Railway Commissioners Asked To Supply Information On Alberta Coal Cost
The provinces of Ontario and Alberta petition the Board of Railway Commissioners for figures on the out of pocket cost per ton to haul Alberta coal to Ontario in 1928. J Earl Lawson M P represents the provinces, asking for a public hearing date and a full cost accounting to assess if the temporary 6 75 per ton rate during slack seasons is fair after testing. The provinces say existing cost statements omit out of pocket expenses and accuse the coal rate of being higher than the average for all traffic.
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Ontario
Alberta
Board of Railway Commissioners
J. Earl Lawson
M.P
Toronto
Canada
Grape Breeding Drive At Morden Station Manitoba
Manitoba grower program at Morden experimental station yields hardy grapes for jelly making and cross breeding. Campbell's Early Beta Alpha Suelter show good crops though season cool. other fruits like cherries strawberries raspberries currants and saskatoons also progress. Ottawa Publications Branch offers the department of agriculture report. Prairie citizens gain guidance on vegetables grown with success elsewhere in Canada.
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Province of
Manitoba
Morden Experimental Station
W. R. Leslie
Campbell
Morden
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Extraordinary forest on Africa’s tableland described
A remarkable forest on a West African tableland six miles wide features trees with trunks up to four feet thick but only one foot tall. Each tree bears no more than two leaves reaching six feet in length and two feet in width, giving an unusual botanical sight.
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Africa
Silence and fashion clash in a Leipzig cartoon caption
The caption from Der Lustige Sachse humor column clips a modern reader showing irony about thin dresses and a heavy fur coat, contrasting youth in fashion with practicality in Leipzig commentary.
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Egon
Sachse
Leipzig
Saskatchewan men plan trans Atlantic airship trip
Two Saskatchewan financiers and a Saskatoon newspaper man depart Winnipeg for Windsor and Wayne Michigan to buy a plane for a summer attempt from Saskatoon to London via Hudson Bay Straits Greenland and Iceland Captain J B Home Hay DFC MD will pilot joined by Charles Ellis H P Hartley and W R Clarke The West warm weather and aircraft condition will determine when the flight starts The project is sponsored by the Saskatoon city and Board of Trade
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Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
Windsor
Ont
Wayne
Mich
Saskatoon
Sask
London
England
Hudson Bay
Hudson Straits
Greenland
Iceland
J. B. Home-Hay
D.F.C
Board of Trade
Dress Pattern No 402 for Mid 20th Century Style
Mid blue cant on crepe pattern featuring a flare front skirt hip yoke and tucked bodice with open V neckline and bow trim. Sizes 16 to 42 bust, uses 3% yards of 40 inch fabric, price 25 cents. add 10 cents for Spring Fashion Magazine copy. Also suitable fabrics include silk crepe tweed georgette crepe.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Pattern No
Instructions appear to list an ordering method for patterns from a Winnipeg newspaper office at 175 McDermot Ave. The Union section references pattern numbers but specific steps or contact details are unreadable in the provided fragment.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Device to Determine Tomato Ripeness by Color Matching
Purdue University researcher Dr John H MacGillivray has devised a color disk device using rotating colored disks to match tomato shade. By adjusting exposed areas the apparatus classifies ripeness and aims to standardize quality for canned and fresh tomatoes across regions.
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John H. MacGillivray
Purdue University
Indiana
Popular Science Monthly
New Industry For British Columbia Alfalfa Products Ltd
Arm strong B C announces a new company to manufacture alfalfa meal meeting cattle feed demand on the coast. Cheap power from Shuswap hydroelectric next month and favorable railway rates are expected. Machinery en route should arrive in time for the season's second alfalfa crop.
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British Columbia
Alfalfa Products, Ltd
Armstrong
B.C
United States
Shuswap Hydro-Electric
Ontario Hydro eyes cheaper rate base after surplus
The Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission may set even lower rates, hinted by the chairman, as its annual statement shows a net surplus of 2,016,451 dollars for the past year.
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Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission
North America
Commission
Strong Holstein exports rise in market to the United States
Since January, more than fifteen hundred pure bred Holstein cattle have been shipped to the United States, per the Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada. They report sales at higher prices than earlier, signaling an overall upward market trend for good Holsteins.
