Empire Seeks Raw Materials Backing Britain Defence Drive
The article notes Britain’s defence program relies on private industry to back shipyards machinery and construction. Trinidad is highlighted as a strategic oil hub near the British Isles with refineries and transport, and concern grows over iron and steel shortages and possible government controls. Building, housing, and labor resources are examined as part of sustaining armament production and avoiding an economic slump.
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Britain
British Isles
Dominions
Venezuela
Import Duties Committee
Clyde
Belfast
Building Industries National Council
Western film unit heads to Prince Albert Park for Timber
Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur are billed to star in Timber shot in Prince Albert National Park this summer with a film crew of about 50. June arrival anticipated. snow considerations may push shoots north. Phyllis Gordon Demarest and Estelle Demarest also listed among early arrivals. Canada’s 1935 fish exports totaled 24.435 million dollars.
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Prince Albert National Park
Gary Cooper
Jean Arthur
M-G-M
Bob Lightner
Cooper
Miss Arthur
Swea
Lightner
Phylls Gordon Demarest
Estelle Demarest
Saskatoon
Star-Phoenix
Canada Calling campaign boosts Canadian goods in UK
A federal government drive labeled Canada Calling races to boost Canadian food products in the United Kingdom. Over months sales surged 20 to 100 percent year over year with Scotland's largest wholesaler showing a 163 percent jump in salmon. Demand for ham canned milk vegetables and lobster strains supply despite ongoing campaign.
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United Kingdoms
United Kingdom
Canada
Scotland
Brandon Sun
Henry VII Sentenced Animals as Traitors in Folklore
The New York Sun recounts legends of Henry VII ordering four English mastiffs hanged for defeating a lion and a prized falcon beheaded for facing an eagle. The piece notes these executions were symbolic acts aimed at warning turbulent nobility.
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Henry VII
England
Miss Strickland
New York Sun
Poultry Outlook Sees Egg Shortage Risk and Rising Prices
The outlook warns of an egg shortage from September to January with higher prices ahead as feed costs stay high. Producers are urged to hatch and raise more chicks this spring while Canada benefits from strong poultry exports to England amid a global rise in demand and costs. A car shipment to Great Britain shows milkfed chickens as a quality example.
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Canada
England
North America
Great Britain
This Is Unusual Mrs Barker Keeps Name Through Marriages
A married woman from Leek Staffordshire retains the surname Barker after two marriages and a widowhood. She left the church as Mrs Barker for both weddings, with the bridegroom being her late husband’s brother, and her name remains Barker from before her first marriage.
Ash dump on highway near Coalhurst supplies road material
In Coalhurst Alberta an old colliery ash dump smouldering for two years is spread on the highway to Kipp. Hundreds of tons of ash are being used as road material and steam and smoke are visible after dumping. The article notes it is best to get paid in cash.
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Ceylon
New York Times
Coalhurst
Alta
Kipp
New Zealand farmers unveil motorist gate invention
In Wellington two farmers reveal a motorist gate that lies flat as a car passes and then rises back into place after the vehicle clears a second device. The mechanism aims to ease barrier operation and protect passage.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Proposed Western Merger Aims to Cut Government Costs
In a Financial Post report the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh dedicated its $6 million building a nine story Greek temple with 322 laboratories and 185 scientists. It notes massive Western consolidation to reduce overhead as Yukon and British Columbia edging toward annexation and provincial unity for mining lumber and farming regions.
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Melion Institute
Pittsburgh
Tropics
Arctic
Sahara
Institute
United States
Andrew W. Mellon
Richard M. Mellon
Yukon
Ratries T . E
Pacific Coast
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Parliament Hill
British Columbia
Duff Pattullo
Dominion
Yukon Territory
Vancouver
B.C
Pattullo
Best Friend poll shows Britain as top European choice
A national survey by the Institute of Public Opinion marks the twentieth anniversary of U S entry into World War I. Great Britain dominates with 55 percent support, far ahead of France at 11 percent and Germany at 8 percent.
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Institute of Public Opinion
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Britain
Finland
Ireland
Italy
Switzerland
Belgium
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Greece
Holland
U.S.S.R
Russia
Animated car toons surge abroad in Europe and beyond
Statistics show demand for animated car cartoons rises in Occidental countries outside the United States. The cartoons are now produced in French Spanish Italian and German.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Occidental
United States
Flower Basket quilt block pattern 5848 in Winnipeg
Simple old time quilt block with Flower Basket design. Pattern 5848 includes block chart, finished block illustration, three color schemes, yardage, and step by step directions. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnnipeg Newspaper Union Winnipeg.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Fisheries Employment in Canada 1935 Industry Report
A report shows Canada’s fisheries employed over 85 000 workers in 1935. Of these, about 70 600 were in primary operations catching and landing fish while around 15 000 worked in canning curing and processing plants. Atlantic Coast labor exceeded Pacific and inland regions with 56 650 workers, including 2 500 in freshwater fisheries, while British Columbia employed just over 17 000.
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Canada
British Columbia
Atlantic
Dominion
Pacific
Quebec
New Brunswick
No Coast for Bolivia or Paraguay
A concise note states that neither Bolivia nor Paraguay has a seacoast or seaport, reflecting their landlocked status in South America.
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Bolivia
Paraguay
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Ceslon
Andree
Polar
Alice Brooks
Alice
Brooks
Sheries
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