Canadian Birds Navigate 20000 Miles Over Arctic
Flight Lieut Mawdesley led two seaplanes on a 20000 mile Arctic survey from Aklavik to Repulse Bay. Sergt Winny and C S Macdonald directed survey and photography with 2,000 plus images mapping vast Canadian hinterland, testing equipment and charting air routes. They noted no compass issues near the magnetic pole using a British periodic compass.
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Ottawa
Canada
F. J. Mawdesley
H. J Winny
Macdonald
Department of the Interior
Sergt. S .C. Dearaway
Aklavik
Mackenzie River
Repulse Pay
Hudson Bay
Chesterfield Inlet
Churchill
Mink Shipment From Yukon Sets Record to Gothenburg
Five hundred minks raised by George Simmons of Carcross Yukon Territory arrived at Vancouver aboard the Princess Louise from Alaska. The fur can go to Gothenburg Sweden or to the United States for wardrobe use or breeding stock for mink farms in those regions.
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Vancouver
Princess Louise
Alaska
British Columbia
George Simmons
Carcross
Yukon Territory
Gothenburg
Sweden
United States
Milady
Dairy Cattle Win Big at Spokane Show
Eighteen head from the Canadian Pacific Supply Farm at Strathmore captured sixteen firsts ten seconds and all championship ribbons at the Washington Inter-State Livestock Exhibition in Spokane. Strathmore won the male and female grand championships senior and junior female championships and the junior male title. The report comes from E Ward Jones superintendent of the railway's agriculture and animal industry department. A separate note mentions tea's introduction to Europe long after China.
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Canadian Pacific
Strathmore
Spokane
E. Ward Jones
Department of Agriculture and Animal Industry
Have you serious intentions to that girl you are always with
The quoted exchange from Alit for Ala in Stockholm features a blunt admission about ending a relationship. The dialogue underscores a troubled personal dynamic and mirrors a social climate of abrupt breakup intent.
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Ala
Stockholm
New Zealand Key Overseas Market for Canadian Automobiles in 1929
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports New Zealand led Canada’s 1929 automobile exports with 5.62 million dollars, followed by Australia at 3.59 million and the United Kingdom at 4.29 million. Total exports reached 29.82 million with Argentina the top foreign buyer. Canada’s 1929 automobile production hit 177.32 million dollars, up from 162.87 million in 1928.
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New Zealand
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Australia
United Kingdom
British South Africa
Dominions
Argentine Republic
Tingey fashion pattern for school wear in Paris New York
All Tingey models are created and sketched in Paris with patterns made in New York. The pattern suits school wear or other occasions, with fabrics like velveteen, woolens, crepe de chine, or taffeta. It offers options for collars and cuffs, sashes, and lace, with sizes 8 to 14 and immediate delivery. Sent 25 cents to Fashion Bureau.
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Paris
New York
Fashion Bureau
Pattern Ordering Guide from Winnipeg Union Address
Winnipeg Pattern No. Address 375 McDermot Ave lists ordering details. Suburban theatres in Australia are installing talkie equipment.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Australia
First Empire Marketing Board shipment reaches Vancouver
The B C Department of Agriculture reports that the first Empire Marketing Board funded shipment of pure bred livestock has left England for Vancouver via the Panama Canal. The consignment includes 23 rams and a Red Poll Bull for H E Wabey Enderby, plus Kerry Hill sheep from Oswestry England as an experiment. A Vancouver quarantine station is ready.
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B.C
Department of Agriculture
F. A. Pauline
London
England
British Columbia
Empire Marketing Board
Panama Canal
Old Country
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
Lower Mainland
H. E. Wabey
Enderby
Red Poll Breeders’ Association
Dominion
Canada
Chas. Eccleston
Victoria
Lord Barlech
Oswestry
Shropshire
Bert Eccleston
Canadian Experts Eye Beryl Deposits Near Winnipeg
Canadian technical experts report no special Imperial conference on Manitoba beryl deposits near Winnipeg. Inquiries by the mines branch assessed beryllium extraction costs. German trials showed high costs versus yields. Germans shift to lithium for light alloys as Manitoba contains more lithium than beryl. officials monitor German experiments.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Farmers Fight Weeds with Early Ploughing and Cultivation
The Farmers' Advocate notes that sow thistle twitch grass and similar weeds lose vitality after strong sun exposure. This year sees more sod ploughing and post harvest cultivation than usual, with farmers pushing ahead even without word from the weed inspector.
