
Vancouver
Milk Profits Highlighted For Prairie Farmers
The Dominion Experimental Station at Lethbridge Alberta reports nine cows yielded 11 4416 pounds of milk with 396 76 pounds butterfat. At 41 34 cents per pound butterfat the value is 164 02 plus skim milk value of 27 61 equals 191 63 per cow. Feeding cost is 102 52 leaving a profit of 89 11 per head.
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Dominion Experimental Station
Lethbridge
Alberta
Not To His Taste Recital Ends With Mixed Review
A teacher concludes a long recital as students receive ice cream and cake. A girl brings her young brother, and the departing boy bluntly says he enjoyed the recital except for the music.
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Bobby
Minister MacNnder Denies Ottawa Departure For Politics
Colonel Hanford Macnder United States minister to Canada refutes reports he will soon quit Ottawa posting to pursue Republican party political activities.
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Hanford Macnnder
United States
Canada
Washington
Ottawa
Republican Party
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