Echo Bay Mining Camp Seethes With Open Ground Rush
A growing mining camp near Conjuror's Bay, Cameron Bay and Echo Bay sees 7 to 109 men on the ground as the open water rush continues. Permanent residents rise as police from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrive, and Mrs Gerhart becomes the first white woman to reach the field after a 2000 mile journey from Alberta.
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Cameron Bay
Law and Order
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Fort Franklin
Echo Bay
Royal Mounted
Gerhart
Berwyn
Alberta
First Free Gold Discovery Reported in Great Bear Lake Field
The Oro Group staked in spring 1931 by Charles Sloan, a veteran prospector, with Cameron Bay reporting from the Great Bear Lake mineral field. The discovery adjoins Eldorado and Sabine Point as work continues to determine its extent. Free gold appears coarse in wheat grain sized particles in quartz.
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Oro
Charles Sloan
Cameron Bay
Great Bear Lake
Eldorado Group
Sabine Point
Dam limit joke frames Arctic fish count
Two expert anglers fail to catch fish all morning until a girl hooks a two pounder and coins the gag dam limit. A passerby asks the type of fish and the girl explains the experts call it a dam limit. The note ends with a stat: about 40 000 Eski mos in the Arctic.
Addison Day Champion commuter reaches vast Six decades mark
Addison H Day who will be 82 in November began his sixty fourth year as a regular commuter between Chatham New Jersey and New York He recently started his thirty ninth commutation trip around the world in quotation figuratively speaking Officials say Day has traveled about 956000 miles on the Lackawanna railroad to and from his desk at Marine Midland Trust Company 120 Broadway equaling thirty eight Earth circumferences
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Addison H. Day
Chatham
New Jersey
New York
Marine Midland Trust Company
Broadway
Lackawanna Railroad
Mr. Day
Oddest Of Odd Jobs In Auto Plant Horn Tuning
A cornet player in an automobile plant tests a special and expensive motor car horn. After the horn is produced a musician toots a four note tune and an assistant with a musical ear blows the horn. If the pitch is right it goes to market. if not it returns for further tuning.
Strike at price cutting pressures pharma pricing reform
Dr. R. B. Stanbury secretary of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association says retail druggists may urge Parliament to amend the Combines Act to allow price fixing on trade marked goods. The proposal emerged from discussions by the Canadian Association and Ontario Retail Druggists Association on legal means to curb price cutting.
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R. B. Stanbury
Canadian Pharmaceutical Association
Toronto
Canadian Association
Ontario Retail Druggists Association
Advertising Pays Off As Actress Recovers Real Pearls
A young actress advertised in a weekly journal about losing a string of imitation pearls. Asked if she found the lost property she exclaimed that the returned pearls were the real ones, praising advertising.
Dentists Awarded Honorary Degrees at University of Toronto
For the first time three dentists receive honorary degrees from the University of Toronto. The move signals growing influence of the dental profession and recognition of their service to graduates after years of study.
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University of Toronto
Professor Pins Sharp Line Between Careful and Reckless Air lie
A university professor who conducted flight tests to study safety concludes that the distinction between careful and reckless lying by airplane pilots must be clearer. The tests aim to improve understanding of pilot honesty and safety protocols.
The Oath Of Allegiance in British History
The article recalls protests over the oath of allegiance in Britain and Ireland. It notes figures like Sir David Salomons, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, and Charles Bradlaugh objecting to Christian phrase or any oath. It frames these disputes as constitutional progress and recommends maintaining democracy.
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Ireland
Great Britain
David Salomons
Baron Lionel de Rothschild
Charles Bradlaugh
House of Commons
Chinese Woman Earns Doctorate From Japanese University
Miss Tao Weisun, former Tatung University professor of chemistry in Shanghai, becomes the first Chinese woman to receive a doctor of science degree from a Japanese university. Her thesis, A Scientific Study of the Digestibility of Rice Starch, was approved by Kyoto Imperial University. Tao, 37, studied in Tokio before earning a B S from Columbia University in New York.
