Canadian Produce Expands on British Markets Reported
Dr Grisdale and Duncan Marshall return from Britain with views on improving Canadian store cattle admission and bacon quality. They note steady British demand, rising bacon prices, and potential for greater Canadian export share despite high distribution costs. Dairy and apples show mixed progress with grading standards improving. Alberta yields reach record levels with many farms reporting averages around 50 to 66 bushels per acre.
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Duncan Marshall
Urimiak
Great Britain
Grisdale
Britain
Canada
London
Tomi
Dominions
Denmark
New Zealand
Ottawa
Alberta
F Malmberr
Macks District
Fletcher
Brant
Thomas Margents
Hoak
Cayley
Marquis
Tom
G. Coote
Carter
John Jacobson
Vulcan
Blackie
C. Boomer
Nanton
BC Manual Training Schools Second in Canada
The Minister of Education notes British Columbia ranks second to Ontario in manual training and domestic science in public schools. This year 12,217 pupils attended manual training classes, up from 10,511. Elementary level pupils total 14,507 versus 8,930 last year, and high school pupils reach 1,564 up from 1,510.
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British Columbia
Ontario
Canada
Embrace Canadian Winter Activities and Outdoor Fun
The Fort William Times Journal urges readers to greet winter with outdoor pursuits. Join snowshoe groups, build a fire and share a supper in the open, or join a skating club. Long trips reveal winter’s beauty over fear.
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Fort William
Dominion Patents Reach Record High in Fiscal Year
The Dominion Patent Office issued 12 542 patents, the most in a single year, up 5 194 or about 70 percent from the prior year. Total receipts climbed to 484 478 dollars, an increase of 29 592 dollars.
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Dominion Patent Office
New Device Cuts Diphtheria Deaths in Hospitals
In two New York hospitals a small electric suction pump invented by the late Dr. Henry L. Lynch clears the choking membrane in diphtheria patients. Doctors report death rates falling from 32 percent to 1 percent as the pump enables patients to breathe.
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New York
Henry L. Lynch
Street Violence Observation In Historic Chronicle
A passerby recalls a street disturbance witnessed from a window where a woman sees a man of Chinese origin beating a person. The exchange then shifts to a startled bystander remark about humanity. The fragment hints at racial and social tensions present in the era.
Split souls belief among South African tribes
Among South African natives a prevalent belief holds that the soul is divided into three parts. One soul resides in the head, another in the stomach, and a third in the big toe, a concept shared by a general tribal view.
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South Africa
Praise For Woman Journalist in Western Canada
A recent issue praises women journalists including Miriam Greenfills of the Edmonton Bulletin and Miriam direen Filis editor of the agricultural page. The piece notes Greenfills's Vancouver Board of Trade address as authoritative and witty, despite a lunch invitation from Baron Renfrew that was impractical to meet. Elis lectured in Winnipeg on a Mackenzie River trip last summer.
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Miriam Direen Filis
Edmonton Bulletin
Alberta
Green
Vancouver Board of Trade
Baron Renfrew
CPLR
CNR
Vancouver
Stony Creek
Miriam Green
Elis
Direct Swedish-Canada Passenger Service to Start in 1924
Sweden plans the first regular direct link between Scandinavia and Canada early in 1924. The initial voyage will be the 3.8. Stockholm from Gothenburg to Malmö then to New York carrying passengers. Strong Swedish emigration to the United States may fill the year’s 26 000 quota, prompting many to seek Canada as an alternative route.
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Canada
Sweden
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Malifax
New York
United States
Cleaning wheat boosts value per bushel in Minnesota trials
The Department of Agriculture reports that cleaning wheat during threshing raised value by 7.8 cents per bushel in tests across Minnesota and the Dakotas. Various cleaners ran with threshers, and the best recleaner added 7.3 cents per bushel. no charge was needed for operation, though a two cent per bushel charge would have lowered net by 5.3 cents.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Department of Agriculture
United States Navy plans Arctic dash to the Pole
Secretary Denby announced a summer launch for a North Pole dash under President Coolidge approval. Rear Admiral Moffett will head a naval board using government Arctic records and weather data to decide whether to travel by aeroplanes or the Shenandoah airship, aiming for extensive exploration of unknown Arctic regions.
