Marketing committee aims to boost farmer value in dairy bacon poultry
The House of Commons agriculture committee heard Minister Robert Weir urge focus on marketing dairy bacon and poultry to move products faster and increase producers' share of consumer dollars. He urged cooperation among private, cooperative and producer groups and proposed better education and freight rate strategies to widen farmer margins. W A Brown later outlined that farmers typically receive about half of the consumer price after freight grading and retail profits.
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House of Commons Committee On Agriculture
Robert Weir
Weir
W. A.brown
Department of Agriculture
British Dept Reveals Method To Prevent Rust Fermentation
The British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research announces a method to stop fermentation in rusts and stored vegetables. By boiling or partially cooking vegetables before freezing, color and flavor are preserved. boiling destroys enzymes, allowing safe storage in suitable containers whether covered or exposed to air.
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Queen Mary Bouquet Auction At Christie’s For Charity
Queen Mary sent a bouquet of roses to Christie’s auction rooms with proceeds benefiting the Alexandria Day Fund. The first bloom sold for 575 dollars, the second for 520, and subsequent offers reached 250 and 125 dollars. In other notes, persimmon remains a staple fruit in the Far East and a fragment from Nagels Lustige Welt in Berlin mentions a pierced bay hole quote.
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Christie's Auction Rooms
Alexandria Day Fund
Nagels Lustige Welt
Berlin
Pacific salmon exports grow from British Columbia in 1920
On the Road To Mandalay and major European cities, canned and frozen salmon from British Columbia was marketed in 1920. All Pacific salmon varieties went to markets including Paris and Berlin preferring frozen cahoes and steelhead. Most shipments came from Victoria to distant destinations via cold storage transport. Shipments were largely test runs with gratifying success and expansion is expected this year.
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Mandalay
Suez
London
Paris
Berlin
British Columbia
Victoria
Canada forest production worth over two hundred million
Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates 1929 forest output at 219,570,129 with 3,096,614,617 cubic feet cut. 90.5 percent retained in Canada, 9.5 percent exported unmanufactured. Logs and belts top value at 79,000,000. pulpwood 76,000,000. firewood 41,000,000. Hewn railway ties poles and square timber valued at over 16,000,000.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Fertilizer Use Surges in Southern Alberta Beet Region
Dr. R. E. Neidig, director of agriculture for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co at Trail, reports three hundred tons of artificial fertilizers used in southern Alberta sugar beet areas this season and growing use in other Prairie crops. Two cars of fertilizer, produced as a Trail smelting by product, were shipped to the Orient earlier this year and tests of its crop-boosting efficiency are under way across Canada from British Columbia to Ontario.
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Alberta
Prairie Provinces
R. E. Neidig
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Trail
Orient
Dr. Neidig
British Columbia
Ontario
Saskatchewan Poultry Pool Brisk Business Report
The Saskatchewan Poultry Pool reports a sharp rise in activity for the year with 117 carloads of eggs moved between March 1 and May 2. At peak, larger branches handled four carloads weekly as the province shows higher production across the board.
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Saskatchewan Poultry Pool
Saskatchewan
Careful Driver Deafness Not a Handicap Claim
Dr Roy H Gilpatrick of Boston told the American Federation of the Hard of Hearing in Chicago that deaf or hard of hearing drivers are careful and rely on sight to compensate for reduced hearing. He noted modern traffic is controlled largely by lights and visible signals, as extraneous noise can obscure audible warnings.
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Roy H. Gilpatrick
Boston
American Federation of the
Chicago
Madrid Plans New Skyscraper Theatre and Offices
Madrid moves to build another tall structure as a new corporation forms to erect a 15 storey theatre and office building. It would rise two stories above the National Telephone Company building in the city.
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Madrid
Aocorporation
National Telephone Comnanewa
Five-Year Plan for Literature an unattainable dream
The New York Times muses on a grand idea to halt all book publishing for five years. It envisions a period free from literary debates and new titles, urging readers to revisit earlier works published before May 1931 and escape perpetual opinions on what to read.
