Ontario Drives Canadian Tourist Traffic Rise Says Minister
Growth in tourist traffic shows Canada welcomed 4,503,508 foreign cars for touring last year, up 63,353 from 1924. Ontario supplied the majority about 75 percent, with 3,443, satisfyingly boosting overall Dominion gains. Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan also recorded increases in visitor vehicles and tourism revenue. The data, released by Hon. W. D. Euler, notes more cars stayed longer in Canada, underscoring tourism’s economic importance.
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Canada
W. D. Euler
National Revenue
United States
Ontario
Sayls
Quebec
Britsh Columbia
Alberta
New Brunswick
Saskatchewan
Canada Seeks Nationhood From Its Own History
Col. J. H. Woods, Calgary publisher and Canadian Chamber of Commerce president, told the Toronto Board of Trade Club that Canada should build its nationhood on its history and in its own empire. He argued Canadians once admired the United States but are now advancing northward, noting 250000 miles of Canadian north explored by airplanes and praising chamber efforts to knit the Dominion together.
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Canada
Col. J. H. Woods
Calgary
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Toronto Board of Trade Club
United States
Col. Woods
Dominion
Bank loan test joke and travel tidbits
A banker tests a loan applicant with a glass eye riddle and the customer answers with a quick joke. The text notes a hummingbird in East Indian regions and school terms in South America from March to December. A child’s snowball quip adds light humor.
Fewer Wild Horses in British Columbia Roundups Cut Range Threat
The British Columbia ranching area reduces wild horse numbers as annual roundups capture thousands. The best horses serve as mounts. others are destroyed or sold. J W Dunne of Calgary offers 5 cents per hundredweight for up to 1000 head to reduce grazing pressure and herd excess, with potential export to Europe and use of carcasses as fertilizer. The horses, offspring of old pack train stock, have long harmed grazing land and domesticated stock.
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British Columbia
Tees
J. W. Durne
Calgary
Dunne
Belgium
France
Cariboo
Range
Early Measurements Across Ancient Systems
The article traces measures from fathom and cub to ell and palm, noting the palm and digit as hand widths, the Roman foot and its four palms, and the inch as three barley corns. It explains varied lengths such as the Hebrew half-day journey, Chinese lih, Greek stadium, Roman pace, furlong, and mille passus. The English inch origin is tied to three barley corns.
Where Brite Gets Bronze For Medals
The article explains the Victoria Cross is linked to Crimea bronze, with each cross cast from captured gun metal. It notes 1911 open to Indian troops, 1920 to women and civilians in some cases, and remarks only one foreign VC and one unawarded case, the 1929 Washington War Memorial raid.
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Crimea
War Office
V.C
Mr. T. Dinieson
Copenhagen
War Memorial
Washington
Potato History and Rise to Prominence in U.S. Agriculture
The potato once a wealthy staple became central to U.S. farming as 350 million bushels are produced for animal feed. Traced by William Stuart of the Bureau of Plant Industry, the tuber spread from elite gardens to mass cultivation since 1850, evolving through artificial propagation and new varieties.
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United States
Federal Farm Board
America
Peru
An Ideal Employer King George is the ideal employer
English workers on the Sandringham estate praise the King as an ideal employer. Benefits include a free house and garden, care from the King's physician at 2 pence weekly, an old age pension, a rent free cottage for widows, milk from prize cows, wood from forests, occasional game, and access to a club house with library billiards and a concert hall where concerts cost 1 penny.
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King George
Sandringham
Order Not Rescinded at Drury Lane Theatre
For 150 years soldiers guarded Drury Lane outside every performance. The practice, begun as riot prevention during a visit by George VI, continued until 1894 though often misread as a Royal theater honor. A tailor jokes to a apprentice about delivering bills.
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Drury Lane
London
Coors
Old Drury
Theatre Royal
George NI
Standard Englishman Speech Compared Across Nations
A Detroit Saturday Night commentary argues that English stage caricatures rely on exaggerated accents while real English leaders like King George and the Prince of Wales speak clearly and precisely. It predicts American comedians may adjust their views of the standard Englishman’s pronunciation if the voice is heard often enough.
