Various Canada Britain and Iceland News Highlights
Cardinal Rouleau leads 350 Canadian pilgrims in audience with Pope Pius. Alberta approves 5 120 acre bituminous sands development to Walter P Hinton. Cuba Canada parcel post pact seen as prelude to full treaty. French military tribunal dissolved. buildings handed to German authorities. J G A Creighton CMG KC law clerk of the Senate dies at Rideau Club aged 80. Iceland Denmark king and queen visit Thingvallir Plain with Canadians and Americans of Icelandic descent. Doukhobor Sons of Freedom move through Nelson toward Bril Mant. Holstein Friesian Association to pay 15000 in prize money. third No 4 Canadian General Hospital Scholarship awarded to D W Johnston. War memorial scholarship at University of Toronto.
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Cardinal Rouleau
Quebec
Pope Pius
Alberta
Walter P Hinton
Toronto
Canada Gazette
Cuba
Canada
Iceland
Denmark
Rock of Laws
Thingvallir Plain
Sons of Freedom
Nelson
Porto Rico
B.C
Bril- Mant
Canadian Holstein Friesian Association
Dominion
Canadian General Hospital
University of Toronto
D. W. Johnston
Regina
Sask
Spectator readers crown Shaw as nation’s top mind
The Spectator lists George Bernard Shaw as the best brain in the country with 214 votes in its order of merit. Bernard Shaw leads followed by Sir Oliver Lodge 183 and Lord Birkenhead 162, with Churchill, Dean Inge, and H. G. Wells among the top figures.
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George Bernard Shaw
Spectator
London Weekly Review
The
Bernard Shaw
Sir Oliver Lodge
Lord Birkenhead
Winston Churchill
Dean Inge
H. G. Wells
Lord Melchett
Lloyd George
Phillip Snowden
John Simon
Mr. Baldwin
Canterbury
Dr. Lang
York
Dr. Tample
Lord Reading
Sir James Barrie
G. K. Chesterton
Western Canada Breeds Most Ducks Used by Hunters
The article explains that most ducks hunted in eastern Canada originate from Western Canada. It notes that canvasbacks redheads mallards and scaups shot in Ontario and Quebec are bred in the west, with only black ducks and possibly green winged teal breeding locally. It ends with a aside about the cost of petrol after buying a car, emphasizing spirit over material things.
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Ontario
Quebec
Canada
Giant Gulf Stream Tube Loses Fight At Sea
A massive corrugated steel tube costing over 1 060 000 dollars collapsed and sank near Matanzas Cuba while intended to siphon Gulf Stream water to power a plant at Professor Georges Claude's laboratory. The device 1800 meters long was designed to produce steam by vacuum to drive turbines.
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Gulf Stream
Matanzas
Cuba
Georges Claude
Professor Claude
Gulf Shore
Claude
Beauty and Usefulness in the Home
The piece argues for blending beauty with practicality in domestic life. It urges that items like the lamp, gas range, ash tray, and automobile be designed by top artists, starting at home, as a cultural force to raise common taste without excess.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Pattern No
Pattern ordering note appears from Winnipeg Newspaper Union listing address 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. No specific pattern number given.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Monster Inter-Provincial Picnic Near Roblin Set for Labor Day
Manitoba and Saskatchewan communities organize a joint Labor Day event at the Manitoba Saskatchewan boundary eight miles west of Roblin. Leaders Art Stelck and H J Bowley coordinate the site in the Assiniboine Valley with speeches by W R Clubb and A C Stewart. Governor Christiansson and possibly Governor Sorenson may attend adding an international feel to the celebration featuring a buffalo barbecue, games, and a symbolic highway linkage ceremony.
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Manitoba-Saskatchewan
Roblin
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Art Stelck
Dauphin
Ace” Emmett
Manitoba Motor League
Winnipeg
H. J. Bowley
Assiniboine
W. R. Clubb
A. C. Stewart
Christiansson
Minnesota
Sorenson
North Dakota
Inter-Provincial Association
Manitoba- Saskatchewan
Assiniboine River
Prairie Provinces
Red River
Canada
Prairies
Prairie communities unite over shared road progress
In a gathering that bridges north and south of the border, representatives celebrate the spread of better roads. The event marks tangible evidence that long effort has connected distant communities to each other’s doors with improved highways.
