New Harvesting Methods Seen Transforming Western Canada Farms
The prairie scene sees new windrow and combined reaper threshers cutting harvest time. Windrow systems raise and dry grain quickly, enabling early field work and easier threshing by a pickup-enabled combine. The innovations promise major labor and cost savings and may boost Canada’s status as a top wheat exporter.
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Canada
Gret
Coitiers
Prairies
Department of the Interior
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Combine
Vancouver Island Strawberries Forecast Profitable Summer
A Vancouver despatch notes a heavy strawberry crop expected on Vancouver Island, Gordon Head and Keating growers to pour hundreds of thousands into Saanich farmers this summer due to modern cultivation and disease controls. Also reported are 418 head of beef cattle shipped from Ashcroft to Toronto, the largest BC to Eastern Canada movement.
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver
Gordon Head
Keating
Saanich
Ashcroft
B.C
Toronto
Ont
British Columbia
Canada
Lustrous crepe satin dress pattern No. 813 advertised
Winnipeg newspaper shows fashion design No. 813 using wool crepe silk crepe and two tone crepe for a charming dress with front plaited waist and sash. Patterns offered in multiple sizes with yardage specs and a 25 cent price. Our Fashion Book priced at 10 cents per copy.
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Pattern No
Winnipeg Pattern order notice lists address at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. It provides pattern number and spaces for size name town.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Hudsons Pay-Marland Oil seeks Alberta tar sands rights
The Hudsons Pay-Marland Oil Company has applied for exclusive prospecting rights over a vast area in Northeastern Alberta. Negotiations with the Federal Government are under way as the firm plans $50,000 in plant construction this year to extract oil from the sands.
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Hudson's Pay-Marland Oil Company
Alberta
French Auto Demand Drops as Factories Cut Output
French buyers purchase fewer automobiles this year and factories produce fewer cars than usual, signaling a softening market for the industry. The trend suggests slower sales and reduced production levels across major French automakers.
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France
Wool clip seen as high quality by Canadian sheepmen
Windeler of Windeler & Company, visiting Toronto, praises Canadian wool and notes strong mill demand. He urges sheepmen to remove dark hairs from heads and legs before shearing to prevent dark fibers from tainting fleece and hindering dyeing, stating minimal weight loss but better fabric quality.
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Windeler
Windeler & Company
London
Pradford
England
Ung
Anadiar Coperative Wool Growers
Britain
Europe
Toronto
G. E. O’brien
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers
Winderer
O'Brien
Belgian farmers plan Alberta settlement from Winnipeg group
A 20 Belgian farmers delegation traveling with 450 new settlers to the west aims to establish a Magrath Alberta colony after gaining farming experience in Canada. They expect to bring about five families each once conditions are understood. The party also includes 80 Dutch farmers to northern Alberta and British families under the Empire Settlement scheme. General Summerall comments on peace and hunger.
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Alberta
Winnipeg
Canada
Magrath
Peace River
Winnipeg Boy Chosen as Secretary for Global Explorer
Russell Dixon a 20 year old Winnipeg youth has been selected by world famed explorer Lowell Thomas to join his next expedition as secretary. Dixon will leave the Canadian Pacific Railway offices to live with Thomas in the Berkshire Hills and embark December on an around the world adventure spanning Africa South Seas and other distant regions.
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Russell Dickson
Winnipeg
Lowell Thomas
Africa
South Sea Islands
Dixon
Canadian Pacific Railway
Russell
Thomas
Berkshire Hills
Globe
Banff Springs To Get A World Class Championship Golf Course
Plans for a new 18 hole championship course at Banff Alberta for the Canadian Pacific Railway are advancing under Stanley Thompson with 6640 yard main layout and two extra sets. The course will feature wide fairways two routes per hole Langara style greens creeping bent grass and easier grades promising a top world class links experience opening nine holes this season and full eighteen by May 1929.
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Canada
Stanley Thompson
Toronto
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Banff
Alberta
Banff Springs
Ing
Vancouver
Man Claims 16 Chickens From South Chicago Station
Yok Deveris asserts ownership of 16 hens removed from two boys at the South Chicago Police Station. After a Dutch exchange, 145 hens suddenly respond to his claim, causing a riot of feathers before the sergeant relents. The note ends with a quip about the Spartans.
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Yok Deveris
Chicago
Farm Barn Loses Spotlight as Farmhouse Gains Value
The Farm and Fireside May issue stresses the farmhouse rise in importance on the modern American farm. It notes housing design, family recreation, and neighborhood facilities as buyers seek livable farms alongside productive land.
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Fireside
Motor sled debut in Germany speeds up hill rides
A new gas powered motor sled in Germany eliminates return trips after a downhill run. A 1.5 horsepower gasoline engine drives a cogwheel for the return leg, while the drive wheel disconnects on the slide. The device has reached about 20 miles per hour on level ground and heats footrests with exhaust gas.
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Germany
Artist Tries Stillness During Portrait Session
An artist asks a model to sit absolutely still, she replies she served in the Civil Service for several years, adding a poised calm to the session. The anecdote highlights tension between artistic aim and professional composure.
The Optimist Takes A Cay Off When Rent Collector Arrives
A terse note describes an optimist bargaining with a rent collector, evading payment by taking a cay during the encounter. The scene captures street scarcity and personal improvisation in a tense exchange.
Veteran retires as CN general superintendent in Edmonton
W A Brown, veteran Canadian National Railways official and Edmonton general superintendent since 1911, retires on May 1 after 50 years of continuous service. He is noted as the oldest railwayman west of the Great Lakes. Succeeded by W B Devenish, formerly CNR superintendent at North Bay Ontario.
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W. A. Brown
Canadian National Railways
Edmonton
Canada
Mr. Brown
Great Lakes
Portage la Prairie
W. B. Devenish
North Bay
Ontario
New Peak Supplants Mount Robson as Rockies’ Highest
Mount Robson at 12 922 feet has ceded top status to Mount Waddington a 300 foot higher peak in British Columbia The discovery confirms Canada holds many yet unknown wonders and may reveal more high peaks.
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Mount Robson
Canadian Rockies
Waddington
British Columbia
Canada
Bee Keeper Sends First Carload of Honey From BC Hives
In the Okanagan Valley a bee-keeper with 250 colonies exported a full carload of honey for the first time in the province. The operation yielded an average of 17 percent pounds per colony.
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British Columbia
Okanagan Valley
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Ingel
Isabelle Barnada
Peter Larkin
Alexander the Great
Babylon
Amusant
Paris
W. WN. U
SONY
Albert
Summerall
Boy World Explorer
William IL Clark
K.C.S.L
Cmg
Great Britain
Trst
Public Service
Board of Trade Department
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