Briefly Told World and Local News Snippets
Canada produced more than 26 060 bicycles in 1990. Ontario plans an experimental farm near Fort William. After private ownership Britain’s park becomes public property for Royal Botanical Gardens. Belgian Cyraigue Cyprien Gittins leads Malt of the Year team, aged 74. A farmer in Tiffin Ohio swapped four bushels of ate for haircuts worth 75 cents. he owes three cents. New Soviet planes funded by public subscription join the air force. Austrian autumn maneuvers cancelled for economy. F C Hall of the Post Gatty record flight studies navigation for a Pacific westward flight next year. Farry-five million acres in Russia sown to spring wheat by June 1. Siberia reports backward operations. James Birse, Jimmy Britt, dies in Quebec crash near the capital. Saskatoon census projects population around 42 000, up 67 per cent from 1921 and 34 per cent from 1926 prairie census.
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Canada
Fort William
Ontario Department of Agrculture
Britain
Royal Botanical Gardens
Cyraigue
Cyprien Gittins
Tiffin
Ohio
Deven
Russia
War Commissariat
F.C Hall
Post
Gatty
Pacific
Hall
Farry
Ministry of Agriculture
Siberia
James Birse
Valois
Montreal
Jimmy Britt
Quebec
Saskatoon
Cancer treatment progress shown in combined therapies
Dr. W. T. Connell reports from Europe after Ontario cancer commission study. The survey across the United States and Europe finds best results when surgical, X ray, and radium treatments are used together. The commission notes remarkable advances and encouraging recoveries from organized, multi modality care.
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W. T. Connell
Europe
Ontario Cancer Commission
Ontario
United States
Connell
Jewish groups plan national party in Canada meeting
A planned mass meeting in Toronto aims to form a national Jewish party blending social and political groups with delegates from Montreal Winnipeg and other Canadian cities expected to attend. The push follows an effort to unite diverse Jewish organizations under a single political banner.
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National Party
Canada
Mass
Toronto
Montreal
Winnipeg
Manitoba Unemployed Total Topped Forty Thousand
A province wide survey reports 40 817 unemployed in Manitoba with total underemployed and dependents at about 105 000. Winnipeg and suburbs show 20 767 unemployed, up 2 767 since June, with 70 000 normally employed in the area now reduced to over 20 000 out of work. Total Greater Winnipeg without livelihood is estimated at 50 000. Other localities report 4 033 in towns and villages and 13 531 in rural municipalities.
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Wiantoes
Manitoba
W. R. Clubb
Gideon Robertson
Winnipeg
Arthur MacNamara
Ottawa
St Pontface
Brandon
Portage la Prairie
Manitoba Free Press
Cabbage Salad and Peach Crescent Desserts
A sequence of vintage style recipes including a cabbage salad with shredded cabbage pickles and mayonnaise, plus a peach based dessert with dates pecans coconut and cream. Includes serving counts and chilling steps for four to six servings.
Tailored chiffpon frock makes debut in slim lines
The pattern offers a straight slim silhouette with a shawl collar, suitable for average figures. It suggests fabrics like navy chiffon with white dots and green accents, with options for self fabric collar and contrasting ribbon. Style No. 425 comes in sizes to bust 44 inches and costs 25 cents.
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Jersey
Strange Cave Dwellers of Tunisia Live Underground
South of Gabes in Matmata desert fringe, Tunisians dig cave dwellings to escape heat. Travelers hear voices from wells and descend tunnels to find cool, clean homes with courtyards, livestock stables, and a whole family below the surface.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Gabes
Matmata
Government Allows Grape Sugar in Native Canada Wines
The Dominion Government consented to use grape sugar instead of cane sugar in the spirit content of native Canadian wines, bowing to grape growers' demands for fortified wine. It also backed wine standards to be set by Ontario’s wine standards committee under federal enforcement, with Fort William area plans noted.
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Dominion
Canada
Ontario
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern No ee Nome guidance lists Winnipeg pattern orders through the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. The notice provides ordering steps and acknowledges pattern service terms.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Encouraging Report On Inspection Of Wheat Grains
Winnipeg chief grain inspector J D Fraser reported to the World's Grain Exhibition officials that western Canada's 1931 crop from prairie provinces passed inspection as exceptionally high quality. No 1 Hard and No 1 Northern grades dominated, with some No 2 Northern due to mixtures. The crop's quality exceeded expectations and could provide many excellent samples for the Regina event next year.
