Historic notes and notices from Winnipeg and Vancouver
A miscellany of 1926 items notes Winnipeg Grain Exchange figures, Vancouver bylaw votes, appointments and sworn privy councillors, and obituaries. It reports on figures like a $2,000 bylaw, private property provisions, and alerts on deaths including Esquimalt reserve resident Lachlan Sritts. It also mentions poison liquor deaths near Buffalo and Toronto railway earnings up to June 30 1926 along with racial protests in Toronto and civic groups advocating colored people’s advancement.
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Vancouver
Ed Canadiana
Bens Con Meda-Sind
Georg Perry
Gram
Harvesters Sought Across Prairie Provinces For Western Canada Harvest
An old notice calls for 60 000 harvesters to reap crops in Western Canada. It lists expected regional needs by province, mentions railway rate concessions for workers from central Canada, and notes return passes issued at reduced prices to those who have worked at least two months on farms in the West.
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Remy
Prairies
Canada
British Columbia
Manitoba
Alberta
Seth
Prairie
Itoba
Saskatchewan
Farmain
Peter Pan Actor James Barrie Roles at Family Wedding
The long ago Peter Pan actor James Barrie played the man at his brother Seibold Barrie's wedding in an event connected to Sir James. The ceremony involved Honorable Mary James of Northbourne. A regional firm in Medicine Hat amends idle plans and discusses Redcliffe Rolling Mill negotiations for a hospital project in Pennsylvania.
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Peter Pah
Liewelyn Davis
James Barrie
Peter
Tugland
Sir James
Seibold
Mary
James
Daugh
Northbourne
A India Policy Vision Amid Quarrels and Occupation
A quoted speech outlines a plan to end the occupation in India, keep police for citizen protection, guarantee safety for Europeans and their enterprises, defend religious worship, avoid frontier bribery, and impose prohibitive tariffs on foreign entities. The speaker emphasizes unity beyond caste color and creed.
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India
Hearts Of Oak The British Stand Amid Trials And Confidence
A quote from J L Gargin in the London Observer praising Britain as a keystone of the world. He notes Britain holds firm eight years after Armistice despite anxieties and disappointments pressing from home and abroad, maintaining national resolve and unity.
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Aileady
Europe
Asia
Fim
J_L. Gargin
London Observer
Manitoban Dairy Industry Growth Driven by Record Exports
Dairy commissioner Lé&G Gibson reports a surge in Manitoba butter trade from Ontario and Quebec imports declining after 1912. By 1925 the province exported 325 carloads valued at 2.5 million dollars, with local production meeting market demand from 1915 onward.
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Manitoba
Lé& Gibson
Ontario
Quebec
Building boom in Winnipeg reflects healthy Canada wide growth
The report notes Winnipeg building permits in the first half of the year show strong activity, with total value near 2.41 million compared to 2.41 million in 1935. Authorities cite an encouraging general state of conditions across Canada and optimism for grain harvests and economic prospects in Cavaddt.
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Canada
Winnipeg
Viant- Per
Anthea Dominion
Cavaddt
Women Enter Legal Profession in London Amid Breakthroughs
Six more women have been called to the bar in London signaling a rising trend in women joining the legal profession. Among the latest are Miss Buckley daughter of Lord Wrenbury and Miss Lim of Perang Strate Settlements. The article notes a second Oriental woman called to the bar and mentions a brother’s support and broader social shifts.
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London
Arevthe
Ituth Buckley
Lord Wrenbury
Appeal
Hong’ Lim
Perang
Kays Seng
Danti
Ted
Prac
Two piece fashion pattern for blouse and skirt designs
The article notes a two piece fashion pattern for everyday wear with a blouse No. 1038 and skirt No. 1194. It describes a simple tailored two piece suit with a high or low collar, set in sleeves, and polka dot crepe tie, with sizes and yardage requirements plus pricing for the pattern and fashion book.
Pattern Order Notice From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Fragmentary text shows an order pattern notice from Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 176 McDermott Ave. It mentions a pattern number and a list of names with towns and sizes, but details are incomplete.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Telephones in Canada Rank Among Nations and Lincoln’s Death
Canada ranks second globally with 11.6 telephones per hundred people, behind the United States at 14.2. Denmark New Zealand Sweden and Norway follow. Robert T. Lincoln, 81, son of Abraham Lincoln and former official with the Pullman Company, is found dead in his Vermont summer home amid lingering ill health.
