Regulations for Tourists Admitting to Canada Outlined
Canada outlines temporary stays for visiting tourists including 60 days without bond extendable by 30 days. six month extensions require reporting used gear and pets, with deposits on gear like canoes and phonographs refundable upon exit. American servants allowed. officials will facilitate entry for bona fide U S visitors.
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Canada
National Revenue
United States
Dominion
W. A. Gordon
Gordon
Silver Fox Breeders Hold Annual Canadian Meeting
About 400 members from nine provinces and other countries gathered in Summerside P E I for the Canadian Silver Fox Breeders Association annual meeting. The eleventh annual report shows total membership at 6586, up 822, with 99616 puppies marked and 92823 examined, both record highs. Transfers reached 28943, pelts consigned to the marketing department rose to nearly 22000, and special auctions in Montreal Paris and London moved goods for South American and European markets.
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Canadian Silver Fox Breeders’ Association
Canada
Summerside
Montreal
Paris
London
England
Canada sees nine billion highway miles and big tax take
Dominion Department of Trade and Commerce reports Canadians and U S visitors drove over nine billion miles last year and paid about 43 million dollars in gas tax and licenses. Canada registered 1 239 888 vehicles with 1 047 494 passenger cars. One vehicle for every eight people. Music note about radio concerts ends fragment.
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United States
Canada
Dominion Department of Trade and Commerce
Elegant crepe silk dress pattern for youth sizes
A slender model in a smart red and white crepe silk dress features a low circular skirt flare and diagonal upper silhouette. The adjustable narrow tie belt and cape collar create a lengthened figure line, with fabric options including chiffon prints and linen Cloth. Pattern No 829 fits sizes 14 to 42 inches bust and requires 35 yards plus ruffling for 36 inch size. Price is 25 cents.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern instruction from Winnipeg union at 175 McDermot Ave. includes a humorous dialogue about budgeting and late plans. The item showcases a humorous exchange between a couple about balancing their budget and time.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Ridiculed For Using Ancient Wooden Plough
In Sussex and Kent the wooden wheelless turn-wrist plough remains popular on heavy land. It uses mostly wood with iron only on the share tip and fastenings, avoids soil smear, and resists jumping. Local farmers endure mockery, yet their choice is practical for damp and hard soils.
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England
Sussex
Kent
Empire Marketing Board Gains Momentum in Empire Trade
The Empire Marketing Board reports rising buying within the empire despite a weak world economy. Canada and New Zealand apples hit record shipments with Canada over two million cwt, pears up from 60 000 cwt in 1928. Parliament seeks 3 295 000 dollars for board activities next year, with continued grants for cheese ripening research and transport costs of pedigree livestock.
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United Kingdom
Empire Marketing Board
Canada
New Zealand
University of British Columbia
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Newfoundland
Edmonton Exports Butter Returns to Market
Edmonton ships fifty six tons of creamery butter from Woodland plant to Liverpool via Canadian National and Blue Star lines with Panama route in special refrigeration. A second shipment of two thousand boxes is planned for August to Glasgow. Alberta production for the first half of 1931 rises 48.3 percent to 6,775,000 pounds across 26 weeks.
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Edmonton
Woodland
Liverpool
Canadian National
Blue Star
Panama
Glasgow
Alberta
Orient
E. T. Love
Woodland Dairy
Shanghai
French scientists report kaabee plant stores huge sugar yield
Three scientists in France find the Paragua yan plant called kaabee holds about 300 times more sugar per gram than sugar cane, suggesting a major sweetness resource. The discovery highlights potential for biofuel and sweetener applications.
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France
Diamond Willow Destroyed by Bush Fires
A rare diamond willow, valued for furniture making, is being cleared and destroyed along with ordinary brush willows to prepare land for wheat. The diamond pattern hides under bark, but can be spotted by close observers. An exhibit at Edmonton Technical School shows a diamond willow settee to spark student interest.
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Edmonton
The Patten and the Degreed Walkers of Old England
A writer recalls the old pattens worn by English people to keep feet dry in mud and wet weather. The wooden sole with iron legs lifted feet from the road, and pattens remained in use into the mid 20th century before readers noted their removal from church porches.
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Trent
Yeovil
Alberta Fox Farms Grow Rapidly in Alberta
Alberta's chief game warden Benjamin Lawton told the Alberta Silver Black Fox Breeders Association meeting in Calgary that fox farming, though new, is expanding quickly. He noted 12 farms in 1921 rising to 203 by 1929 with about 13 000 animals.
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Alberta Silver Black Fox Breeders’ Association
Calgary
Benjamin Lawton
Alberta
BC Eggs for England Export Shipment Milestone
A three thousand case shipment of thirty dozen eggs from New Westminster to London marks the first BC egg export since 1929. The British Columbia egg pool reports it as the first of several shipments this year and notes fair prices in England.
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British Columbia
New Westminster
London
England
British
Prince of Wales Turns to Motorboating for Recreation
The Prince of Wales has ordered two racing boats but will not enter open races. He plans to organize contests among his flying and motoring friends. A German fire engine now uses carbonic acid powder to smother flames instead of water.
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Prince of Wales
Is Bernice Happy in Marriage as Husband Travels?
Dialog suggests Bernice is content with married life though her husband travels frequently, leaving her alone much of the time.
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Bernice
Steamship Boothie to Begin Annual Arctic Post Trip
The SS Boothie sails July 29 from North Sydney on an Arctic patrol to Greenland and Baffin Island posts. Major L T Burwash leads the 1931 expedition with Capt E Falk as master and Dr L D Livingstone aboard as medical officer.
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Boothic
Department of the Interiors
Postsir
Arctic Archipelago
North Sydney
Nova Scotia
North West Territories
Yukon
L. T. Burwash
E. Falk
J. D. Morin
L. D. Livingstone
Pangnirtung
H. A. Stuart
Baffin Island
Stuart
A. H. Joy
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Pond Inlet
Bache Peninsula
Ellesmere Island
Lake Harbour
Godhaven
Greenland
Baffin Bay
Dundas Harbour
Devon Island
Canned Goods Quality Grading Under Inspection Service
The Dominion Department of Agriculture Fruit Branch inspects all canned products for camping and travel season. Each container must bear true quality marks and meet three grades Fancy, Choice, and Standard defined by statute.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Small-town hospitals rival big cities in surgical care
The St. Thomas Times-Journal argues that high quality surgical attention and nursing care are found in smaller hospitals, including its own city, and credits local surgeons as highly as those in major metropolitan centres.
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St. Thomas
Bermuda Allows Two Motor Ambulances After Ban Relaxation
Bermuda relaxes its motor vehicle ban permitting two automobile ambulances following an accident involving a horse drawn ambulance rushing to aid firefighters aboard a burning liner. Private carriages were commandeered to remove smoke afflicted firemen amid the blaze.
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Island
Bermuda
Bermudian
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TION
Annette
Cape
Fagland
Mame
Willow
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B.C
Prince
Boothie
Churchill
N. B. McLean
Quebec
Regina
Department of Marine
Shipping Commission
Royal Air Force
Britain
Fighting Air Force
Madrid
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