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United States
Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada
New Corn Ripens in Ninety Days for Northern Farms
Wisconsin crop experimenters unveil Golden Chippewa a flint corn variety that matures in about ninety days. Developed by E. J. Delwiche at Sturgeon Bay and Ashland, the strain yields forty to sixty bushels per shelled acre and suits short summers in Northern Wisconsin and similar latitudes. Seed distribution starts this season with wider availability forthcoming.
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Wisconsin
E. J. Delwiche
Sturgeon Bay
Ashland
Meat Supply Safeguarded Under Canadian Act Provisions
Canada relies on about sixty federally inspected abattoirs under The Meat and Canned Foods Act run by the Department of Agriculture Ottawa. These plants operate year round with strict sanitation and inspectors ensuring only healthy animals are slaughtered and inspected meat produced. In the last fiscal year 1,108,835 cattle 2,453,704 hogs and 649,994 sheep were slaughtered.
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Better Shops of
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Wireless aids treatment of fractured elbow and wound
A fur trader with a fractured elbow and a poisoned wound was treated after radio authorities in Ottawa provided medical guidance. Wireless operator G Hud son at Hope's Advance contacted Ottawa, received instructions, and relayed them back for the doctor to treat the trader.
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Ottawa
G. Hudson
Hope
Hudson
Premier Ramsay MacDonald Eyes Visit to America
Ramsay MacDonald denied reports he would abandon plans to visit the United States and said he intends to go, noting there is no question in his mind about the trip and that such a visit could do tremendous good work.
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Ramsay MacDonald
America
United States
Making the Railway Beautiful John Caesar’s floral impact
John Caesar, station agent at Markdale Ontario since 1881, transformed dull stations into landscape gardens. His work helped spark a Canadian Pacific Floral Department and he tended hundreds of gardens across Ontario Quebec New Brunswick and Maine before retiring in 1917 to continue gardening in his seventies.
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John Caesar
Markdale
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Floral Department
Caesar
Gardena
Reporting Highway Accidents To Be Discussed At Convention
The Canadian Good Roads Association will convene in Charlottetown on September 17 18 and 19 to debate compulsory highway accident reporting. Quebec’s law requiring reports of all accidents is reviewed with 7462 reports on 5865 accidents.
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Canadian Good Roads Association
Charlottetown
P.ei
Quebec
J. Begin
Mr. Begin
Tramway
How To Judge Music A Scottish verdict on music’s bodily feel
A Glasgow brass band contest prompts the mayor to say he is no judge of music yet a “skin creeps” sensation shows enjoyment. The note compares this physical response to Darwin’s student puzzled chill and suggests intense focus dulled later aesthetic sensitivity.
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Scotland
Charles Darwin
Darwin
New York Times
Growth of Coast Cities Praises Vancouver and Victoria
Admiral Gough Calthorpe retired RN praises British Columbia’s urban and port growth after visiting Vancouver and Victoria. He recalls his 30 years ago command at the Victoria Pacific naval training base and notes the rapid development during his world cruise from England.
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British Columbia
Gough-Calthorpe
R.N
Vancouver
Canada
England
Pacific
Victoria
Canadian
Canadians
Public remark on eating peanuts in public sparks debate
A quoted exchange centers on disgust at people eating peanuts in public and a joking remark about offering gum. The fragment suggests social etiquette tensions and awkward street chatter without clear context or outcome.
Man aims for Grand Canyon after 21 day derby
Bill Williams, famed for feats like pushing a peanut up Pike's Peak, seeks new challenges aboard the Grand Canyon. After a 21 day derby he reports 184 peanuts worn out, average mileage per peanut 0.14321, and nine bottles of liniment for joints and muscles.
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Bill Williams
Pike’s Peak
Grand Canyon
Oldest Inhabitant Recounts Long Village Life
A back-and-forth exchange reveals an elder recalling a long tenure in the village. The Ancient confirms many years have passed and hints at changes over time, addressing a younger speaker with familiarity.
London Called World’s Greatest Port By All Standards
A historical report proclaims London as the world’s greatest port, judged by any standard, highlighting its prominence in trade, navigation, and commerce across multiple eras.
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London
Propeller Sound Dilemma In Aeronautics Play
In Nagels Lustige Welt Berlin a line shows children asking what they are doing and replying they are playing at aeronautics and struggle to get the propeller to sound right.
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Nagels Lustige Welt
Berlin
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