Farmers Aid War Effort Prompted Western Canadian Settlement
The piece praises farmers' wartime output and explains Canada and the United States collaboration to boost agricultural production. It notes Western Canada inviting settlers with affordable land, cheap cultivation, and incentives including free home stead lands, reduced machinery costs, tax and duty exemptions, and government seed aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
Western Canada
Canada
Dominion
Western
U.S. Employment Service
Department OF Labor
Illinois Briefs Paint A Snapshot Of Wartime State
Illinois items cover dire shortages measures shipbuilding and rail decisions. Notes include a Peoria bank case trial. Red Cross junior reports. Dixie highway work. Elk Grove and Vermilion county progress. and welfare moves in Kane and Sangamon counties amid wartime strain.
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Chicago
Shipman
Kankakee
Western Cartridge Company
Alton
United States
Health Department
Chicago & Alton Railway
Kansas City-Chicago Limited
Vermilion County
DeLong
Sadorus
Green
Edgar A. Strause
Peoria
Berne
Illinois
John L. Whitman
War Department
Swift Military Company
Packing Company
Swift Military Band
Illinois National Guard
Winois
Washington
Kane County
John Calkins
Knox County
Suport
Finois Supreme Court
Rockford City Traction Company
State Public Utilities Commission
Lowden
Frank N. Pratt
College of Agriculture
Urbana
Farmers’ National Bank
West Salem
James Turner
Leavenworth
Kaw
Macoupin County
Montour Company
Virden
Earl Colburt
Monmouth
Colburt
City of
Morris Schaeffer
Rookery Building
Central Safety Deposit Company
M. W. Cowles
State Department of Public Health
Wilson
Springfield
Ilinois Supreme Court
House and
Senate
State Centennial Commission
Hoy
Nurt Kielhorn
Bartlett
Department of Justice
Lyndis
Grand Jury
Hattie Burgett
Supreme Court
Louis Birkley
Martha Gickons
Marion County
William B. Wright
Ogle County
J. Scott Matthews
Torrens Department
Cook County Recorder’s Office
Torrens Land Title Registration League
John Kinsley
James Cook
Frank Grant
Chester
Effingham County
J. Warner Beckstrom
John Prindiville
Sheffield Avenue
Ilinois
Jacksonville
Episcopal Church
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Pennsylvania
Fletcher
Biggs
Diggs
Congress
Garfield
Adv
Minnesota
Arter
Carter
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