Increased Home Milk Use Drops Canadian Exports
The year ending November report shows Canada exports of milk products fell while imports rose. A larger domestic milk demand, population rise of 100,000, and higher cheese and butter use offset export volumes. Butter exports dropped from 98,024 cwt to 27,714 cwt, while cheese exports remained near last year’s level though value slid. Canada mainly sent cheese to the United Kingdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minvon
Department of Agriculture
Canada
Ruddick
Dominion
Prairies
Ontario
Cassada
United Kingdom
Captain Did His Best Ever If We Could Not Carry Out Orders
Lord Hewart recounted a shipboard anecdote at a Liverpool Ship brokers’ dinner amid fog delays. A captain relayed a telegram from owners to reach Sydney. the mate’s reply said heaven and earth not available raising hell, and things are moving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Hewart
Liverpool
Valparaiso
Heaven
Sydney
Earth
New Garden Plums List Of Varieties That May Be Grown
Plums can be grown in many parts of Canada with careful variety selection. The bulletin Plums Culture from Ottawa lists suitable varieties for districts. New hybrids Ka hinta Waneta Omaha Emerald Tom Thumb Cherry and older types Greenzage Coe's Golden Drop Damsons Bixby Cheney Terry Mammoth provide culinary and jelly options for gardens. prairie conditions suit Tom Thumb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Omaha
Greenzage Coe
Bixby
Cheney
Terry
Mammoth
Simple Daytime Frock Pattern No 1605 For Women
This pattern offers a smart day dress with a centre-front bodice, two front plaits, a belt at the back, and pointed cuff sleeves. Available in bust sizes 34 to 42 inches, with yardage and price details provided. Also advertised is a fashion book offered at ten cents, promoting practical, tasteful dressmaking.
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Anere
Wno
Man Ama
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
A Winnipeg notice lists pattern orders via 175 McDermot Ave. It names Stern No and a town size option for customers seeking structured pattern requests.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Canada Creamery Butter Output Rises in 1926
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada produced 178,156,375 pounds of creamery butter in 1926, up 8,661,408 pounds from the previous year.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Quebec Winter Sports Birthplace of North American Traditions
Quebec has hosted winter carnivals for more than 350 winters with snowshoe toboggan and ski among its early sports. The Christmas to New Year period features Plains of Abraham and Chateau Frontenac sledding and crowds. the International Dog Sled Derby, a 120 mile race, runs in late February drawing famed mushers Seppaia and St Goddard.
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Quebec
Plymouth Rock
St. Law
Rence
J. G. Strathdee
Chauteau Frontefac
Ered Plains of Abraham
Battlefields Park
Chateau Frontenac
North America
Winter Road Maintenance Gathers Steam Across Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan communities and urban boards push for year round highway access. Volunteers with floats, pickers, tractors test low cost winter upkeep as a step toward centralized seasonal road management for efficiency and economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarhkatchewan i
S Suimmer
Saskatchewan
Gas Masks Used At Crane-Upton Oil Field
Fumes of hydrogen sulfide gas from Crane-Upton oil wells force workers and animals to wear gas masks. Mules take to the masks with more grace than men as the odorless gas requires immediate protection.
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Crane-Upton Field
Ambitious Berlin taxi driver asks fares to speak English
An eager Berlin taxi driver pasted a handwritten English notice between his cab windows asking riders to converse in English to help him improve. The sign, read aloud by bystanders, bears the driver’s name, Schuette, and reflects his language-learning ambition.
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Berlin
Schuette
Exploration chapter opens in Canada's north January venture
W B Beare of the Northwest Territories Branch sets out in January on a 12 to 18 month expedition at the Habury and Thelon river junctions near Great Slave Lake. His census mission covers wildlife, caribou migrations, and musk oxen populations still present on the mainland.
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Canada
Great Rorth
Wv. B. Beare
Northwest Territories Uharch
Department of the Interior
Habury
Thelon
Great Slave Lake
Chesterfield Inlet
Shicare
Amon
Hanbury
Thelon Rivers
Outlawing War Debate A Constitutional Question
The New York World discusses a possible treaty to outlaw war facing a constitutional hurdle. It notes President Coolidge suggesting a ban might clash with Congress and declares war powers, while asking if the constitution could be amended to allow peace. It probes whether Congress prerogatives or constitutional immutability blocks world progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Coolidge
Congress
Composer Katherine Giron Unveils Music Typewriter
Katherine Giron, a composer and pianist, introduces a music typewriter designed to replace hand notation. Orchestra leaders and composers using the device can draft a musical piece as swiftly as playing it on the piano.
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Katherine Giron
Bank Clerk and Mrs Juggs Barter Overdrawn Balance
A bank clerk informs Mrs Juggs she is overdrawn by 16 dollars and she agrees to charge the amount. The exchange captures a humorous, clipped domestic moment.
Expulsions Mark Bolshevik Leaders On Anniversary
The London Times reports the Russian Communist Party marks its tenth anniversary with the expulsion of Trotsky and several former top leaders. Lenin is dead. Trotsky and Zinovieff have been degraded, others like Kamenoff Rakovsky Peterson Smigla Yoffe face removal or self destruction amid party purge rites.
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Communist Party
Russia
Petrograd
Lenin
Trotsky
Kerensky
Bolshevists
Brest Litovsk
Red Army
Kolchak
Denikin
Yudenich
Wrangel
Warsaw
Dzerzniinsky
Cheka
Soviet Union
Zinovieff
Communist International
Kamenoff
Rome
Rakovsky
Paris
Central Committee
Peterson
Kremilin
Smigla
Yoffe
Cleaning Seed Grain Need for Greater Attention
Investigations by the Dominion Experimental Farms urge farmers to improve seed grain cleaning and grading. Proper fanning, overhauled mills, and multiple passes ensure uniform, plump, heavy kernels. Save best grain for seed and inspect purchased seed before reuse for higher yields.
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Dominion Cerealist
Publications Branch
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Alfalfa in Rotation in Ontario and Manitoba Hays
Alfalfa is a valuable hay crop but long-lived, limiting short rotations. A rotation method from Manitoba recommends one more field than years, seeding alfalfa in favorable blocks with a light nurse crop, then rotating to nitrogen-demanding crops on clean land. Ontario rapidly expands alfalfa as a key field crop.
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Canada
Ontario
Manitoba
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Title and Baroness Travel with American Heiress Escort
The daughter of a wealthy American returns from Europe with her traveling companion and governess, a Russian Baroness. Reporters photograph the Baroness as she is approached about posing for cameras. A scribe notes the apparent American maid accompanying her. Colonies of African white ants build tall mound structures.
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America
Europe
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Stalin
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