Advocate Steps to Facilitate Trade with U S
Winnipeg reports the ninth annual Canadian Chamber of Commerce convention urges reciprocal trade concessions with the United States and a 1935 trade mission to China. It backs economy in government, provincial relief, land settlement, and a Canadian wheat institute, plus joint federal provincial action to regulate securities.
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Winnipeg
Canada
United States
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
China
Orient
Dominion
Canadian Wheat Institute
National Council
Joint International Committee
Congress
House of Commons
Senate
Watt Seeks Refund for Train Ticket Between Detroit and Boston
John Watt of Auburndale Massachusetts requests a refund after buying a Chicago issued ticket for passage Detroit to Boston. The Chicago office of the Canadian National Grand Trunk Railway forwarded Watt’s ticket to Montreal for action claiming the ticket remains valid until used.
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Chicago
John Watt
Canadian National Grand Trunk Railways
Watt
Auburndale
Mass
Detroit
Boston
Montreal
Sir George Perley Celebrates 77th Birthday
Sir George Perley of Ottawa born September 12 1857 in Lebanon New Hampshire marks his seventy seventh birthday. He first entered the House of Commons as the Argenteuil member in 1904 after defeats in 1900 for Russell and in 1902 in a by election in Argenteuil.
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Ottawa
Lebanon
N.H
George Perley
House of Commons
Argenteuil
Russell
De Valera Attacks Russia Entry Tactics at League Assembly
Irish Free State leader Eamon de Valera criticized the backstairs intrigue over Russia’s invitation to join the League of Nations. He said he would approve Russia’s entry but objected to the drafting process and hotel room lobbying before the assembly.
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de Valera
Irish Free State
Russia
League
Long
Jean Eamon de Valera
Free State
Famine Strikes Anhuaei Province as Hunger Torments Peasants
Descriptions from Anhawei reveal a summer drought intensifying into famine. Farmers flood towns for grain with markets closing amid fear of looting and riots. Reports tell of hunger driven wolves, scarce drinking water, and rising disease as relief is urged to prevent wider unrest.
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Nanking
China
Anhawei
Will Enforce Bird Act Montreal At Meeting
At the closing session of the International Association of Game Fish and Conservation Colonel J W Spalding deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned officers to enforce the Migratory Birds Act among white men and Eskimos in 140 Arctic posts He warned that a continued decline in migratory birds over 30 years could deny future Canadians wild geese and ducks James Brown of Montpelier Vermont was named president and John Farley of San Francisco was elected first vice president.
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Montreal
International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation
J. W. Spalding
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
James Brown
Montpelier
John Farley
San Francisco
Nickel Production Surges For First Half Of Year
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a large rise in nickel output for the six months ending June, totaling 65,333,686 pounds versus 22,760,291 pounds in the same period in 1933. The surge highlights a major increase in Ottawa’s nickel production.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Cargo For Churchill Electric Lights In North Saskatoon
Co operatives supply the main cargo for the S S Brandon second voyage from Churchill this year. Saskatchewan Livestock Pool to ship 250 cattle to England and a wheat cargo to the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool may also go to London or Birkenhead on a late September sailing. J C Hackney aims for a representative northern Saskatchewan cattle shipment from many producers of first class stock. The Nascopie expedition to Arctic posts presses on through gales and fog as Pangnirtung hospital gains a donated electric plant from Sir Edward Kemp’s family boosting hospital power.
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Saskatoon
Sask
S.S. Brandon
Churchill
Saskatchewan Livestock Pool
Co-operative Wholesale Society of England
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Brandon
London
Birkenhead
J. C. Hackney
Livestock Pool
Saskatchewan
Prince Albert
Ottawa
Nascopie
Department of Interior
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Pangnirtung
Anglican Mission Hospital
Sir Edward Kemp
Toronto
Indians Claim Rights in Misuse of Funds at Mistawanis Band
Prince Albert Sask aged Chief George Dreaver testifying in exchequer court says that in 1876 speeches promised free medicine for Mistawanis Indians on their reserve west of the city. Indians allege $21,250 of band funds were improperly spent including medicine and education charges, farm instructors salaries, deaf and dumb member maintenance, overcharges for horses, and treaty money paid to two nonmembers.
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Prince Albert
Sask
George Dreaver
Queen Victoria
Here
Department of Indian Affia.s
Stronghold Of Peace Would Stop Hasty Strikes
The International Typographical Union in Chicago adopted a rule change to let the executive council set the time for strike votes rather than a 24 hour deadline after authorization. Delegates approved the measure aiming to prevent hasty strikes. Adolf Hitler Pledges Germany To Peace. Berlin reports Hitler pledging Germany to the cause of peace in a reception with the diplomatic corps at the Reichs president's office.
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Chicago
International Typographical Union
Executive Council of
the International
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Berlin
Reichsfuehrer
Reichspresident
Paul von Hindenburg
Germany Offers To Pay London Yarn Debts
German yarn importers propose to pay £250,000 owed to Lancashire cotton firms in 12 monthly installments, with an immediate restart of yarn deliveries to Germany required.
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London
Lancashire Cotton Companies
Germany
Huge War Profits At Du Pont In World War I
Washington report details the Du Pont Corporation earning 1.245 billion dollars in war orders from 1914 to 1918 with profits partly funding General Motors. Pierre Du Pont testified 47 million of profits bought one quarter of GM stock. three brothers and counsel present. European orders totaled 265 million in 1914-15 and 323 million in 1915. contracts were canceled postwar, with a 1919 net loss of 10.601 million.
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Washington
du Pont Corporation
Delaware
United States Senate
General Motors
Pierre du Pont
Irenee du Pont
Pierre S. du Pont
Lamont du Pont
Counsen
Felix du Pont
du Pont
United States
Europe
du Pont Company
Pierre
Appeal for Unemployed Calgary Veterans
Brig. Gen. Alex Ross president of the Canadian Legion appeals to Canadians to prevent unemployed men from losing conscience and belief. He urges service clubs to help reconstruct these men into normal healthy citizens and notes the Legion is studying a plan for vocational and physical training for returned workers.
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Calgary
Alex. Ross
Canadian Legion
Ross
Manitoba seeks export ban to secure fodder for southwest winter
A petition from 12 southeastern Manitoba municipalities asks the government to curb export licences for feed to the United States until drought needs are met. About 32 100 tons of fodder are estimated required for livestock quartered in the southwest this winter as grain threshing remained minimal across a wide area.
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Melita
Man
Manitoba
United States
Big Ben Recoated In Crimson And Gold After Overhaul
London’s Big Ben reveals restored faces after overhaul. The clock shines with real gold leaf and crimson accents, restoring its once gleaming appearance from the early 1960s.
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London
Big Ben
Appointment of W A Mather as Western CP general manager
Winnipeg reports the appointment of W A Mather formerly assistant to the Montreal vice president as general manager of Western lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway. W N Neal vice president of Western lines also announced C A Cotterell as assistant general manager in charge of the British Columbia region including Vancouver Island.
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Winnipeg
W. A. Mather
Montreal
Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
W. N. Neal
Neal
C. A. Cotterell
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
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Sir George Perley
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Austria
Kurt Schuschnigg
R.C.M.P
Arctic
Sub-Arctic
Nickel
Graham Ford Towers
Royal Bank of Canada
New Central Bank
Mission Hospital
St. Electricity
Lord Nuffield
Sir William Morris
British Cycle and Motor-Cycle Manufacturers and Traders Union
Cowley
Legion Head
Vals
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