Highway crossing toll shows 96 dead in Canadian report
The Board of Transport Commissioners reports 96 deaths and 20 serious injuries from highway crossing accidents last year in Canada. It notes 150 daytime and 92 nighttime incidents, with many caused by motorists failing to heed signals and speed limits.
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Canada
Board of Transport Commissionrs For Canada
House of Commons
Senate
Board of Transport Commissioners
Ives
Locom
Eskimos Prefer Their Own Ice Cream, Glacier Priest Says
Father Bernard Hubbard, the Glacier priest, told a Detroit audience Eskimos of Alaska favor their own ice cream to any other dish. He described a recipe using seal oil walrus blubber dried grass tallow mow and herbs mixed in a gasoline can at 30 below. Serves ten.
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Father Bernard Hubbard
Detroit
Alaska
Father Hubbard
Alberta Indian rodeo expedition to Australia excites fair visitors
Eight Alberta Indian cowboys led by Chief Joe Crowfoot head to Sydney aboard the SS Niagara for an Easter exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales. They bring regalia, beadwork, and relics from the Blackfoot Sarcee Blood and Stoney reserves, guided by Constable S J Leach.
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Alberta
Australia
Royal Agricultural Society of New South
Crowfoot
Sydney
S.J. Leach
Royal Ca Gian Mounted Police
Department of Indian Affairs
Coun
Alberta beet sugar industry in 1938 Southern Alberta
The 1938 Alberta beet sugar season reports 19 705 acres planted and 19 593 harvested with 252 749 tons produced and 12.90 tons per acre yield. Despite beet webworm and frost, yields matched district records. Fifteen Ton Beet Club spurred by Lethbridge Herald and local groups saw many growers exceed 20 tons per acre, with 158 growers qualified. The industry supports 100 farmers, 1,800 laborers, and 9 company workers, paying about $1 850 000 to farmers plus freight and materials totaling over $3 million in local wealth. Tax revenue to the Dominion government exceeds $780 000.
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Raymond
Picture Butte
Lethbridge Herald
Board of Trade
Alberta
Sugar Company
Lethbridge
Stabiljuhern
Martin Brecka
Barnwell
B. Roberts
Joe Machacek
John Pav
McMullin
J. J. Tin
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