Northlands Vast Empire Ready to Rise in Western Canada
The Lethbridge Herald outlines a vast Alberta Northland potential with coal and iron resources, hydro power, and timber. It cites Minister Burden on coal that smelts without coking, ore nearby, and a future steel industry to absorb agricultural output. A northern route, railway, and a Pacific coastal city near the Orient are forecast to unlock wealth from Peace River headwaters to BC interior.
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Lethbridge Herald
Alberta
British Columbia
Rockies
F. P. Burden
Burden
The
Herald
Peace River
Arctic
Lord Rhondda
Sullivan
Kimberley
Peaceiver Canyon
Pacific
Orient
Great
Northland
Canada
Empire Loaf Proposed by Sir James Dunn in UK Letter
Sir James Dunn urges adoption of an Empire Loaf made with 85 percent Manitoba wheat as the best bread, arguing imperial trade, nutrition, and nourishment advantages. Dunn, born in Bathurst New Brunswick and prominent lawyer, praises Canadian wheat against competitors.
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British Empire
James Dunn
London Evening Standard
James
Bathurst
New Brunswick
Queensbury
Empire
Manitoba
Settlers Ahead of Railways Reach Meadow Lake District
For 10 to 12 years Meadow Lake growers hauled grain 60 miles to rail, with crops thriving 100 miles north of North Battleford. This year the Canadian Pacific Railway builds a line through Meadow Lake, yet settlers move northward across the Beaver River 20 miles away as new settlement pressure grows.
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Meadow Lake
North Battleford
Canadian Pacific Railway
Beaver River
Surplice Bodice Create Lengthy Silhouette in Silk Crepe
The design features a wrap around with side drape and surplice bodice fastened at the hip with a buckle. It signals a slim waist through seaming and a molded bodice line, with a plum tone novelty silk and wool crepe option and contrasting white pique vest. Pattern No. 3279 offered in sizes 16 to 42 inches bust, pattern price 25 cents.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newepsper
Pattern orders information appears garbled with an address fragment in Winnipeg. The readable portion references a pattern service and a street address at 376 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, but the full notice is unclear.
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Winnipeg
Newepsper Carog
McDermot Ave
Goldbeaters form sheets from a small ingot in England
Goldbeaters in England beat a single piece of gold into sixteen sheets each about four and a half inches square using a rack of refined gold. The process yields thin metal sheets measured at one and one quarter inches square and one thou sandth of an inch thick.
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England
Rice Growers on Track for World Grain Show Arrival
J Sydney Cash of Georgetown British Guiana reports rice growers may enter the 1932 World’s Grain Exhibition. The prize list boosts cash awards and broadens classifications to include nearly all grain and seed crops. Dash hopes the colony participates and will publicize the event for 1932.
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British Guiana
Regina
J. Sydney Cash
Department of Agriculture
Georgetown
British Empire
South America
World Grain Show Office
Dash
Clean soil best defense against poultry parasites
The Poultry Husbandman of the Dominion Department of Agriculture urges soil cleaning as the sure cure and prevention for intestinal parasitism. At the Central Experimental Farm the poultry runs are freshly ploughed and rotated with succession crops to remove infection, with growing chicks kept on clean soil and crop rotation deemed most effective.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Central Experimental Farm
Increase in Plant Imports Reflects Canadian Horticulture Boom
The Plant Inspection Service of the Dominion Department of Agriculture reports a dramatic rise in imports of trees shrubs roots perennials and bulbs for parks gardens and amateur horticulture. In 1919 about 900000 plants were examined at ports of entry and in 1929 the count exceeded 48000000. Inspection stations operate at Halifax St John Quebec City Montreal Ottawa Toronto Niagara Falls Windsor Winnipeg Estevan and Vancouver to screen imports for pests and diseases.
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Canada
Curious Custom In Ceylon Funeral Gifts At Burial
At a Colombo area funeral a native received many gifts from friends. Each giver presented a different offering including cooked meat fruits and liquids as the coffin was borne to the burial site on a large pink and white cake like structure while the bearers moved in solemn procession.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Solmen
University of Alberta Historian Dr. Burt Joins Minnesota
Professor A L Burt of the University of Alberta will move to the University of Minnesota after seventeen years at Alberta. Rhodes scholar and Toronto graduate, Burt is praised by University President R C Wallace for his accurate scholarship and his book The Romance of Western Canada published this year.
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A. L. Burt
University of Alberta
University of Minnesota
Burt
Alberta
Toronto
R. C. Wallace
Western
Canada
Government Farms Show Rich Range of Canadian Research
The Director Dr. E. S. Archibald reports 2,453 active experimental projects across Canadian experimental farms and stations. Horticulture leads with 641 projects, followed by animal husbandry 421, botany 295, and field husbandry 282 among others including tobacco 69, bees 63, and pathology 25.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
E. S. Archibald
Misunderstanding About Lobster Dinner Sparks Dinner Parlor Joke
A humorous exchange centers on a misunderstanding over lobsters for dinner. John claims he brought two lobsters home, prompting surprise that no one had prepared a dinner for guests as they wait in the parlor.
Department of Agriculture Studies Ranching Problems in Canada
A report directed by Dr. J H Gris dale outlines the shift from open ranges to fenced ranching, the rise in costs, and the decline in range carrying capacity. It details the deferred and rotation grazing trials on Gilchrist Brothers ranch at Medicine Hat Alberta, with four fields plus a continuous check, plus water, fencing, feeding, and economic analyses across Western Canada.
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Canada
Dominion Experimental Farms
Department of Agriculture
Gilchrist Brothers
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Automatic Apple Vending May Boost Sales Across Canada
Dominion Agriculture officials study automatic apple vending machines as a promising marketing method. Royal Winter Fair trials showed 2,500 boxes sold per week with 125 apples per box at five cents each, yielding about $15,000 in fair sales. British Columbia leads with 150 machines in Vancouver and Victoria.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
G. E. McIntosh
Toronto
British Columbia
Vancouver
Victoria
Sweden’s Prosperity and Historic Splendor Shaped by Past and Present
The article surveys Sweden as a prosperous European nation with a small urban population and rich cultural achievements. It recalls Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII, and Queen Christina, notes Stockholm’s grand Town Hall, and contrasts past military stances with today’s modern progress. It also mentions Japan’s pearl diving and a light joke about temper.
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Sweden
London
Stockholm
Europe
Germany
Russia
Poland
Munich
Moscow
Warsaw
Gustavus Adolphus
Charles XII
Queen Christina
Rome
Untitled fragment from Fiegende Blaetter
A fragment from a Munich newspaper notes a discussion about a man’s behavior during an incident. The speaker recalls asking others to close a window while transporting the man home, implying tension or danger in the situation.
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Fiegende Blaetter
Munich
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North
Britain
Lustige Sachse
Leipzig
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Annebelle Worthington
R. S. McLaughlin
General Motors of Canada, Limited
Dominion
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
McLaughlin
General Motors Corporation
United States
Minnesota
University of British Columbia
Hawaiian Islands
China
Japan
Empresas of
Honolulu
J. H. Grisdale
Ottawa
Apple
Jinks
Binks
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