Avicultural Extension Work Spurs Canadian Farm Education
The Manitoba Free Press highlights Lloyd George Alberta as a model where youths lead school fairs and clubs in sheep, calf, grain and seed activities. The area funded 38 000 trees for shelter belts and 5000 pounds of grass seed, with graduates returning to help their communities, marking a shift toward quality production and educational outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Lloyd George
Alberta
Toronto
Manitoba Pree Press
White Leghorns win year’s egg-laying contest at Bran don Do minion Farm
Willam Robb of Grandview led White Leghorn pens to victory in Bran don at the Dominion Experimental Farm. The 23 October contest counted 2 178 eggs and 2 293 points, winning the William Watkins Memorial Cup. Second place went to James Byrne’s Barred Rocks of Welwyn Sask with 2 178 eggs and 2 137 points.
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Willam Robb
Grandview
Dominion Experimental Farm
Brandon
William Watkins Memorial
James Byrne
Welwyn, Sask
Barred Rocks
Lacey Poultry Farm
Boreton
W.C. Wroth
S. T. Stewart
Portage la Prairie
Gandhi Plans Global Tour Amid Claims of Frailty
The piece notes Mahatma Gandhi’s assertion of frailty while outlining his proposed travels from India to England and then to Ireland France Germany Italy Palestine and possibly the United States The text contrasts his self described weakness with his broad travel plans and public attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahatma Gandhi
India
England
Round Table
Canadian boy orator wins second prize in Washington event
Gerard Cournoyer of St. Joseph de Sorel Que spoke in Constitution Hall before 4000 people and won second prize in a competition among the best boy orators of France England Germany Holland Ireland and the United States. His prepared speech on The French Canadians in the Crisis of 1812 and his views on French Canadian survival highlighted his poised delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerard Cournoyer
St. Joseph de Sorel
Que
Constitution Hall
Washington
Canada
France
England
Germany
Holland
Ireland
United States
Henri R. M. van Hoof
Haarlem
Royal House
Netherlands
M. Cournoyer
Mother Earth
Stalin’s wage rule sparks debate on justice and efficiency
The prose argues that wages should match work, not needs, citing Stalin and ancient and modern thinkers. It claims a merit based system proves just, warns against charity styled policies, and positions Stalin as a potential benefactor if his principle succeeds across races.
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Stalin
Russia
B.C
Amos
Napoleon
Europe
London Flower Girls and a Cosmic Collision Theory
The piece links London flower girls led by Mrs. Margaret Blake and her daughter Elizabeth to a solar system story. It notes Blake’s birthday and Sunday work, her Covent Garden buying years, and Elizabeth’s succession. It then reports Professor Willem de Sitter’s theory that a passing star collided with the Sun, ejecting material that formed planets and satellites.
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London
England
Margaret Blake
Elizabeth
Margaret
Chelsea
Battersea
Covent Garden Market
Willem de Sitter
First Inventions In Canada
The obituary notes Thomas A Edison and Alexander Graham Bell as early experimenters in Canada. Edison trained as a telegraph operator for the Grand Trunk Railway in Stratford Ontario where he perfected his first device. Nearby Bell was developing the telephone between Brantford and Paris Ontario with the first call on August 10 1876.
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Thomas A. Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Canada
Edison
Grand Trunk Railway
Stratford
Ontario
Brantford
Paris
Crop rotation aids cattle movement and yields
The Department of Agriculture reports 73 000 store cattle shipped to country points this winter, up from 60 000, with prairie to Ontario and Quebec movement tripling. Direct shipments to packing plants reach about 20 000 head. Crop rotation lowers feed costs by improving soil fertility, weed and disease control, and even labor distribution, while boosting yields.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Ontario
Quebec
Reversing the Address Aims to Speed Soviet Mail
Soviet Russia to educate people to reverse addresses placing city first then addressee. The plan claims faster sorting and delivery as letters circulate the USSR with examples like Moscow and apartment data included.
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Russia
Soviet Union
Moscow
Canada Posts Fourthi straight Trade Surplus for June to September
Canada reports four consecutive monthly trade surpluses with exports exceeding imports. September balance stands at 3.612 million dollars, while June to August show surpluses from 1.3 to 1.8 million. Over the year ending September 1930 the cumulative deficit narrowed from 99.24 million to 34.89 million. Exports rise in wheat flour, live cattle, cheese, fish, machinery, and iron products, with raw gold leading gains in the latest half year.
