Airplane shipping to speed Northern Saskatchewan fish markets
Brooks Construction and Transportation of Prince Albert plans to fly freshly caught fish from Lac La Ronge and Pipestone Lake to Winnipeg and beyond. R D Brooks expects three planes at start with potential expansion, cutting transit from days to under a day and increasing jobs by about 75.
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Ishes
Saskatchewan
Swift
Brooks Construction and Transportation Company
Prince Albert
R. D. Brooks
Winnipeg
Detroit
Brooks
Lac la Ronge
Pipestone Lake
Brooks Company
Brooks Transportation and Fish Company
Airplane Express
Geese Raising Offers Good Returns for Small Farms
Dominion Department of Agriculture experts say geese farming deserves more farmer attention. Geese thrive on free range and plenty of green feed, delivering a profitable venture with minimal labor. Christmas market demand exceeds supply and yields good prices.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Motors plea to constable ends with new summons
A motorist tries pleading tactics to justify fast driving, claiming urgent business. The constable remains unmoved and notes the delay will provide additional news for the driver’s solicitor.
Skim Milk Boosts Egg Laying at Cap Rouge Station
Tests by the Dominion Department of Agriculture at Cap Rouge Experimental Station show laying hens fed skim milk with a grain based diet laid more eggs and gained weight compared with hens fed beef scraps. Skim milk costs about one ninth the price of beef scraps.
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Cap Rouge
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Frenchman Invented The Sewing Machine Progress In Uneasy Light
A century ago Paris mobs wrecked the first model of Barthelmy Thimonnier the St Etienne tailor who inspired today’s sewing machine. His 1830 patent predates Elias Howe and by now the device powers vast industries and everyday life. The town of St Etienne celebrates the inventor once called the enemy of thimbles and now honored as originator of the sewing machine.
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Paris
St. Etienne
Christian Science Monitor
Barthelmy Thimonnier
Thimonnier
Elias Howe
Costly Radium mined in long Czech labor
In Czecho Slova kia three hundred workers in a chemical plant spent eight years to yield one ounce of radium. The annual output valued at about 2 500 000 dollars, illustrating radium as the world's most costly mineral.
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Czecho-Slovakia
Success With Fruit On the Canadian Pacific Railway Farm
At Brooks the Canadian Pacific Railway Farm shows thriving fruit variety with apples plums cherries and grapes. Grafting and crossing produced crab apples large apples and improved plums now bearing abundantly.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Brooks
American soda fountains arrive in France
American soda fountains are being installed in France as part of a broader push to modernize beverage service. The project highlights U.S. influence on French culinary culture and consumer practices during the period.
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France
Banana Prices Fall as West Indies Shipments Rise
A government report shows wholesale banana prices in Canada dropped by about 42 percent over 12 months as direct imports from the British West Indies surged. For the year ending August 1929 bananas totaled 3,774,845 bunches with 56.4 percent from the U S and the rest from the West Indies. in the latest year 81.2 percent of imports came from the British West Indies. The price decline runs counter to broader fruit price trends, with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics index at 112.4 in September versus 91.7 in September 1929.
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British West Indies
United States
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Mountaineer Surveyors Map Dominion Mountains
Topographical Survey teams in the Interior Department climb 29 peaks in Jasper National Park in one season. Twelve exceed 10,000 feet including Nigel peak 10 525 feet Sunwapta peak 10 865 Pobok tan peak about 10 980 feet and 36 more above 9,000 feet.
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Dominion
Topographical Survey
Department of the Interior
Jasper National Park
Nigel Peak
Sunwapta Peak
Poboktan Peak
Record Salmon Production Expected To Break Provincial Marks
Indications point to a record year for canned salmon in British Columbia with 1,679,638 cases packed by late September, more than double 1929’s figures and above 1926’s pace. Sockeye output reached 416,103 cases, far surpassing yearly totals since 1915, while pink production nears the 1928 record with over 1,080,000 cases by August.
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British Columbia
Dollar Value Of Agriculture In Canada In 1929
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada’s agricultural wealth for 1929 at 7.978 billion dollars. Breakdown shows Lands 3.316 billion, buildings 1.383 billion, implements and machinery 665 million, livestock 864 million, poultry 64 million, fur farm animals 19 million, and agricultural production 1.667 billion.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Canadian Troops Honored by U S Minister in Ottawa
Lieut.-Col. Hanford MacNider United States minister to Canada praised Canadian troops before 300 Ottawa Legion members. He recalled their Great War leadership, saying Americans admired and were grateful for the brave example set by Canadian forces.
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Hanford MacNider
United States
Canada
Ottawa
Canadian Legion
American Legion
Fashions Change But Wearing a Smile Stays Stylish
A light column notes that fashion trends shift while the simple act of smiling remains timeless in social settings. It highlights universal appeal of a cheerful expression as a fashion constant.
Train Telephone Service On Moving Trains In Canada
J C Burkholder, chief engineer of Canadian National Telegraphs, praises the Toronto Montreal train telephone service on The Maple Leaf and The International Limited. Since April 28 1930 the system operates daily with no interruptions and high transmission quality. In five months 813 calls were handled including calls to London England and Chicago.
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Toronto
Bell Telephone Company
Burkholder
Three Essentials for Better Farming Named by Minister
At the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Hon. Robert Weir Federal Minister of Agriculture outlined three essentials for improving farming. He urged better blood in breeding stock, scientific feeding with cheaper feeds where possible, and highly specialized marketing to reduce producer consumer gaps while maintaining quality and volume. He also called farmers to eliminate waste and apply sober balanced constructive thought to farm problems.
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Toronto
Robert Weir
Canada Leads Aerial Surveying Front in 1929
Canada extended its world leadership in aerial surveying in 1929 by applying aerial methods to geodetic reconnaissance and transportation for the first time in any country.
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Canada
Wheat straw as industrial feedstock gains ground in Barron's
Robert Stewart reports that wheat straw can be converted through destructive distillation into valuable chemicals and by products. Harrison near St. Paul has a small plant producing disinfectants straw oil and paints from straw gas and oil. A St Joseph mill runs 125000 square feet daily of straw insulating board, indicating growing markets for farm byproducts.
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George H. Harrison
St. Paul
Minn
Harrison
St. Joseph
Robert Stewart
Barron’s
French Statesman Has Extraordinary Memory
Raymond Poincare, a leading French politician, is described as possessing an extraordinary memory. He can speak for hours on complex French financial matters without consulting statistics, presenting precise facts before the Chamber of Deputies. Supporters say he is always right, attributing his feats to hard work and application.
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Raymond Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
League of Nations Ends Eleventh Session in Stalled Covenant Reforms
After over three weeks of deliberation the League of Nations assembly concluded its eleventh annual session. The major issue remained the failure to amend the Covenant to close war gaps and progress toward the Kellogg Briand Anti War Pact framework.
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League of Nations Assembly
Unclear Exchange Between Mrs Higgs and Attendance Officer
A clipped report from Moustique Charleroi captures a brief exchange where Mrs Higgs answers a question about her husband and asserts she is the sole breadwinner. The officer compliments her work and promises restraint in future remarks.
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Higgs
Moustique Charleroi
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Britain
Lord Thomson
Great Britain
Sefton Brancker
Pacific
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