Probable Cutworm Damage Next Year Warned by Entomologists
Dominion entomologist L. Seaman warns of possible severe cutworm damage in grain crops within a wide Alberta Saskatchewan region. He urges farmers to keep fields crusted during August to September and to avoid soil disturbance to prevent egg laying. The Searle Grain Company offers bulletins on Pale Western Cutworm.
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L. Seaman
Dominion
Lethbridge
Coutts
Alberta
MacLeod
Calgary
Carstairs
Elnora
Consort
Wilkie
Saskatchewan
Fiosetown
Lanigan
Touchwood
Grenfell
Seaman
Searle Grain Company
Canada
Ideal Place For Rest In Jerusalem Gains Quiet Reputation
European business men seek rest in Jerusalem, touted as the quietest spot in the region. Advocates claim cheap food, favorable climate, and fewer restrictions, though the line at the end hints at a personal失.
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Europe
Jerusalem
Philadelphia man hunts Hudson Bay Company rare books trek
Herman S Johnstone of Philadelphia travels via The Pas toward Churchill seeking out hidden books in isolated Hudson's Bay Company libraries along the bay coast. He notes items shipped from Ungava and Europe to company employees since 1670 now fetch high sums. he expects sensational discoveries at York Factory Churchill Port Nelson Moose Factory with first editions long thought lost.
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Herman S Johnstone
Philadelphia
Pas
Churchill
Hudson's Bay Company
Bay Coast
Ungava
Europe
Johnstone
York Factory
Port Nelson
Moose Factory
Company of Gentlemen Adventurers
Hudson Bay
Canada Weighs Clay Resources For Tableware Industry
Interest grows in establishing china tableware production in Canada to reduce imports worth about 4.5 million annually. While essential clays are scattered, Southern Saskatchewan has excellent material suitable for such manufacture.
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Canada
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Remarkable Dual-Driver Truck Serves Detroit Windsor Tunnel
A new emergency truck with a reversible front end, soon in service in the Detroit Windsor tunnel, can dash in and tow out a car without turning. Two drivers face opposite directions, and the vehicle carries 12 hand extinguishers and a 600 gallon power-driven extinguisher with hose. Gas masks and revival apparatus are aboard for dangerous gas cases.
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New International Tunnel
Detroit
Windsor
Empire marksman from Montreal shines at Bisley
Sergeant Cecil William Foam of the Royal Highlanders of Canada returns from Bisley with notable merit. On his first Bisley appearance in 1929 he placed in the King's Hundred, later married and used his leave from the Canadian Pacific Railway Angus Shops to attend the meet yearly. He is among Dominion's top shooters and a standout member of the 42nd Battalion Black Watch.
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Bisley
England
Cecil William Foam
Montreal
Dominion
Empire
42Nd
Royal Highlanders of Canada
The
Black Watch
Canadian Pacific Railway
Angus
Long Pipeline Delivers Gasoline From Oklahoma to Chicago
Six smaller oil companies unite to move refined gasoline through a six inch pipeline spanning about 1400 miles from Oklahoma fields to Chicago. The system uses centrifugal pumps at the source and every 50 miles to maintain flow, supplementing existing tank car and crude oil piping methods used by larger firms.
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Oklahoma
Chicago
Spain to reenter market for Canadian and foreign wheat
Canadian Trade Commissioner A B Muddiman reports Spain plans to re enter the market next year after a projected drop of over 18 million bushels in this year’s domestic harvest Experts estimate Spain will produce about 128 million bushels this year versus nearly 147 million last year Jugoslavia to add more air lines
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Spain
A. B. Muddiman
Department of Trade and Commerce
Muddiman
Saint Patrick a Manxman, says Celtic scholar
Canon Quine, Manx and Celtic scholar, told Celtic Congress delegates that St. Patrick may have been a Manxman who later went to Ireland. He noted no records prove Patrick set foot on Manx soil, though many churches were named for him early and Saint Patrick's Isle cathedral at Peel may have been founded by him.
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St. Patrick
Canon Quine
Isle of Man
MT Ireland
Quine
Manxland
Manx
St. Patrick's Isle
Peel
Find the person who doesn’t talk about the good old days
A Vancouver Sun column muses on nostalgia for past eras such as coal oil heating and hitching posts while noting few want those days returned. It contrasts memories of older conveniences with modern travel and street layouts, echoing a fond but cautious regard for history.
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Vancouver
English Bay
Vancouver Sun
Italy Opens Autostradas With High Speed Roads
Italy builds new arterial autostradas to handle rising traffic. Ninety miles per hour is allowed on these routes. All intersecting roads are bridged or tunnelled to avoid danger.
Crest white grass promise for western prairies
The prairie lands may gain a new forage crop crested wheat grass developed by Professor E L Kirk now Dominion Agrostologist. Tests show high palatability early spring growth green under snow and deep rooted compared with rye grass. Seed shortages prompt a three expert U S committee to secure western rye and grazer rye seed for pasture development.
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Prairies
West
E. L. Kirk
University of Saskatchewan
Dominion
Canada
Robert Weir
United States
Exchange of Wheat for Fish Proposal From Canada
A Halifax letter from Dr Hamer to Dr Oliver proposes a wartime style fish for wheat exchange between maritime provinces and western Canada. He urges a government chartered boat service between Churchill and eastern ports to move exchange cargoes of fish and coal from the east and wheat from the west. The plan, sent to Premier Anderson via the United Farmers of Canada, asks Ottawa to act as a purchasing agent for both directions to aid poverty-stricken fishermen facing winter sale losses.
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Maritime Provinces
Western Canada
Hudson Bay
E. H. Oliver
United Church of Canada
Halifax
N.S
Hamer
Churchill
FE. H Oliver
United Farmers of Canada
J. T. M. Anderson
Saskatchewan
Pawnshop solution aids Chinese students with summer storage
Interior students pawn luggage for small sums at shops to store items during summer and gain pocket money to request from parents. The 1930 census cites 1,942 Americans as both blind and deaf. My father won a set of companies in a competition.
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United States
Die Muskete
Vienna
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Berlin
Farly
Hudson Bay Company
North
Empire Marksman
Sergeant Foam
Jugoslavia
Italy
Auto Roads
Senate
Ottawa
House of Commons
George P. Graham
Raoul Dandurand
F. L. Beique
C. E. Tanner
C. P. Beaubien
W. A. Griesbach
Maritimes
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