Mixed Farming Urged to Help Western Canadian Farmers
Hon Robert Weir Federal Minister of Agriculture spoke at the Canadian Club in Toronto urging western farmers to adopt mixed farming to counter drought and disaster. He outlined relief efforts in Saskatchewan where 246,000 people receive aid and praised farmers for repaying aid without charity, while stressing livestock and poultry expansion in suitable western areas.
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Western Canada
Robert Weir
Canadian Club
Toronto
Canada
Weir
Saskatchewan
Arthur Meighen
Relief Commission
Bahamas Shipments Supplying Canada Tomatoes This Season
News from Nassau, Bahamas indicates Canada will receive its tomato supply for the next season from the West Indies. An initial 3,500 crates have been shipped with a plan to deliver at least 5,000 crates weekly. The move follows a Canada West Indies trade accord and uses Canadian ships and ports.
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Canada
Nassau
Bahamas
West Indies
United States
Hat Higher Than Reach Says a Quiet Man
In a small town a colored man enters a store to buy a blanket. He knows his cash limit and declines a better, pricier item, saying I nevah hangs my hat higher up than what I kin reach. The piece argues many owe too much and lack restraint.
When the Power Goes Off and Our Dependence Revealed
The author reflects on a power outage exposing dependence on electricity. From electric ranges to telegraph, linotype, presses, and radios, the outage halts daily life and work, showing how modern society relies on unseen power. Technology workers can fix devices, but not the absent power itself.
A Worth While Career for Married Women
Many married women seek a career beyond homemaking and motherhood. The piece argues that managing a home and raising children is a vital calling, equating it with professions, business, politics and the arts, and elevating wives and mothers as among the most important individuals on Earth when they stay dignified.
Antique Cupid statue found in Italy missing several parts
A recovered Cupid statue from Italy is missing a hand both legs a nose and an ear. Local observers joke that it would be an ideal ornament for Reno city park referencing its incomplete form.
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Cupid
Italy
Reno
Why the United States Must Help Settle Reparations Question
The Republic argues the U S must aid in resolving reparations to prevent German recovery and protect American investments abroad. It notes Britain and France tied to debt terms, warns tariff and armament links, and advocates a coherent world policy solving debts, tariffs, currency, and trade barriers to stabilize the global system.
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United States
New Republic
New York
Germany
Europe
Britain
France
Great Britain
Wiggin Committee
Basle Committee
Basle
Fraser River cannery profits from skinning sockeye
A British Columbia sockeye cannery adopted skinning fish before canning last year. The skinning adds price appeal to the finished product, costs about three cents per fish, and is done by hand with a two piece wooden clamp that rolls along the skin to peel it off. Sockeye skins weigh several ounces, averaging over a third of a pound per ten skins.
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Fraser River
British Columbia
Dominion Department of Fisheries
Pat the Irish Sailor Proves Left Hand Talent
A sailor named Pat signs articles aboard a ship using his right hand then switches to his left to finish. An officer asks if he can write with either hand. Pat confirms, recalling his father’s advice to learn left handed nail cutting in case he loses a hand. The anecdote highlights a practical, humorous moment at sea.
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Pat
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Karikaturen
Oslo
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Hills
Countess of Bessborough
R. B. Bennett
Dominion
Earl of Bessborough
Guard of Honor
Pages Gaies
Yverdon
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