Industry To Nurture Tourism In Western Canada
A 1930s analysis argues for boosting tourism to Western Canada to improve government revenues and taxpayer relief. It cites Canada’s growing foreign and domestic tourist expenditure, notes the East’s larger share due to population, accessibility, and highways, and urges highway improvements, trans-Canada completion, and unemployed labor absorption as practical steps to attract visitors and diversify western economies beyond agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Canada
Canada
United States
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prairie Provinces
Western
East
Fragmentary OCR Item With Miscellany Elements
A jumble of phrases mentions a mistress scolding Mary for not working, a clean larder, unnamed German Zeppelin cabins named after cities, Queen Victoria gifting brass helmets to Slough Fire Brigade, and a fragment about leather fare and a flight from Croydon to Cologne with a price note. The text is incoherent and combines disparate topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Slough Fire Brigade
Britain Plans Vast Suez Canal Army Base in Egypt
Britain builds a 60 million dollar army base in the Moascar and Genesfa areas to protect the Suez Canal. The project will take seven years, span over five miles, and shelter 10 000 soldiers with hotels, stores, schools, amusements, a club, and a race track. Airfields and ranges will serve 400 RAF pilots, after draining mosquito swamps and completing arterial roads to strategic points in Egypt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Moascar
Genesfa
Egypt
Suez Canal
Royal Air Force
French Railcars Feature Dancing Cars for Twelve Couples
A novelty railway car provides space enough for 12 couples to dance at once with a built in broadcasting station used for compartment lectures, countryside views, music, and news. Sundays see tours to historic or notable sites, with an amateur hour and occasional popularity contest for passengers.
Tested Recipes by Katharine Baker
Simple fruit desserts show off canned and fresh fruits with jelly dressings. Peach Mold uses peach juice vinegar sugar cloves and cinnamon with peaches and orange jelly to set in molds. Grapefruit Mounds blends lime jelly with grapefruit sections for firm chilled molds. Orange desserts mix orange segments sugar and jelly to create a sherbet serving.
Youthful Bolero Frock Pattern 4792 By Anne Adams
Anne Adams promotes Pattern 4792 a youthful bolero frock in junior and misses sizes. The design features a sweet simple dress with a saucy bolero, dainty ruffle trimming and a graceful gored skirt suitable for summer occasions. Instructions are included and the pattern costs 20 cents in stamps with orders sent to Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne ‘Adams
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave. E
Winnipeg
Realism Is Uncanny in Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report notes the uncanny realism of Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy. It recalls a rehearsal moment where a page boy shows Bergen a script, then hands it to the dummy with grave politeness. The informant says Charlie is brought to the studio in a suitcase, voice heard yelling to be let out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
West Coast
Charlie McCarthy
America
Edgar Bergen
Charlie
Page Boy
Bergen
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Couple seeks sea wedding aboard ship on river voyage
A young US couple traveling from Ogdensburg toward the St Lawrence asked Captain Boivan to marry them at sea. The captain noted they were not at sea, ending the matrimonial plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
St. Lawrence
Ogdensburg
Boivan
Britain to buy 500 bombers from US and Canada
The Air Ministry considers a major expansion of Britain’s air arm. Authoritative reports say Britain will purchase at least 500 modern bombers from U S manufacturers and negotiate with Canadian firms for additional aircraft. Expenditure could exceed 5 million pounds and production plans rise from 1 750 to 2 800 machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Earl Winterton
Canada
United States
Air Ministry
Britain
Royal Air Force
Trig
J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon
Empire View
Toronto
Germany
Age Class Of Workers Predicts Shift In Education
A Toronto psychologist forecasts that within fifty years children aged two will attend school. Another observer argues education should extend to the thirtieth year. With some advocating pensions for those over fifty six, a future where all work is done by ages thirty to fifty five seems imaginable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
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Ee Preon
Sit -A
Switzerland
Croyden
Cologne
Rolly Lee
Katharine
London
Florida
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