Disarmament Duty Lies With Great Powers at Ottawa Speech
Sir George Penney told Ottawa audiences that disarmament rests mainly with the great powers and that progress at Geneva has been hampered by French elections Ramsay MacDonald illness and Bruening resignation. A unanimous vote supported qualitative disarmament and Miss Winnifred Kydd urged education over emotion to build international goodwill for peace using press radio and film in public opinion campaigns. A Canadian petition with 500000 names accompanied polyglot efforts at the conference.
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Sir George Penney
Ottawa
Sir George
League of Nations Society
National Council of Women
Women's Canadian Club of
Canadian Club of
Geneva
France
Ramsay MacDonald
United States
Bumson
Herr Bruening
League of Nations
Moral Disarmament Committee
Miss Kydd
National advisory committee on agriculture meets in Ottawa
The National Research Council gathers to address urgent agriculture problems across Canada including the Maritimes Quebec Ontario the prairies and British Columbia. Dr H M Tory urges cooperation while Dr Robert Newton notes progress from cooperative research and reports on rust resistant wheat trials and grain drying investigations.
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Canada
Maritimes
Quebec
Ontario
Prairies
British Columbia
National Advisory Committee On Agriculture
The
National Research Council
Ottawa
H. M. Tory
Robert Newton
Biology and Agriculture
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Newton
Combine
Archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie Finds Secret Passage at Old Gaza
Veteran archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie continues work in Old Gaza Palestine. The latest report notes a secret passage leading from the city into the desert. A tunnel extending under the walls and about 500 yards into the desert was found last year amid other features. Petrie estimates fifty more years to complete the excavation.
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Sir Flinders Petrie
Old
Gaza
Palestine
Abraham
Sir Flinders
Hatless Diver Recalls Forgotten Detail in Vienna Muskete
The diver, quoted with a hat issue, muses in Vienna that he feels he has forgotten something. The remark hints at a humorous or reflective moment amid city life and a possible connection to a musketeer reference.
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Hatless Diver
Vienna
Scottish Cattle Market Yields Higher Prices for Saskatchewan Shipment
Saskatchewan cattle sent to Scotland brought higher prices than expected. G. B. Johnson, Canadian Trade Commissioner in Glasgow, reports strong Scottish demand for 10 to 11 hundredweight steers. Market absorbs many fattened cattle mainly in spring between April and July and autumn between September and December.
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Saskatchewan
Scotland
Department of Agriculture
G. B. Johnson
Glasgow
Mr. Johnson
Change in belief about fat and laughter from London doctor
A London physician argues that fat babies are the happiest and that temper follows family lines, with girls showing better temper than boys. The old idea that laughter comes from being fat is reversed as growth of fat precedes happiness and serenity.
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London
Two Partners Laugh Off Safe Open Card in Snooker Hall
Funds Quite Safe Business partners end day with snooker. One shouts alarm fearing the safe is open. The other reassures them with a joke that they are both present, implying no loss.
Salmon canning output in BC 1927 to 1931 overview
British Columbia canned salmon production from 1927 through 1931 averaged 1,540,744 cases per year. Although 1931 output dipped below normal due to market conditions, the five year average was only 92,000 cases lower than the prior five year average.
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British Columbia
Archery in England shifts from foot to mounted troops
In 1339 half England’s forces were archers and by 1360 nearly all archers were mounted. The bow measured about five feet and arrows three feet. A French inventor’s device used springs with a spoon clipped to a kitchen utensil edge.
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England
Retting Old Vessel Coriolanus to Sail Again as Clippers Return
The Coriolanus, a 1876 Dumbarton built bark once famed as the Queen of the Jute Clippers, sails to Bath Maine for refitting before voyaging from Boston to Africa. Bought by a Boston syndicate led by C Nelson Rogers, she resumes square rig operation after storms, fires, and six flags, aiming for a new Africa trade.
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Bath
London
Calcutta
Boston
Africa
Arctic
Tropics
C. Nelson Rogers
Bath Iron Works
Dumbarton
Scotland
Shipwright's Guild of London
Coriolanus
New Bedford
Cape Verde Islands
Forage Crop Regulations Adopted By Seed Growers
Delegates at the Canadian Seed Growers Association annual convention in Winnipeg adopt a complete rules set for immediate use. The recommendations detail methods for designating forage crop strains, progress in registering corn and red clover, and recognizing strains and specified types within forage crop varieties.