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Janes
Russia
New York Times
A Healthy Year Says 1930 Health Upbeat
Dr. R Vance Ward notes in the Canadian Public Health Journal that 1930, despite low wages and widespread unemployment, appears to be the healthiest year yet in North America. He observes a contradiction to the idea that higher living standards always reduce mortality and morbidity.
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R. Vance Ward
Canadian Public Health Journal
North American
Indians Swap Ponies for Cars on Morley Reserve
Reported by garage men, the Stony Indians traded eighty ponies for forty second hand automobiles and later profited by selling the ponies. A far larger historical exchange involved Manhattan Island exchanged by Indians to white men for beads and trinkets valued at about 24 dollars.
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Morley Reserve
Canada
Island of
Manhattan
Business Mood Tied to Wages Says Ottawa Leader
A R Mosher, president of the All-Canadian Congress of Labor, expressed in Ottawa that the present low business mood stems mainly from wages being too low. He commented on an address by Sir Joseph Flavelle to the Canadian Credit Men's Association urging wage re-adjustment to revive industry. A concluding proverb about a big elephant lifting a tree weighs in on the statement.
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Ottawa
A. R. Mosher
All-Canadian
Congress of Labor
Joseph Flavelle
Canadian Credit Men's Association
Bertha cape collar dress for young girls pattern
The notice describes a bertha cape collar for girls ages 2 to 8 with sleeveless frocks and a gathered fullness skirt for play. Design No 57% uses 39 inch material and plaiting, featuring Paris model colors blue dimity with white dots, white organdie ruffles, and blue grosgrain bow accents. Pattern price 25 cents, with an offer to add 15 cents for a Spring Fashion Magazine.
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Paris
Winnipeg Newspaper Pattern Order Notice
Pattern order address given as Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Text mentions pattern number phrase not ver but includes color description and a general observation about man and flattery. No clear event or date, but records an address and pattern reference from the source.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan cattle plan aimed at British markets
Saskatchewan farmers shift to cattle production for the British market. Saskatoon Co-Operative Livestock Producers plans a packing plant with modern machinery, aiming to ship live cattle and later chilled and frozen products to Britain via the Churchill port. First shipments planned around September, marking the province’s first cooperative packing facility.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatoon Co-Operative Livestock Producers, Ltd
Saskatchewan Company
Saskatoon
Hudson Bay
Europe
Churchill
Alberta 100 Day Winter Trap Nest Tests Results
The 1930 31 Alberta trap nest results confirm certificates for the top pens. Mrs Ed Kehoe Camrose leads with 80 percent of her Rhode Island Reds qualifying. Of 65 birds, 28 produced 70 plus eggs, 24 exceeded 50, and only seven failed from low egg weights.
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Alberta
Ed. Kehoe
Camrose
F. J. Deisman
Big Valley
George Zinger
Stanmore
Valuable Chemicals From Alkali Lakes Rise in 1930 Production
Prairie Provinces alkali lakes boost Western Canada mineral output with a dramatic 1930 jump. Sodium sulphate production rose from 5 018 tons in 1929 to 31 571 tons in 1930, valued at 1 571 tons of material.
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Prairie Provinces
Canada
Prairies
First Butter Shipments From Canada To England Praise
The initial Canadian butter shipments to England receive general approval for flavor taste and color though salt content lacks uniformity. Critics suggest a milder and uniform salt content not exceeding two percent for future production.
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England
Parliament approves amendment on private company auditors
The banking and commerce committee of the House of Commons approves an amendment to the Companies Act. It allows auditors directors and officers of private companies to audit their own firms books. The amendment also covers public companies not offering shares bonds or debentures to the public.
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Companies
Banking and Commerce Committee
House of Commons
Skyscrapers Shimmer in Stainless Steel and Aluminum
A new wave of tall buildings features stainless steel and aluminum façades. Separately, a novel freezing technique yields frozen sliced apples, marking a small but notable advance in food processing.
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Far East
Nimnipeg Newspaper Union
Annette
Establsh Packing Plant
Co- Operative Societies
Ash
Chequers Court
Great Britain
Germany
Bruening
Curtius
United States
Vancouver
Charles Kipfer
Auguste Piccard
Piccard
Ober Gurgl
Austria
Broly
Wrfe
Bueo Hurnur
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