Free Lance Investigator Praises Canadian Settlement Conditions
A freelance investigator writes Hon. James A. Robb praising Canada after an agricultural tour from Quebec to Victoria, from June 1924 to March 1925. He notes engaging studies across Sherbrooke, Toronto, Northern Ontario, Hamilton, Niagara, Guelph, Kitchener, Winnipeg, South Saskatchewan, Calgary, Vancouver, Okanagan, Fraser Valley and Victoria. He credits Canadian potential for the right settler and defends the country against British press criticism.
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James A. Robb
Massared
Canada
Quebec
Victoria
B.C
Sherioke
Toronto
Ontario
Hamilton
Niagara
Guelph
Kitchener
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Calgary
Vancouver
Okanagan
Fraser Valley
Scotland
Africa
Australia
Regulations for Empire Settlement Act immigrants in Canada
Public regulations outline land allotment for 3000 selected immigrants under the Empire Settlement Act. Lands are allocated at a price fixed by an advisory committee. soldier settler buildings must be repaired for immediate occupancy. Total advances to a settler capped at 7500 dollars, repaid in 25 annual installments starting a year after land take, at not more than five percent interest.
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Canada
Advisory Settlement Committee
Sugar Beets Experiment Security Support For Brandon District
Generous encouragement will be given to farmers in the Brandon district to grow sugar beets in an experimental season. The Brandon board of trade and horticultural society and other bodies will assist. The sugar beet factory prospect in Manitoba offers impetus for provincial prosperity. Seed is supplied free. Hope remains high for success.
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Brandon
Brandon Board of Trade and Horticultural Society
Manitoba
Poorest Cathedral Faces Bankruptcy Says Bishop
The Bishop of Woolwich says Southwark Cathedral is the poorest in Christen dom with no endowment. Deans sub-deans and canons have not been paid. finances prevent window cleaning for 32 years. The cathedral in a poor area faces bankruptcy.
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Christendom
Southwark Cathedral
Woolwich
Dog digs up gold strike nugget in New South Wales
A dog playing with a ball uncovered a small gold nugget that sparked a new strike in New South Wales. Miners report the find drew attention to a promising dig site where prospectors have begun staking claims.
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New South Wales
The Case For the Road Amply Sufficient Reasons
An opinion piece argues for completing the Northern Route to Tidewater. It contends promises from Canada, land-sale funding, and feasible feasibility with minimal terminal costs justify moving forward, warning against treating possibilities as facts or opponents as fools.
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Bay Road
Canada
German Official Sees Potatoes Replacing Wheat in Europe
Frederick Hagedorn strong concerns on European food costs after war. He notes wheat eaters becoming potato eaters as farmers face high farming costs and falling consumption. He travels with four German agricultural experts to study U.S. farming practices.
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Frederick Hagedorn
New York
Herr Hagedorn
United States
Prairie optimism rises as farmers eye bumper crop
Western farmers and agricultural officials express cautious optimism about this spring. Charles Murphy of Winnipeg, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway western lines, arrives in Vancouver after inspecting the prairie provinces and British Columbia. He notes spring conditions resemble those before the 1915 bumper crop and credits high last year’s prices and circulating money for the upbeat mood.
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Charles Murphy
Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway
Western Lines
Vancouver
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Murphy
Amendment on Sheep Registration Rates Adopted in Canada
At the annual meeting of the Canadian Sheep Breeders Association an amendment was approved allowing reduced registration fees for sheep not previously recorded in the Canadian National Livestock Records. The fee for registering whole flocks already in American Flock Records is set at 50 cents per animal if registered before January 1, 1925, expiring January 1, 1926.
Amusing Episode in Cairo With Earl of Oxford and Asquith
The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, visiting Cairo, found Egyptian Court etiquette strict. Lacking his frock coat and topper, he borrowed Lord Allenby’s tall hat and, suffering a cold, met the King in an overcoat.
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Earl of
Oxford
Asquith
Cairo
Earl
Bedford Square
Lord Allenby
War Forecast Foe Adverts The Mercury Warns
The Guelph Mercury cautions that a British advertising expert predicts another war within ten to twenty years if his promotional campaigns continue. The paper argues the advert should be killed now to prevent conflict.
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Guelph Mercury
Tags Planned to Track Salmon Runs Across Pacific Coast
Canadian and United States fishery experts meet in Seattle to approve tagging 16 000 to 15 600 young salmon at hatcheries in British Columbia Alaska Washington California and Oregon. Tiny metal discs will be attached to tails to trace migration and determine run directions. Alaska successfully piloted the method and tagged fish have appeared along the British Columbia coast and one reached a river in Siberia.
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United States
Seattle
British Columbia
Alaska
Washington
California
Oregon
Siberia
Keep On Banging Urges Steady City Publicity
Sir Charles Higham urged Leeds commercial leaders to maintain consistent publicity for their city, arguing that many firms fail after an initial burst. He warned a new land still on the threshold of opportunities needs even steadier effort to sustain growth.
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Sir Charles Higham
Leeds
England
Edmonion Journal
Canada’s Flour Exports Reach 1924 Total
Canada’s flour exports for 1924 aggregate 11,447,806 barrels according to the department of trade and commerce. This compares with about 4,500,000 barrels a dozen years earlier and just over 10,000,000 barrels in 1923. India ranks as the second largest sugar growing country.