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Winnipeg
J. D. Fraser
Canada
Vic
Fraser
Prairie Provinces
Regina
Conceit and Bad Driving Consideration For Rights Of Others
A commentary urges prioritizing respect for others over clever wit and superior intellect. It argues that self centered behavior and dangerous driving reflect arrogance more than brains, harming public safety and social harmony.
Banked Savings In Canada And Driver Temperament
A St Thomas despatch cites Dr. Paul Schroder asserting conceit, not intelligence, drives unsafe driving and leads to manslaughter records. Connecticut may test license applicants for humility. The piece notes Canada’s rare bank failures and a Winnipeg elder, Mrs Mary Roberts, dies at 84 after long life in the city.
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Paul Schroder
Ilinois
Mid-West Safety Congress
Ilinois State Penitentiary
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Connecticut
St. Thomas
Tarlo
United States
St Thomas
Pontiac
Mich
Canada
Death of Charles Riordon Toronto publisher and pulp mill pioneer
Charles Riordon, 84, longtime Toronto Daily Mail and Mail and Empire president, died at his Montreal home. He began in Merritton at 15 with brother John Riordon, built Canada’s pulp and paper industry influence, led the Mail to empire status, and supported Conservative policy with Sir John A. MacDonald. His Riordon interests were later sold to Canadian International Power and Paper Company.
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Charles Riordon
Riordon Pulp and Paper Mills
Toronto Daily Mail
The
Mail and Empire
Montreal
John Riordon
Merritton
Ont
Riordon
Canada
Canadian International Power and Paper Company
Toronto Daily Mall
Riordan
Sir John MacDonald
Empire
Toronto Mail
London Population Tops New York by Census Figures
London census figures show a population of 6 202 818 versus New York's 6 981 917. The piece notes Londoners’ pride in their city but contrasts English urban life with the country affinity and suburban retreat of many Britons.
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London
New York
Baltimore Sun
Deposed Emperor’s Son Trains as Singer in Peiping
The Son of Heaven studies under a Peiping voice teacher, buys Chinese instruments and age regalia, and practices oriental scales once used by Mei Lanfang. His fame has grown worldwide through this artistic pursuit. Office dialogue then shifts to workplace efficiency and task completion.
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China
Educational Films Talkies Shown At Washington University Summer School
The canned professor lectured in a darkened hall at Washington University in St. Louis. Charts accompanied the film as he spoke, illustrating an educational talkie concept. The text envisions a syndicated professor appearing at many summer schools, with examples from a Boston Trans script and a grocery chain setting.
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Washington University
St. Louis
Boston
Farm Crop Bonus Clarified for Tenant Wheat Growers
A letter to Dr. William Allen at Saskatoon from Minister Robert Weir confirms tenant farmers who grow wheat on land leased on a crop share basis will receive the full five cent federal bonus per bushel. The minister stated the government intends the actual grower to receive the bounty, not the landowner.
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Sasknoom
William Allen
Farm Management Department
The
University
Robert Weir
Postage Increases Set for Canada and Newfoundland
Washington announces higher rates with letters to Canada and Newfoundland rising from two to three cents per ounce and postcards from one to two cents. Air mail postage to Canada climbs from five to six cents for the first ounce and ten cents for each additional ounce, effective September 1, per Assistant Postmaster General W Irving Glover.
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Canada
Newfoundland
Washington
W. Irving Glover
Alberta farmers seek irrigation extension to 45000 acres
The United Extension group in Alberta proposes extending irrigation to about 45 000 acres across the Purple Grassy Lake Burdett and Inland districts. The farmer body calls on farmers Canadian Pacific Railway officials and provincial representatives to start the program. Fishermen respond with a humorous comment about ownership and effort in Madrid.
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Zere
Alberta
Purple Grassy Lake
Burdett
Canadian Pacific Railway
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Riel
Death of Toronto
Chan. Riordon
Toronto Mail & Empire
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Ted
Foundland
Madrid
Rose
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