Historic Sites Board Marks Perpetuation Of Canadian Monuments
The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada marked 129 sites for permanent monuments since 1919. Readings span from the border to the Arctic, with markers including Franklin’s last camping site and Cartier’s 1535 landing. Highlights include Wolfe’s Landing, Cape Breton coal mine, Fort Ste Anne, Chambly Road, and more across provinces.
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Ihetoric Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Ottawa
International
Arctic
Atlantic
Pacific
Benjamin Franklin
Jacques Cartier
Ile Aux Coudres
Land of Canada
Wolfe's Landing
Gabarus Bay
Cape Breton
Wolfe
America
Fort Ste. Anne
Fort St. Peters
N.S
Minto
N.B
Acadia
Chambly Road
New France
King Mountain
P.O
Geodetic Survey of Canada
Royal Navy
Royal Marines
United States
Ohio
Somers
Niagara River
Belgium Remembers 15th Anniversary Invasion
Bells, sirens and artillery salvos mark August 4 as Belgians observe a nationwide minute of silence for the fifteenth anniversary of the German invasion after Belgium was blocked from passing through to fight France.
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Belgans
Belgium
Unable to Count Apples Spoils Brother in Madrid
A brief note from Madrid describes a boy who cannot count and has eaten more apples than he can hold, illustrating a playful domestic mishap with a humorous regional twist.
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Gutierrez
Madrid
Paris chic princess silhouette cantons crepe dress detail
Pattern No. 597 offers a long waisted claret red canton crepe dress with a circular skirt and pointed yoke for sizes 16 to 42 bust. Variations include black or white chiffon and other fabrics. pattern price 25 cents.
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Paris
Pattern Orders and Banter from a Winnipeg Page
An odd Winnipeg snippet lists Pattern No and Size with a local address 175 MacDermoot Ave. It features brief exchanges about eggs and a joke on the Roman Empire along with a cowhide pun and a remark on pluck versus luck.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
MacDermoot Ave
Winnipeg
Horticulture on the Prairie at Morden Station Visit
A seasonal guide to the Morden Manitoba Experimental Station highlights fruit and vegetable crops such as apples plums cherries grapes and strawberries grown in abundance. Visitors learn about promising varieties the shelter belt effect on crops and the colorful gladiolus borders while the Department of Agriculture report aids planning and study.
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Morden
Manitoba
Morden Station
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Has Necessary Qualities Human Hair Used In Mechanism For Sounding Foghorns
A 1910s description explains human hair can bear 3 to 5 ounces per strand and, being elastic and temperature sensitive, is used in foghorn buoy mechanisms. Hairs fixed side by side act like a violin bow, stretching in fog to open a valve and release compressed air at regular intervals.
Employees Following In Father's Footsteps
The transfer of CN Rail motive power shops from the old to the new building at Point St. Charles Montreal shows that of 1422 workers on the old roster 167 are second generation another third generation and two fourth generation workers. Building a city is as important as building a home and planning a community should receive equal care.
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Canadian National Railways
Point St. Charles
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Angus
St. Jerome
Hampstead Heath
London
Prairies
Alberta
Manitoba
Apple Varieties and Storage For Dominion Enthusiasts
The piece lists ripening order for popular apple varieties from Red Astrachan to McIntosh Red with several dessert types, notes many will keep in a cool place through winter, and lists winter varieties such as King and Rhode Island Greenings. It also points to a bulletin on culture and recipes titled Canadian Grown Apples, available via the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture in Ottawa.
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Chenango
Duchess
Alexander
Wolf River
Gravenstein
Wealthy
Calvert
St. Lawrence
Hubbardson
Famouse
McIntosh
King
Rhode Island Greenings
Wagoner
Pewaukee
Ontario
Jonathan
Spy
Stark
Roxbury
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
European Importers Buy Large Quantities of Lower Grade Wheat
World wheat and flour shipments for the year ended July 27 1929 totaled 17 297 000 bushels, with Europe absorbing about 220 000 000 bushels. Ex European buyers took substantial low grade wheat at attractively low prices due to subdued world prices.
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Europe
Oldest Berlin auto plant and price talk on farm goods
A Berlin visitor and a farmer debate farm product costs and the knowledge chain from botanical names to chemical controls. The piece notes Berlin claims the oldest continuously operated automobile factory in the world. It hints that a small push can send some men downhill.
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Berlin
Germany
Four Research Projects Aim to Improve Wool and Mutton
Wilma Banky, star of This Is Heaven, traveled by Canadian Pacific from Boston to Montreal to attend a local theatre showing. Rod La Roque joined her in Montreal, also by CPR. The previous day Victor McLaglen arrived by CPR. Thousands greeted the stars at Windsor Street Station.
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Wilma Banky
Canadian Pacific
Montreal
Boston
Rod la Roque
C.P.R
Victor McLaglen
Windsor Street
Canadian research aims to improve sheep and wool output
Four projects funded by the Federal Department of Agriculture and partner institutions seek to boost meat tonnage and wool by cross breeding fine wool ewes with Corriedale rams. Saskatoon will host initial stock gathering. field tests and genetics work will span Alberta Saskatchewan and Ontario with a national wool laboratory to study outcomes.
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Federal
Department of Agriculture
University of Saskatchewan
University of Alberta
National Research Council
Ottawa
Council
Saskatoon
England
Lethbridge
New Zealand
Edmonton
Saskatchewan
British Columbian
The World of a Philosopher Narrowly Divides
A renowned scientist at a dinner endures a guest’s jeers at philosophy. The guest asks if the distance between philosopher and fool is great. The professor bows and replies the width of a table sometimes separates them. Also a quip on women and youth during a car ride.
Mining plant planned at Last Chance Lake near Beaver Dam
The British Columbia Chemical Company, Ltd. plans a large plant at Last Chance Lake near Beaver Dam about 20 miles north of Clinton for mining of gooda from the lake bottom. It should start within 90 days and ship three carloads of soda daily.
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Last Chance Lake
Beaver Dam
Clinton
B.c
British Columbia Chemical Company, Ltd
Pedestrians urged to act quickly to protect rights
Officials warn that the only remaining steps for pedestrians to safeguard their rights are rapid action. The statement stresses urgency and personal responsibility in pursuing remedies or protections.
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Historic Sites Board
Bay of Quinte
Mississauga
Quesnel
British Columbia
Alaska
Behring Straits
Siberia
Fort Prince of Wales
Churchill
Man
Hudson’s Bay Company
Canada
Victoria Chung
The
University of Toronto
China
NaBe
Tommy
Gether
Canadian National
J. P. Sackville
A M. Shaw
W. H. Fairchild
Dominion Experimental Station
National Laboratories
Toronto
H. M. Tory
J. H. Grigdale
A. A. MacMillan
Dominion Livestock Branch
G. B. Rothwell
Dominion Animal Husbandry
R. G. Knox
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Ont
W. H. J. Tisdale
Canadian Co-Operative Wool Growers
Lathe
Sondagsnisse-Strix
Stockholm
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