Plan for Wholesale Emigration From Britain Hopes to Ease Unemployment
A Labour plan proposes emigration on a large scale under public utilities, with land grants and Dominion cooperation to relocate over 2,000,000 unemployed Britons. The scheme targets new territories, aims to open markets, and seeks Imperial Conference endorsement with at least one Dominion backing. The proposal envisions land acquisition, development by utilities, and sustained British Dominion partnership.
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Britsap
Labor
Great Britain
Horace Greeley
London
England
Dominions
Britain
Canadian Pacific Railway hires nearly twelve thousand for summer works
To Believe Unemployed Nearly 12,000 extra men are finding employment this summer in the Canadian Pacific Railway’s programme of construction maintenance and improvement. The company and contractors employ about 8,000 in extra gangs across the system. Work includes laying branch lines repairing rights of way bridges tunnels stations and other buildings. Workers are recruited near the work site and kept on until jobs are finished.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Italy Raises Wheat Import Duty to Protect Farmers
A. B. Muddiman, Canadian trade commissioner in Milan, reports Italy has increased the duty on imported wheat to shield farmers from unprofitable prices. Official estimates show a potential loss of about 1,000,000 tons from this year's harvest.
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Italy
A. B. Muddiman
Milan
Department of Trade and Commerce
French engineers invent motion picture screen for outdoors
A motion picture screen permitting outdoor and lighted hall showings has been invented by two French engineers. "No, there was no help but to pay him." Buen Humor Madrid.
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Madrid
Saskatchewan Egg Pool Raises Prices This Season
The Saskatchewan Co operative Poultry Producers Limited Egg Pool reports higher final payments compared with 1929. Extras 22 cents, firsts 19 cents, seconds 17 cents, crax 15 cents per dozen. Prices exceed those of other provincial dealers by one to two cents. Pool business volume rises 18 percent after an 58 percent gain in 1928.
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Saskatchewan Co-operative Poultry Producers Limited
Ayrshire Breeders Report Totals For June and July
The Canadian Ayrshire Breeders Association secretary logged 95 cow and heifer reports qualifying in the R.O.P.-33 265 day class and 62 in the Honor Roll 305 day division. In the 265 day group 15 were mature, 4 four-year-old, 5 three-year-old, 9 two-year-old. 27 records came from two milkings daily.
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Ayrshire Breeders’ Association
R.O.P
Exclusive navy blue crepe silk skirt with surplice bodice
Unique wrapped skirt in navy blue crepe silk features snug hips and belted waist. Surplice bodice revers shows white facing, with slender lines suited for all day wear. Pattern No 2551 offers sizes 6 to 46 bust in multiple colorways. pattern price 25 cents.
How To Order Patterns In Winnipeg
Pattern ordering details from Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. provide instructions for those seeking patterns. Pattern No appears as a reference marker for the requested design.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Canada Holds Trade Position Despite Export Decline
Canada maintained a leading role in world trade for the year ending March 31 1930 despite a sharp drop in exports and a slight decline in imports. The unfavourable trade balance reached 103 335 512 while total trade fell to 2 393 212 000 from 2 654 575 000 in 1929.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Cose
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United Kingdom
Europe
Interpreter Knows His Job In London This Summer
One of the busiest men in London this summer is W Browthers, an interpreter for a bus company who directs people in their language. He speaks English, German, French, Italian, Danish, Swedish and Japanese. He adds that he can even talk American, noting Americans often need an interpreter in London.
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London
W. Browthers
Asbestos In Manitoba Expands North mineral claims
The discovery of asbestos at two sites in Northern Manitoba may broaden mineral wealth, but Canada remains the global leader in asbestos production. Canada supplies about 74 percent of world asbestos, Rhodesia nine, Russia six, South Africa six, with other nations sharing the rest. As a mineral, asbestos fibers are silk like and used for fireproofing and manufacturing. Canadian shipments in 1929 reached 306 055 tons valued at 13 172 581 dollars, up 12.1 percent in quantity and 17.2 percent in value from the prior year.
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Manitoba
Canada
Rhodesia
Russia
South African
Canada’s 1929–30 Trade Surplus Highlights Local Production
Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures show Canada supplied over 98 percent of cheese and two-thirds of butter consumed in 1929. Refined sugar and Canadian-made salt and coal shares reflect strong domestic production. Radios and radio parts value neared 31.75 million with about 70 percent manufactured in Canada.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Made-in-Manitoba Committee Launches Publicity Drive
In a bid to showcase Manitoba farm and factory produce, the Made-in-Manitoba Committee of the Industrial Development Bureau is rolling out a broad publicity program. Sidewalk cafes have been introduced in Havana.
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The
Industrial Development Bureau
Havana
Wasted Natural Gas in Turner Valley Compared to Alberta Coal Loss
The piece warns that vast amounts of Turner Valley natural gas are burned as waste, amounting to millions of cubic feet daily. It contrasts gas waste with Alberta coal output, estimates yearly waste at 6,750,000 tons of coal equivalent, and notes potential for expansion as more wells come online.
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Alberta
Canada
Turner Valley
Saskatchewan
Calgary
Canada Aids Farm Youths Fostering Global Leadership
F. W. Walsh Canada’s superintendent of agriculture praises juvenile club work as outstanding among nations and notes Canada’s second place to the United States in global farm youth efforts. He recently returned from England where he coached the Canadian boys cattle judging team at Manchester and attended the world poultry congress as a delegate.
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Canada
United States
F. W. Walsh
Canadian National Railways
England
Manchester
Walsh
Summerfallow depth tested by Dominion Station
The Dominion Experimental Station at Scott Sask reports fourteen years of study showing no advantage to plowing summer fallow deeper than four inches. A four inch depth retains moisture, saves time and labor, and aids weed control. depths from three to eight inches were examined.
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Dominion Experimental Station
Scott, Sask
Poultry Profits Highlight Culling For Profitable Flocks
The Lenoxville Experimental Station reports ten year average feeding cost of 2.43 dollars per hen. With eggs at 35 cents a dozen, 6.75 dozen or 81 eggs cover feed costs. only excess eggs earn profit. Hens laying 150 to 200 eggs yearly drive profitability.
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Lennoxville Experimental Station
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Alberta University chemist claims road tar breakthrough
D. K. A. Clark of the University of Alberta reports a ten year effort yielding 95 percent pure tar from Mc Murray bituminous sands. The development could cut road-building costs and spur other uses in Northern Alberta.
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Alberta
McMurray
D. K. A. Clark
University of Alberta
Picnic remark in two voices on insect appeal and airport control
A fragment shows two speakers debating a scenic picnic spot and joking that fifty million insects prove the value of a government controlled airport system in the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom
Canada Grows Fine Tobacco for Domestic Use
Canadian farmers, aided by Dominion Department of Agriculture research, now produce nearly all fine tobacco needed by Canadian manufacturers. Dr. E S Archibald notes the leaf quality exceeds that of imported tobacco. The item ends with a humorous quip from Hummel, Hamburg.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
E. S. Archibald
Dominion Experimental Farms
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Younger Wen
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Swastika Beach
Puslinch Lake
Ald
William Marriott
Hespeler
Marriott
Bill
Dominion
Prince
Prince George
Papworth Village
Cambridge
Department of Education
Poultry For Profit
Sonny
Hummel
Hamburg
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