Growth Of Wheat Pool Movement In Western Canada
Western Canadian farmers have built the Canadian Wheat Pool, a three-province co operative system spanning Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. With 125 000 members controlling 13 percent of last year’s 11 million sowed acres and central selling to 51 world markets, the pool promises stabilized prices and reduced handling costs, aiming to grow beyond current scale as cultivation expands.
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Canada
Canadian Wheat Pool
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairie
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers, Limited
Vsat Co-Operative Organization
Wheat Board
Western
Canadian West
Fort William
Farm Settlers From U S Active Movement to Canada
Department of immigration and colonization reports continued influx of American farm settlers to Canada in August. Eight offices show increases led by Fargo North Dakota with 272 farmers and families totaling 322 people, carrying cash and effects worth 445 355 dollars. Also notes Mr Everest in the Himalayas at 29 062 feet above sea level.
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United States
Canada
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Fargo
N.D
Mr. Everest
Himalayas
Umbrella prank charms hotel patrons as runner claimed
A man placed a card on an umbrella in a hotel vestibule stating it belongs to a champion boxer and would return in ten minutes. Twenty minutes later the umbrella vanished, but the card remained with a new note saying it was taken by a long distance runner who would not return. Italy now manufactures a third of the world’s artificial silk.
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N.B
P.S
Italy
Germany Turns Against War Emphasizing Calamity
Text notes a shift in German sentiment after World War I, citing Stresemann and public belief that international warfare is insanity on a wholesale scale. It argues for pacific youth, preventing war and promoting a just patriotic stance, urging personal effort toward peace.
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Germany
Stresemann
Rheumatic Sufferers Benefit From Dr Williams Pink Pills
Historical ad recounts rheumatism as a blood disease and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure. It cites Mr Finlay Beaton of Blackstone Nova Scotia and claims lasting improvement after four months. Sold at 50c a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams
Finlay Beaton
Blackstone
N.S
Dr Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
Aged Farmer Stanley Clark Dies in Auto Crash
Stanley Clark a 70 year old wealthy farmer from the Froude District died instantly when his car collided with an engine. He owned 52 quarter sections in Saskatchewan and had lived as a recluse since 1904. He was a valued Wheat Pool member, having signed a contract on August 29, 1923, with number 65-030.
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Stanley Clark
Froude
Mr. Clark
Saskatchewan
Arone
Wheat Pool
TransAtlantic cable adds nineteenth link. wireless seen rising
The nineteenth trans Atlantic cable is now operating and a twentieth is expected as wireless communication across the seas advances. In Asia, women in Northern Japan admire bearded faces and tattoo their own to appear whiskered.
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Boston Transcript
Asiu
Japan
Quebec youth wins Harvard scholarship for railway studies
Jean Claude Lessard, food controller at Chateau Lake Louise this summer, has been awarded a Harvard University scholarship by the Province of Quebec Government. A bright McGill student, he will study railway economics at Harvard and previously served three years as food controller at the Canadian Pacific Hotel Algonquin in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He is not yet twenty-two.
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Jean Claude Lessard
Chateau Lake Louise
Harvard University
Province of Quebec
Lessard
McGill University
Harvard
Canadian Pacific
Algonquin
St. Andrews
N.B
Strange New Pygmies Found In Dense Mountain Jungles
An expedition by American and Dutch scientists in New Guinea reports a newly discovered group of pygmies after four months of travel. They are unusually friendly, speak in whispers, and welcomed the team with small bows arrows bracelets bananas and betel nuts. They cultivate tobacco sweet potatoes bananas and pigs and held a pig killing ceremony.
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Matthew W. Stribling
Berkeley
Calif
Wonderful Discovery by Swiss Scientists on Alpine Summit
Two Swiss doctors living in a tent on Moneh mountain Geneva at 13466 feet report a major finding. They observed a group of stars emitting rays far stronger than roentgen rays and plan to capture them for a scientific medical purpose before descending to Interlaken due to the cold weather.
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Kolverser and
Deesalls
Moneh Mountain
Geneva
Interlak
Patronage Refunds Paid to Saskatchewan Farmers
Farmers who used Pool Elevators Ltd in Saskatchewan will receive a $476,614 patronage refund for the last crop year. It equals 2 cents per bushel on all wheat shipped through Sask Pool Elevators 89 houses, 1 cent per bushel on coarse grains, and fractions on platform wheat shipments to pool terminals. This reduces the wheat handling charge from 4 to 2 cents per bushel. Also notes a quip about universal speech and Samoa as the smallest US island.
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Saskatchewan
Sask
Pool Elevators Ltd
Keep Minard's oiniment in the house
She-Why comments on voice sharpness and a week of being unable to speak while He jokes about automobiles surpassing bathtubs. the dialogue shifts to a humorous quip about bathtubs and travel in Canadian homes.
Yankee Doodle Irish origin and God Save the King Irish tune
Dr Grat tan Flood an Irish authority on musical history claims Yankee Doodle is Irish, once known as All the Way to Galway, and God Save the King is an old Irish tune from about 1595. The text also promotes Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a trusted household remedy for various ailments.
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Grattan Flood
Galway
Thomas
Garland trust distributes fortune to public service
Charles Garland heir to a million dollar estate has spent four years and a large network of trustees to give away most of the funds. Only about 14000 remains unpledged, deflating hopes for multiple causes. Also notes early baby stamp project and Miller's Worm Powders advertisement, plus steel phonograph needles from Missouri.
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Charles Garland
American Fund For Public Service, Inc
Garland Trust Fund
Storms On The Sun Create Rapid Solar Changes
Chicago professor E B Frost director of Yerkes Observatory says violent solar storms resemble those on earth. Giant sunspots visible with smoked glasses indicate upheaval while magnetic storms and northern lights may follow though no serious effects expected.
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Earth
E. B. Frost
Yerkes Observatory
Chicago
Frost
Yoho Valley Draws 20000+ Auto Tourists This Summer
More than 20 000 people viewed the Yoho Valley near Field British Columbia by automobile this year. They travelled the Federal Government road opened early in the summer and the site is regarded as one of the wonder spots of America.
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Yoho Valley
Field
B.C
America
Government plans over 2000 miles of roads in Japan
The Home Department outlines construction of more than 2000 miles of automobile roads across Hokkaido Tokyo Kyoto Osaka and other prefectures to boost local industry and military readiness.
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Home Department
Hokkaido
Tokio
Kyoto
Osaka
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U.S
Fletcher
Ninteen
New Guinea
Island
The
Samoa
Minard
Rwin Haskett
Elgin Street
Ottaw Canada
Victory
Edmonton
Ars Mina
Wabamun
Alta
Ontario
Quebec
Mowat & Macgillivray
Sparks St
Ottawa
Ireland
Alfonso XIII
Missouri
Paine
Linimen
Sask. Pool Elevators, Ltd
Balldd
Lumbago
Bayer
Bayer Company
Wll
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