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Statistics
Canada
United States
Denmark
New Zealand
Sweden
Norway
Great Britain
France
Lincoln
Robert T. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Vermont
Benzo
Pullman Company
Inte
Ole Ra
Manitoba Government Survey Targets Unoccupied Lands for Settlers
The Manitoba Government plans agricultural surveys of unoccupied lands to aid incoming settlers. In the west 2,474 homesteads have been taken, 87 families totaling 4,133 people arrived under settlement schemes. The Canada Colonization Association placed 643 families on 160,555 acres. Winnipeg saw 3,681 immigrants pass through in forty eight hours.
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Manitobs
Manitoba
Canada
Canada Colonization Association
Imink
Winnipeg
Australia aims to build motor cars with local firms
Four large engineering and electrical equipment firms in New South Wales plan to form a company capitalized at £1,000,000 to produce Australian-made automobiles. They seek a government subsidy to aid the new industry and Australia’s minister of trade and customs pledged sympathetic cabinet consideration. Australia is the largest importer of motor vehicles.
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Australia
New South’ Wales
French Mechanic Creates Bicycle That Flies
A Dijon factory mechanic has invented a bicycle that can transform into a small monoplane. It rises to 150 feet and tests reportedly completed without mishap. The inventor plans public presentation and believes mass production will make flying affordable.
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Dijon
Parla
Rare Paintings Stolen by Ingenious French Dealer
A French antiquities dealer copied paintings then replaced originals during private previews, moving through distant castles to avoid experts. The scheme aimed at future sale to American collectors, with the thief eluding capture by careful sourcing and concealment.
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France
Paris
Crossword Puzzle Clue List From An Old Paper
A dense OCR puzzle clump with numerous cryptic and straight clues across numbers. It includes food words, weights, animals, prepositions, poetry references, and archaic or garbled entries needing clarification or correction.
The Giving of the Manna Sunday School Lesson
A devotional note on Exodus 16 from the Sunday School lesson dated August 8. The text recalls the Israelites' complaint for food in the wilderness and God's response through Moses, promising quail at even and bread in the morning as proof of divine provision. The piece reflects on human ingratitude and the faithfulness expected from deliverance.
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Jesus
Ife
John
Egypt
Moses
Milton
Israel
T.am
Jehovah
French chemist perfects auxiliary lungs for high altitude flight
The Academy of Science hails auxiliary lungs by M. Garsaux as a major aviation advance. These devices adjust to flight altitude and deliver increasing oxygen, enabling pilots to tolerate reduced air pressure at higher climbs. Experiments show a pilot can endure thinner air up to new heights previously unreachable.
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Ain Pitota
Alrmeg
Java
M. Garsaux
Academy of
Science
Rhenstadt
Potatoes Trade Links BC Seed Potatoes to California
Arrangements are under way to export large quantities of British Columbia seed potatoes to California this year. Canadian grown stock was tested last season in California and yielded good results, with authorities optimistic about the new seed’s strength for southern strains.
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California
Columbia
British Columbia
Cardington Hangar Enlarged For Future British Airships
The gigantic Cardington airship hangar has expanded from 700 feet by 144 feet to 812 feet by 230 feet, now sized to house one R-101 class airship. A mooring mast with a fuel fill rate of 2,000 gallons per hour was erected to support all ships.
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Igantic
Cardington
Oae
Growth of Saskatchewan Since Province Formation
Growth of Saskatchewan since becoming a province shows farm expansion with about 60,000 farms and 2,000,000 crop acres. Grain yield rose from under 60,000,000 bushels in 1905 to 435,530,000 in 1926, with wheat output climbing from 34,142,000 to 240,567,000 bushels. Wheat share of Dominion production grew to 67 percent by 1925 from 41 percent in 1903.
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Saskatcugwan
Saving Money Conditions in Alberta Buyings Certificates
Alberta shows strong saving money conditions as government certificates sold up to June equal last year's annual total. By year end June 1926 sales reached 2 100 708 dollars against 2 149 515 for all of 1925. Holstein cattle exports include 22 purebreds sent from Victoria to Japan for breeders there.
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Alberta
Jay
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Rick Quiliquimeton
Lachlan ’ Sritts
Heme
Esquimalt Reserve
Obert Alexander Baker
Ker Advertising Agua¢r
Toronto
New York
Irom
Buffalo
Tuore
Lockport
Tie Canadian National Raiiways
Canadian National Railway
United Negrot Improvement Association
Canadian League For the Advancement of Colored People
Peter .Pan
Sige. Corporation
Pennayhyania
Inrso
Hearts of Oak
Manitoba Dairy Industry
Neilaf
Amerisan
Temnion
Wiith
Cunard
Harold Taylor
Fox
Abor Ir
Taylor
Walter
Ifead
Laos
Cantor
Metz
Farlower
Vield
Webloh
Ike
Japan
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