Winnipeg minister plans Baltic sea midsummer voyage
Reverend Oscar Gunnerfelt of Winnipeg organizes a Baltic coast trip to Sweden Norway Denmark and Finland leaving Winnipeg May 24 by CN Rail and sailing New York May 21 aboard the Drottningholm with many western Canada Minnesota and North Dakota residents expected to join.
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Baltic Sea
Oscar Gunnerfelt
Winnipeg
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Canadian National Railways
New York
Canada on the brink of a bold era of expansion
The author urges Canadians to embrace a broad vision for the nation's future and reject narrow comparisons to the United States. Canada is portrayed as a growing global factor in paper, wheat, nickel, asbestos, and gold, with rising population and stronger self-reliance, while warning against “little Canadianism.” The piece cites Prince of Wales praise for Canada’s looming expansion.
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Canada
United States
United State
Department of World Production
Europe
Prince of Wales
Canadians Eye U S Goods Drive In Winnipeg Trade Push
The U S Department of Commerce plans to open an agency in Winnipeg to promote American goods in western Canada. The move follows a belief that trade rewards the active dealer and expands market access for U S imports.
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United States
U.S. Department of Commerce
Winnipeg
Canada
England's per person fruit intake totals by fruit type
The average England resident consumes about 95 apples, 67 oranges, 62 bananas and 15 lemons annually. This breakdown highlights fruit preference patterns and overall healthy eating considerations.
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England
Cold Storage Plant Planned at New Westminster BC
A two million dollar cold storage plant is planned for New Westminster British Columbia to store fruit dairy meat and fishery products for export from British Columbia and the prairie provinces.
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New Westminster
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Native Animals Increase In Canadian Parks
The national parks of Canada show sanctuaries restore native species once feared extinct. Authorities report rising populations as protected areas and sanctuary status support wildlife recovery.
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National Parks of
Canada
Diamond Dyes Offer True Color Tinting For Stockings
The ad promotes Diamond Dyes for home tinting of Silk Stockings with fifteen cents of dye. It claims quick results in five minutes using true dyes, not synthetic tints. It encourages asking a druggist for the Diamond Dye Cyclopedia and free Color Craft book from Diamond Dyes in Windsor Ontario.
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Windsor
Ontario
Canadian Wheat Pool shows large membership and outputs
The latest returns report 140000 member farmers across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with 15500000 acres under contract. It runs 942 country elevators and ten terminals with combined capacity of 54000000 bushels. Last year the pool shipped 124000000 bushels to 24 countries including 50600000 to the British Isles.
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Canadian Wheat Pool
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Isles
Canada Expands Light Planes For Civil Flying Clubs
Canada adds 26 moth light planes from a British firm to the national loan fleet. Delivered already, they will be allocated to clubs meeting National Defence conditions. Saskatoon Aero Club to receive two planes and other support under standard approval terms. A final note on corn removal products is included.
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Canada
Department of National Defence
Census protest over Canadian nationality claim
National protest denounces census statisticians for refusing to recognize Canadian nationality. The letter argues a child with mixed English Canadian ancestry is Canadian, second only to the North American Indian, while quoting a Western Producer editorial.
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Canada
Radio secrecy demo promises private transatlantic calls
Sergius P. Grace of Bell Labs demonstrated a system using high and low frequency transformers to distort speech and render it unintelligible. An electric translating brain rearranged, modulated, and relayed frequencies to loudspeakers, suggesting secret voice transmission could protect long distance radio telephony from unintended listeners.
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City Club
Sergius P. Grace
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Northern Saskatchewan plans to aid mineral prospectors
The Saskatchewan provincial government through its new department of industries will aid prospectors in the north with aerial surveys in collaboration with the Dominion Government. By year end maps of the north eastern mineral area should be completed to guide investors and developers. The minister says services will be provided at no cost to prospectors, with university experts assisting, and plans to support water powers and coal fields for capital ventures.
