Initiative and Vision Drive Industrial Progress
The piece lauds initiative as key to wartime and peacetime success. It cites Foch’s leadership, business examples like safety glass, tailored towels, dog shaped biscuits, and tomato juice growth. Leaders must seize opportunities with boldness. otherwise progress stalls.
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Review of Reviews Magazine
David Watson Taylor
United States Navy
Charles Kettering
General Motors Corporation
Marshal Foch
Inverness Coal Co op to run town mine in Nova Scotia
Inverness residents take control of the town’s sole industry. The Inverness Cooperative Company Limited will operate and market coal, with miners and local taxpayers as members. The Nova Scotia government recently approved the plan, ending long fear of mine closure for Inverness’s 3000 residents.
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Nova Scotia
Inverness
N.S
Inverness Coal Co-Operative Company, Limited
Persian Balm Promises Beauty For Women
Persain Balm preserves and enhances women’s natural beauty. It tones and rejuvenates the skin and gives a smooth velvety texture. The product is described as indispensable for dainty women and especially for soft white hands. Delicately fragrant and aimed at preserving the loveliest complexions.
New paint changes color with temperature
A newly invented paint made from mercury and copper salts changes hue with heat. It appears bright red when cold, maroon above 140 degrees, dull chocolate 120 degrees higher, and black at boiling. Cooling reverses the colors.
Feeder Purchase Policy Renewal for Winter Stocking
The policy, announced by Hon. Robert Weir, offers to cover reasonable traveling expenses for farmers to stockyard purchase points. A car of stock must be bought to qualify, with approval on stock type by Dominion Live Stock Branch officials. Extends to Eastern Canada, the Prairie Provinces, and British Columbia, operative for five months from August 1, 1932.
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Robert Weir
Federal Department
Dominion Live Stock Branch
Canada
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Dominion Live Stock
R. S. Hamer
Ottawa
Asthma Remedy Promises Quick Relief From Smoke
Dr J D Kellogg presents Asthma Remedy claiming to eradicate the cause and prevent lingering symptoms. The product is said to result from extensive study and experimentation and was released only after confidence in its efficacy.
Scot returns to buy Caithness village after 40 years away
William McGregor, once a cow herder in Latheronwheel Caithness, leaves Australia to visit his sister Miss Jessie McGregor and buys the village on sale. The community has about 120 residents with McGregor now its owner after years abroad in Australian business.
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William McGregor
Latheronwheel
Caithness
Scotland
Australia
Jessie McGregor
Lves
Gillett’s Pure Flake Lye Promoted for Drains
An old advertisement touts Gillett’s Pure Flake Lye as a weekly drain and toilet bowl cleaner. It claims the product works without harming enamelled sinks or bathtubs and suggests DIY maintenance to avoid plumbers’ bills.
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Gillett
Stock Exchange Seats Soar After Quick Sale Value Rises
A seat on the New York Stock Exchange sold for 120000, lifting the total value of the 1375 seats by 33 percent to an estimated 165 million dollars, up 41.25 million from a week earlier. Traders glimpse a rebound three years after the 1929 crash as hoarded money slowly returns and activity on Wall Street stirs.
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New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Border Cities Star
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Promises Pore Opening Relief
An advertisement proclaims the product works both externally and internally. Brisk rubbing allegedly opens pores and relieves local trouble while internal use soothes throat irritation coughing and bronchial infections. The pitch urges readers to try it and be convinced.
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Thomas
Plane broadcast marks first in Canada with air contact
Arthur Dupont and Sydney M. Nesbitt flew 3000 feet over the city to contact a Montreal radio station. They delivered short addresses to wireless fans, marking a pioneering airborne program in Canada, though airship broadcasts had occurred earlier in 1930 over Ottawa.
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Arthur Dupont
Sydney M. Nesbitt
Aeroplane Club
Montreal
Ottawa
Underground airports for British Air Forces planned
Britain to build underground airfields at least thirty feet deep with inclines for planes to surface and depart. Camouflage failed against modern military cameras, prompting the new airdromes to be provided for defense.
Seedless grapefruit secret boosts South African exports
The piece notes how seedless grapefruit were discovered when a plowman cut a grapefruit root and a tiny shoot grew sterile fruit. It describes South African growers refining conditions to produce this fruit for export and mentions motives behind fast driving as a broader analogy.
Worms Invade Children’s Intestines Prompt Remedy Sale
An article warns of hookworms attacking children's intestines and risking perforation if untreated. It promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a cure for all worm varieties and as a remedy to repair damage caused by the infestation.
All This Luxurious Furniture Is My Wife's Idea
A social scene depicts a young couple showing off their new house to an office friend. The husband jokes that the wife’s influence is behind the luxurious furniture while asserting the invoice proves his own voice in the matter.
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Newedd
Mother Graves Worm Exterminator Promises Safe Relief
An advertisement asserts Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator will remove worms from a child with a mild, fully effective formula that avoids injury. The claim emphasizes safety for youths and gentle action.
Engagement fallout hinted by families
A remark suggests Tom and his fiancée are not right for each other. The speaker claims to have discussed the matter with both families to gauge their views.
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Tom
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Britain
Winnipeg Tribune
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