Canada Tourism Resilience Outpaces Other Industries
Canada’s tourist trade shows the smallest decline among major activities with August gains amid U S conditions. Ottawa reports eight months ending August traffic to Vancouver Island and Atlantic provinces. British Columbia and New Brunswick show strength while Ontario and Quebec lag due to proximity to recession. Cruises on Canadian steamers surge as luxury travelers shift destinations amid unsettled European conditions.
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Canada
Leo Dolan
Canadian Travel Bureau
Department of Transport
Dotar
United States
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
Victoria
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Prairie Provinces
Dolan
Ottawa Journal
Platypus Facts Revealed As Stamp Design Sparks Interest
The Platypus details new animal habits from Australia. Robert Edie keeps one as a pet and reports it has a voice like a broody hen, sleeps up to 100 hours, eats a pound of earthworms daily, and has a soft till. It walks with fists and is part bird, fish and mammal, laying eggs while swimming and nursing its young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Edie
Australia
Cable Plough Tests bury Atlantic Cables to Save Repairs
Western Union announces successful four year experiment burying trans Atlantic cables in the Atlantic seabed. The Lord Kelvin, sailing from New York March 29, buried sections 100 miles southwest of the Irish coast using a new cable plough. The test marks the 50th anniversary of the first Atlantic cable and promises to reduce fishing and repair costs. The article notes Guatemala City as Central America’s largest metropolis with 165000 residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union Telegraph Company
Lord Kelvin
New York
Irish
Cyrus W. Field
Oldest British straw bee skep craftsman near Haslemere
William Hill, near Haslemere in Surrey, is nearly 80 and a surviving straw bee skeps maker. He has crafted bee shops for about 70 years, learning at nine from an North Chapel old lady. His wife and he live frugally in Laburnham Cottage on a modest pension and garden work.
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Camelsdale
Haslemere
Surrey
England
Great Britain
William Hill
Laburnham Cottage
Hill
Mr. Hit
North Chapel
University Scholarship Funds Raised During War Discussion
The University of Saskatchewan announces a $5,000 increase to scholarship funds amid reflections on the wartime legacy of Walter Scott the first Premier. President J. S. Thomson confirms the boost as part of ongoing university support. Doves symbolize peace amid breeding season rivalries. An odd note from Los Angeles California reports a law against poking turkeys to test tenderness. A cork soaked in olive oil for five minutes becomes airtight and watertight.
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University of Saskatchewan
Walter Scott
Saskatchewan
J. S. Thomson
University
Childish dream of politician’s aide rises to prominence
Rosemary Miller of Crescent House Ashford grew from a schoolgirl who vowed to be a Cabinet minister’s private secretary into a trusted aide to Lord Runciman. The piece traces her quiet rise from Ashford County School to a Westminster office and her early fascination with politics.
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Prague
Deddy
Rosemary Miller
Crescent House
Ashford
Middlesex
Rosemary
Lord Runciman
Czechoslo
Vakia
London
Westminster
Food Value Of Potatoes And New Galway Hat Factory
The piece notes potatoes keep minerals under the skin and advises cooking or skinning lightly to preserve value. It argues potatoes are mostly water with two percent protein and fat, rebutting fattening myths. It cites Bernard Moore and The London Listener and adds Ireland’s Galway hat factory plans to produce one million hats annually.
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Bernard Moore
The
London Listener
Prolific Writer Thomas Wolfe Dies at 37 in Baltimore
Harper and Brothers revealed 1,000,000 Wolfe words remain to edit from seven manuscript boxes found in a New York hotel. The material could yield at least two, possibly three novels continuing the Grant family saga begun in Look Homeward Angel, detailing Wolfe and his world.
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Thomas Wolfe
Baltimore
Wolfe
Harper and Bros
New York
Harpers
Grant
Beautiful Joe presented to Dalhousie Library
An illustrated copy of Marshal Saunders's Beautiful Joe from Toronto was given to Dalhousie University's library. The inscription notes the author sent the book as a token of respect and admiration. In Turkey a will cannot disinherit heirs except for Mustapha Kema.
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Marshal Saunders
Toronto
Joe
Dalhousie University
Turkey
Mustapha Kema
Jiffy Knit Pattern for Blouse and Skirt in Two Sizes
Jiffy Knit offers an easy stockinette blouse with sun burst detail at the neck and raglan sleeves, paired with a smart flared skirt. Pattern 6019 includes blouse and skirt instructions for sizes 16-18 and 38-40, with stitches illustration and materials. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg to obtain. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Moon Studies and Home Wine Making Highlight 1930s Britain
British astronomers report renewed data on the moon while editors note a resurgence of public interest sparked by Robert Barker's findings. Meanwhile, guidance appears for home wine making using beets parsnips and common fruit, with essential cleanliness and fermentation steps outlined.
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R. W. Arengo-Jones
Division of Horticulture
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Dominion Department of Agriculture
British migrants to Australia plan Fifty youths monthly target
The Overseas League proposes to send fifty young British migrants to Australia each month from year end. Unmarried British youths aged 14 to 18 and girls 16 to 22 will be helped on arrival, housed, and placed in work. Recruitment aims at children of British parents from industrial cities. Committees in each state will oversee the migrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Overseas League
Australia
R C M P to Survey Western Canada Police Radio System
RCMP Radio Western Canada will be surveyed within a year to establish a police radio network. Commissioner S T Wood said a competent radio engineer will study the three prairie provinces to locate optimal stations in large centers such as Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Calgary and Edmonton.
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Canada
S. T. Wood
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Prairie Provinces
Winnipeg
Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
Londonderry speaks duty as he learns to fly for youth
Lord Londonderry, chief Civil Air Guard commissioner, told a Conservative rally in County Durham why he learned to fly. He said he took up flying as a duty after becoming Secretary of State for it and urged younger men to follow. He piloted his own plane from Northern Ireland to Seaham for the meeting.
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Lord Londonderry
Civil Air Guard
County Durham
England
Air Force
Cranwell
Northern Ireland
Seaham
Overseas Daily Mail
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Archimedes
H .U. Sverdrup
University of Bergen
Norway
University of California
Sverdrup
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Earth
Centralamerica
Guatemala City
Los Angeles
Calif
New York Bank
Exmigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Fast Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
John Kaiser
East Fifty-first Street
Bellevue
Wall Street
Russell Sage
John D. Rockefeller
Emigrant Bank
Sage
Russell Norman L. Norcoss
Boston
Ireland
Galway
Beautiful Joe
Tin
Flammarion
Machler
Beer
W. H. Pickering
Pickering
Moon
Robert Barker
Barker
R.C.M.P. Radio
Mysore
India
Asa
Admiralty Islands
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