Airplane Air Service Aims to Speed Northern Saskatchewan Fish
Freshly caught fish from Lac La Ronge and Pipestone Lake in northern Saskatchewan will reach the Winnipeg market via a new air fleet operated by R. Brooks of the Canadian Company of Prince Albert. Three airplanes are on order as the company expands northern transport, cutting delivery times from 22 days by horse to under 24 hours by air.
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Saskatchewan
Swift
Prince Albert
R. Drooks
Winnipeg
Terrelt
Brooks
Lac la Ronge
Pipestone Lake
Brooks Company
Frenchman Thimonnier Invented the Sewing Machine
The Christian Science Monitor recalls the St Etienne origins of the sewing machine as Barbéry Thimonnier, a tailor, built an early working device in 1830. His invention spurred global growth in textiles and related industries, predating Elias Howe and reshaping manufacturing.
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Soxiel
St. Etienne
Paris
Christian Science Monitor
Barberry Thimonnier
Thimornier
Howe
Thimonnier
Elias Howe
Thimbles
Money In Raising Geese Requires Very Small Investment
Poultry experts from the Dominion Department of Agriculture say geese farming needs little capital and labor. The farm offers free range and abundant greens as key benefits, and geese fetch good prices on the Christmas market with demand exceeding supply.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Motorist Appeals for Leniency in Quick Town Run
The motorist pleads to the constable to overlook the speeding as he hurries to town on urgent business. The officer refuses and notes he must inform his solicitor, hinting at further news from the encounter.
Skim Milk Improves Egg Laying at Cap Rouge Tests
Experiments at Cap Rouge Experimental Station show laying hens fed skim milk with a basal grain diet produce higher egg output and weight gains than those fed beef scraps. Skim milk costs about one ninth as much as beef scraps, making the practice economical.
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Cap Rouge
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Costly Quice Radium's Global Value and Labor Toll
The world’s most expensive mineral, quice radium, requires vast earth sifting before any grain is found. In Czecho-Slovakia, 300 workers at a chemical plant toiled eight years to yield an ouate of radium. A single year’s output would be about $2,500,000 in value.
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Czecho-Slovakia
Success With Fruit On the Canadian Pacific Railway Farm at Brooks
The Brooks farm shows all kinds of fruit including apples plums cherries and grapes. Grafting and crossing have yielded crab apples large apples and plums bearing abundantly. American soda fountains are being installed in France.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Brooks
France
Banana Prices Fall as West Indies Supplant U S Supplies
A government study credits lower banana wholesale prices in Canada to direct shipping from the British West Indies rather than the United States. Over the past year, imports shifted from 56.4 percent U S origin to 81.2 percent from the West Indies, with a near 42 percent price drop, even as overall imported fruit prices rose.
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British West Indies
United States
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Record Salmon Production Forecast for British Columbia
Indicators point to a record year for canned salmon in British Columbia with 1,679,638 cases packed by early September, well above 1929 levels and near the 1926 peak. Sockeye output reached 416,103 cases, surpassing all full-year totals since 1915, while pink production neared 1,098,000 cases, surpassing 1928’s pink record.
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British Columbia
Surveyors Climb Twenty-Nine Peaks in Jasper National Park
A Topographical Survey party from the Department of the Interior climbed 29 peaks in Jasper National Park in one season. Twelve exceeded 10,000 feet, including Nigel peak at 10,525 feet Sunwapta peak at 10,865 feet Pobok tan peak near 10,980 feet and 36 other summits over 9,000 feet.
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Dominion
Topographical Survey
Department of the Interior
Jasper National Park
Nigel Peak
Sunwapta Peak
Poboktan
Dollar Value Of Agriculture In Canada For 1929
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics places Canada’s 1929 agricultural wealth at 7,778,633,000. It breaks down into lands 3,316,061,100 buildings 1,282,684,000 implements and machinery 665,172,000 livestock 864,167,000 poultry 63,854,000 fur farm animals 19,477,000 and agricultural production 1,667,218,000.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Canadian Troops Honored by U S Minister in Ottawa
Lieut Col Hanford MacNider United States minister to Canada praised Canadian troops as the Great War example before about 300 Ottawa Canadian Legion members. He recalled leadership and said Americans admire and are grateful for the example set by Canadian forces.
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Hanford MacNider
United States
Canada
Ottawa
Canadian Legion
American Legion
Fashions Change Yet Smile Remains Timeless
A brief column notes that styles may evolve but a cheerful smile endures as a universal accessory. It highlights how positivity complements fashion, shaping personal presence beyond clothing trends.
Train Telephone Service Proves Successful on CN The Maple Leaf
J C Burkholder of Canadian National Telegraphs reports the train telephone system on the Toronto Montreal route has operated since April 28 1930 with no interruptions or time loss. Five months in service saw 813 calls 766 to US and Canadian cities and one call to London England with 100 percent transmission.
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Toronto-Montreal
Canadian National System
J. C. Burkholder
Canadian National Telegraphs
American Association of Passenger Traffic Officers
Atlantic City
Toronto
Montreal
Maple Leaf
International Limited
Bell Telephone Company
United States
Canada
London
England
Chicago
Three Essentials for Farming From Nation Exhibit
At the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto Hon. Robert Weir federal agriculture minister outlined three core aims to lift farming: better breeding stock, scientific and affordable feeding, and highly specialized marketing to reduce producer consumer gaps while ensuring uniform quality and steady product volume. He urged farmers to cut waste and apply sober balanced constructive thought to farm issues.
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Toronto
Robert Weir
Canada Leads Aerial Surveying Breakthrough in 1929
Canada cemented its leadership in aerial surveying by applying for the first time to geodetic reconnaissance and transportation in 1929, consolidating its world role in aerial mapping and measurement.
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Canada
Wheat Straw Uses Offer New Market for Farm Byproducts
A pioneer in wheat straw utilization, George Harrison near St Paul Minner has developed a destructive distillation process yielding 1600 pounds of chemical products per ton of oat and wheat straw. Products include disinfectants straw oil roofing material and motor fuel. A pulp and board mill near St Joseph Mo operates on a 24 hour schedule producing straw insulating board with 125000 square feet daily.
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George H. Harrison
St. Paul
Minner
Harrison
St. Joseph
Robert Stewart
Barron's
French Statesman Has Extraordinary Memory
Raymond Poincare, a leading French politician, is famed for an extraordinary memory among living public men. He is said to speak for hours on French finance without consulting statistics, presenting detailed facts effortlessly in the Chamber of Deputies. He explains his method as the result of hard work and application.
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Raymond Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
League of Nations closes eleventh session after three and a half weeks
The assembly wraps up its eleventh annual session amid debates over amending the League covenant to seal war gaps and progress toward the Kellogg Briand anti war framework. A humorous aside shows a school attendance officer exchange and Mrs Higgs quips about her husband.
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League of Nations Assembly
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Lord Thomson
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