Alberta Sugar Beet Crop Seen For 1932 Yield
Albertas 1932 sugar beet harvest is projected near 5 0 0 0 tons a new record for the province Bees of the Bahasa legislature approved the United Kingdom sugar agreement signed during the Imperial Conference in Ottawa Freedom for the Philippine Islands was approved by the U S Senate despite warnings of a Hoover veto. Canada supplied 57 2 percent of UK wheat imports in October 1932 totaling 33 204 628 bushels of 19 632 648. Agnes MacPhail will address the United Farmers of Alberta Convention in Calgary late January. Ontario legislature may not convene until late February due to Easter dates. Premier George Henry says W W Yen named Chinese ambassador to Moscow. New Zealand re asserts war debt liability to Britain after Hoover moratorium. World economic conference expected in April per Ottawa reports. About forty percent of Germanys foreign obligations are held in the United States. Germanys total foreign debt is 4 812 000 000. Claire Kinsey Vance, 35, dies in plane crash near Danville California.
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United Kingdom
Ottawa
Philippine Islands
United States Senate
Hoover
Canada
Agnes MacPhail
House of
Moscow
New Zealand
Great Britain
Radio ownership in Canada tops 770000 sets in 1931
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 770,436 radios in 1931 averaging 74 per thousand nationwide. Rural areas had 40 per thousand while urban areas reached 99. Ontario led provinces with 106 sets per thousand. Forest Hill Ontario has the highest local concentration followed by several Ontario and BC cities.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario
British Columbia
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Yukon
Forest Hill
Ont
Toronto
Medicine Hat
London
Hamilton
Windsor
Brantford
Victoria
B.C
Fat Man Wins Right of Way Case Over Bicycle Blocking Wall
In Clerkenwell England Judge Rowlands ordered removal of a bicycle from a walkway between houses to keep a fat man from being impeded. The landlord complained and the man testified it was either wedged or forced to push the wheel aside to gain full passage.
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Rowlands
Clerkenwell
England
Eight Hawaiian Islands Listed and Noted
The article names eight main Hawaiian Islands Hawaii Maui Ka hoaclawe Lania Molokai Oahu Kauai Niihau and mentions unrecognized rocky islets. It also notes a rubber company producing its 200 millionth tire with a director blowout and references Hopi religious rituals occupying more than a third of the year.
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Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii
Maui
Kahoaclawe
Lania
Molokai
Oahu
Kauai
Niihau
Widow Challenges Unmarried Woman Definition in Welfare Act
An appeal questions whether Annie Hawrysh of Sky Lake, claimed as an unmarried woman under the Custis Welfare Act, qualifies since she is a widow. The case began before Magistrate F A E Hamilton, but a jurisdiction objection halted proceedings and a prohibition was issued by Justice Adamson. The prohibition is under appeal.
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Gorwil Shorthy
Court of Appeal
Justice Adamaen
Annie Hawrysh
Sky Lake
Stan
Justice Adamson
Toronto Artists Deny Ottawa Gallery Favoritism in Exhibition Choices
National Art Gallery dispute centers on 11 Toronto artists led by Charles Comfort refuting claims of bias toward a restricted group in Ottawa. The 118 petitioning painters demand a government inquiry and boycott, while the Toronto group argues they do not speak for the broader Canadian art community and defend the gallery’s selection process.
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Charles Comfort
Winnipeg
Toronto
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Royal Canadian Academy
Group of Seven
First manned rocket flight tentatively planned for spring
Engineer Heinrich Nebel outlines a plan for a human piloted rocket to reach about 3000 feet and descend by a large automatic parachute. The pilot would eject and land via a separate parachute. The design uses adjustable nozzles and a alcohol oxygen fuel mixture.
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Heinrich Nebel
Impulse to Jump From Eiffel Tower Reduces with Vigilance
Paris correspondent reports the Eiffel Tower chief guardian notes no deaths by jumping from the top for over a year. He recalls a Russian princess died by suicide in 1931 and says six people per year once leaped from the top before heightened watch by guards on each platform and stairs.
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Eiffel Tower
Paris
Guardian
Eiffeld Tower
Tourist agency ad seeks guide for foreign tours
A hard-up young man applies for an easy position as a tour guide abroad. During an interview the agency asks in French, the applicant falters, then replies confidently that he speaks French.
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Parlez-vous Francais
Suggestion to Increase Circulating Credit of Canada
A paragraph from Toronto Saturday Night proposes a moral finance scheme where Canadians give each other amounts like ten dollars as Christmas presents to boost circulating credit by large sums. It argues the idea costs nothing and could multiply credit, though ends with rhetorical doubt about practicality.
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Canada
Toronto
John the Baptist as Forerunner to Jesus
Sunday School lesson comments on John the Baptist as the forerunner, citing Mark 1 9 and Isaiah 40 3 13. It compares Roman road building to the straight path John opened for the gospel and quotes Francis J McConnell on John’s directness amid Pharisees and soldiers.
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John the Baptist
Jesus
John
Maijachi
Isaiah
God
Babylon
Mark
Empire
Francis J. McConnell
Coconut Cream Jumbles From Week's Menu
Recipe for coconut cream jumbles uses flour sugar eggs heavy cream and shredded coconut. Mix sift bake and chill then roll cut and bake at 425 degrees for about 18 minutes to yield two dozen cookies.
Lemon Cream Junket With Cranberries
Recipe card describes making cranberry sauce from sugar water and cranberries, then preparing lemon junket with milk and cream. After junket sets, top each serving with one tablespoon cranberry sauce.
How China Does It
A British observer recounts how property can vanish in China. Lord Lytton, wartime chairman of the Manchurian commission, reported his walking stick was lost but quickly recovered when authorities detained all carriers. A coolie later produced the stick claiming to have found it.
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East
Lord Lytton
China
Manchurian Commission
French angel fish cautions for captivity care
French angel fish, prized deep water resident, lives about a month in captivity. Photos show how to clean prints by gently wiping with warm ammonia water on old linen.
Fruit Growing In Western Canada Shows Orchard Progress
The article notes government led fruit growing efforts in Saskatchewan and Western Canada led by Jas Bryant and farmers wives, reporting cross breeding of Siberian crabapple with Ontario apples, grafting on Siberian stock, and early successes by pioneers like Dr. Hunt and H. Faquier. It highlights Frank Boskill's two acre Rutland orchard producing crabs and plums with prices and tonnage, and ends with Battleford Hospital interest.
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Jas. Bryant
Kir
Saskatchewan
Canada
Brandon
Manitoba
Indian Head
Europe
Asia
Imperial Botanical Gardens
St. Petersburg
Russia
Ontario
William Saunders
Dominion Experimental Farms
Dr. Hunt
H. Faquier
Maple Creek
Frank Boskill
Rutland
Boskill
MacNeill
Battleford Mental Hospital
Boskill Farm
Battleford
Alaska Air Growth Ties Planes to Territorial Communication
Alaska's Air Success notes aeroplane service expanding as 26 commercial planes in 1933 flew 947,695 passenger miles and carried 161,718 pounds of mail and express, according to Ernest Walker Sawyer, adviser to the secretary of the interior.
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Alaska
Ernest Walker Sawyer
Secretary of the Interior
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Alperta
Germany
United States
Claire Kinsey Vance
Rocky Ridge
Danville
California
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
N. UL
Morchete Court
Frede Wiles
National Art Gallery
Tan
Ruth Rogers
Canadian National Railwayt
roHar
Last Mountain Lake
Betty Barclay
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