Canada Leads In Global Fight Against Narcotics Control
The article outlines Canada’s long history of narcotics legislation from 1905 through 1926, detailing acts that restricted opium morphine heroin and cocaine, deportation of trafficking aliens, and penalties including imprisonment fines and lash. It notes Canada’s role in Hague conferences and League of Nations ideals shaping stringent rules.
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League of Nations
League
Canada
Dominion
The
Hague
Plans For New Dominion Move in Palestine
A movement proposes making Palestine a permanent British Dominion after the 25 year mandate of the League of Nations expires.
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New Dominion
Palestine
League of Nations
Tourist questions farmers and insults a rhinoceros
A fragment from Lustige Korner Zeitung in Cologne discusses a tourist who imagines a farmer would not mind if someone took a dozen ears of corn and notes the remark was an insult aimed at the rhinoceros.
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Lustige Korner Zeitung
Cologne
Aid To Agriculture Prairie shelterbelts transform Western Canada farms
The planting of trees on prairie farms in Western Canada improves agricultural production. Nursery material from Indian Head and Sutherland SK spreads across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Shelterbelts lead to orchards vegetable gardens and beautified farm homes with shrubs and lawns.
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Canada
Department of the Interior
Indian Head
Sutherland
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Alberta Poultry Sets New Value Peak in 1928
The Poultry Commissioner J. H. Hare reports Alberta farms held 1,298,214 turkeys 200,922 geese 99,258 ducks and 5,496,130 other fowl totaling 6,213,706 in 1928 up from 5,853,000 in 1927. Poultry value rose to 6,095,298 in 1928 from 4,210,000 in 1927.
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Alberta
J. H. Hare
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Index To Growth Of Prairie Provinces
The Ottawa Natural Resources chart shows western settlement and production growth from 1900 to 1920. Acreage under production rose from 3.6 million in 1900 to 30.235 million by 1920, with eight straight years of at least one million acres added annually, reaching 57.98 million acres in agricultural production by last year.
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Prairie Provinces
Ottawa
Natural Resources
West
Dominion
Pattern No 104 for children's vestee and bloomers
If you have a daughter aged 6 to 14 at home you will value pattern No 104 featuring a vestee and bloomers. It uses 1 1⁄2 yards of 40 inch fabric for the 8 year size with elastic hems and frill. Suitable fabrics include batiste crepe de chine rayon crepe and lawn. Pattern price 25 cents. blue Emile No 11135 10 cents extra. Add 16 cents for four copies of Fashion Magazine.
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Batiste
Emile
Paris
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern buyers in Winnipeg can order by mail from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union located at 17 McDermot Ave. The notice instructs readers to inquire via mail order channels and includes a reference to Ewe News for further guidance.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Industrial Agent Appointed for Manitoba District
Industrial Agent appointed to help develop Western Canada with Canadian National Railways aiding industrial establishment. Mr. Chambers will base his operations in Winnipeg with headquarters established there.
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Manitoba
Canadian National Railways
Western
Canada
Chambers
Winnipeg
Judge in Valence Prods Prisoner with Hypothetical Trial
In Valence France a judge faced a prisoner on murder trial asking him to imagine the judge as the culprit and to declare a sentence. The prisoner answered I have killed I deserve to be killed Kill me. He was sentenced to death.
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Valence
France
Largest carpet claim in world laid at New Empire Theatre
The tea lounge at the New Empire Theatre in London features a rug described as the largest in the world. Woven in Czecho-Slovakia due to lack of a suitable loom, it costs 25 dollars per square yard. The item is noted alongside a brief exchange about happiness and money.
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New Empire Theatre
London
England
Rates Of Seeding Grass and Legumes
The La Combe Alberta Station study compares seeding rates for rye grass, timothy, alfalfa, sweet clover, and brome with wheat as a nurse crop. Ten pounds rye grass per acre often best. timothy favored by two to five pounds depending on moisture. alfalfa best near ten pounds. sweet clover needs heavier seeding. brome best at ten pounds, with 15 pounds crowding early stands but boosting second-year vigor.
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Lacombe
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Timothy
Reed
Increased Use Of Butter In Canada
The article notes Canada as the world’s largest butter consumer with about 27 pounds per person yearly, higher than the United States. It cites rising domestic use and tourist demand reducing exports, with Ontario and Quebec as top producers and the prairie provinces supplying about a third of national output.
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Canada
United States
Dermin
Ontario
Quebec
Prairie
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion
Western
Auxiliary Schooner Roch Joins RCMP Arctic Patrols
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police add the auxiliary-powered schooner St Roch to Arctic duties from Herschel Island to Cambridge Bay. Built in North Vancouver, the 175 ton vessel with 125 hp engines will patrol, resupply posts, and act as a floating police post aided by wireless links to Aklavik and Ottawa.
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Hudson Bay Co
Herschel Island
Aklavik
Paillie Island
Cape Bathurst
Langton Bay
Bernard Harbor
Cambridge Bay
Great Arctic
Victoria Land
Herschel
Hudson's Bay Co
Arctic
Roch
Canadian Arctic
Bering Strait
Coronation Gulf
Point Barrow
Alaska
St. Roch
St. Roche
North Vancouver
Burrard Dry Dock Co
St Roch
Vancouver
Langton Bayy
Edmonton
Ottawa
Frederick Anderton
Belgium
Delta
Family quarrels across the ages and their cost
The piece reflects on long standing family disputes from Cain and Abel to modern kin, noting how brief periods of coldness can consume a large share of a lifetime. It cites the wasteful social cost of pride and strained relations between relatives and asks if readers have similar tensions.
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Cain and
Abel
Richard
Bond
Not Just What He Meant
A young attorney, new to his first case, represents a farmer suing a railway company for killing 24 pigs. He aims to sway the jury by stressing the number twenty four, twice the jury size, to show the damage magnitude.
Man Dies at 102 After Life Despair As Boy
A man once deemed beyond help by a doctor as a boy has died at age 102. Doctors are generally right in the end. He loved football as his favorite game and asked what hers was. She replied fried venison.
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J. Ament
Pensions and National Health
C. L. Sharman
Narcotic Division
Alberta Poultry
E. Chambers
Brother
Maud
Tai
Quebec City
R.C.M.P
House of Parlament
G.P.O
New York
Foley
Indiana University
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Inda
Boothia Peninsula
Artic
Dorfparbier
Berlin
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