Western Canada enters a new period of business expansion
Industrial Commissioner notes steady western conditions with varying trade shifts and good grain quality. He cites September’s visit by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to Regina and argues Canada must focus on future assets and a broader outlook, with overseas interest in western manufacturing and new markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Regina
Canada
West
Great Britain
United States
New Cut Skirt Design Style No. 495 for Various Sizes
The pattern features a new cut with a deep pointed front, offered in sizes 16 through 44 inches bust. Shown in crepe silk prints and woollens, options include satin crepe or crepe marocain for dressy occasions. Size 36 needs 3 yards 39 inch fabric plus 4% yard contrasting. all patterns 25 cents.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern orders are outlined by Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Pattern number and name fields required for each request. Submit by mail with payment and return address for prompt processing.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Guthrie backs Bernstorff as charming figure in war debate
Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Canada’s justice minister and head of the Canadian delegation to the League of Nations, said Count Bernstorff, formerly German ambassador to the United States, now appears a very charming person despite 1914 tensions and rumors of involvement in Parliament fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Guthrie
League of Nations
Toronto
Guthrie
Count Bernstorff
United States
Geneva
Caution Urged As Profits Rise For Saugeen Farmers
Local farmers observe market volatility warning that high profits may be short lived. A Saugeen township producer shipping a cow to Toronto ended with just 87 cents after all costs, illustrating tight margins and potential hard times ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saugeen Township
Toronto
Winter Poultry Housing Needs Thorough Prep
Arthur Ray addresses Saskatchewan poultry growers on preparing winter housing. Key tasks include cleaning walls floors and equipment, adding whitewash with disinfectant, replacing broken glass, updating ventilation, and fresh straw in loft. The article advises proper nest and feeding setups and gradual confinement for new stock, removing weak birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry Department
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Poultry Division
Livestock Branch
Department of Agriculture
Regina
Gandhi's Goat Wins Prize at English Dairy Show
The goat supplying milk to Mahatma Gandhi won first prize at the English Dairy Show at Royal Agricultural Hall. The goat was officially named Mahatma, and S. R. Whitley noted goat prices had risen since the Mahatma arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma
S. R. Whitley
Royal Agricultural Hall
England
Great War Tolls Estimated at Forty Million Lives
A calculation places global fatalities from the Great War, including losses from revolution famine and pestilence, at no fewer than 40 million lives. The figure reflects the war's vast human cost across continents.
Baffin Island Names and Explorers Through History
The article traces Baffin Island’s naming history from early explorers like Frobisher and Parry to Foxe and Arrowsmith. It notes the 1884 Admiralty Chart first applying the name Baffin and mentions William Baffin’s northern sighting of Smith Sound in 1616.
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Baffin Island
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Martin Frobisher
Baffin
Parry
Fury
Hecla Strait
Arrowsmith
Frobisher Strait
Queen Elizabeth
Frobisher
Cumberland Gulf
Cumberland Island
Foxe
Cockburn Land
Foxe Land
Geographic Board of Canada
Baffin Bay
William Baffin
Smith Sound
World Needs Less Fear Says Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star urges Americans to ignore stock market fears and continue daily work and life. It argues that an active, intelligent public creates wealth and moves forward, while excessive worry about imagined disasters holds progress back. The Ottawa Journal echoes this sentiment about facing future peril with calm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Kansas City Star
Ottawa Journal
Mystery Dialogue Between Youths
A light exchange captures a playful moment as a young man asks the time and a young woman responds that it has become almost Thursday since his arrival. The brief dialogue underscores casual everyday interaction.
Memo Go Fishing Book By Bob Becker
The new fishing book Memo Go Fishing by Bob Becker showcases Becker's adventures across the oceans and rivers. It emphasizes Canadian waters such as the French River Nipigon River and Lake of the Woods with chapters on muskies and bass. Photographs depict a trout fight on the Nipigon River.
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Bobbs-Merrill Company
Bob Becker
Chicago Tribune
Becker
Pacific
Gulf Stream
Alaskan
Sierras
Canada
Dominion
French River
Nipigon River
Lake of the Woods
Canada Holds Fourth In Per Capita Trade Among Nations
Canada maintained fifth position globally in total trade in 1930 and rose to fourth in per capita trade among world trading nations. The Dominion led production of printing paper nickel and asbestos, ranked second in gold, and held top exports in wheat newsprint nickel and asbestos. Imports and exports declined from 1930 levels in the first half of the fiscal year, with duty collections down from the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Trade and Commerce
Dominion
Department
New Cancer Serum Claim Shakes Medical Ground in Canada
Dr. J. K. Hett of Kitchener Ont reports a serum that diagnoses and cures cancer in most but final-stage cases. He says the inoculation triggers a reaction in nonfatal patients and arrests tumor growth, enabling surgery before or after treatment. He also believes cancer is germ in origin and seeks a method to render germs visible.
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J. K. Hett
Kitchener, Ont
Hett
Hats Off to Walkerville Unemployed Volunteers
The unemployed of Walkerville Ontario offer spare time free to remove leaves and rubbish from parks and boulevards and to gather fruits and vegetables for welfare work while their wives sew and knit. When workers help each other the community shows appreciation and support.
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Walkerville
Ontario
Not Safety In Number Causes Sergeant Lehmann’s Dismissal
Police Sergeant Victor Lehmann lost his job after keeping his uniform trousers in pawn for nearly four months. He survived by borrowing trousers from off duty colleagues until a mass call of the force forced him to report in civilian clothes and he was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Lehmann
All is fair in love and war courtship and marriage
A proverb notes that romantic strategy operates with the same edge as conflict. The saying frames courtship as a tactical field and marriage as a long game of influence and balance.
Wood Buffalo Park Map Issued by Topographical Survey
The North West Territories and Yukon Branch of the Department of the Interior released an exploratory map of Wood Buffalo Park. It covers eight miles to the inch and spans areas west of Slave and Athabaska Rivers across Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Mapping relies on aerial photography, marking this as a preliminary, incomplete edition needing further work.
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North West Territories
Yukon
Department of the Interior
Slave and Athabaska Rivers
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Canada
Edison Day Idea Expands to World Holiday Proposal
The In Honor Of Edison suggestion for a national holiday broadened into a proposed international Edison Day. The Board of Trade Legion Post in Chicago, which proposed the idea, received a communication from Peterborough Ont advocating urging the League of Nations to set a date for a world holiday in memory of Thomas A. Edison.
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Thomas A. Edison
Board of Trade Legion Post
Chicago
Peterborough
Ont
League of Nations
Dehydration Plants Test Canadian Fruit Stock Substitutes
The Department of Agriculture at Ottawa runs experimental dehydration plants in Ontario Nova Scotia and British Columbia to assess replacing imported dried fruit with Canadian grown stock.
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Canada
Department of Agriculture At
Ottawa
Ontario
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
Bandits Steal Safe Carrying Twenty Shillings
In a London to Bristol theft a gang took a safe containing twenty shillings. The note remarks that a pound buys much less today, reflecting on the value of money in the era.
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London
Bristol
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Byddle F. Sweeting
Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
Kasper
Stockholm
By Annette
Eer Tees
Mr. Guthrie
Arthur Ray
Saskatchewan Poultry Association
Gandhi
Hollywood
Herbert Marshall
Australia
Marshall
Christian Science Monitor
Wood Buffalo Park
Edison
Gaiés
Yverdon
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