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U.S.A
Seadrome Afloat Landing Pad Serves Bay Air Ferry
A Small Seadrome is placed in service by a San Francisco bay air ferry line. The 100 foot wide floating island acts as the country’s smallest artificial landing pad for seaplanes. Shaped like an inverted saucer, it has a smooth top and a hull based ballast system to adjust depth and incline. Sanded inclines prevent amphibians from skidding, with cemented sand finishing. The craft anchors at a dock end with about 85 landings and 85 takeoffs daily.
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San Francisco Bay
Annex to Erection of 1.6 Million Bushel Grain Storage
Norman M. Paterson announces plans to add a grain storage annex to Fort William terminal elevator owned by N. M. Paterson and Company. The 1.6 million bushel capacity project costs about 250000 dollars and starts immediately by Fegles Construction Company of Minneapolis and Fort William. Completion aimed for October 1 with engineers preparing for construction to begin within two weeks.
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Fort William
N. M. Paterson and Company
Norman M. Paterson
Fegles Construction Company
Minneapolis
Fegles Company
Regina population rises to 66,996 on June 1 1929
Regina’s population reached 66,996 as of June 1 1929, the Regina Board of Trade announced. The increase reflects a rise of 4,515 from the earlier unofficial total of 62,481 compiled by Henderson’s directories and the Board of Trade.
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Greater Regina
Regina Board of Trade
Henderson
Telegraph Lines in Canada Reach Vast Network
New statistics show over 338000 miles of telegraph lines in Canada with six trans Atlantic cables terminating here, five on the Atlantic coast and one on the Pacific, handling nearly eight million cables annually.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Polar expedition may launch to prove Eskimos link to neolithic France
Dr. Knud Rasmussen, famed Arctic explorer, considers a polar expedition to show a connection between Eskimos and neolithic cave dwellers who occupied France and parts of Europe. The plan aims to demonstrate a shared ancestry across distant regions.
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Knud Rasmussen
France
Europe
Sunday School Lesson Golden Text and Contents July 13
The lesson centers on Matthew 16.26 questioning profit from worldly gain versus life itself. It covers Genesis 25.19-34 and the life of Jacob, with readings from Genesis 27 33 46 28 to 47.12 and a devotional from Psalm 19.7-14.
Jacob Offers Birthright Trade for Red Lentil Pottage
Esau returns from the field faint and asks for food. Jacob pressure buys Esau’s birthright with a hurried pledge, valuing present hunger over future privileges. Esau, exhausted, swears to the deal and despises his birthright as he departs.
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Jacob
Esau
Edom
Abraham
Canadian Bond Sales Rise Across First Five Months
The first five months of the year show Canadian bond sales totaling $292,677,277, up from $228,765,612 in 1929 and $210,285,660 in 1928. Two thirds, or $214,899,277, were bought in Canada with $77,778,999 purchased in the United States.
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Canada
United States
Ottawa University finds 27 year buried plum jam cache
Students at Ottawa University sampled plum jam unearthed from the scholastic grounds after excavation of the old kitchen site destroyed by fire in 1903. Forty quarts of preserves were located several feet underground and tested by workers on the campus.
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Ottawa University
Church pew upholstery shortcoming noted in report
The front pew in the church may lack the required degree of upholstery but there is no windshield to cause an unexpected header.
Presentations To Iceland A Millennium Gift Ceremony
A bronze tablet bearing Thomas H. Johnson likeness was unveiled at Thingvellir by Hon. W. J. Major and presented to Iceland as Manitoba's millennium gift. Icelandic and British anthems were heard as Canadian Icelanders attended. Gifts from the U S Germany Sweden Norway Denmark and Denmark’s Nina Saemundson featured in a grand three day celebration.
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Thomas H. Johnson
Manitoba
Thingvellir
W. J. Major
Iceland
Parliament
Major
Canada
United States
Burtmess
Sveinbjoern Johnson
Arni Eggertson
Germany
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Copenhagen
Althing
Legion of Honor
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Nina Saemundson
America
Good Roads Program Expands Across Canada
The nationwide effort extends paved roads to rural districts in all provinces. In Canada's National Parks, maintained by the government, a substantial road program connects park routes with major provincial highways, benefiting motorists and farmers alike.
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Canada
Automatic Letter Box Handles Mail by Weight in Berlin
Berlin post office installs automatic letter boxes that convey letters to the sorting room once a certain total weight is accumulated. The system uses a travelling band to move mail for sorting, increasing efficiency in mail handling.
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Berlin
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Cmg. K.C
Senate
Rideau Club
Ottawa
England
Western
Hollywood
W. N. UL
TaNory
Annebelle Worthington
Gateway
San Francisco Air Ferry
Telegraph Lines
Good Roads Program
John A. Chantler & Co., Ltd
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
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