Great Boy Scout Jamboree film shown in Ottawa promises peace
The True Spirit At the Bret shows an Ottawa moving picture record of last summer's England Jamboree with 50 000 scouts. Lord Willingdon urges youth to follow League of Nations ideals and reject racial religious divisions toward world peace and brotherhood.
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Ottawa
England
Lord Willingdon
Boy Scouts and
Girl Guides
League of Nations
God
Garden
Eaton
League
Balkans
Europe
Phillip Gibbs
Red Cross
Service
Y.M.C.A
Co-Operative Packing Houses Planned Across Alberta
Alberta live stock pool protects co operative packing houses in Lethbridge Calgary and Edmonton and plans for three plants later serving southern central and northern regions. Manitoba produced dairy products valued at 14 907 651 last year.
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Alberta
Lethbridge
Calgary
Edmonton
Alberta Livestock Pool
Manitoba
Alberta Creameries Lead 1929 Dairy Output
Provincial report shows 97 creameries produced over 16.025 million pounds of butter in 1929, up 11.5 percent from 1928. Ten cheese factories yielded nearly 1 million pounds of cheese, with total dairy output including fluid milk about 520.75 million pounds. Also notes Japan has 600 seaweed varieties.
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TRE Proviniae Vary
Alberta
Alkaline Water Claim Promises Instant Neutralization
A controversial health claim asserts that certain alkaline water neutralizes acid instantly and eliminates symptoms. The article notes skepticism about replacing proven methods with this shortcut and questions the efficiency.
German inventor showcases buoyant ship material in London talk
Franz Felder demonstrates a new ship-building material claimed to double gun capacity and render warships resistant to sinking. He floats models showing buoyancy with 120 pound loads, while wooden rivals sink. Felder aims to apply the material to motor ships for commercial cargoes.
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London
Franz Felder
Herr Felder
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promise Restored Health
Testimony from Mrs. F C Granier of Toronto credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with ending years of nervousness sleeplessness and weakness. She describes initial illness hospitalizations and gradual recovery after starting the pills as a blood builder. The ad urges readers to obtain the pills from medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Susanne
Williams
F.C. Granier
Toronto
Ospital
Trent
Willams
Dr. Wiliams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Seed-cleaning train tours Saskatchewan farms
Saskatchewan agriculture and Canadian Pacific Railway operate a two-car seed-cleaning train across the province starting March 5 to explain and demonstrate seed-cleaning machinery. Visits to rural centers include addresses and discussions framed by the Sow clean seed slogan.
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Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Canadian Pacific Railway
Madrid to inaugurate new Plaza de Toros arena
The 1930 bullfighting season opens in Madrid at the old arena, with a new Plaza de Toros to be dedicated in April. The modern venue seats 26 000, double the old capacity, and one of the first fights will be a benefit for Ciudad Universitaria now under construction.
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Madrid
Plaza de Toros
Ciudad Universitaria
Edmonton Stock Yards receives 3130 livestock in 1929
Edmonton Stock Yards Limited reports 3130 head of livestock received in 1929, down from 3960 in 1928. The decline came from fewer hogs sheep and horses shipped, while cattle and calves shipments rose slightly in the year.
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Dmonton Stock Yards
Edmonton Stock Yards Limited
Togas and Tonsillitis Offer No Clear News
Fragmentary lines mention tonsillitis and a name Chambers in Kitchener Ontario with a phone number. No coherent event or context is readable in the snippet.
London Doctor Interprets at Geneva Labor Conference
Dr. Caroline MacDonald of London Ontario spent years in Tokio on social service and prison reform work. She accompanied the Japanese labor representative to the International Labor Conference in Geneva as interpreter, translating speeches from Japanese to English during ten days of preparation for a three week conference. Interpreters used a telephone system to deliver translations in multiple languages to the audience.
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Caroline MacDonald
London
Ontario
Tokio
Geneva
MacDonald
Having Faith In People
The piece argues faith in people remains despite doubts and warns against living in suspicion. It extols the honesty of the majority and cites Miller's Worm Powders as a trustworthy remedy for worms and for regulating children's digestive health.
Chickens Imported From China Boost New York Markets
New York buyers import carloads of Chinese chickens noting larger breast meat than American birds due to better feeding in almond eyed country. The piece contrasts imports with domestic poultry and mentions musings on remedies for catarrh and a military joke about alarms and bugle calls.
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Alany Resvaucane
New York
China
Manitoba Poultry Pool Markets Eggs in 1929 Statement
Thirteen million dozen eggs were marketed in 1929 by the central selling agency of the Manitoba poultry pool at a Winnipeg meeting. Membership in the pool stands at 14,000.
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Manitoba Fourry Reet
Manitoba Poultry Pool
Winnipeg
Soviet Union Eyes Uruguay Herds for Repopulation
Soviet Russia seeks to repopulate its cattle industry by contracting a Russian agrarian in Montevideo to lecture on Uruguayan cattle practices. It has bought 250 Uruguayan Herefords for reproduction and may purchase up to 100,000 more, paying about 180 dollars for two to three year olds, as Argentina relies on British stock.
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Rumia
Uruguay
Montevideo
Soviet Republic
Argentina
Soviet
Russia
Hymn that saved a prisoner turns the tide
A British Army deserter and prisoner, Joseph G. Davidson, escapes German camps after 20 years. In French lines he is about to be shot as a spy when he sings Abide With Me. Captors are moved, inquiries follow, and Davidson is released.
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Solaier
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Derbyshire
Board of Guardians
Joseph G. Davidson
France
Germany
Davidson
Odd Egg Use Sparks Industry Import Rise in Europe
The text notes a quirky tanning method using egg yolk in gloves, linked to importing over 800000 eggs annually into England. It mentions two European hubs where accordions remain popular, Scotland and Belgium, with Belgium home to about 10000 accordion players.
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Engand
Europe
Scotland
Belgium
Moon Sunset Film Shown At Carnegie Exhibit
A Carnegie Institution exhibit in Washington featured a lunar sunset film made at Mt. Wilson Observatory California using a 100 inch telescope. The moon’s rotation slower than Earth causes rapid sunset despite a 27 day cycle. no atmosphere means no twilight and sharp shadow movement across the surface. The film, sped up for projection, compresses five and a half hours of real time into a minute and a half.
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Carnegie Institution
Washington
Mt. Wilson Observatory
California
Earth
Prieska Declares Itself a Plague Proof Paradise
A South African town Prieska on the Karroo prairie boasts no fleas as Scentix conducts a continent wide plague survey. Despite extensive searches for the insect none are found in Prieska, which markets itself as plague free.
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Prieska
Scentix
Africa
Karroo
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Co-Operative Packing Houses
Aas
Siento
Japan
Wrest
Magnes
Sed Cag Tra
Saskatche
J. D. Kellogg
Spain
Uso Micardis
U. Us
Grendel Divanen
Wabenneti Res
Chambers
Kitchener. Ont
Gane
Thomas
Lsh
Vicks
Ier
Appleford
Hunter-Martin & CO
Regina
SASK
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