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North Pole
United States Navy Department
Denby
Coolidge
William A. Moffett
Naval Aeronautics
Moffett
American Hographic Society
Arctic
Navy Department
Prosperity Seen in Canada, Says Sir Robert Clough
Sir Robert Clough former Keighley MP returns from Canada noting widespread prosperity and better living standards. He observes well dressed people and air of contentment with many owning cars, even laundress arriving to work by motor car, while he says Canada faces only money tightness.
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Robert Clough
Hhouse of Commons
Keighley
Yorkshire
England
Canada
Sir Robert
Swiss Grapes Therapy Cures Gout and Liver Ailments
The grape cure is practiced in Switzerland for gout and liver issues. Patients stay among Mt. Peterin grapes above Vevey or Bexles-Bains where the juicy White grape, with its easily digested skin, seems to calm and aid recovery.
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Switzerland
Mt. Peterin
Vevey
Bexles- Bains
Hungry man makes meal from good advice, proverb blend
A concise proverb-like note states that good advice alone cannot feed a hungry person, implying practical action is needed to meet immediate needs. The line uses a colloquial contrast to emphasize the gap between theory and nourishment.
Loyalists to celebrate greatest event in Canada history
Edmonton opens gas system with Mayor Luiggan lighting the high pressure line. Northwestern Utilities plans 3000 customers as 85 mile pipeline delivers gas from Viking. June 16 1934 marks anniversary of United Empire Loyalists settling Upper Canada. Historians note Loyalists voyage from New York in 1788 and the conferment of an hereditary title by Canada. US officials express interest in Belleville celebration with notable attendees including General Putnam and Samuel Gompers.
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Edmonton
Luiggan
Fifth Street
Northwestern Utilities Limited
Alberta
Viking
Canada
Empire
Upper Canada
Ontario
Great Britain
United States of America
New Republic
England
West Indies
New York
Atlantic
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Hudson River
Lake Ontario
Lord Dorchester
United States
General Putnam
Vermont
Washington
Justice Clarke
Sims
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
New York State
Elevator map shows prairie grain storage in Canada
The new map from the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Canadian Interior Department illustrates grain production and value in the prairie provinces over fifteen years. It highlights storage capacity at each grain elevator with city capacity figures and marks warehouses in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Canadian Department of
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dairy shipments to Britain and Australia reach record nine months
For the nine months ending September 30, butter shipments totaled 1 239 470 cwts to Britain and 444 571 cwts to Australia, with New Zealand at 910 120 cwts and Canada 10 714 cwts. Cheese from the Netherlands including Denmark totaled 149 007 cwts, with Australia 39 284 cwts, New Zealand 211 986 cwts, and Canada 558 030 cwts. A leading British firm notes Canada butter sales are strong with quotations around 188 to 190 shillings per long hundredweight, about forty cents a pound. Also mentions many big and small players globally and Japan having fourteen national holidays.
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Denmark
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Netherlands
Magnificent Moose Head Shown in Toronto Before London Exhibit
A Canadian National Railways mounted moose head, one of the finest, will travel from Toronto to be displayed at the British Empire Exhibition in London. Antler spread reaches 7 ¼ inches from tip to tip, weight 64 pounds pre mount, animal weight 1,400 pounds. 28 points. The head will tour railway ticket offices before departure.
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Ontario
Canadian National Railways
London
Edward VII
England
King and Yonge Sts
Toronto
Lord Rosebery Tact At Dinner Astonishment
An anecdote recalls Lord Rosebery dining with tenants when an old guest helped himself to a large scoop of ice cream and declared it was frozen. Rosebery sampled his portion, exclaimed Great Scott, and praised the guest’s utter tact and timing in a moment of mild surprise.
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Lord Rosebery
Scott
Anxious Old Lady Questions Boat's Direction
A river steamer passenger asks if the boat is going up or down. A blunt deckhand replies the vessel is a leaky tub with poor boilers, so it might go up or down.
Parry First to Navigate Passage Between Greenland and Bering Sea
British explorer Parry becomes the first to negotiate the open passage between Greenland and the Bering Sea, marking a historic maritime milestone.
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Parry
Greenland
Berding Sea
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U.S. Navy Department
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