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Department of Trade and Commerce
India
Bootlegging Of Eggs Targeted By Federal Action
The Federal Department of Agriculture warns egg dealers will be prosecuted for infractions of the egg grading and marketing provisions of the Live Stock Products Act. Additional inspectors on the western front will enforce the rules as the department aims to stop bootlegging. About 65 percent of Winnipeg market eggs are bootlegged, with many moving to eastern Saskatchewan. Prosecutions have occurred in Eastern Canada including Montreal traders who pleaded guilty to relabeling United States eggs.
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Federal
Department of Agriculture
Western Front
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Canada
United States
Overseas Development Committee Seeks White Settlement Strategy
The committee report promotes white settlement to distribute the white population across the empire for trade and security. It states unemployment relief at home is incidental to overseas settlement and finds no definite conclusion on training women for overseas household work. Funds for training in England are unlikely. white women often secure posts abroad.
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Overseas Development Committee
England
Western Development Conference Planned in Edmonton
Western mayors will meet during the summer fair week opening July 13 in Edmonton to discuss developing the westward route. Mayor Blatchford leads initial arrangements with many federal members likely in attendance to address financing banking credit Oriental trade immigration colonization and cooperative policy.
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Edmonton
Blatchford
Alberta farmers urged to join new dairy and livestock pools
A vigorous provincial campaign was planned in Edmonton to secure memberships for dairy, livestock, and poultry pools now being organized. The drive runs from June 8 to 28, aiming to obtain signatures on contracts for the cooperative marketing pools across Alberta.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Farrar Sings Carmen in Montreal Photo at CPR Station
Famous prima donna Miss Geraldine Farrar poses at Windsor Station Montreal beside a CPR engine. The Metropolitan Opera lead soprano was in Montreal for a Carmen performance and to amass photographs with railroad backdrop.
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Geraldine Farrar
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Canadian Pacific Railway
Windsor
Montreal
C.P.R
Corn Establishes Itself as Western fodder crop
Agricultural notes show Alberta moves to loan aid for egg live stock and dairy pools while Dr. H M Tory urges a joint provincial Dominion farm loan scheme. Western Canada expands fodder corn with 1924 prairie acres totaling 215,303 yielding 769,000 tons valued around 4.16 million dollars, a 45 percent acreage rise since 1915 and rising prices.
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Alberta
Agricultural Committee
H. M. Tory
University of Alberta
Dominion
Tory
Chicago
Canada
Ontario
Prairie
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Prairie Provinces
Keeping Up Good Roads In The Automobile Era
The automobile spurred major road improvements and costly highway capital in Canadian provinces, with nine provinces collecting nearly 11.5 million dollars in 1923 from motorists in licenses and taxes. Gasoline taxes are expected to rise, offsetting provincial debts.
Manitoba extends Shoal Lake bird sanctuary to whole lake
Manitoba extends the Shoal Lake game sanctuary to include all lake waters and south end narrows along with ten sections in townships 17 and 16. Dr. Robert Lawson of Shoal Lake helped bring three pairs of domesticated Canadian wild geese from Grathside Farm to reside on the lake. Pens were built by J R Nesbitt of Shoal Lake Creamery to train the birds.
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Shoal Lake
Manitoba
Robert Lawson
Bendick Bros
Grathside
Leduc
Alta
J. R. Nesbitt
Canada Dairy Production Totals Reach Vast Output
Dr J A Reddick says Canada annual dairy production sits around 235 to 240 million dollars. 1923 figures show cheese 151 million pounds, creamery butter 162 million, dairy butter 10 million, whey butter 1 million, condensed milk 27 million, milk powders and ice cream total 5.6 million gallons, with milk demand near 12 009 000 000 pounds.
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Canada
J. A. Reddick
Dominion
Equal Mrs Longworthee Angers Royal Etiquette At Court
The only woman commoner not curtsied to King Edward due to a mistaken belief in royal equality. As daughter of the U.S. president she deemed herself equal to royalty, provoking reaction at the royal presentation.
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Nicholas Longworthee
Edward
U.S.A
Sicily Sends 30 Million Lemons Monthly to Britain
A historical note records Sicily exporting about 30 million lemons each month to Great Britain due to high U.S. import tariffs. The arrangement highlights trade shifts caused by tariff policies affecting transatlantic commodity flows.
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Sicily
Great Britain
United States
Era of Development Promises Great Industrial Expansion
Charles M Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, told the New York Building Congress annual meeting that the next twenty years would bring the greatest expansion and achievements for American industry. He emphasized cooperation among competitors and better relations between employers and workers, noting he had never had a strike in his long career despite handling hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
New York Building Congress
Finger Print Test Supports Paternity Theory
Professor Chris tine Bonnevie of Esso University proposes that a child’s fingerprints resemble the father to determine paternity. Bonnevie’s research aims to prove a universal finger print method to aid mothers worldwide.
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Christine Bonnevie
Esso University
Miss Bonnevie
Prophet of the tides machine gifted to Bidston Observatory
Liverpool steamship owners present a device dubbed the prophet of the tides to Bidston Observatory Birkenhead. The instrument claims to forecast ocean tide times anywhere in the world fifty years ahead and to reveal tides for the past five centuries.
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Liverpool
Bidston Observatory
Birkenhead
Man Nearing Retirement Faces Delayed Savings Milestone
A 60-year-old man who planned to retire with sufficient savings now faces a delayed milestone. The article notes a common struggle with postponed financial goals and the impact on long term security.
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Ohio
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Sheep Registration
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Royal Geographical Society
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Willi
Agricultural Committee of
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Montana
Wisconsin
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