Amending the BNA Act Could Forge a New Canadian Constitution
Provincial attorneys general argue amending the British North America Act would require intergovernmental conferences and possibly a new constitutional framework. A proposed constituent assembly would redraw provisions with representation from provinces and federal bodies, meeting in Winnipeg to draft a first Canadian constitution.
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Canada
T. C. Davis
Saskatchewan
House of Commons
House
W. J. Major
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Constituent Assembly
Arthur Beauchesne
Alberta
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Winnpeg
Beauchesne
House of Compans
Beaucheene
Choosing Fertilizers Provincial Councils Help Farmers
Provincial Fertilizer Councils in Eastern Canada guide farmers on fertilizer analyses for various crops and soil conditions. The councils, formed by agricultural chemists, farmers, and manufacturers, publish recommendations to promote economic returns. The Dominion Department of Agriculture notes the value of councils in aiding fertilizer decisions.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Lloyds Cuts Cargo Insurance Rates for Hudson Bay Route
Regina announced a 25 percent reduction in cargo insurance on freight via the Hudson Bay route with an extra month and five days of open season. Rates drop to three quarters of one percent for August 10 to October 10, with last year’s rates for extension. The measure, disclosed by Minister W. J. Pattison, could boost harvest binder twine traffic in western Canada.
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Hudson Bay
Lloyds
Regina
W. J. Patterson
Natural Resources
Hull
Ottawa
R. H. Cook
Lloyds of London
Western
Canada
Canada gifts gold box to King George V for silver jubilee
The Dominion of Canada presents a solid gold box as a silver jubilee gift to King George V. Made in Montreal then shipped from Ottawa to London, the 18 by 14 inch box features nine provinces coats of arms, Dominion arms, maple leaf border, GRI letters, and a hand engraved Ottawa parliament image.
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Dominion of Canada
George V
Montreal
Ottawa
London
Dominion
Reykjavik Opens Modern 100-Bed City Hospital
A new hospital in Reykjavik with one hundred beds showcases Iceland's urban health development. Officials say the facility expands local medical capacity and reduces patient wait times, reinforcing the capital's role in national health infrastructure.
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Iceland
Reykjavik
Records Across Time Sparked by Everyday Facts
A nine year old, Frederick Davies, worked 78 years for one Southwark grocers firm, a possible record before dying at 89. Rev. Frederick Laurence fined for careless driving after 29 years on the road. Arctic insects found atop a Scottish mountain, tied to a Natural History Museum display. An AC powered device now grinds and sharpens razor blades in seconds.
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England
Frederick George Davies
Southwark
Frederick Laurence
Reading
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
Stranger Cure Claims Secret Serum Restores Shrinking Man
The 45 year old George Bocklett reportedly recovered after injections of a life restoring serum named formula X by Dr Frank Nolan a Hollywood physician. Bocklett previously shrank a year losing inches in height hat size ribs and chin bones altered and he says the serum restored his normal appearance. The doctor would not reveal the serum's composition or source and Bocklett has left hospital. A separate line notes a solicitor at Wood Green asking about a woman's pension and a husband's ambition to claim old age pension.
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George Bocklett
Frank Nolan
Hollywood
Nolan
Bocklett
Spring zoo photography tips for better animal pictures
A teacher asks what we look forward to in spring and Mickey mentions animals at the zoo. The article urges amateur photographers to dust off cameras, plan natural environments, and vary distances to capture stronger animal pictures in spring light.
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Mickey Mickey
Interplanetary foretelling and Western livestock plan
The American Chemical Society marked its tercentenary by publishing forecasts from Thomas Midgley on future science. Projections include interplanetary travel enabled by a new fuel and dramatic advances in medicine, housing, and agriculture. A Western Canada show group hopes to rotate a combined livestock exhibition among Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia to spur interprovincial competition.
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Scotland
England
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Mars
Venus
Thomas Midgley
Ethyl Gasoine Corporation
American Chemical Society
Amer
Midgley
Maple Syrup Output Up in Eastern Canada This Year
Maple syrup and maple sugar production in Eastern Canada is expected to exceed several past years with a low price trend. The season began in Southwestern Ontario in March and winds down in the Maritimes and Quebec as the year ends. Domestic per capita consumption runs 2.7 pounds annually, with advice to long shelf maple by heating and sealing in glass. Export to the United States is curtailed by tariffs of six cents per pound on sugar and four cents per pound on syrup.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ontario
United States
New Mounted Police Post Planned in Northwest Territories
Major-General J H MacBrien, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Edmonton visit that only one new post will open this season. The plan assigns a detachments at Fort Harrison on the Hudson Bay coast north of Fort Churchill, on the eastern shore.
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Northwest Territories
J H. MacBrien
Royal Canadian
Edmonton
Fort Harrison
Hudson Bay
Fort Churchill
Queen Marie Takes Credit for Romania in War Memoir
The Dowager Queen of Romania claims credit in her autobiography for guiding Romania into the Allied ranks during World War I and maintaining it, despite national exhaustion. The piece also notes Peiping China as the world’s dirtiest city due to dust storms from the Gobi Desert.
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Marie
Rumania
Peiping
China
Gobi Desert
Irish claim the Irish discovered America before Columbus
Arctic explorer Dr Vilhjalmur Stefansson tells the Pennsylvania Historical Association that Irish discovery of America predates Columbus by six or seven centuries. He cites a 820 AD Irish monk paper and Vatican records showing Greenland as a separate bishopric with an unbroken episcopal line to 1528.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
America
Christopher Columbus
Pennsylvania Historical Association
Greenland
Historic Natal plaque marks 1842 decision to accept British rule
A Maritzburg garden scene recalls July 5, 1842 when General A. W. L. Pretorius Volksraad members and Natal burghers chose to accept British rule under a flat crowned mimosa tree. In 1935 a plaque was unveiled at the tree base noting its role in history. London received its first meat cargo from Australia in 1884.
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Maritzburg
Natal
A. W. L. Pretorius
Volksraad
Natal Republic
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Bay
Switzerland
Kaiser
Volendam
Heemstede
Amsterdam
California
Wood Green
Western Livestock Men
Toronto
Western Canada
Ica
Gress
Queen Marie
Dr. Stefansson
New World
Australa
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