Future Looks Encouraging for Canada’s Economy
EW Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific, in his annual review, notes railway earnings dropped about 16 percent last year but hopes wheat市场 improvements and renewed leadership from rising industries will lift overall activity. He compares past depressions, cites mineral production growth from 10 million to 310 million, and says Canada weathered similar storms before.
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EW. Beatty
Canadian Pacific
Beatty
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Math Troubles Plague New York High Schools in 1929
The city superintendent reports 1929 saw more failures in mathematics than any other subject. In one school over half failed first-term algebra, and overall high school math failures reached 26.9 percent, while music and domestic science fell under 5 percent and English about 13 percent. Foreign languages ranked second in failures after mathematics.
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New York
Fur Farm Wealth Up Ten Years In Canada
Ten years ago the value of fur bearing animals on Canadian fur farms totaled 4 723 105 dollars. The industry now shows a capital investment about four times as large as in 1920. Silver fox leads the list with 14 922 378 dollars invested an increase of 10 400 000 over 1920. Muskrat comes next at 562 749 dollars and mink at 328 924 dollars.
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Canada
Scotsman Seeks Cure for Sea Sickness on Channel Crossing
A Scotsman crosses the Channel aboard a vessel and asks a captain how to prevent sea sickness. The captain suggests biting a sixpence, sparking a humorous exchange about what counts as a headpiece and driving fast amid jokes about accidents.
Learned Lesson From Child on Prayers for the Poor
A farmer who prayed daily for the destitute learns a child prayed God to help too. The boy set up free apples and potatoes at his gate, saying he was answering his father's prayers. The farmer realizes his own hands can aid others and shifts to direct help.
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Boston
Peter
Government backs newspaper ads to boost Canadian salmon
The Department of Fisheries will spend 25000 on advertising to raise the canning of Canadian salmon. Canners will match dollar for dollar. Ontario Retail Druggists' Association plans a 1931 campaign to promote the drug store's unique role. Salmon packers seek markets with government help through ads. Druggist groups aim to educate the public about professional services.
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Department of National Revenue
Department of Fisheries
Minister of Fisheries
Ontario Retail Druggists
British Columbia
Excuses and Requests in Income Tax Notes from Manitoba
A mix of comic and earnest pleas about taxes appears in early notices. An Oriental replies to a demand for returns by claiming shoelaces sales and willingness to pay if shown how to profit. A newly wed seeks time to pay, citing the six month post wedding cycle. A Scot asks for a deduction for two-cent stamps on weekly pay cheques. The text also notes Manitoba’s growing mineral development near the Saskatchewan boundary amid rail and mine progress.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Not So Enthusiastic Friend Audience Reaction to Vote Comment
A political quip notes a split audience response when admitting no vote payments. It mentions postal savings in Japan rising by 35 million dollars monthly, signaling a broader fiscal point.
Canada’s plant inspection service grows with imports
In 1929-30 the federal plant inspection unit examined 48.9 million imported plants, issued 15,806 permits, and conducted 9,316 inspections. Detected 908 diseased plants and pests such as caterpillars and borers, refused entry in 60 cases, and returned 34 shipments. Mail parcels and passenger imports added thousands more, with nursery stock exports rising 300 percent to 542 shipments.
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Federal Department of Agriculture
Canada
Europe
Canadian Fruit Branch inspection safeguards high quality products
The commercial inspection service of the Fruit Branch conducted 3,300 visits to 414 canning plants, issuing 2,400 certificates and taking 694 samples including tomato paste and evaporated apples. The federal inspection sets quality standards required by statute for labeling each canned product sold in Canada.
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Canada
Dominion
Sr Hk
Federal Inspection Service
Dominion Fruit Branch Proposes Rhubarb Grades and Packaging
The Dominion Fruit Branch outlines three rhubarb grades for forced rhubarb Canada Fancy with at least three inches circumference, Canada No 1 at least two inches, and Canada No 2. It also sets three standard containers: twenty five pound net box or basket, ten pound net wrapped in wax or cellophane, and twelve pound net veneer box.
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Dominion Fruit Branch
Canada
Egg Production Up Across a Decade of Contests at Federal Farms
Over ten years of Egg Laying Contests by the Federal Department of Agriculture experimental farms branch, production rose. In 1929, 5256 birds averaged 176.5 eggs each, up 54 eggs per bird since 1919. The note includes a brief quoted exchange from a scene in Hummel, Hamburg.
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Federal Department of Agriculture
Smallpox and Vaccination Revisited in Historic Overview
The article recounts Jenner’s discovery, explains how vaccination works using calf derived virus, and details the vaccine preparation process. It cites authorities like Dr Hastings and Dr Heiser noting safety and dramatic drops in smallpox deaths after widespread vaccination.
Lighthouse Keeper Fired Without Notice
A man who tended a coastal Atlantic lighthouse was discharged after three months without warning. He protested to a friend that he was a steady worker with no bad habits, only forgetting to light the lamp.
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Atlantic
Ontario Premier urges training to guide youth toward suitable careers
Premier George S. Henry rallied edu cationists in Toronto calling for a Canadian educational guidance movement. He urged proper placement of youths after schooling, arguing trained populations boost national economy and world standing, while cautioning against pushing all toward higher education.
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George S. Henry
Ontario
Canada
Toronto
Henry
Sherwood Fox
Western University
London
Ont
Charles Bishop
Alberta College
Belleville
United States
Dominion study boosts pure-bred sows orders nationwide
Dominion Department of Agriculture reports more than 500 orders for pure-bred sows since November policy announcement by Hon. Robert Weir. A. MacMillan notes wide national interest, especially Saskatchewan and Alberta, with aim to raise bacon and pork exportable surplus by aiding breeders and sharing half freight costs.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Robert Weir
A A. MacMillan
Department
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
MacMillan
General and Soldier in France Brotherhood Tale
In France a popular army story recalls a Black man racing to back areas when halted by a white officer. The officer proclaims being a general, sparking disbelief and a humorous exchange about rank before the pace quickens. A final line notes a new brake nearly stopping a car from seventy miles per hour in twenty feet, likening it to a telephone pole.
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France
The Unattainable Mystery of Life Says Evans
The Vancouver Sun notes philosopher scientist C Lovatt Evans argues man cannot fully explain life origin or purpose by science. He cites acts of sacrifice, courage, and hope as evidence of a radiant, distant mystery beyond mere material facts, urging acceptance of the enduring enigma.
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C Lovatt Evans
England
Profits For Prairie Farmers From Lethbridge Dairy Report
Dominion Experimental Station at Lethbridge Alberta reports nine cows yield an average 11,441.6 pounds of milk with 396.76 pounds butterfat per herd. Butterfat valued at 41.34 cents per pound gives 164.02 dollars, skim milk valued at 25 cents per cwt adds 27.61, total value per cow 191.63 dollars. Feeding cost 102.52 leaves 89.11 dollars profit per head.
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Dominion Experimental Station
Lethbridge
Alberta
Not To His Taste Recital Ends With Mixed Review
A school recital wraps up with ice cream and cake as students say goodbye. A little performer brings a younger brother, and when asked if he enjoyed it Bobby replies he enjoyed everything except the music.
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Bobby
MacNider Denies Ottawa Exit for Political Pursuits
Colonel Hanford MacNider United States minister to Canada rejects Washington reports that he will soon leave Ottawa to engage in Republican party political activities.
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Hanford Macnider
United States
Canada
Washington
Ottawa
Republican Party
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