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Department of Industries
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Spence
New Strength for All Weak Girls
A medicinal advertisement promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for anemia in pale weak girls. It cites a Canadian mother’s testimony from Shelburne Ontario about her daughter’s recovery after months of pills, plus a note that the pills aid appetite, nerves, and overall health. The pills cost 50 cents a box and are sold by dealers or mailed by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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Dr. Williams
Robert Jackson
R.R. No. 5
Shelburne
Ont
Grain Exports From Vancouver Set New Monthly and Seasonal Records
Exports through the port of Vancouver British Columbia in January reached 14,183,183 bushels and the 1927 crop shipping season to month’s end totalled 36,459,014 bushels, both new records.
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Vancouver
B.C
Fortify Yourself Against Colds
A Toronto reader reports chronic winter sore throats and voice loss until discovering Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. She praises its relief and calls it worth its weight in gold, advising readers to seek it from all dealers or contact Dr. Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo, New York for advice.
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Toronto
Dr. Fierce
A. McDonald
McMurrich St
Rushing Work On Flin Flon Railway Progress Report
With 1250 men on site the Flin Flon railway into Manitoba’s mineral region advances day and night. Seven bridges, Mile 6 steam shovel, gravel pits at Miles 10 and 15, grading to Mile 42, camps, cleared land, and westward grading beyond Mile 50. Drag line at Mile 50, 90 teams and four Linn tractors haul supplies, 2700 tons delivered west of Mile 50. Telephone reaches Mile 31. Muskeg conditions push winter work as tracks are laid ready for spring ballasting near the mine and supply deposits.
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Flin Flon
Manitoba
Mile
Linn
Curious lifeboat invention by seasoned ship carpenter
A ship's carpenter with sixty years at sea crafts a novel lifeboat. The design features two broad shallow hulls joined bottom to bottom so one half capsizes and the other rights itself. It resists capsizing and sinking with valves that vent water only and separate tanks for fresh water and food accessible from either side.
Ancient Armenian church near Mount Ararat, Etchmiadzin
The oldest Christian church in the world dates to the third century and stands at Etchmiadzin near Mount Ararat in Soviet Armenia. Tradition names Gregory the Illuminator as founder, giving the church the title St Gregory's Cathedral.
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Mount Ararat
Etchmiadzin
Soviet Armenia
Gregory the Illuminator
St. Gregory’s Cathedral
Silica Sand Found in Manitoba Shores and Beauséjour
Deposits of silica sand likely suitable for glass manufacture are located on Black Island shore of Lake Winnipeg and at Beausejour in Manitoba.
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Black Island
Lake Winnipeg
Beausejour
Manitoba
Hamilton Herald Advocates Amn't 17 Phrase
A Hamilton Herald columnist proposes using the phrasing Amn't 17 as a humorous substitute for Am I not. The remark targets stylistic quirks in language and invites light ridicule of a paper’s stumbles.
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Hamilton Herald
Lapwing Flight From England to Newfoundland Astonishes
An extraordinary report notes hundreds of lapwings or peewits migrating nonstop about 2000 miles from England to Newfoundland in December gales. The piece highlights the birds' endurance, hunger forcing the voyage, and the unlikely aid of tail winds in parts of the journey. It also includes an aside about worms in children and promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a remedy.
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England
Newfoundland
Scotland
London
Atlantic
Brampton Horseman McCallum Moves to Regina Stables
W J McCallum famed horseman relocates permanently to Regina with his stables as a distributing point. He entered over 100 horses at the Royal Show in Toronto last fall winning more championships and prizes than any other exhibitor. TheOil of the People Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil remains a leading remedy praised for its broad usefulness and customer trust.
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W. J. McCallum
Brampton
Ontario
Regina
Saskatchewan
Thomas
Tar Sand Prospect Near Atha Baska River Studied
The Marland Oil Company has studied tar sand deposits along the Atha Baska River in Northern Alberta and contemplates building an oil extraction plant using a Denver, Colorado developed process.
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Marland Oil Company
Athabaska River
Alberta
Denver
Colorado
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