Crestovia to be handed to Sons of Freedom plan
Government aims to settle internal strife in B C by directing Peter Veregin to surrender Crestovia to the Sons of Freedom. Queen Mary turned 64 on May 26 drawing widespread felicitations from relatives, friends and admirers. Hon Herbert Marler urges expansion of Oriental trade in Tokyo. Canada amends cattle shipment rules to permit open deck transport to Britain in summer. Within a year 20 to 30 trade treaties expected to be revised per H H Stevens. Canadian whisky export slumped in April to 169000 from 2178000 the previous year. W G Duncan transfers to Calgary Soldier Settlement Board superintendency. Gold claims revived near Holmfield Manitoba. British Dental Association will meet with Canadian Dental Association in Toronto in July 1932. Russian civil aviation plans a Moscow to Irkutsk and Vladivostok route opening August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C
Peter Veregin
Crestovia
Sons of Freedom
Mary
Herbert Marler
Tokyo
Canada
Great Britain
House of Commons
Hon
H. H. Stevens
W. G. Duncan
Prince Albert
Soldier Settlement Board
Calgary
Alberta
Long River
Badger Creek
Holmfield
Man
British Dental Association
Canadian Dental Association
Toronto
Ontario Dental Association
Moscow
Irkutsk
Vladivostok
Special Test Locomotives of German Railway Examined
German railway locomotives undergo yearly checks on a special test stand to assess stability and performance. Each engine runs for many hours simulating actual service while observers measure performance, with wheels whirling to speeds approaching eighty miles per hour.
Alberta anglers catch over two million pounds in 1930
Alberta fisheries officials report anglers in 1930 landed more than 2,211,000 pounds of fish in the province, a rise over 1929. Pike accounted for about half of the catch, reflecting strong nearshore and inland fishing activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Tam hungry, sir in Paris bread and cheese exchange
A brief Paris scene features Tam expressing hunger and receiving bread and cheese from Pele Mele. Tam laments better days, prompting a promise to fetch a serviette. The exchange captures a small domestic moment amid a Paris setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Disappointed Over Result Of Conference
The London Times editors lament the world grain conference adjournment leaving the problem unresolved. They expect prices to rise only when wheat supply tightens, a costly adjustment for producers and consumers, though a continuing committee may foster cooperation and curb excess competition. The London Telegraph agrees the failure to fix oversupply points to mixed farming in over producing nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
World Grain Conference
the Times
London Telegraph
Okanagan’s Ogopogo Vanishes After Two Year Absence
The famed Ogopogo of Lake Okanagan is presumed dead after two years without sighting. Inquiries in lakeside towns support natural causes or old age. It is hoped the carcass may be recovered for display in the national museum. The creature is described as having a sheep’s head and a 50 foot serpentine body. Its name has long been used as a trademark for interior fruit products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okanagan Valley
B.C
Lake Okanagan
National Museum
Froth Blowers Disband After Charity Record
The Froth Blowers fraternity announces dissolution in the London Gazette ending the world famous merry group founded in 1924 by Sir Alfred Fripp. They left an anthem and a charity legacy raising over $500,000 for children and funding hospital cuts and youth organizations.
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Order of Froth Blowers
Organization of
Merry Souls
London Gazette
Sir Alfred Fripp
Froth Blowers
Porr
Livestock values in Western Provinces totals set
Estimates list Manitoba 53 741 000 Saskatchewan 112 846 000 Alberta 94 065 000 and British Columbia 27 355 000. A stray fragment notes a salt passing joke and a writer urging pedestrians to cooperate with motorists. Poland's 1930 steel output sent nearly a quarter to Soviet Asia.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Poland
Soviet Asia
Crucifixion Theme Sermon Explores Forgiveness and Redeeming Death
A Sunday school lesson outlines Isaiah 53 and Luke 23 focusing on the crucifixion. It describes Calvary, the soldiers casting lots for Jesus’ garments, and artistic depictions like Blake’s behind the cross. The piece reflects on Jesus’ forgiveness, the veiled temple, and the meaning of atonement through His death and spiritual resurrection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaiah
Jesus
Wiliam Blake
Christ
G. A. Studdert Kennedy
Interracial mixing could lead to superior race, claims expert
Vancouver anthropologist Dr. Charles Hill-Tout argues in Toronto that advocates of mixed marriages between Japanese Chinese and white Canadians could settle racial conflict and produce a superior new race within ten generations. He warns prejudice could spark a race war if India gains self government and stresses breaking down air of superiority toward Asiatic peoples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Charles Hill-Tout
Vancouver
Toronto
Hill-Tout
Royal Society of Canada
India
Europe
Western
Canada
Russia Advances On Global Oil And Wheat Goals
Russia keeps up rapid growth, surpassing all nations in wheat output and hitting its five year oil target in two and a half years. It has displaced Venezuela to become the second largest oil producer, while the United States remains first. The British War Secretary notes Russia's war prep spending up 184 percent since 1924 as Russia orders 100 tanks from a British firm, signaling a stronger army.
