Growth Of Wheat Pool Movement In Western Canada
Western Canadian farmers have built the world’s largest cooperative wheat organization. The Canadian Wheat Pool now spans Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta with 125,000 members controlling over 13 million of 21 million acres sown. It handles most of Canada’s wheat exports, reducing costs and stabilizing prices through a central selling agency with global connections.
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Canada
Whea Pool
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairie
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers, Limited
Ee Ee
Wheat Board
Western
Thee Central Selling Agency
Fort William
Farm Settlers From U S Move to Canada In August
Movement of farm settlers from the United States to Canada continues per the immigration department. Eight offices report August increases led by Fargeé North Dakota with 272 farmers and families totaling 322, bringing cash and effects valued at 445 355 dollars. Mt Everest in the Himalayas stands 29 062 feet above sea level.
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United States
Canada
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Fargeé
N.D
Vist
Mt. Everest
Himalayas
Umbrella Card Trick Ends With Missing Property
A man uses a bold umbrella ruse at a local hotel vestibule by leaving a card claiming it belongs to a boxing champion and promising a return. Twenty minutes pass, the umbrella vanishes, and a revised note appears claiming a long distance runner took it and will not return.
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N.B
P.S
Germany Reassesses War calamitous stance amid reformist mood
The piece argues Germany has shifted from glorifying war to viewing it as calamitous after the bloodshed of World War I. It quotes Stresemann as a voice for change and urges youths to oppose war, promote peace, and support preventive mindset.
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Germany
Stresemann
Rheumatic Sufferers Benefit From Williams Pink Pills
An old view of rheumatism as inevitable is challenged by medical science. Dr Williams Pink Pills are praised for blood enrichment and relief, with a testimonial from Finlay Beaton of Blackstone NS. Pills cost 50c a box and are available from The Dr Williams Medicine, Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams
Finlay Beaton
Blackstone
N.S
Brockville
Ont
Aged Farmer Killed in Car Collision in Froude District
Stanley Clark, 70, wealthy farmer and landowner with 52 quarter sections in Saskatchewan, died instantly when his car was struck by an engine. He had lived alone since 1904 and was a valued Wheat Pool member who signed a contract on August 29, 1923, under number 65-030.
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Stanley Clark
Froude
Mr. Clark
Saskatchewan
Clark
Wheat Pool
Trans Atlantic Cables and Ainu Tattooing Compared
The Trans-Atlantic cable is now operating and the twentieth line will likely be needed. In Northern Japan, Ainu women admire bearded faces and tattoo their own to appear whiskered, reflecting contrasting cultural curiosities.
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Ninm
Ainu
Japan
Minard's Oiniment in the House Prompted Quip
A humorous exchange contrasts keeping Minard's oiniment in the house with a sharp voice. A joke about Canadian households shows more automobiles than bathtubs and ponders bathtub travel options.
Quebec Scholar Jean Claude Lessard to Harvard Studying Railway Economics
Jean Claude Lessard, food controller at Chateau Lake Louise last summer, has won a provincial scholarship to Harvard University. A standout at McGill in the past two years, he will study railway economics at Harvard. Previously he served three years as food controller at the Canadian Pacific Hotel Algonquin in St. Andrews New Brunswick. He is not yet twenty two.
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Jean Claude Lessard
Chateau Lake Louise
Harvard University
Province of Quebec
Lessard
McGill University
Harvard
Canadian Pacific
Algonquin
St. Andrews
N.B
Strange New Pygmies Found in Dense New Guinea Jungles
An American Dutch scientific expedition reports the discovery of a previously unseen pygmy people in remote Papuan jungle highlands after four months of travel. Led by Matthew W. Stribling, the group notes the pygmies are friendly, intelligent, and ceremonial, gifting bows, arrows, bracelets, bananas, be tel nuts, and a pig during their encounter.
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Matthew W. Stribling
Berkeley
Calif
Swiss Scientists Find Stronger-Than-Radium Rays
Two Swiss researchers, Doctors Kol yorser and Deesalis, living in a tent on Moneh mountain Geneva at 13466 feet, report discovery of stellar rays with radioactive strength far exceeding roentgen rays. They aim to study medical uses and have returned to Interlaken due to cold.
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Kolyorser
Deesalis
Moneh Mountain
Geneva
Interlak
Farmers Receive Patronage Refund From Pool Elevators
Saskatchewan farmers who used Pool Elevator facilities get a total patronage refund of 476614 dollars for last crop year. The payout equals 2 cents per bushel on all wheat grades through 89 Sask Pool Elevators Ltd. and 1 cent on coarse grains. Platform wheat shipments to pool terminals receive 14 cents per bushel, and 4. of a cent per bushel on coarse grains. Last year’s wheat handling charge of 4 cents drops to 2 cents with this refund.
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Saskatchewan
Sask
Pool Elevators Ltd
Yankee Doodle Irish Claim and Historic Anthems
Dr Grat tan Flood an Irish authority on musical history argues Yankee Doodle is Irish in origin and calls God Save the King an old Irish tune dating to about 1595. The piece also advertises Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a trusted household remedy for various ailments.
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Grattan Flood
Galway
Thomas
Gave Away A Fortune Diverts Million Dollar Inheritance
Charles Garland, heir to a million dollar fortune, has spent four years and a large corps of trustees of the American Fund for Public Service to distribute the funds. Only about $14,000 remains unpledged, a setback to numerous causes relying on the trust. The note also recalls the first baby stamps begun Oct 1, 1889 featuring King Alfonso XIII.
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Charles Garland
American Fund For Public Service, Inc
Garland Trust Fund
Alfonso XIII
Miller's Worm Powders Advised for Children's Health
An old notice urges mothers to treat children for worms using Miller's Worm Powders. It warns worms can damage a child’s constitution and notes signs of infestation, claiming the powders expel worms quickly with no inconvenience to the child.
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Norma
Missouri concern makes steel phonograph needles
A Missouri company now produces steel phonograph needles that will play records from 406 to 600 without changing needles. This innovation promises compatibility across a wide range of disc sizes and speeds, signaling a boost for record users seeking versatility in playback gear.
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Missouri
Storms On The Sun Says Chicago Professor
Professor E B Frost director of Yerkes Observatory in Chicago says violent solar storms are forming on the sun and visible sunspots signal upheaval. He notes magnetic storms and northern lights may follow though no serious effects are expected as the disturbance moves around the sun’s 23 degree north latitude.
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Chicago
Earth
E. B. Frost
Yerkes Observatory
Frost
Tourists See Yoho Valley Attract 30000 Visitors
More than 30 000 people toured the Yoho Valley near Field British Columbia by auto this year. They travelled the Federal Government road opened early in the summer. The site is regarded as one of the wonder spots of America.
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Yoho Valley
Field
B.C
America
Road construction plan targets 2000 miles in Japan
The Home Department outlines a project to build over 2,000 miles of automobile roads across Hokkaido, Tokio, Kyoto, Osaka and other prefectures for local industry and military needs.
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Victory
Edmonton
Home Department
Hokkaido
Tokio
Kyoto
Osaka
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Truly
Rother
Fletcher
WN. U. 164
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Island
The
Samoa
Minard
Trwin Haskett
Elgin Street
Ottawa
Wabamun
Alta
CN Ry
Oraer
O.D
Lakeside Coals, Limited
Ontario
Quebec
Mowat & Macgillivray
Sparks St
Ireland
Leta
Linimen
Sask. Pool Elevators, Ltd
BAYER
Beyer
Bayer Company
Bayer Crves
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