Vacation Days in Western Canada Encourage Cheap Summer Trips
A regional call to make the most of summer holidays across Western Canada. It urges families to vacation cheaply in local resorts and camp sites, highlighting low rail fares and a big World Grain Exhibition and Conference in Regina. The piece promotes outdoor leisure, educational value, and exploring Western Canada’s landscape and culture.
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Western Canada
Western
Canada
Regina
Prairie Province
Long-Lived Monarchs and King George’s Accession Milestone
The article notes King George III's reign now surpasses Edward VII’s by two years and marks the 23rd anniversary of his accession. It lists thirteen monarchs longer on the throne since 1154, including Queen Victoria, George III, Henry III, and others with lengths ranging from 63 to 24 years.
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George
Edward VII
Queen Victoria
George III
Henry III
Edward Tii
Wbeth
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Charles II
Edward I
George II
Henry VII
Charles 1
Navy abandons rotating reserve plan to save only five million
The navy department scrapped Admiral William V. Pratt’s rotating reserve proposal after a study found potential savings would total about five million dollars. Secretary Claude Swanson said the plan would only affect destroyers and submarines already on reserve, with no broader layups.
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Navy
William V. Pratt
Naval Operations
United States
Navy Department
Claude Swanson
Forest fire loss in Canada reaches ten million yearly
The Forest Service report shows Canada’s annual forest area loss at ten million dollars for 1922 to 1931, a figure the Ottawa Journal calls a biot on national heritage. It decries indifference and carelessness, arguing that neglect harms forests more than capitalists or promoters, despite protests about newsprint issues.
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Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Canada
Ottawa Journal
Nurse Loses Seven Pounds With Kruschen Salts
A trained nurse reports losing seven pounds after taking Kruschen Salts, consuming a half teaspoon in hot water each morning. The ad claims the remedy stimulates liver and kidney function and provides essential minerals, promising rejuvenation and improved vitality.
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Mught
MHL
Reindeer herds eyed to boost world meat supply
Experts foresee a vast northern Canada meat reserve using millions of acres formerly waste land. A large Alaskan reindeer herd migration could establish a cold storage and transport network, enabling tinned meat and tongue exports. Reindeer would feed themselves in winter and are hailed as highly versatile animals.
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Canada
Turkish Diet Reveals Passions for Bread and Rice
A study of Constantinople residents shows men eat little meat while large amounts of bread and rice feature in meals. They favor boiled corn stews, beans, lentils, and aubergines cooked in olive oil. Fresh or even decomposed fish is consumed, highlighting surprising dietary habits.
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Constantinople
Canadian Map Flood-Lit at Chicago Exposition
Montreal born scenic artist Gordon Hammond created the largest map in the world a 30 by 130 foot color map of Canada for the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. It will hang flood lit in the travel and transport hall alongside the Canadian coat of arms and key dioramas. The map highlights farms mining parks railways and major cities and was completed in about three weeks marking a Canadian triumph in art material and method.
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Canada
Chicago
Dominion
Mr. Hammond
Aleutheran Islands
Behrings Seas
Iceland
Arctic
Illinois
Choir uses phonograph records to sustain church music
The Presbyterian Church of the Convent in New York solved the problem of maintaining a choir during hard times by using amplified phonograph records of choirs from famous churches worldwide at Sunday services. The congregation sings along with electrical transcriptions accompanying the choir.
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Presbyterian Church of the Convent
New York
Court stalls another divorce for Jake in quirky plea
A judge warns Jake he has had three divorces and risks another if granted. Jake protests that he only wants to be out of circulation, not remarried. The exchange unfolds in a humorous, asides-filled courtroom moment with odd dream ramblings about a bad five-dollar note.
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Jake
Stamp Fraud Laid Bare In Britain By Hidden Stamp Fraud
Infrared photography uncovered a wide scale inland revenue fraud where stamps cancelled for income tax were steamed or cleaned, removing cancel marks and sold at half value. Investigations trace many thousands of pounds, with hawkers selling reissued stamps to wage earners and police tracing sources as confessions emerge. Other notes mention gland transplant sheep, non-bone whalebone, and Johannesburg planning streamline streetcars.
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Britain
Inland Revenue
Scotland Yard
Post Office
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Fred Bingham
Swift Current
Milbara
Vem
Samy
Berning
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Serge Voronov
Grimaldi
Italy
Whales
Johannesburg
South Africa
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