Intolerance as a teacher of hard lessons in hard times
The piece argues intolerance rises in economic distress guiding people toward dictatorships. Fear and lost confidence prompt quick actions by demagogues while intolerance resurges, fueling wars and restricting freedoms. It warns the world may trade liberty for comfort, a peril seen in recent history and ongoing political currents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Nations
Nations
Russia
Hitler
Mussolini
RCMP Operating Budget Set At Five Million Six Hundred Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Five
The House of Commons was told Royal Canadian Mounted Police spending for next year totals 5 615 595 dollars matching this year’s figure. The budget covers salaries clothing allowances arms and ammunition barracks repairs horses and dogs office needs and printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force
House of Commons
Manitoban Wins Cory Cup For Maxwill Lily At Royal Society
F. L. Skinner of Dropmore Manitoba was awarded the Cory cup by the Royal Horticultural Society of London for breeding the Maxwill lily. The prize honors the best new hardy garden plant shown to the society during the year and the award will be presented at the society’s next annual meeting this month after the lily’s July exhibition in London.
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West
Canada
Dominion
Royal Horticultural Society
London
England
F. L. Skinner
Dropmore
Manitoba
Buckley’s Mixture Helps Coughs and Colds Quickly
A 1920s style remedy ad urges mothers to mix Buckley’s Mixture with honey for children’s coughs and colds. It promises rapid relief after one dose and often ending a bad cold after two doses. The copy claims Buckley’s cures coughs flu bronchitis rapidly and warns against substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckley
Buckley's
London’s First Taxi Driver Honored With Special Badge
James Michael Howe a 65 year old Hammer smith resident and London’s first licensed petrol driven driver received a specially made badge on the order of Lord Trenchard, Metropolitan Police chief. Howe recalled licensing for 49 years and driving London’s first motor cab in 1903 after selling cabs and horses in 1894.
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London
James Michael Howe
Hammersmith
Lord Trenchard
Metropolitan Police
Howe
Canadian Colonial Airways marks fifth year of service
Regular flights between Montreal and New York conclude a fifth year with 2388 passengers and 171,784 pounds of mail from St. Hubert to Albany and Newark. Monthly averages rise in the last year to 53 passengers and 5000 pounds of mail, despite weather-related cancellations.
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Montreal
New York
St. Hubert
Albany
Newark
H. O. Young
Canadian Colonial Airways
Canadian Construction Association urges federal commission on building industry
The final Toronto session of the Canadian Construction Association convention called for appointment of a federal commission to stabilize the building industry and end yearly fluctuations. The group also urged appointing a member to join government talks on unemployment relief insurance. W. H. Yates Jr. of Hamilton was elected president with Col. W. A. Foster of Vancouver and Cecil Gunn of Winnipeg as western vice presidents.
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Canadian Construction Association
Toronto
W. H. Yates, Jr
Hamilton
Col
W. A. Foster
Vancouver
Cecil Gunn
Winnipeg
Milngavie seeks trolley buses after tramline retirement
Milngavie Scotland abandons street cars and seeks government approval to run trolley buses. A separate cartoonish exchange has a boy explaining desk cleanliness by noting he cannot slide down a desk. England and Wales report 480 public libraries.
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Milngavie
Scotland
England and
Wales
Arctic mail arrives by air for first time at Copper Mine post
Walter Gilbert pilots a Canadian Airways Junkers to the 1Hfth post on Canada's Arctic shore delivering 600 pounds of mail and 8200 first-flight covers. Postal Superintendent Walter Hale and air engineer Lew Parmenter assist as Rev. J. Morris becomes postmaster. A temporary igloo houses the aircraft nose as a return flight is prepared. The new post office serves traders and trappers along a 1000 mile Arctic coast.
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Canada
Arctic
Walter Gilbert
Canadian Airways
Walter Hale
Edmonton
Lew Parmenter
J. Morris
Parmenter
Junkers
Not Entirely New Idea Relied On by Border Cities Star
W L Clark notes relief as a persistent issue, not a recent one. He recalls J F Cairns of Chatham and Saskatoon who twenty years ago gave ten percent of two days’ store receipts to charity in Saskatoon. On that same day wheat price stood around 68% cents per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Clark
Border Cities Star
J. F. Cairns
Chatham
Saskatoon
Canadian Composer Sigrid Onegin Praises Emiliano Renaud Song
Canadian composer Emiliano Renaud from Montreal wrote songs admired by contralto Sigrid Onegin. She recalls meeting him in Switzerland five years ago and obtaining a pile of his music she learned and sang on her next Montreal visit.
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Sigrid Onegin
Emiliano Renaud
Montreal
Switzerland
Sour mood cures and liver pills touted in ad
A advertising notice touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a purely vegetable remedy to “wake up your liver,” improve digestion, and move bile. It claims the pills are safe, quick, and effective and urges readers to ask for them by name at druggists.
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Malta
Carter
Heline
Cost of Municipal Government in Canada in 1932
The Citizens' Research Institute reports Canada’s municipal government cost per person in 1932 rose to 54.74 dollars, up from 1931’s 55.12 and prior years. Toronto ranked third at 64.61, behind Victoria at 90.95 and Edmonton at 69.51, with gun control urged over law enforcement.
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Canada
Citizens’ Research Institute
Toronto
Second Slide Warned At Turtle Mountain Frank Alberta
Dr J A Allan University of Alberta geologist warned a second slide could strike Turtle Mountain near Frank Alberta threatening railroad highway telephone lines and homes in the valley He estimated three million cubic yards ready to give way and said dynamiting is useless and nature should run its course The 1903 slide killed 85 to 90 people Allan noted new fissures up to 40 feet wide and hundreds of feet deep with peculiar noises observed during his field study.
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J. A. Allan
University of Alberta
Frank
Turtle Mountain
Allan
Tme
No Danger From Gases In Wartime Bath Claim
Dr. Francis Freeth of Imperial Chemical Industries told a London audience that a hot bath makes most people almost entirely safe during a gas attack. He ridiculed fears of poison gas as a war weapon and said the deadliest gases cannot be used in war. He asserted mustard gas is the only effective military gas, but its value has ended due to complete defensive measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Freeth
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd
London
Freeth
Wonderful Jewel Display at Birmingham Jewellers Ball
An astonishing display of jewels at the first annual ball of the Birmingham jewellers featured single pieces worth over 30 000 dollars. Damonds big as dimes and gems including opals rubies and pearls were set in platinum and gold rings brooches and necklets. Attendees wore the jewels while armed detectives mingled in immaculate tails.
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Birmingham Jewellers
England
World Boot and Shoe Output Rises in First Half 1933
World production of boots and shoes reached 675 million pairs in the first half of 1933, up 29 percent from the same period in 1932, reflecting a strong rebound in footwear manufacturing globally.
Peip'nz Mukden railway traffic resumes in Caina
Through traffic on the Peip nz Mukden railway in Caina has resumed after disruptions. The restoration signals normal operations returning to the line linking key industrial centers.
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Caina
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