Fuel research could boost Canada from coal deposits
The bulletin by F E Gilmore of Ottawa's Mines branch outlines advances in low temperature coking and gas production from coal. It envisions Canada turning coal into coke matching imported quality, generating gas for heating and cooling, and potentially synthetic fuels for private homes.
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Cansde
Coe
Fuel Research Laboratories
Mines
Ottawa
Bulletin
The
Professional Institute of the Civil Service
Canada
Gilmore
Free Press
Canada sheep and wool industry records good year 1928
Dominion Department of Agriculture reports 1928 livestock and wool gains with sheep and lamb sales above prior year by over one dollar per hundredweight and wool values rising 5 to 25 percent. Stockyard totals reach 469 712 head with a 5 006 head rise and Ontario along with western provinces show notable growth. The article ends with a quotation about anticipation for a conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ontario
Modernist Silk Crepe Bodice and Ensemble Pattern No 465
The notice describes a modernistic print silk crepe bodice pattern with a hip yoke and straight slender back skirt, offered as Pattern No 465 in sizes 16 to 42 bust. It mentions fabric options in chif fon georgette crepe canton-faille and tweed, priced 25 cents plus 10 cents for the Spring Fashion Magazine copy.
Canada Wheat Exports Reach 47 Countries in Eight Months
Canada exported wheat valued at $302.28 million for eight months, up about $50 million from a year earlier, with the British Isles buying $174.14 million worth. Wheat flour exports totaled $46.31 million, with the British Isles taking $10.97 million and other nations $35.24 million.
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Canada
British Isles
Government to supply planes to active flying clubs
Ten aeroplanes will be given by the government to clubs already operating. The grants duplicate 1928 purchases by clubs in Montreal Ottawa Hamilton Toronto Winnipeg Regina Moose Jaw Granby Quebec Saskatoon and Calgary. Policy since 1927 aims to boost Canadian flying. Current club membership includes 142 private and 4% commercial license holders, totaling 3400 members with 260 solo fliers.
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Montreal
Ottawa
Hamilton
Toronto
Winnipeg
Regina
Moose Jaw
Granby
Quebec
Saskatoon
Calgary
Canada
Tiniest Tagger is Red Cross Champion
Edmonton girl Lenore Moir wins top prize at Primrose Tag Day raising the most for the Junior Red Cross Crippled Children's Hospital. Thousands of primroses made in April were sold by taggers and her Red Cross uniform drew great attention. She turned in the best box of money and secured one thousand dollars for Alberta’s crippled children.
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Lenore Moir
Edmonton
Alberta
Red Cross Crippled Children’s Hospital
England
Adventurers Remembered at Brunswick Wharf in London
A bronze tablet at Brunswick Wharf Blackwall London honors 105 Adventurers who sailed December 19 1606 to found Jamestown Virginia The Sarah Constant is listed at 100 tons along with the Goodspeed 40 tons and Discovery 26 tons May 13 marks the settlement but 63 of the 105 died in seven months Survivors grew to about 5000 in 15 years A really dependable market Up asparagus.
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Brunswick Wharf
Blackwall
London
America
Sarah Constant
Jamestown
Virginia
Little Colony
Summer Fallow Treatment For Wheat
The Swift Current experimental station report on summer fallow shows germinating weed seeds and destroying weeds early yields best results. Fall ploughing lowers average yields. cultivation during the fallow year gives 26.4 bushels next year compared with 22.9 after ploughing and later cultivation. The report stresses leaving soil in the fall in a condition to reduce soil drifting.
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Swift Current
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
J. G. Taggart
London Transforms as Old City Surrenders to Steel
A reflective portrait of London undergoing rapid change as districts gain new brick, stucco gives way to stone, steel, and concrete. The piece foresees towering modern buildings on the Embankment and Bloomsbury, Mornington Crescent, Westminster, shifting the city from Victoria’s era to a New York like future.
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London
Bloomsbury Square
Mornington Crescent
Embankment
Westminster
New York
Queen Victoria
Alfalfa Seed Caution Warns Against Argentine Seed
Dominion Agrostologist G R MecRostie warns that Argentine alfalfa seed is unsuitable for Canadian conditions. He notes two large shipments imported into Ontario and states tests across Canada prove the seed unsuitable. He adds Argentine seed must be stained red under law, up to ten percent, to aid identification.
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Canada
G. R. MecRostie
Dominion
Ontario
Canadian Amateur Golf Championship at Jasper Park Lodge
The Royal Canadian Golf Association hosts the Canadian Amateur Championship and Western Canada Amateur at Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper Alberta from August 19 to 24. The par 72 course is regarded as North America's finest and will test amateurs with the No. 1 tees on all holes.
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Royal Canadian Golf Association
Jasper Park Lodge
North America
Western Canada
Jasper
Alberta
Moving trains talk and Geneva's League of Nations spirit
A Canadian National Railways test demonstrates telephone communication with a moving train at twenty miles per hour, with reception from Toronto flawless. In Geneva the League of Nations fosters personal contact, cordial debate, and humanitarian work across 54 nations, mixing delegates and press in a cosmopolitan, businesslike drive toward universal peace.
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Canadian National Railways
W. D. Robb
Telegraph and Telephone Department
Robb
CNRT
Toronto
Mr. Robb
Sir Henry Thornton
United States
Canada
Dominion
Geneva
League of Nations
League
Secretariat
Vimani
Haiti
China
Ranji
India
Prince Charoon
Persia
Munerope
Custard in Medieval Comedy and Modern Silliness
The piece traces custard gags from medieval Lord Mayor’s day to modern references. It notes a fool leaping into custard as a crowd pleaser and cites Shakespeare in Allewell That Ends Well. It also includes a dialect joke about buck and stock market slang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Detroit News
Alberta Turkeys Surplus Shift To Eastern Canada
A 1928 government booklet states Alberta disposed of about 1,350,000 pounds of turkeys outside the province while ten years earlier imports from Eastern Canada were needed. The report notes a growing surplus ready for shipment eastward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Alberta
Canada
Dialogic remarks and quips on stage life and vanity
Barbara recalls a night out with young Driscoll and a joke about fifty dollar courage. Muriel asks if he was shy, and a witty exchange follows about performance and genuine emotion. Esquella Barce lope is cited.
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Barbara
Driscoll
Muriel
Esquella
Barce
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Barcelona
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Firitish
McDermo
Ameen Een
Red Cross
Dominion Agrostologist
R.C.G.A
Dandurand
Christendom
Florian
Rastus
Stock Exchange
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