Uncanny Machines Aid Canada 1931 Census Tabulation
Ontario Ottawa reports two specially built machines the verifier and the tabulator count 240 facts from census cards at high speed. The system detects errors and sorts cards by age race religion and nationality enabling cross classifications and rapid provincial totals under the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Canada
Toronto
Census Bureau
A. E. Thornton
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ottawa
F. Bellisle
Washington
United States
Jaunty jumper dress pattern for young seamstresses
A simple straight jumper skirt with an inverted center plait and suspenders pairs with a tailored guimpe in grey wool. Pattern No 974 covers sizes 12 to 38 bust, requires 2 yards 54 inch plus 15% yard 39 inch for blouse, price 20 cents. note on South Africa has four aeroplane clubs.
Bennett Warns on Barter Revival and Railway Cloud
Premier Bennett addressed the Toronto Board of Trade noting that barter once dominated early trade and that some advocate returning to it. He cited Canada's shrinking rural population, expanding urban market, and the need to understand the railway problem amid investment in harbors and canals to promote export trade.
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Toronto
Canada
Fish Propagation Plan For British Columbia Streams
British Columbia launches its first program to stock streams with young fish rather than fry. Provincial game commissioner Bryan Williams outlines three propagation centers at Cowichan Lake, Qualicum on Vancouver Island, and Stanley Park in Vancouver. Brown trout rainbow trout and Scottish salmon will be raised in scientific feeding ponds and released to provincial waters using a new oxygen-tank transport system to enable long trips.
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British Columbia
Bryan Williams
Cowichan Lake
Qualicum
Vancouver Island
Stanley Park
Vancouver
Chelmsford Town Council Pays for Audits and Lawsuit Loss
The Chelmsford town council spent $275.95 on double checking books of town clerk H. J. Gratton and discovered a three cent discrepancy. The corporation also lost a lawsuit as J. T. Dionne of Sudbury won $60 for auditing fees. They now face a bill of $196.95 plus $19 expenses for a second auditor.
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Chelmsford
Ont
H. J. Gratton
J. T. Dionne
Sudbury
King George's Rich Royal Stamp Collection Revealed
The article notes King George III as a proud possessor of the finest British realm stamp collection. It details the 200 album holdings, curator room at Buckingham Palace, and royal displays to the Royal Philatelic Society, highlighting rare Mauritius and British West Indies issues. A Lithuanian man reportedly swapped his wife for a phonograph.
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George
Edward Denny Bacon
Duke of Edinburgh
Buckingham Palace
Royal Philatelic Society
London
Duke of York
Prince of Wales
Antigua
Zanzibar
Mauritius
Great Britain
British West Indies
H.M.S. Thrush
British Guiana
Heligoland
Hong Kong
India
Straits Settlements
Victoria
Tonga
Air Post
Empire
elephant Tusko finds home at Woodland Park Zoo Seattle
The costly elephant nicknamed Tusko resides in special quarters at Woodland Park Zoo Seattle after about 100000 people have viewed him since he was entrusted to the city by his owners. He had toured Portland Olympia Chelhalia Centralia and Tacoma before being dismissed for high travel costs.
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Tusko
Woodland Park Zoo
Seattle
Washington
Portland
Olympia
Chehalia
Centralia
Tacoma
Dangerous Job at London Zoo Eyes Snakes
Spectators watch as snakes at the London Zoo are fitted with glass eyes after losing them in various accidents. Keepers repeatedly reset the eyes each time the reptiles shed their skins, a fragile process that even involves a boa constrictor.
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London Zoo
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Winnipeg
Asien
By Rath Rogers
South Africa
Bennett
B.C
Ontario
Alberta
Lithuania
Maple Leafs
Red Horner
Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago Ice
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