Professor Drummond Sees No Profit From Canada's Basic Industry
Professor Drummond of the University of Tar cnte told a Liberal Conservative summer school audience that prosperous agriculture is essential to Canada and that most past statements about its importance were not taken seriously. He argued farmers face fixed costs and falling prices, likening farmers to non union workers, and urged pride in farm work to combat stigmas and build a prosperous rural population.
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Drummond
Canada
Laker
Costly attempt to mold orphan into fake heir ends in failure
The St Thomas Times Journal critiques a wealthy couple who adopted a drowned orphan who resembled their son. They hoped to “maute over” the boy to mirror their child, but after probation they returned him to the orphanage. The piece labels the effort a moral tale on failed reform.
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United State
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Greatest Holstein at Woodstock Wins Praise
A Springbank cow named Snow Countess is hailed as the greatest Holstein on record at Woodstock Ontario. The report notes extraordinary production figures and massive amounts of butter and bread equivalents, illustrating the cow’s remarkable dairy output.
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Woodstock
Ontario
Ont
Alice
Detroit Free Press
Calculation on a man’s food over seventy years
A Paris Faculty team estimates a 70 year old man would consume thirteen tons of bread fifteen tons of vegetables seven tons of meat or thirteen cows plus seven tons of fruit and large amounts of dairy beer and sugar. Also a joke about an oyster stew and a note on banana shipments from Guadeloupe.
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Faculty of
Paris
Europe
America
Prince of Wales shines in Welsh Guards Old Comrades races
England's 38 year old Prince of Wales, colonel in chief, enters the Old Comrades' races at Windsor Barracks. He is edged by inches in the 160 yard fat race, places seventh in the 100 yard handicap, and wins the 50 yard backwards race amid casual dress and brisk competition.
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England
Prince of Wales
Welsh Guards
Windsor Barracks
Prince
Great Weakness Of Canada's Export Syste
British Market. Hon G Howard Ferguson says Canada fails to meet UK needs by selling what we have rather than what they want. He urges Canadian firms to study British conditions and learn requirements with delegations to Old Country. He notes 25 percent of Britons are food producers, making full supply impossible.
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Canada
G. Howard Ferguson
Great Britain
Toronto
England
Middle Axe Of Year Thirty Days Bath September
A compact portrait of September as the year’s middle month marked by heat, a hint of winter at its end, and a touch of April in between. The passage notes Indian summer and fresh mornings before the first ruddiness in parks and woods.
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Jas
Hatast Jazz Record Delights a Young Listener
A girl declares a Hatast jazz record wonderful to her father who tiredly admits limited prior exposure. An odd aside recalls a wagon collision with ducks as a comic contrast to the music moment. A note cites law enforcement on rural vehicles boosting railway receipts by 410 to 550 dollars daily.
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Reypt
Interest in widened shoulder line dress design for youth
A fashion note presents a modish youth dress with widened shoulders, in crepe silk shades such as grey beige and blue. It suggests plain or small print suk crepes, with a brown leather belt and a white crepe guimpe. Style No 730 offers sizes from 12 to 38 inches bust, with fabric yardage and a 25 cent pattern price.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Union Patterns
Winnipeg pattern orders processed by the Winnipeg Newspaper Union, located on ITS McDermot Ave. Catalog lists pattern number, name, town and baptism details for ordering.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Rooming House Banter Over View Sparks Snappy Exchange
A prospective tenant complains about the monotonous window view while the landlord retorts that the place is a rooming house not a sightseeing bus. The exchange captures dry humor in a compact urban housing scene.
Chinese women’s rising profile in modern China education and reform
A speech by Dr. Wu at Ginling College details the rapid advance of Chinese women into medicine, education, politics, journalism, and law while noting regional disparities. He cites examples of women directing research at a major bank and starting a large deposits bank, and praises western missions for expanding women’s education.
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Toronto
Genling College
Chena
Dr. Wu
Genure
Ginling College
China
New Hudsons Bay Co Store Under Construction at Churchill
Work has started on a two storey Hudsons Bay Company store at Churchill located at Hudson Square and Kelsey Boulevard on the new townsite. The 30 by 50 foot building will include a store, warehouse and staff quarters above. It is the third structure on the new townsite area and follows the companys early trading post activity beginning after its founding with surveys in 1668. The company yet maintains a warehouse about a mile from the townsite and a trading post in old Fort Churchill near the river.
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Hudson's Bay Company
Churchill
Hudson Square
Kelsey Boulevard
Sub
Arctic
Fort
Tobago Times Pioneers First Island Newspaper History
A creative note imagines Robinson Crusoe discovering modern news culture on Tobago. The piece envisions the island hosting its first genuine newspaper and hints at a social column revealing visitors without footprints.
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Crusoe
Tobago Times
Tobago
Dafoe
Thas
Advantages Of Rural Life Attract Town Dwellers In Many Ways
A Saskatchewan study by Professor W G Worcester shows volcanic ash from Swift Current and Twelve Mile Lake Valley can substitute feldspar in ceramics, boosting western Canadian industry. The article argues rural life offers enduring appeal through self-sufficiency, food abundance, and the rewards of farm living, especially in hard times.
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W. G. Worcester
Ceramic Department
University of Saskatchewan
Department of Railways, Labor and Industries
Saskatchewan
Swift Current
Twelve Mile Lake Valley
St. Victor
Wood Mountain
Canada
Excess Wheat Production Across World Markets
The piece traces excess wheat output to WWI logistics and notes world production fell from 4.126 billion bu in 1913 14 to 4.011 billion bu in 1929 30 and 3.76 billion bu in 1992 93 excluding Russia and China. It highlights semi failures cutting Russia from exports while Germany Poland Australia Canada Argentina and Danubian regions raise acreage. It cautions a future Russia re entry could trigger a glut and depress prices.
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China
Russia
United States
Germany
Poland
Australia
Canada
Chicago Daly News
Reduced freight rates aid Okanagan apples to eastern Canada
New rates from the Okanagan Valley to eastern Canada cut 25 cents per 100 pounds, and 18 cents per 100 pounds to stations in Ontario west of Fort William and Armstrong and to Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Effective Sept 11 until May 31 next year the cuts aim to help growers market fruit.
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Okanagan Valley
British Columbia
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Railways
Canada
Ontario
Fort William
Armstrong
Manitoba
Saskatchenap
Alberta
Epidemic Strikes Cattle Near Port of Spain Trinidad
A mysterious cattle death outbreak near a deserted French airfield fourteen miles from Port of Spain has farmers baffled. Locals attribute the losses to vampire bats and abandon inoculation, turning to ancient sacrificial rites to appease the gods blamed for the calamity.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Four Hour Storm Records High Lightning Count
An official lightning autographic instrument logged a heavy thunderstorm near the German Dutch frontier district at Nordists Weatphalis. In four hours about 2 000 discharges were counted with one hour and a half showing 90 to 40 discharges per minute. Observers note the sky over Namen.
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Went Germaany
Dutch Frontier District
Nordists Weatphalis
Namen
Women Farm Sorts Out Work After Father’s Death
Mrs Peal Johnson and her four daughters run an eighty four acre farm near Laronl. They learned farming after their father’s death three years ago and now perform all typical farm duties. The farm grows corn soy beans hay and they manage eight cows hogs and poultry. The two older daughters teach in nearby schools during winter.
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Peal Johnson
Laronl
Town
Viola
Georgia
Marcine
Gretchen
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