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Russia
Venezuela
United States
Canadian Pacific unveils faster transcontinental freight
The Canadian Pacific Railway cut running time to eight days coast to coast from Vancouver to Montreal and three days from Winnipeg to Montreal. The nine day voyage now gains a full day for earlier Montreal delivery, aiding exporters and Midwest shippers with extra preparation time before connections to Montreal steamships.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Pacific
Atlantic Seaboards
Transportation Department
Montreal
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Middle West
New Uses For Wheat Survey Under National Research Council
New uses for surplus wheat and other grains are the subject of an exhaustive survey by the National Research Council. Other studies seek to develop processes turning waste materials into commercially valuable products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Research Council
Airship mooring mast cost at St Hubert Que 1931 total
In a House of Commons reply Minister Donald Sutherland cites that the airship mooring mast project at St Hubert Quebec including land buildings equipment and improvements up to March 31 1931 cost 1 846 569 16. The figure excludes operating charges. The other item notes the oldest bells in the United States dated 1682 hang in the Moorish belfry of the Spanish Cathedral in St Augustine Florida.
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St. Hubert
Que
House of Commons
Donald Sutherland
National Defence
United States
St. Augustine
Fla
Captain Jimmy and Dicey Escape From Bandits Tale
In a perilous night escape, Captain Jimmy and Fu Hsu devise a plan to free themselves from Chinese bandits. They marshal burros to create a distraction and flee toward a defile, racing past pursuers toward a railway yard as they sprint to safety.
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Jimmy
Scottie
Jims
Pans
Durant Names World’s Ten Greatest Thinkers and Poets
Dr Will Durant lists Confucius Plato Aristotle Copernicus Francis Bacon Isaac Newton Voltaire Kant Darwin as the ten greatest thinkers and says Jesus shaped history by faith though not counted among them. He also places Shakespeare as an artist first and includes Homer Dante Keats Shelley Whitman among the ten greatest poets.
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Will Durant
Confucius
Plato
Aristotle
St. Thomas Aquinas Copernicus
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Voltaire
Immanuel Kant
Charles Darwin
Shakespeare
Dr. Durant
Homer
David
Euripides
Lucretius
Li-Po
Dante
Keats
Shelley
Whitman
Hats and politics in Commons hint at style ranks
Three MPs including W. R. Motherwell Jean Francois Pouliot and T. H. Lennox habitually wear hats in session they remove them when speaking Lt Col Reginald Geary sometimes joins red and sand colored bands adorn Lennoxs hat with a bright red tie the Pisa tower is noted as marble throughout.
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House of Commons
W. R. Motherwell
Jean Francois Pouliot
Temscouta
Quebec
T. H. Lennox
North York
Reginald Geary
South Toronto
Col
Lennox
Buoyancy of Balsa Wood and TB Toll by Age
A note on balsa wood’s exceptional buoyancy says it can support almost ten times its weight. Another point highlights tuberculosis taking its greatest toll between ages fifteen and twenty five.
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Landon
Alberta Fisheries
W. ON. OU
Ogopogo
Little Johnny
LY “S
Paterson- Smyth
Holy Place
Holy of Holies
Charles R. Erdman
Fu Hsu
Foo Soo
Blandit
Imousining
Evard
Star Building
Dordes
World
House of Common
Pisa
England
Brooder
Chantler & Chantler Limited
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
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