British Canadian Music Tour Aims to Interpret Heritage
The Canadian Pacific Railway sponsors a six city concert tour to showcase British and Canadian music. Marjory Kennedy Fraser leads the first leg at the Express Hotel in Victoria on September 12, with stops in Vancouver Calgary Regina Winnipeg and Toronto. The program features Canadian folk songs and works by Vaughan Williams and others, with artists from Montreal Toronto and London.
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Europe
John Dunstable
John Dowland
John Bull
France
Handel
England
Germany
Austria
E. H. Fellowes
Marjory Kennedy Fraser
the Hebrides
R. Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Stanford
Patti
Delius
Holst
Cyril Scott Arnold Bax
Ethel Smyth
New York
Canada
Music Department
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific
Ernest MacMillan
Toronto Conservatory of Music
Quebec
New France
Inter
Muusic
London
Eng
Paris
Hart Hots Quartette
Hebrides
Margaret Kennedy
Royal Academy
Stanley Maxstead
Montreal
Mary James
Florence Hood
Jean Rowe
Toronto
Rudolphe Plamondon
Lucien
Hart House
John Goss
Express Hotel
Victoria
Vancouver
Calgary
Hotel Palliser, Sept. 21; Regina, the Hotel Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Royal Alexandra
Royal York
Old Land
Sleep Then and Now: Curiosity on Rest and Life
A reflection on sleep science notes the mystery of natural sleep versus drugs. It compares human habits with cave men, questions food versus sleep discipline, and cites London’s Tube escalators and color blindness as side observations from the era.
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Morpheus
Hamilton Spectator
Canada Fruit and Flower Output Tops Two Million in Year
Official figures from the Dominion Department of Agriculture show Canada’s commercial food products valued at 19,824,343 dollars for the year ending May 1928, with Ontario and British Columbia leading fruit production and cut flowers accounting for 63 percent of the floricultural value.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
British Columbia
Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Dominion
Alberta Wheat Pool sets interim wheat payment at one dollar
The Alberta Wheat Pool announces an interim payment of one dollar per bushel for grain delivered in the 1929 30 crop from its Calgary offices. The prior fall payment dropped to 85 cents during a price slump and will be replaced by the one dollar rate this fall. New York City reports more than one million school children.
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Alberta Wheat Pool
Calgary
New York City
A Word to the Wise Should Be Superfluous
A concise maxims note stating that wise advice is unnecessary for the prudent, echoing a proverb about discretion and experience guiding judgment.
Employment in Canada Reaches Record High
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 23,109 new jobs in June, boosting total employed to 1,069,700 by July 1 from 6,819 firms. Each month this year shows higher figures than last, with a sharp upward trend since April as records keep falling.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bride and Justice of the Peace warn on marriage service validity
The speaker questions the validity of a marriage service and cites the Justice of the Peace asserting authority. The warning implies potential contempt of court for failing to obey the officiant.
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Justice of the Peace
Western coal operators push hearing on freight rates
W. W. McBain leads Alberta and Ontario in backing a Railway Board hearing to determine true costs of hauling coal to Ontario from the west. Ontario and Alberta want full cost data and fair rates amid debates over fixed charges and national fuel policy.
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Western Coal
Railway Board
W. W. McBain
Alberta
Ontario
J. Earl Lawson
Toronto
Order-in-Council
Dominion
Canada
McBain
Board of Railway Commissioners
Ottawa
FE. P. Mallory
Senate
Henry Thornton
Swedes Seen Making Notable Global Contributions
TheSwedes have advanced recently and are developing a civilization of their own. A Swede leads the world match market. A Swedish woman wins the Nobel Prize for best novel. Another Swede ranks among top radium experts and a fourth is acclaimed as a leading modern architect.
The Marvelous Radio and Quiet Talk in Stockholm
A fragmentary note from Sondagsnisse Strix in Stockholm references the marvels of a radio and its silent power to shape conversation. It mentions jazz bands sopranos bedtime stories speeches poetry and a turning dial that silences many sounds. The scene centers on Maraulken preparing to eat bread and cheese without drink.
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Maraulken
Sondagsnisse - Strix
Stockholm
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Theodore
Lustige Sachse
Leipzig
Leonard French
Marjory Fraser
Mary Frances James
Stanley Maxted
Peidolphe Plamondon
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