Encouraging Trade Outlook for Canada
Canadian government statistics show increasing self sufficiency in shipping agriculture and industry with manufacturers supplying over three quarters of domestic demand. Wheat exports via home ports rose, coke is produced in Canada, meat and dairy improve under grading, and exporters seek new markets. Foreign trade gains include higher U S purchases and rising exports to the United Kingdom across multiple commodities.
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Canada
Canadian
United States
Dominion
United Kingdom
Prince Urges Advertising For British Firms In South America
The Prince of Wales told British businessmen in Buenos Aires to send top leaders abroad, learn Spanish, and advertise boldly rather than hide their light. He quipped on the value of ads and warned against complacency in outreach to South America. He also cited a humorous refrain about early to bed and rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Macaulay
Sun Life Assurance Company of
Canada
South America
Prince of Wales
Buenos Aires
William Clark urges mixed farming in Canada to ease depression
Sir William Clark, Britain's Canada commissioner, told the Canadian Club in Orillia that Canada should diversify from wheat. He noted 1919 wheat production doubling and postwar drought, warning that overdevelopment during the war contributed to current hardship and urging diversification in both Canada and England.
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Great Britain
William Clark
Canada
Orillia
Ontario
Russia
England
Sir William
Purdue Dean Critiques College Athletics Emphasis
Stan ley Coulter, dean of Purdue University, told a conference of over 100 deans of men that turning students into professional athletes is like cutting wood with four razors. He urged patience with youth and warned against emphasizing baseball players and coaches over broader university aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Coulter
Purdue University
Inspector Traps Passenger With Timely Ruse On Train
A C N R main line ticket inspector, wary of a passenger claiming to be on the run, tests him by asking the time and demanding a pass or fare. The man answers with “twenty minutes past five,” prompting the inspector to insist on the correct time and fare. The passenger pays.
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C.N.R
Tom
Steady Growth Seen in Prairie Poultry Industry
Poultry production in the three Prairie Provinces shows steady growth over the past three years. A table lists annual bird counts indicating continued expansion across Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Two men discuss a car deal with repeated surprises reflecting bargaining humor.
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Prairie Provinces
Portable strawberry patch ships from Miami to sunlit news
A retired Kansas City businessman living in Florida grows a greenhouse strawberry patch of 1900 plants. Since January he has been picking berries, showcasing a novel venture reported by the Christian Science Monitor.
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Miami
Kansas City
Florida
Christian Science Monitor
Canadian Pacific Unveils Giant Engine 8000 For Western Rails
The Canadian Pacific Railway shows off its massive steam locomotive 8000 built at Angus Shops Montreal. Weighing 785000 pounds with a 90000 pound tractive effort it hauls long freight trains over a mile in length. Designed with a three stage multi pressure boiler and a 1700 psi firebox, it marks a record in size and efficiency for North American rails.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Angus
Montreal
Rocky Mountain
Europe
American Locomotive Company
Superheater Company
New York
H. B. Bowen
J. Burns
T. Donald
Bowen
MacMillan Plans Aerial Survey Of Labrador
Commander Donald B. MacMillan aims to fly Boston to London this summer and survey northern Labrador with a side trip to Baffin Land. He hopes to locate the missing 1927 Paris to New York flyers and their plane White Bird, possibly forcing down in Labrador. He joins Charlies Hocheville to explore a proposed northern air mail and passenger route for Great Northern Atlantic Airways, taking off June 1 from Boston.
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Donald B. MacMillan
Charles Nungesser
Francis Coli
Boston
London
Labrador
Baffin Land
Paris
New York
Charlies F. Hocheville
Los Angeles
MacMillan
Great Northern Atlantic Airways
Italian Applicant in Naturalization Court Humor
An Italian applicant in a naturalization court is asked who leads the United States. He answers Mr. Hoover. He is then asked if he could be president, and replies no because he is too busy working as a truck driver.
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Naturalization Court
The
United
Mr. Hoover
Irish Free State Invites Exiled Spanish Monarch
The London Daily Mail reports the Irish Free State invited Alphon so deposed Spanish monarch to reside there, but he declined. The piece notes many Irish claim Spanish ancestry tied to the Armada, with ships wrecked along the Irish coast.
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London Daily Mail
Irish Free State
Alphonso
Fighting Fire With Fire Sawflies Carried Parasites To Canada
British Empire board researchers prove the proverb as 90 000 sawflies shipped from Fareham England to Belleville Ontario carry their own parasites. The worms were released into wheat fields to control the pests by parasitism in a bid to curb other vermin.
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British Empire Marketing Board
Fareham
England
Belleville
Ontario
Canada
Gog and Magog and I reminiscences by T Lewes Sayer
Preaching and Practice recounts are told by T Lewes Sayer a former official on the Guildhall staff in London in his reminiscences Gog and Magog and I. A religious weekly proprietor faced court over a long lease after prophecy about the world's end.
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T. Lewes Sayer
Guildhall
London
England
Gog and Magog and I
The Influence Of Books On Civilization And Healing
Dr J C Meakins of Royal Victoria Hospital spoke to the Hospital Library Book Club on how reading shapes civilization and affects patients. He urged classification of books by patient type to maximize therapeutic value and cautioned that certain novels could harm vulnerable readers.
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J. C. Meakins
Royal Victoria Hospital
Hospital Library Book Club
Pika of Jasper Park Also Called the Haymaker
The pika a small rabbit like creature in Alberta's Jasper National Park is known as the haymaker for storing dried grasses for winter. It resembles a Guinea pig with rounded ears short legs and no visible tail. Sometimes under rocks a haystack of well cured vegetation is found. Also notes Sweden shipped 11 666 tons of matches in the last three months of 1930.
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Jasper National Park
Alberta
Sweden
Highways Should Be Beautiful
Ontario imposes curb on outdoor ads limiting roadside businesses to one sign and banning painted advertising on barns or rocks unless tied to local business. New Jersey imposes annual fees and per sign permits with a three cent per square foot billboard tax.
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Ontario
New Jersey
Canada
Fur farms rise in Western Canada boost fur trade
Official data show Western Canada fur farms worth 8.68 million dollars with 999 farms, 572 fox farms and 249 mink farms led by Manitoba as the main hub. Silver foxes exceed 3.4 million in value, and muskrat holdings jump from 113,710 to 629,212 dollars in one year.
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Milady
Canada
Yukon Territory
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
New Air Route Proposal Ties North America to Europe
Delegates at the Midwest section Bankers Association for Foreign Trade in Indiana heard Case R. Howard of the Canadian Bank of Commerce New York outline a proposed air link from North America to Europe. The plan would route via Churchill Hudson Bay and Greenland with British Canadian US German and French backing.
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North America
Europe
Churchill
Hudson Bay
Greenland
United States
Midwest
Bankers’ Association For Foreign Trade
Indiana
Case R. Howard
Canadian Bank of Commerce
New York
Winnipeg Building Permits Surge in March
Building activity in Winnipeg rises sharply with March permits more than doubling year over year, pushing the year’s total to 1,004,400. Strong home construction momentum marked the month as projects accelerated across the city.
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Winnipeg
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Alfonso
Victoria
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Barcelona
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