Great Changes Wrought By Development Of Electricity During The Past Fifty Years
The Winnipeg Free Press reflects on fifty years of electric progress from Edison’s milestone to modern life. It notes vast consumption, urban use, industrial transformation, theatre lighting, cinema, medicine, agriculture, refrigeration, and future aims like domestic heating and UV lighting, with Winnipeg as a leading electric capital.
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New York
Edison
United States
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Winnipeg Free Press
Canadian electric railways face losses as five systems fail
Figures from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics show three electric railways ceased operations during the year. Twenty of fifty two systems failed to earn operating expenses with many posting heavy deficits. Radial railways struggle with declining patronage and bleak prospects ahead.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
The Pedestrian's Paradise in Tangier Virginia
A restless few of Tangier’s 1,500 residents consider island life in Chesapeake Bay idyllic. The town has no automobiles or horses and a single street with canals crossed by bridges for boats. Pedestrian life slows the pace and avoids pollution and noisy traffic.
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Tangier
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Tom, Dick
Harry
Outlook Improves For Prairie Grain Regions
George Stephen, vice president in charge of traffic for Canadian Pacific Railway, reports a brighter outlook for the prairie provinces after substantial grain harvests. He notes only a small drought impact in a few districts and says Saskatchewan government relief this year will be smaller than in the past two seasons.
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Prairie Provinces
George Stephen
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Three
Saskatchewan
Farm autos dominate registrations in Canadian provinces
The data shows 71 percent of passenger automobiles on Saskatchewan farms in 1931, 56 percent in Prince Edward Island, 54 percent in Alberta, 49 percent in Manitoba, 13 percent in British Columbia, and 18 percent in Quebec. Ontario has the most autos on farms overall and the most per farm, yet farm registrations make up only 25.7 percent of Ontario’s total.
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Saskatchewan
Prince Edward Island
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
Quebec
Ontario
Dominion pamphlet on School Lunches issued for rural Canada
The Dominion Dairy and Cold Storage Branch has issued pamphlet No. 148 titled School Lunches. It analyzes how to keep school meals appetizing and satisfying for rural communities and offers useful suggestions. Copies are free from the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.
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Phamiphlet
Dominion Dairy and Cold Storage
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Canada livestock counts show shifts across provinces
The Economic Annalist reports livestock distribution in Canada from the latest census. Horses total 3,115,582 with Saskatchewan containing the most. Alberta and Ontario follow. Milkh cows number 3,510,000, Ontario leads, BC rising fastest. total cattle 4,498,000 with increases mainly in Quebec and BC. Sheep rise 3,622,000 led by Ontario. swine 4,667,000, Alberta growing fastest. poultry exceeds 65,000,000 with BC fastest growth and Ontario holding the most birds.
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Canada
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ontario
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Quebec
Making Leather At Home In The Home Tanning Era
The Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture prepared a special circular to answer growing inquiries on home tanning. It covers fleshing liming debairing tanning testing softening and finishing leathers and hides. New methods shorten time and effort compared with the old tanning bark technique.
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Department of Agriculture
Amusement in a Village Visit
A commercial traveller stranded for two hours asks a porter about entertainment in a small village. He is told there is no picture house, no billiard hall, and no library. Residents say they amuse themselves by going to the store in the evening where a new baconslicer has just arrived.
Olive Taster Edward Price Maintains 45 Years In Olive Trade
Edward Price, a 71 year old olive taster in Cleveland, has spent 45 years evaluating olives for a local produce firm. He samples each container, eats lightly at noon, and saves his heftier meal for the evening. He also tests preserves mustard peanut butter and extracts while keeping a strong appetite.
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Edward Price
Price
Cleveland
Ohio
Seville
Spain
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