Professor Drummond Sees No Profit From Canada s Basic Industry
Prof. W. M Drummond of the University of Toronto told the Liberal Conservative summer school in Newmarket that farming cannot be profitably reduced to mere production. He argued low prices and fixed costs trap farmers, stressing the need to value farming and restore civic pride in the rural population.
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Drummond
Canada
W. M Drummond
University of Toronto
Newmarket
Oat
A Wonderful Record At Woodstock Holstein Cow
A cow named Springbank Snow Countess is hailed as the greatest Holstein on record. She produced 9 977 pounds of butter in her lifetime and about 200 cubic feet, enough to fill bricks three quarters of a mile long, a wall five feet high and nearly 90 feet long. Her milk yearly could supply over twenty children with a daily quart, marking a remarkable dairy record.
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Woodstock
Ont
Springbank Snow Countess
Jazz Record Excites Girl and Dad Conversation
A girl excitedly tells her father about a new jazz record, inviting his reaction. He dismisses it with a weary remark about his hearing and recalls a bizarre countryside sound memory of a collision between a wagon of milk cans and a duck-filled farm cart.
Banana shipments from Guadeloupe rise nearly double
Guadeloupe in the French West Indies is shipping nearly twice as many bananas this year as last year, reflecting stronger export activity and growing demand in destination markets.
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Guadeloupe
French West Indies
Prince of Wales shines in Windsor amateur sprint events
England's 38 year old Prince of Wales, colonel in chief of the Welsh Guards, showed notable sprinting merit in the Old Comrades races at Windsor Barracks. He narrowly lost the 100 yards flat, placed seventh in the 100 yards handicap for officers, and took second in the 50 yards backwards event amid casual attire and good crowd.
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England
Prince of Wales
Welsh Guards
Windsor Barracks
Wide Shoulder Line Dress with Puff Sleeves Pattern
Promote a modish young dress in soft crinkly crepe silk with a widened shoulder line and puffed sleeves. Available in Grey beige Eleanor blue and other shades with small prints. Pattern No. 730 offers sizes 12 14 16 18 20 and 36 38 bust, with yardage details and a 25 cent price.
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Eleanor
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Instructions from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union list address at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Pattern numbers and sizes are requested for ordering. The notice presents a simple ordering method and contact details for pattern requests.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Great Weakness Of Canada's Export System
Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain, told a Canadian Club luncheon in Toronto that Canada often fails to supply products in the form demanded. He urged Canadian businessmen to study British needs in person and noted that 25 percent of Britain's population are food producers, making full food provision impossible.
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Canada
G. Howard Ferguson
Great Britain
Toronto
England
Excess Wheat Production Across World Markets
The piece traces wheat surpluses to wartime needs as global output fell from 4.126 billion bushels in 1913-14 to 3.76 billion in 1932-33 excluding Russia and China. It notes Germany, Poland, Australia, Canada, Argentina and Danubian nations expanding acreages while Russia and China posed export gaps, warning a potential price glut if Russia returns to markets.
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China
Russia
United States
Germany
Poland
Australia
Canada
Chicago
Daly News
Calculation claims a man eats seven tons of meat by 70
A Paris faculty calculation reports a healthy man reaching seventy would have consumed thirteen tons of bread, fifteen tons of vegetables, seven tons of meat, thirteen cows, seven tons of fruit, 1600 pounds of candy and sugar, 15000 quarts of milk and 20000 quarts of beer in Europe, or water in America.
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Faculty of
Paris
Europe
America
Advantages Of Rural Life Attracts Town Dwellers In Many Ways
A Saskatchewan professor reports volcanic ash can substitute feldspar in ceramics with western deposits in Swift Current Twelve Mile Lake Valley and Wood Mountain. Rural life appeals amid urban distress as farming yields home grown food and pleasures, sustaining the back to the land appeal across varying fortunes.
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University of Saskatchewan
W. G. Worcester
Ceramic
Department of Railways, Labor and Industries
Saskatchewan
Swift Current
Twelve Mile Lake
St. Victor
Wood Mountain
Canada
Epidemic Strikes Cattle Near Port of Spain
A mysterious cattle death outbreak near a deserted old French airfield fourteen miles from Port of Spain Trinidad puzzles east Indian farmers. They blame vampire bats and abandon inoculations, turning to traditional sacrifices to appease the gods believed to be angered.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Sky A Sea Of Flames Over Nordhorn Thunderstorm
An official lightning autographic instrument at Nordhorn Westphalia recorded 3000 flashes in four hours amid heavy thunderstorms on the Dutch frontier. In the first ninety seconds 30 to 40 discharges per minute were logged. Observers described the four hour sky as a sea of flames.
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West Germany
Nordhorn
Westphalia
Middle Age of the Year in September described
The passage portrays September as the year’s middle phase a brief month blending summer heat early and hints of winter at its end. It evokes Indian summer a transitional period with a sense of youthful recollection as mornings turn faintly rosy in parks and woods.
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Detrait Free Press
Joly
Terest
Ruth Rogers
TBO
Charles Downing Lay
New York Herald-Tribune
Whipsnade Zoo
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