Vast empire developing in the Alberta North and Peace River region
The Lethbridge Herald discusses a potential vast empire of wealth in the Alberta Northland and Peace River headwaters. It highlights coal and iron resources, hydro power from a 12 mile stretch yielding about 1,500,000 horsepower, timber and pulpwood, and a hoped for railway and coast outlet linking to a northern British Columbia city near the Pacific.
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Lethbridge
Herod
Alberta
Amd
Herald
Peace River
Arctic
Lord Rhondda
Sullivan
Kimberley
Peace River Canyon
Peace River Beach
British Columbia
Pacific
Orient
The
Great
Northland
Canada
Empire Loaf Advocated By Sir James Dunn
Sir James Dunn urges Empire free trade supporters to demand an Empire Loaf made from 85 percent Manitoba wheat. In a letter to the Evening Standard he argues Canadian wheat yields a bigger lighter loaf with superior nourishment. Dunn, from Bathurst New Brunswick, is a lawyer and husband of the Marchioness of Queensberry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dunn
James
Bathurst
New Brunswick
Queennsbury
Manitoba
Settlers Press Ahead of New Meadow Lake Rail Line
For 10 to 12 years settlers in Meadow Lake district north of North Battleford have grown crops and hauled grain 60 miles to rail. This year the Canadian Pacific Railway builds a line through the area, but Meadow Lake is no longer the frontier town. Weekly hay-racks ferry settlers’ effects across the Beaver River 20 miles north as a neighboring district rapidly fills.
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Meadow Lake District
North Battleford
Canadian Pacific Railway
Meadow Lake
Beaver River
Sde
Surplice Bodice Dress with Drape at Side Pattern 3279
A wrap around style with a draped side and surplice bodice fastened at the hip by a buckle creates a graceful line. The design, offered in fashion tones like dark plum, features a faille crepe shawl collar, white pique vest, and crepe satin contrast options. Pattern No. 3279, sizes 16 to 42 bust, pattern price 25 cents.
Rice Growers to Compete at World Grain Show 1932
British Guiana rice growers may enter the World Grain Show in 1932 as J Sydney Cash of Georgetown’s Department of Agriculture reports growing interest. The prize list is designed to attract growers worldwide with high cash awards and broad crop classifications. Dash hopes the colony participates.
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British Guiana
Regina
J. Sydney Cash
Department of Agriculture
Georgetown
Cormpitere
British Empire
South America
World Grain Show Office
Dash
Healthy Poultry: Clean Soil Cures Parasites
The Poultry Husbandman of the Dominion Department of Agriculture urges soil clean up as the sure cure and prevention for intestinal parasitism. At the Central Experimental Farm poultry runs are freshly ploughed and a rotation system is under way using a succession of grain and green crops to remove infection. Growing chicks require clean soil and crop rotation is the most effective natural remedy.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Central Experimental Farm
Increase in Plant Imports Reflects Canadian Horticulture Boom
Canada shows growing appreciation for parks and amateur gardening with a vast rise in plant imports. The Plant Inspection Service reports 900000 plants examined in 1919 at major ports, rising to over 48000000 in 1929. Stations at Halifax St John Quebec City Montreal Ottawa Toronto Niagara Falls Windsor Winnipeg Estevan and Vancouver inspect imports for pests and diseases.
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Canada
How To Order Patterns Adress Winnipeg Pattern Now
An ad from a Winnipeg newspaper prints pattern ordering details. It lists an address at 376 McDermot Ave and credits Sise and Kaze as the contact names for pattern orders.
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Ad¢Ress
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Goldbeaters Forge 16 Sheets From Tiny Block in England
Goldbeaters in England beat a block of gold one and a quarter inches square and one thou sandth inch thick into sixteen sheets, each five by five inches square.
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England
Funeral in Colombo Native’s Burial Rite Moves on Pink Cake Structure
At a Colombo Ceylon funeral mourners bore diverse offerings for the deceased. Gifts included cooked meat fruits and liquids as the coffin was carried to the grave atop a large pink and white cakelike platform. The procession moved in a solemn, ceremonial manner.
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Colombo
Ceylon
McLaughlin Appointed to CPR Board at May Meeting
The President of General Motors of Canada, Limited and a noted Dominion industrial figure was added to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company board at the annual meeting held early in May. He also serves as vice president of General Motors Corporation in the United States.
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General Motors of Canada, Limited
Dominion
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
McLaughlin
General Motors Corporation
United States
University Loses Alberta’s A L Burt to Minnesota
Professor A L Burt of the University of Alberta will join the University of Minnesota after seventeen years at Alberta excluding wartime service. Rhodes scholar and Toronto graduate Burt is noted for The Romance of Western Canada and his influential history writings.
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A. L. Burt
University of Alberta
University of Minnesota
Burt
Alberta
Toronto
R. C. Wallace
Western Canada
Government Farms Showcase Broad Do Experimental Range
The Director Dr. E S Archibald reports 2 453 active experimental projects across Canadian experimental farms and stations. Horticulture leads with 641 projects followed by animal husbandry 421, botany 295, field husbandry 282, poultry 168, agrostology 149, cereals 124, chemistry 105, illustration stations 76, tobacco 69, bees 63 and pathology 25.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
E.S. Archibald
Misunderstanding Leads to Lobsters at Dinner
A humorous quarrel unfolds as one spouse mistakes the invitation, claiming to have guests while the other reveals lobsters waiting in the parlor for dinner. The exchange highlights domestic miscommunication with a light tone.
Department of Agriculture Studies Ranching Range Problems
The article outlines the Dominion Experimental Farms plan led by Dr. J H Grisdale and E S Archibald to study range management on short grass plains. It details deferred and rotation grazing with three pastures plus a continuous check, water supply, fencing costs, forage quality, and economic analyses across Alberta Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
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J. H. Grisdale
E. S Archibald
Dominion Experimental Farms
Ottawa
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Gilchrist Brothers
Medicine
Hat
Alberta
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Apple Vending Machines Open New Canadian Market
Dominion Agriculture officials monitor automatic apple vending as a new marketing channel. Machines at the Royal Winter Fair sold 2,500 boxes of 125 apples each week, roughly $15,000 in sales. British Columbia leads with 100 Vancouver machines and 50 in Victoria.
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University of British Columbia
Hawaiian Islands
China
Japan
Vancouver
Honolulu
Dominion Department of Agriculture
G E. McIntosh
Toronto
British Columbia
Victoria
Sweden and its prosperous present in a changing Europe
The article surveys Sweden as a prosperous European nation with a small population and strong arts, architecture, and urban life. It recalls Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII, and Queen Christina, notes Sweden’s past wars, and contrasts with modern life including equal rights and a gemmed Tokyo-Japan reference. It closes with a joke about a husband and wife.
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Sweden
London
Stockholm
Europe
Germany
Russia
Poland
Munich
Moscow
Warsaw
Gustavus Adolphus
Charles XII
Christina
Rome
Unclear fragment prompts questions about a car
Fragmentary lines from Fliegende Blaetter Munich raise questions about a man’s behavior and why witnesses asked him to shut a window while dragging him home. The text provides no clear event, date, or identities to confirm.
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Fliegende Blaetter
Munich
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North
Britain
James Denn
Laystige Sachse
Leipzig
Tio
Annebelle Worthington
Lise Gutens
Kaze
Gers
R. S. McLaughlin
Minnesota
Apple
Jinks
Binks
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