Immigration schemes loom for Western Canada amid farm crisis
The debate over inviting British and European settlers to Saskatchewan resurfaces as unemployment lingers in the prairie provinces. Critics warn new colonization schemes could strain local farmers, markets, and government finances, urging careful consideration before wholesale immigration.
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Western Canada
Great Britain
Prairie Provinces
Atlantic
House of Commons
House
Foreign Affairs
Empire Settlement Board
Committee For Overseas Settlements
Saskatchewan
County of
Derby
England
Canada
Prairies
Oldest varnish on Egyptian mummy may date 2500 years
The fragment discusses ancient varnish on an Egyptian mummy possibly 2,500 years old and remarks on Japan’s role in relation to China, then notes that baseball experiences more injuries than any other sport.
Tickets As Gifts For Christmas Rail Travel
British railways devised advance sale of railway tickets that could be mailed as gifts. The scheme allowed people in the North of England to send tickets to friends in the South for the festive season along with a special greeting card.
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London
United Kingdom
Clyde
British Railways
England
Soviet Hollywood to Film In Russia and Orient
Hal Rosen the Soviet Hollywood cameraman filming As You Like It with Elizabeth Bergner plans a world tour for future film prospects. He reports the Russian government invites him after the picture. A gigantic Soviet Hollywood is to start early next year at a semi tropical southern film city with over 9,000 workers. completion slated for summer 1937.
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Has Rosen
Hollywood
Elizabeth Bergner
Russia
Orient
Hal
England
America
B. Z. Shumiatsky
Europe In Arms Shows Continent Ready For Immediate War
Veteran Austrian General Alexia estimates total 35 million soldiers could be called instantly across major nations. Russia 13,000,000 Italy 6,500,000 Germany 6,000,000 France 5,800,000 Poland 3,500,000. Austria could muster 500,000 if war breaks out.
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Alex. Alexia
Europe
Vienna
Alexin
Russia
Italy
Germany
France
Poland
Austria
Grace Darling of Western Australia A Heroine Dies
Mrs Grace Vernon Drake Brockman aged 75 mother of Judge Drake Brockman and Lady Moulden of Adelaide died. As a young rider she saved the Georgette shipwreck crew by riding into surf with a native boy and guiding survivors ashore. She received the Royal Humane Medal and a gold watch and chain from Britain.
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Grace Darling
Western Australia
Grace Vernon Drake- Brockman
Burial At Sea By Will for Mrs Elizabeth Goldie
In her will Mrs Elizabeth Millidge Goldie of Kings Road Richmond directs cremation and that her ashes and those of her husband be placed in a weighted box along with rings and taken by boat to be cast into the sea off North Berwick. The biological survey ranks the owl above the quail for pest control, noting its superior effect on farm pests such as field mice.
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Elizabeth Millidge Goldie
Kings’ Rd
Richmond
England
North Berwick
The
Biological Survey
Aged Doctor Learns Braille for Bright Readable Future
Dr. John H. Lacy an 80 year old Arizona physician and former Army and Indian Service doctor learns Braille to read after partial blindness. He lives in retirement, previously practiced in Arizona and Virginia and served as a bailiff for a decade. Premier Dysart and ministers from four provinces urge highway safety measures including educational films and continued spending on level crossings as highway deaths rise.
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John H. Lacy
Arizona
Lacy
Army and
Indian Service
Superior Court
Virginia
College of Hampton Sidney
Prince Edward County
C. D. Howe
Dysart
New Brunswick
T. B. McQuesten
Ontario
W. R. Clubb
Manitoba
W. A. Fallon
Alberta
Mr Howe
Howe
Vienna's Business Scene and Hapsburgs in Public Eye
Viennese merchants resist modern retail expansion with delays and refusals to allow Woolworth. Chamber of Commerce doubts prestige of new stores. Archduke Anton Archduke Eugene Archduke Karl figure in city life, with another Hapsburg running a large laundry seen in ads. Public eye watches swift branding and public notices.
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Chamber of Commerce
Woolworth
Hapsburgs
Archduke Anton
Ileana
Roumania
Archduke Eugene
Archduke Karl
Hapsburg
Ontario Government Buys Major Radium Shipment
The Ontario government purchases 35 wooden boxes containing about 3500 milligrams of radium from Great Bear Lake for roughly 155000 dollars. The radium is stored in Ontario health laboratories and will head to Toronto General Hospital to replace 31 grams rented from a New York firm. The note mentions the U S navy’s largest calibre gun as 16 inch.
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Ontario
Great Bear Lake
Department of Health Laboratories
Canada
Toronto General Hospital
New York
World and Canadian News Highlights of 1935
A brief list from a Canadian Press survey selecting top world and Canadian headlines of 1935. Notable items include the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Italy's Ethiopia invasion, Huey Long's assassination, Queen Astrid's death, Germany re arming, and the British election, plus Canadian stories on Dominion election and Alberta Social Credit victory.
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World News
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
Italy
Ethiopia
Hauptmann
Huey Long
Astrid
Germany
N.R.A
Dominion
Social Credit
Alberta
Regina
Romance In Cairo Causes Panic Over Dropped Bouquets
In a Cairo native quarter a low flying plane dropped mysterious packets prompting a scare. Residents fled in fear, only to discover the items were bouquets sent by a suitor to his fiancé outside her house.
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Cairo
Baikal Largest Lake in Asia Revealed by Area
The article notes Lake Baikal as the largest in Asia with an area of 13,500 square miles, highlighting its vast expanse and significance among Asian bodies of water.
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Baikal
Lake
Asia
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