Western Canada Airways Sets North Transport Record
Western Canada Airways Ltd reports a record first season transporting hundreds of passengers and large freight volumes across the north. A sub-base at Cranberry-Portage aided the heaviest traffic including Cranberry-Portage to Cola Lake freight and passengers, with three Folker Universal planes and pilots Major G A Thompson Roy Brown and Capt H H Kenyon driving operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Canada Airways Ltd
Pas
Cranberry Palace
Ihs
G A. Thompson
Fort Churchill
Cranberry Portage
Airways Company
Chesterfield Inlet
Reindeer Lake
Fort Nelson
Lac la Ronge
Cranberry-Portage
Cola Lake
Courtesy Helped Garfield Choose Williams College
Ohio historian J H Galbraith finds Garfield chose Williams after Williams president Mark Hopkins sent a welcoming reply The courtesy contrasted with Yale and Brown prompts Garfield to enroll at Williams. Also mentioned is designer Henry Barling and a quip about golf and warping humor.
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Ohio
J. H. Galbraith
James A. Garfield
Williams College
Yale
Brown
Mark Hopkins
Williams
United States
Patterns in Print and Polar Ventures Across North
Winnipeg readers learn about kids preferring fresh textbooks and a reuse ethos. In Alaska a tunnel under ices reveals a cold storage boom for reindeer meat, with a 108 foot ice tunnel and air shaft aiding refrigeration shipments to Seattle. Notable figures Capt Wandel and Capt Erikson, once sea captains, now lead a New Orleans paint plant.
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Walter Wandel
Oscar Erikson
New Orleans
Elephant Point
Alaska
Seattle
Hearty Welcome for Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles at Portumna
Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles arrived at Portumna Castle Ireland after the burning of his stables and were greeted by a large crowd. The couple attended church and visited the convent school as thousands gathered from distant points to pay respects to the king's daughter and her husband.
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Mary
Lord Lascelles
Portumna Castle
Ireland
Moss Blanket Of Admiralty Island Wonders Of Northwest
On Admiralty Island near Vancouver Island a moss growth from fog winds hangs in blankets from drooping spruce and hemlock. Specimens measure twenty feet long and four feet wide where they touch branches. The moss darkens forests and extends into tidewater, looked like Indian wigwams from ships. Experiments indicate medicinal properties similar to sphagnum used in surgery in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty Island
Vancouver Island
Northwest
Warning Against Ignoring the Common Cold
Toront o medical officers of health caution that the common cold and its complications are the costliest and most fatal winter illnesses. They note over 70 percent of school absences come from sickness, with more than 25 percent due to the cold and over 40 percent of winter absences tied to respiratory diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Officers of Health For
Toronto
C. J. O. Hastings
Japanese Navy Plans Giant Airship For Far East
Tokyo correspondent reports Japan has completed plans to build a large airship to carry guns and bombs with a 3000 mile cruising radius. When finished it will be the largest dirigible in the Far East and construction is expected to begin soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Evening News
Far East
Measuring Time By Bell and Westminster Clock
The piece notes how radio listeners in this continent hear Big Ben’s chime via an English firm, linking ancient bell signals to modern time keeping. It traces the bell from Roman summons to ecclesiastical use, venerable associations, and the enduring romantic appeal of bell sounds in daily life.
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Westminster
House of Parliament
London
Senate
Women seek work after marriage argues for independence
The piece quotes women who detail why they pursue employment beyond raising children. They seek interest outside home duties, personal achievement, and independent earnings, noting how a census labels a running household as None. It also quotes a bishop describing harsh sermons to fashionable congregations and urging repentance.
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Baby
England
Ella Winter
Bavar ian Alarm Bounces Ball On Sleepers Head
A Bavarian invention designed for the deaf uses a rubber ball to wake a sleeper at a chosen hour. The device bounces the ball on the head when the time arrives, offering an audible free wake up method.
Bug Bear Leaves Montreal for New York Air Express
Bug Bear departs in a Canadian Pacific air express shipment bound for the United States. Mayor Houde of Montreal sends a gift to Mayor Walker of New York who christens the shipment in honor of the well known New York journalist Bugg Baer.
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United States
Houde
Montreal
Walker
New
New York
Bug
Bugg” Baer
Immigrant farmer turns landowner in Saskatchewan example
William V Evans, a 24 year old immigrant from Wales, buys a half section eight miles north of Horizon after arriving in Canada three years ago. His wife, described as a farmerette, drives a six horse team and helps with farm duties as their daughter embodies the new homeland spirit. The piece also notes automation in Saskatchewan wheat pool terminals four to eight with official samples kept for re inspection, improving grower protection and grading reliability through the inter provincial committee managing Western Canada pools.
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Wiliam V. Evans
Henecoed
South Wales
Dominion of
Canada
Evans
Horizon
Mr. Evans
Wales
Saskatchewan
Western
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Pool Inspection Department
Dominion Government Inspection Department
Inter
Britain Buys Our Cheese Dominates Canadian Exports
Dr J A Ruddick says Britain purchased 87 percent of Canada’s cheese last year, totaling 119 million pounds. He reports Canada’s grading system earned British importer confidence and that the largest Canadian cheese operator relies on grade marks and grader certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United Kingdom
J. A. Ruddick
Dominion
Ruddick
Fodder Food Tales From a Southern Night
Bertram L Freehly recalls meals in central and southern states where stallholders and waiters use halting phrases. A chocolate gent serves coffee while a waiter insists on soup and dinner phrases like soup sah and dinnah's ovah.
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Central
Arkansaw
Bertram L. Freehly
Whisky tale and road trip quotes from Ottawa Journal
Sandy MGregor travels to Glasgow and offers whisky to a cleric who declares he has never tasted liquor. The Ottawa Journal notes a maxim about the downcast never rising and the rising seldom needing to. A wife urges her husband to reverse as they drive home with a car scene.
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Sandy M’gregor
Glasgow
Sandy
George
Ausophone Message System Demonstrated by Collins in Chicago
John Collins of Waco Texas demonstrated an Ausophone before the Independent Telephone Association in Chicago. The device records messages when the user is absent and later transmits them in the sender's voice to the recipient. It envisions the returning housewife finding messages ranging from neighborhood gossip to dinner plans.
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John Collins
Waco
Texas
Independent Telephone Association
Chicago
Suffering as a Courageous Mindset Refuted
The passage argues suffering is not always good and can be an disguised evil. It condemns self denial for its own sake as foolish and asserts that in dark times one should meet the future with faith courage and a ready smile.
Indians on Blackfoot Reserve Profit from Cattle Shipment
Wealthy Blackfoot Indians on the reserve gain further earnings after a recent cattle shipment. Prairie provinces records show total proceeds of 26 000 dollars with steers averaging 108 dollars each, reported to the Indian Department head office in Regina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackfoot Reserve
Indian Department For the
Prairie Provinces
Regina
Goats Impress Ontario Visitor in British Columbia Trade Trip
Mrs A Williams of Honeywood Goatery Oakville Ont visits British Columbia to inspect high producing grade Saanens. She returns with three goats and plans to acquire one or two buck kids next year and some does. She quips about advertising as a joke in a staged exchange.
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British Columbia
A. Williams
G. & A. Williams
Oakville
Ont
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Henry Barling
United States Army Air Bombers
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Berlin
Ki M.- U
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
CPVEN
Japan
Dirigible
Ada
York
Canadian Pacific
Britain
The
Ottawa Journal
Ontario
Cholly
Der
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Leipzig
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