Wheat outlook mixed despite cautious bank verdict
B P Alley of the Bank of Commerce Western Canada says the wheat situation offers discouraging pessimism only partly, noting marketing prospects and future prices. He also indicates some optimism about the growing season while referencing Arctic ocean water salinity and a 1928 U S appendixis death toll.
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Canada
the Bank’s?Fla
Bank of Commerce
Sodium sulphite plant progress at Horse Shoe Lake Sask
A Saskatchewan Provincial Bureau report highlights the Horse Shoe Lake sodium sulphate plant near Ormiston on the Amulet branch of the CPR line. Operated by Horse Shoe Mining Ltd in partnership with Barnum Reduction Co and International Nickel Co of Canada, the site employs about 7,000 dollars monthly payroll and ships 150 cars of 45 tons to the Nickel Co. output targets 100 tons daily with more units planned.
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Horse Shoe Lake
Ormiston
Sask
C_PLR
Saskatchewan Provincial Bureau of Publications
Horse Shoe Mining Company, Limited
Barnum Reduction Company
Charleston
West Virginia
International Nickel Company of
Canada
International Nickel Company
Ambitious Polar Weather Stations Aimed at Long Range Forecasts
Sir Hubert Wilkins, Arctic explorer, told the Canadian Geological Society of plans to place meteorological stations near both poles to forecast seasons years ahead. He reviewed recent polar work and spoke of a submarine Arctic expedition planned for next summer.
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Poles
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Canadian Geographical Society
Sir Hubert
Arctic
Three Record Breakers Three Alberta Dairy Cows Set Milky Marks
Three cows at Canadian Pacific Railway Strathmore experimental farm achieved record milk and butter production. Mona Pontiac Walker Rose Echo Warwick and Laura Fremona produced 77460 pounds of milk and 2902 pounds of butter in a year, averaging 25820 pounds of milk each, far surpassing Canada’s 1929 four year old record and dwarfing Alberta’s average. They were bred on Ontario farms, sired by one bull, and purchased by CPR while under 18 months. Production credited to care and proper development plus winter feeding.
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Alberta
Mona Pontiac Walker
Rose Echo Warwick
Laura Fremona
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Strathmore
Ontario
Canadian Pacific
E. W. Jones
Railway
Wide discrepancy in Russian wheat exports to Britain
Experimental Farms Note reports a large gap between London and Liverpool estimates of Russian wheat shipments to the United Kingdom. Liverpool cites 620,000 quarters (about 150,000 tons) through Sept 27, while London traders estimate about 450,000 tons for July to September.
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Britain
London
England
Great Britain
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Russia
Istanbul
Black Sea
British
Europe
United States
United States Farm Board
Canada
Banana comparison becomes schoolboy humor in Sacramento
A Sacramento Valley schoolboy writes a humorous Japanese description of a banana in which the fruit is praised as a remarkable product of nature and contrasted with sausages. The essay notes the banana’s architecture, consumption rules, and botanical status with playful misuses of grammar.
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Los Angeles Times
Sacramento Valley
Skim Milk Shows Benefits for Laying Hens in Five Winters
G A Langelier of Cap Rouge Experimental Station reports five winter season tests from November to February with Barred Rocks. Hens fed skimmed milk laid more eggs and gained weight versus beef scrap, which is valued nine times skim milk weight for weight.
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G. A. Langelier
Cap Rouge
Man Excepts Call After Night at Midtown Hotel
A tired man left a hotel telephone operator a Sunday morning message for a 2 pm call the next day. He slept fourteen hours and then complained to the manager that he had not been called. The operator pointed out he still had twenty hours before the requested call.
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Midtown
Soviet Union to import 100 carloads of harvesters
Soviet Russia plans to buy 100 carloads of combine harvesters, signaling expanded farm machinery imports. Production of window glass has been newly introduced in Mexico, marking a shift in regional manufacturing.
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Soviet Russia
Mexico
Early Canadian Shipbuilders and Naval Industry Rise
The article traces Canada’s first shipbuilding to Pont-Grave at Port Royal in 1606, noting 350 men in 1665 under Talon forming a wooden-ship industry in a population under 7,000. It contrasts early efforts with broader statements on influence and a humorous exchange about a lake overflowing.
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Canada
Pont-Grave
Port Royal
Annapolis Royal
Nova Scotia
DeMonts
Talon
France
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Yukon
C.P.R. Strathmore Farms
China
W. N. UL
TNO
Eva A. Tingey
Antarctic
Saskatchewan
Mr. Spinkes
Mr. Links
Hummel
Hamburg
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