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Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Winnipeg
Cost Of Horse Labor At Prairie Station
The Federal Experimental Station at Indian Head Sask reports seasonal costs for seven work horses under prairie conditions. Feed cost averaged 82.15 dollars for the active farm season while total hours worked reached 1 849, giving a work value of 110.98 dollars at 6 cents per hour.
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Indian Head
Sask
Seven Head
Canada Wood Specialty’s Curry Comb Handles Demand Surges
The Canada Wood Specialty Company of St. Marys Ontario is filling an order for 75 000 curry comb handles showing horses still rely on manual grooming on farms. The curry comb is mainly for cleaning horses though fishermen also use it. About 500 000 are sold annually in Canada.
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Canada Wood Specialty Company
St. Marys
Ontario
Canada
Arsenic role in wood preservation noted
Arsenic can be used advantageous ly in wood preservation processes.
Tiny girl’s blue linen play outfit pattern 472
The notice promotes Style No 472 for sizes 2, 4, and 6 years a light blue linen dress with white dot trim scalloped cape sleeves and matching elastic waist bloomers. It suggests gingham or printed fabrics and lists yardage and price 23 cents with coin wrap guidance.
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Batiste
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg Pattern No address details list pattern names and town. The item appears as a catalog request notice from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union located at 475 McDermot Ave. Readers are directed to specify pattern number and name for delivery to their town.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
British firm crafts Inkerman battle bayonets for Tatto o
Sixteen hundred rubber bayonets exact replicas of British troops’ blades from Inkerman 1854 are being made for a Crimean fighting scene in The Aldershot Tattoo at Rushmore Arena. The bayonets feature silver grey blades and black handles. George Forbes of Ripon Wisconsin built a seven foot model locomotive in two weeks, with only steam pipes and rods metal.
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Inkerman
Aldershot
Rushmore Arena
George Forbes
Ripon
Wisconsin
Emissaries Of Scottish Trade Mission In Canada Reception
Scottish emissaries to Canada found market opportunities far stronger than anticipated with about half extending their stay past May 21. Exhibits sparked direct sales, while Canadians weighed goods and the value of reciprocal trade. Duke of Montrose and Mr Wiseman highlighted that Scotland must come to the buyer, and the mission fostered Highland reunions and national pride alongside business.
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Canada
Dominion
Vancouver
St. Lawrence
Scotland
Glasgow
Robert Chapman
A. M. Wiseman
Toronto
Trades Mission
James Craig
Colville's Limited
Montreal
Historic Scotland
Wiseman
Qurely
Duke of Montrose
Vane of Crow Is Removed for Ship Symbol in Norfolk
In Cro mer Norfolk coast township fishermen claim the weather vane shaped like a crow brings ill luck and poor catches. The local council agrees to remove the crow and install a new vane showing a ship under sail to end the superstition and restore fishing prospects.
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Cromer
Norfolk
Ontario Auto Insurance Standardization Takes Effect
The standard form begins September 1 in Ontario requiring all motor vehicle policies to make the insurer automatically liable to accident victims under all circumstances. If the policy holder violates the statute, the company may seek redress against him.
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Ontario
Provincial
Opening Gulf ports helped Atlantic ports says Tribune
The Winnipeg Tribune argues that opening Gulf of Mexico ports aided United States Atlantic ports and would not harm Churchill or other Canadian ports. It notes some people misjudge the issue, predicts continued adverse publicity from Eastern Canada, and suggests offering special incentives to attract incoming cargoes to Churchill.
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Gulf of Mexico
United States Atlantic
Churchill
Winnipeg Tribune
Gravity Tests Reveal Earth's Upper Crust Structure
Dominion Observatory in Ottawa conducts gravity comparisons across the country by measuring pendulum periods to one ten millionth of a second. These delicate measurements aim to illuminate the earth's crust layers and their relation to geological formations and processes like denudation and mountain-building.
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Dominion Observatory
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Architects Propose Nine Story Piers for City Apartments
Two New York architects design nine story apartment houses raised on piers to create street level playgrounds, leaving open spaces beneath for children.
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New York
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