Ottawa Doctor Runs Global Wireless Clinic From Ottawa
Dr. F. 8. Parley of Ottawa maintains a vast remote practice serving North American posts from Aklavik to Cape Chidley. Diagnoses arrive by radio, drugs are prescribed by coded numbers, and patients pay no bills as treatment is flashed back to northern posts. The system relies on a medical manual, simple devices, and improvised methods to heal Eskimo and other isolated communities.
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F. 8. Parley
Ottawa
Parney
Aklavik
Cape Chidley
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Parley
Department of Health
Marine Department
Maggie
Tommy
Resolution Island
Pioneer Railroader W H L Rosevear Dead at 94
W H L Rosevear, longtime Montreal railway official and former mayor of St Lambert, dies at 94. Born September 1837 in Wadebridge England he arrived in Canada in 1854 and served 53 years with Great Western and Grand Trunk Railway. He leaves four sons including J M Rosevear of Montreal and A E Rosevear of Winnipeg.
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W. HL. Rosevear
Canada
W. H. L. Rosevear
Montreal
Wadebridge
Cornwall
England
Rosevear
Great Western Railroad
Hamilton
Grand Trunk Railway
Grand Trunk
Methodist Church
Methodist Conference
St. Lambert
W. H. Rosevear
J. J. Rosevear
J. M. Rosevear
C.N.R
A. E. Rosevear
Winnipeg
Regina Minister Opposes Sweepstakes Plan
Rev. W. E. MacNiven of Regina Saskatchewan denounces the Regina Exhibition Association plan to give away 100000 dollars in cash prizes through monthly weather estimate contests. Tickets would cost one dollar each. He questions the scheme's legality, and the ministerial association executive will discuss it soon.
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W. E. MacNiven
Regina
Saskatchewan
Regina Exhibition Association
MacNiven
Ministerial Association
Saskatchewan Butter Export Surges in 1931
Officials of the Dairy Branch report record creamery butter production for 1931 near 20,000,000 pounds by year end. Already 12,000,000 pounds have been sold outside the province, much of it reaching the British market.
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Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Restess Evening Party Question From Professor
A playful dialogue shows a guest asking why the professor must attend and why his wife accompanies him. The professor confirms he must attend despite the request, implying an evening gathering with social expectations.
Life Insurance Sales Rise Across Canada in 1931 Eleven Months
New paid up ordinary life insurance in Canada and Newfoundland increased in November compared with October. For the first eleven months, 15 companies wrote no less than 442 149 000 in new business, representing 84 percent of Dominion life policy volume. November totals by province show Ontario leading at 15 787 000, with substantial figures in Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, and others, plus Newfoundland.
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Canada
Newfoundland
Dominion
Life Insurance Sales Research Bureau
Mussolini Moves Toward Peace With Vatican
Premier Mussolini signals closer ties with the Vatican by appointing Deputy Gaetano Polverelli as chief of the press. Polverelli, the first fascist to meet Cardinal Gasparri after Mussolini’s rise, sought the Vatican’s stance to build goodwill. Ferretti, former press chief, is thanked for three years of service.
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Mussolini
Vatican
Gaetano Polverrelli
Polverelli
Cardinal Gasparri
Signor Ferretti
Il Wuce
Yachtsmen Seek to Buy the Bluenose from Nova Scotia
United States yacht enthusiasts have made two offers to purchase the famed Bluenose, storied queen of the North Atlantic fishing fleets. E F Zwicker, managing director of the ownership stock company, says directors will decide soon but expects the schooner to remain in Nova Scotia.
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United States
North Atlantic
Gertrude L. Thebaud
E. Fenwick Zwicker
Nova Scotia
Aid For the Starter And personal remarks on Lopez marriage
When starting a cold engine the clutch should be disengaged to relieve the battery. The starter would otherwise turn transmission gears and the engine crank shaft assembly. Webb questions Lopez marriage claim while Foote denies the motive but says he would have married her regardless of the aunt's fortune.
Western Economist Urges Canada to Tolerate Weaker Gold Link
Canadian economist Dr. W W Swanson argues in a Toronto review that abandoning the gold standard temporarily and linking the Canadian dollar to the British pound could ease monetary strain. He ties Canada’s wheat exports to Britain and notes parity pressures with the pound over the U S dollar as a result of Britain’s currency influence.
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Canada
Great Britain
W. W. Swanson
University of Saskatchewan
Toronto Mail
Empire
New York
Britain
Dominion
Dr. Swanson
Liverpool
Australia
Argentina
Doctor Jailed In New York For Liquor Offenses
Dr Beverly Sproul a Lake Placid dog fancier and Montreal hotelman pleaded guilty to possession transportation and sale of liquor. He was fined 500 and sentenced to six months in the federal detention house with a suspended two year sentence conditional on good behavior or violation of prohibition law within five years.
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Beverly Sproul
Lake Placid
Montreal
Time riddle solved by a clever boy
A boy asks an elderly man the time and receives a puzzled clue that leads him to answer 10:50. The solution shows how the remaining minutes until twelve relate to the time after ten. The scene highlights quick thinking and numeracy from a bright youngster.
British unemployment drops by fifty four thousand in week
Great Britain shows a weekly decline of 54 722 in unemployment ending December 12 bringing the total to 2 572 602. The figure is 273 010 higher than the same week last year. California remains the only state with a strict gun possession law.
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Great Britain
California
Pioneer of Printing sets record price for Gutenberg Bible
A Gutenberg Bible, one of the few surviving copies printed in Mainz around 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg, sold for 150000 dollars. The inventor died in 1468 and was traditionally buried in Mainz at the Franciscan church.
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Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg
Mainz
Germany
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Robert
London
Amusani
Paris
Pioneer Railroader
The
Gaetano Polverelli
Webb
Penelope
Foote
Society of American Bacteriologists
F. D'Herelle
School of Medicine
Yale University
D'Herelle
France
H.M.S. Petersfield
Shanghai
Foochow
China
Sir W. A. Kelly
Petersfield
Tung Yung Island
Meggendorfer Blaetter
Munich
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