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Canada
Canada Still a Major Fur Trade Power Through Centennial Changes
The fur trade remains robust in Canada despite rapid settlement. Historical export values show France and the West Indies markets in 1667 at 550,000 francs, rising through 1920 to 20,417,329 dollars and peaking in 1929 at 24,181,208 dollars. British and American markets dominate, with Canadian manufacturers and domestic demand growing as wealth increases. The fur-rich frontier will endure across vast unsettled areas even as settlements advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
France
West Indies
Customs Department
United States
Geological Surveys Year Ends. Reports Await
Canada Geologic Survey portions wrap up with Ottawa reports to follow. In Oxford Lake district Manitoba several hundred square miles show favorable gold prospecting conditions. British Columbia sees active searches for new gold sources. Dr. Hanson and Dr. Gunning note rising placer production on the Pacific coast. Dr. Weeks studies sedimentary and volcanic rocks near Rankin Bay on Hudson Bay.
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Geological Survey Service of Canada
Ottawa
Canada
Manitoba
Oxford Lake
British Columbia
G. Hanson
H. C. Gunning
Pacific Coast
Ranken Bay
Hudson Bay
L. J. Weeks
Riddled with quirks of 20 percent bank check tale
In a humorous exchange an old grumbler laments a 20 percent check from a bank that closed two years ago while an optimist notes the misfortune of a check deposited in a bank that failed yesterday. Mrs Newbride cites $10,000 from two unhappy husbands in a wry retraite. The yarn contrasts life’s oddities with jokes about finance and cotton.
Vital Statistics from Dominion Bureau of Statistics
The bulletin reports September births in 53 Canadian cities at 7 136, deaths 3 700, and marriages 3 207, vs 7 179 births, 3 780 deaths, and 3 519 marriages in the prior September. Also notes miscellaneous items on potato figures, oil prices in Mentone Texas at 25 cents a barrel and water at 50 cents.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Mentone
Tex
Big Drop In Grain Production In Prairies
The Bank of Montreal final crop report says prairie wheat yields are about 157 million bushels below the five year average with reduced coarse grain yields. Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates wheat at 246.4 million on 23.178 million acres, far below last year and the five year norm amid drought and wind damage. Oat and barley crops also decline, and coarse grain land sown drops by 1.27 million acres with harvests well short of seedings due to drought in Saskatchewan corridors.
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Dominion
Prairie Provinces
Bank of Montreal
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan
British Columbian Fir Tends Strong in British Empire Demand
The Department of Trade and Commerce notes Canada’s lumber holdings rise in imports to Great Britain Australia New Zealand and Japan with British Columbia fir gaining share. Glasgow housing department plans 1000 new homes using British Columbia Douglas fir for doors furnishings and timber sawn in the British Empire. Offshore Pacific Northwest lumber business declines while British Columbia’s share climbs from 14 percent in 1929 to 19 percent so far in 1930.
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Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Department of Trade and Commerce
British Columbia
Glasgow
Scotland
British Empire
Pacific Northwest
Outlook In the West Opinion From Prominent Editors
Senator W A Buchanan of the Lethbridge Herald argues against abandoning the dry belt in Saskatchewan noting earlier Kansas and Nebraska settled cycles and farmers adapted to drought. John W Dafoe of the Winnipeg Free Press says 12 000 000 acres may be abandoned if not used for wheat raising while Western Canada struggles against European nationalism yet holds hope for change. J H Woods of the Calgary Herald believes recovery is not in the future but in the present.
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W. A. Buchanan
The
Lethbridge Herald
Saskatchewan
Kansas
Nebraska
John W. Dafoe
Winnipeg Free Press
West
Western
Canada
Europe
J. H. Woods
Calgary Herald
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Stockholm
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Atlantic Ocean
Arthur W. Brown
Arthur, Jr
New York
Sir Arthur
Sir John Alcock
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Clifden
Flower Girls
Earth
Antarctic
Mail Palashevsky Pereulok
Ivan Milailov
Vienna
United Kingdom
Canadian Fur Trade Safe
Geological
Studdy
Benraed Uke
SY BO
Chia
Ermpsro Shen Nung
Munich
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