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Miss Tao Weisun
Tatung University
Shanghai
Ministry of Education
Imperial University
Kyoto
Miss Tao
Tokio
Columbia University
New York
Oath Question Echoed as Witness Recounts Long Trial
The judge asks the meaning of an oath while the witness recalls her husband’s fifteen years at sea before the mast, presenting a snapshot of a terse courtroom moment and family hardship in the proceedings.
Ottawa orders Canadian canned salmon inspection
An order in council requires all future imported canned salmon to undergo inspection akin to British Columbia packed salmon. No shipment may be released before inspection by the permanent British Columbia inspection board. Imports for sale must enter through a British Columbia port.
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Canada
British Columbia
Ottawa
Pacific
Permanent Board of Inspection
Lord Inchcape Leaves Legacies to Ocean Line Officers
Legacies totaling more than £40 000 were bequeathed by Lord Inchcape to about 600 officers of the Peninsular and Oriental and British India Steam Navigation Lines in London. The will calls the gifts a slight acknowledgment of loyalty. Two hundred and two captains receive £100 each, while 200 chief officers and 200 chief engineers receive £50 each.
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Lord Inchcape
British India
London
England
Cody’s Old Servant Attends Dedication
James Lyman Brown, 92, Cody’s first cook, traveled 2000 miles from Danville Indiana to Wyoming for the Cody Peak dedication. He served Col Buffalo Bill Cody starting in 1870 and remained with him during European tours before royalty.
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James Lyman Brown
Col
William F
Buffalo Bill) Cody
Cody Peak
Brown
Danville
Ind
Wyoming
Cody
Europe
Nudism Trends Reach Germany and Other Lands
The Manitoba Free Press notes a global surge in nudism as a social force. It cites Russia’s Doukhobors, England’s sun bathers, and a strong German movement pressured by fines. The piece links nudism to era upheaval, criticizing shifting standards and societal controls across Northern Europe.
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Russia
Canada
England
Germany
Europe
Manitoba Free Press
New Way To Raise Money In Zurich Parade Of Cars
A drive to aid the unemployed in Zurich featured 450 vehicles from several nations. Organized by the Swiss Automobile Club and partners, the procession included luxury limousines and street cleaning equipment, with 25 obsolete cars dating 1896 to 1910. US led with 19 entries, Germany five, Italy four, France three, Austria one.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Swiss Automobile Club
United States
Germany
Italy
France
Austria
Poultry officials optimistic on Canada UK market
J C Elford of Ottawa addressed the national conference in Toronto saying Canada can compete with European producers in the United Kingdom market. He noted Canadian flocks lead in production, sanitation, taxes, and feed costs despite shipping advantages enjoyed by Europe.
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Canada
J’. C. Elford
Ottawa
National Conference of Agricultural Officials
Toronto
United Kingdom
Mr. Elford
Poultry Congress
Rail Safer Than Road says rail deaths far fewer
C. T. Cramp at a national road conference claimed 239 railway fatalities last year with 200 railway workers, while 6,691 road deaths were recorded and 18 per day. Rail injuries totaled 22,895 versus 202,119 road injuries, with many minor rail accidents reported.
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Great Britain
C. T. Cramp
Vowels Mistaken by Inspector Inspires Hen Joke
A rural inspector questions a ruddy faced lad about vowels leading the boy to joke that vowels are chickens. The piece notes George Washington being made an honorary citizen of France in 1783.
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George Washington
France
Priceless Peacock Throne Tour Through Shah's Treasure Room
A 1739 journey from Delhi to Teheran exposes the Peacock Throne in the Shah's Treasure Room. Jewel encrusted gold throne, ivory couch, mirrors, Sevres porcelain, and a globe reflect global treasures as guards seal the chamber after viewing. The article intercuts a joke about love and a wheat-import stat from Australia, the U S and Canada.
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India
Penelope Beadnei
Illustrated Weekly of
Delhi
Teheran
Nadir Shah
Persia
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