Great Britain Creates Independent Tariff Board To Shape Trade Policy
Advisory Committee of Tariffs chaired by Sir George May operates independently from the government to build tariffs, hear industry pleas, and issue reports to the Treasury. It can reduce duties quickly and must be consulted for changes, aiming to balance domestic protection with world competition.
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Great Britain
Advisory Committee of Tariffs
George May
Sidney Chapman
George Powell
British Empire
Business Pays Debts Creates Necessary Relationship Between Debtor and Creditor
A discussion argues that debts succeed only when both debtor and creditor benefit, noting that profitable loans align interests and that political debt demands across nations fail, ending in smoke. It claims business, not politics, drives the essential debtor creditor bond.
Canada Ranks Third in Silver Production in 1931
Canada produced about 200 million ounces of silver in 1931, roughly 10.5 percent of world output of 196 million ounces. Mexico and the United States lead the world, with about 42 and 22 percent respectively. Ontario mines at Cobalt declined, while Noranda Quebec and Flin Flon Manitoba rose as major sources. Yukon yields about four million ounces from Mayo district. British Columbia supplied about 39 percent of Canada’s output.
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Canada
Mexico
United States
Cobalt
Ontario
Noranda
Quebec
Flin Fion
Manitoba
Yukon Territory
Mayo
British Columbia
Dominion
Kimberley
Man Reels In Twenty Four Pails From Well
G F Warford of Hancock Maine lost a pail in his well and after twenty four attempts he pulled up twenty four different pails before finally securing the original lost pail. Twenty of the retrieved pails were better than the one he sought.
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G. F. Warford
Hancock
Maine
Empire Marketing Board Puts Pig and Goat Figures Into Joke
The Empire Marketing Board claims 12 percent of the world’s 250 million pigs are Em pire pigs while holding over a third of the goats. The Winnipeg Free Press comments on whether the Board’s remarks are funny or agricultural as a guest jokes with a hostess.
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Empire Marketing Board
Empire
The
Winnipeg Free Press
Canadian Wheat Markets Seen in Orient by Hon. Herbert Marler
Hon. Herbert Marler, Canada’s minister in Japan, urges constant Shanghai-based investigation into selling Canadian grain and flour, citing rising Chinese imports and the need to secure steady Orient markets. He notes opportunities in paper products, canned milk, and apples, stressing active promotion over waiting for demand.
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Herbert Marler
Canada
Japan
Shanghai
Mr. Marler
China
Orient
Far East
Submerged Jamestown City Remains Photographed
Photos show the submerged city of Jamestown near Nevis in the West Indies. Earthquake on April 30, 1680 caused the town to slip beneath the sea, with an estimated population of 14,000 and all its riches lost.
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Jamestown
Nevis
West Indies
Toronto school children donate 4000 preserved bottles
The emergency conservation committee of the Toronto Local Council of Women gains 4000 bottles of preserved produce from city school children. The pupils did much of the preserving themselves in domestic science centres.
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Toronto
Council of Women
Appendicitis Omitted From First Oxford Dictionary Volume
Sir Humphry Rolleston notes during Bolingbroke lecture that appendicitis, coined by R. H. Fitz in 1886, did not appear in the 1888 dictionary draft and was only later added in 1905 with a note referencing the term. He cites historical descriptions from Parkin son, Burne, Hodgkin, and Addison.
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Oxford Dictionary
Bolingbroke
Humphry Rolleston
R. H. Fitz
Boston
Mass
James A. Murray
Regius
James Parkinson
John Burne
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Addison
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McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
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Dominion Fruit Branch
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Redways
Mipigan
Spain
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