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America
London
George
Detroit
Camel Pest Drives Australian Shoot Campaigns
In early Australia camels were imported to aid transport but as cars rail and air travel grew they became pests. Camel shoots are organized to reduce grazing impact on sheep. Separately a grim figure cites that between 1914 and 1918 the Turks killed over 800,000 Armenians by shooting burning or starvation.
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Australia
Soil survey and soil fertility as farming adopts a plant view
The United States Department of Agriculture conducts a nationwide soil survey to guide crop recommendations and educate farmers about soil fertility. Experts compare farm soils to manufacturing plants where soil nutrients are raw materials that must be replenished to sustain production.
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United States Department of Agriculture
New York Herald
Lord Mayor's Coach Endures as Lavish Yet Uncomfortable
Looker-On in the London Daily Chronicle admires the coach constructed a century and a half ago with Italian artistry. The ornate design includes Roman trophies, globe figures, the serpent and dove, Faith and Charity, Truth with her mirror, Neptune, the City Arms, Justice scales, and depictions of the Tower of London and St Paul’s. Despite its grandeur, the coach lacks modern comfort.
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London Daily Chronicle
Neptune
Tower of London
St. Paul's
Third Ranking Industry Mining in British Columbia
The third ranking industry in British Columbia is mining with $120 million invested capital. Last year BC mines produced $70,030,976 and the industry employed 18,000 workers earning $30,000,000 in wages. About half of Tibet’s population are monks and nuns.
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British Columbia
Steers Win at International Exposition Now Aboard Cunard Ship
Heavy shouldered prize steers from Chicago’s International Live Stock Exposition have been bought by the Cunard Line and sent to the Berengaria. They are to be used in shipboard menus after arriving from the packer in a ready dressed form.
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Chicago
S.S. Berengaria
Cunard Line
International Deposition
Armour Company
Skipper Rejects Prospective Recruit For Passable Goalkeeper
The Popsea Rovers skipper questions a hopeful goalie, asking if he is good enough. Upon learning the reply passable, the skipper dismisses him, declaring they need someone not passable. A caller asks if the manager is in, and the office boy questions the doubt of his word.
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Popsea Rovers
Welfare Of Crippled Children Meet In Toronto
North American leaders will attend a three day International Society for Crippled Children convention in Toronto starting March 17. Experts from Ontario and the United States will discuss education rehabilitation and care for crippled children with speakers including Dr W Edward Gallie and Paul H King. Delegates will visit public institutions and hospitals and hold luncheon meetings with the Toronto Service Club.
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Toronto
International Society For Crippled Children
York Hotel
G. Howard Ferguson
Ontario
Franklin D Roosevelt
New York
Governor- General of
Canada
Viscountess Willingdon
Ontario Society For Crippled Children
Robert L. Stratton
W. Edward Gallie
Gallie
Charles M. Elliott
Ypsilanti
Michigan
J. N. Hamilton
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
John A. K
Toronto Service Club
Edgar F. Allen
Elyria
Ohio
Harry H. Howett
Paul H. King
Detroit
Jane A. Neil
Chicago
Alberta Liquor Consumption Up Big in 1929 Fiscal Year
Alberta as fiscal year ending March 31 1929 consumed 4 400 000 gallons of beer up 834 000 from 1925 3 566 000. Wine rose 164 000 gallons from 1925 to 219 000. Sparkling wine 219 000 and hard liquor 198 000 set records vs 114 000 in 1925.
Trapper Rescued After Eye Injury In Northwest Cabin
An 80 year old trapper, George Lux, lay severe and ready to shoot himself in a remote Northwest Territory cabin 300 miles from Aklavik when Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived to aid him. He had been helpless for two weeks and confessed his plan to the officers.
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George Lux
Trapper
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Aklavik
Northwest Territories
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