World Wheat Situation and Canada’s Export Challenge
Premier Bennett spoke to the Montreal Board of Trade after global wheat talks noting Canada, Argentina, Australia, and the United States as top exporters while Europe and other nations shift to higher self supply. He highlighted 1933 European output surges and looming price fears driving export limits, tariff changes, and demand for planning in Western Canada.
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Bennett
Montreal Board of Trade
Canada
United States
Australia
Great Britain
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Holland
Belgium
London
Millere
Premier Bennett
Argentine
F. ©. Murphy
Hungary
Roumania
Jugo-Slavia
Bulgaria
Russia
Paris Plans to Build Many Schools
The report notes Paris intends to construct numerous schools as part of an education expansion program. No further details on locations or timelines are provided in the readable text.
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Paris
Progress in New Gold Fields in Labrador Claim
Hon. W. J. Walsh Newfoundland minister reports early progress in Labrador gold fields after returning from the Lake Wabash district. Of 22 concessions since Labrador Way opened, about half are under field investigation by three explorers. The team reached Lake Wabash after a 200 mile air trip from Seven Islands. They found a camp of 38, spent a week surveying, with scarce flies and weather hampering work but noting substantial progress.
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Labrador
W. 2. Wash
Newfourtland
St. Johns
Lake Wabash
QO. K. Snelgrove
J. W. Foote
Newfoundland
Labrador Way
Seven Islands
Quebec
Walsh
Weight loss testimonial for Kruschen Salts
A woman credits Kruschen Salts for a 32 pound weight loss after starting the remedy on her husband’s advice. She reports relief from rheumatism and improved nerves and energy, weighing 161 pounds before and 129 pounds after the program.
Bavarian City to Mark 1700th Year of Founding
Weis senburg prepares a 1700th anniversary celebration tracing the city’s origins to 233 AD when local tribesmen breached a Roman road fortification and built the Wizinbure castle from its stones. Fragments of the early wall with 31 towers and major gates remain including the notable Billinger gate.
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Weissenburg
Biricianis
Wizinbure
Billinger Gate
Germany
Tiny English miniature paintings require microscope viewing
Stanley A. Burchett claims miniature water color portraits fit on a postage stamp with some pieces bought by the queen. The works include an eighth of a postage stamp seascape and a still life of marigolds. Dental science notes Egypt and Greek practices. Japanese tea exports rise in 1932. Over 250000 work for the British post office.
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Stanley A. Burchett
London
Grenadier Guards
British Prototype Kilogram Tracked Across Paris and Sevres
A high official of Britain's Board of Trade carried the British prototype kilogram from London to Paris and Sevres for comparison with the international standard. The platinum alloy artifact, kept secret during travel, is one of about 30 such copies worldwide and valued far beyond its metal worth.
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London Board of Trade
Paris
Sevres
Britain
International Committee of Weights and Measures
International
Military Command Changes In Canadian Districts
Major-General E C Ashton leaves Toronto for Victoria to command military district No 11 covering British Columbia and the Yukon. Brigadier General T W Anderson from Winnipeg replaces Ashton in No 10, with Brigadier General W B Beeman moving to No 11 to succeed Anderson.
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E. C. Ashton
C.M.G
Toronto
Victoria
British Columbia
Yukon Territory
T. W. Anderson
Ds.c
Winnipeg
Ashton
W. B. Beeman
D.S.C
Military District No. 11
Anderson
Phantom freight car haunts Paris war tribunal
Ex-sergeant Nigon wins appeal as he defends a 1918 sentence for twice abandoning his post. He claimed the 5000 gas masks box car vanished each night, noting a guard could not sleep inside, and that the car was movable or phantom. He was acquitted and the sentence quashed.
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Paris
Nigon
Gas Pollution From Automobiles Warns Medical Expert
Sir William Wheeler told the British Medical Association meeting in Dublin that city air is permeated with car exhaust gases. He warned that traffic pollution may raise the annual death rate and that policemen's blood shows high carbon monoxide levels from constant city driving.
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W. I. Dec. Wheeler
American College of Surgeons
Sir William
British Medical Association
Dublin
Long African circumnavigating flight by British biplanes
Three large British troop carrying biplanes are planned for a record 12 000 mile formation flight across Africa from Cairo to Bathurst and Dakar. The route traverses Khartum, French Equatorial Africa, Nigeria, the Gold and Ivory Coasts, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Senegal, over largely unexplored territory. France allows foreign language films in only 15 theatres. A German high speed passenger plane claims 226 miles per hour.
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Cairo
Bathurst
Dakar
Khartum
French Equatorial Africa
Nigeria
Gold
Ivory Coasts
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Senegal
Swap of Rare Birds Between Museums Sparks Tale
The Carnegie Museum received a nearly complete cahow skeleton in exchange for a mounted great auk given to the National Museum in Washington. Both birds are extinct. the auk lived in Bermuda and roamed at night while the cahow resided in the far north.
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Carnegie Museum
National Museum
Washington
Bermuda
Rescue remembered as war time courage at Montreal harbor
Captain R H Monks recalls saving a badly wounded crewman aboard the Clan Alpine during the Great War as torpedoed ships sank off the Irish coast. The survivor identifies Monks decades later aboard a Montreal bound steamer, moments before a deadly explosion. They survived two days at sea and were picked up by an American destroyer.
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Montreal
R. H. Monks
Monks
Monke
Radio Wave Pain Case Baffles Tacoma Doctors
Dairyman Martin Bodker of the Tacoma district endures sharp pains from radio waves unless he grounds himself. Tacoma and Seattle specialists report the case as puzzling with symptoms like rheumatism. He found relief by grounding via a water faucet and copper wired setup, and Los Angeles physicians were consulted on the unusual condition.
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Martin Bodker
Tacoma
Seattle
Bodker
Los Angeles
Marlborough Town Crier Wins National Contest at Lyme Regis
W. B. Angus, aged 63, Marlborough town crier in Wiltshire, won the National Town Crier contest at Lyme Regis after beating twelve rivals. Three judges judged from a tent 100 yards from the competitors amid cheering crowds. Belgium commodity prices rise.
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United Kingdom
W. B. Angus
Marlborough
Wiltshire
England
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Frog
Parchment Appleford
Papen
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