Britain Exports Drive Forward Amid Global Pressures
Despite adverse conditions British industry presses ahead with foreign orders. A record $700000 tinplate order from the American Can Company boosts Welsh tinplate works and nearby industry. Locomotive contracts for China and South America, oil electric engines, and pipelines to Haifa highlight persistent export activity.
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Britain
American Can Company
Montreal
Vancouver
South Wales
Manchester
China
United States
Europe
Armstrong, Whitworth Works
Newcastle-on-Tyne
South America
Buenos Aires
Lancashire
Germany
Boston
Telephone Call in the Bathtub Family Joke
A humorous exchange recalls a family man answering a telephone ringing while he was in the bath. He recounts options he used to fill the moment, mentioning golf and a fat tire remark as light evasions.
Rice Growers Face Ruin as Trade Pacts Hit Guiana
About 150,000 people in British Guiana face ruin after Ottawa trade agreements. Demerara Rice Marketing Board warns that Guiana rice loses its market to India at equal rates. An appeal to London for protection is met with no discrimination relief. Roughly half the population depends on rice farming.
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British Guiana
Ottawa
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Demarara Rice Marketing Board
Guiana
India
London
Street Traffic Reforms Urged By Sir Raymond Unwin
The Royal Institute of British Architects president argues street purposes have changed entirely. He compares modern road use to locomotives on horse and pedestrian highways and calls for new planning to speed travel and protect pedestrians with parallel streets carrying shops but no motor traffic.
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London
Raymond Unwin
Royal Institute of British Architects
Christian Science Monitor
Paid Hunters Urged to Guard Moose Lake Game
In The Pas Manitoba northern residents warn that two paid hunters are needed to protect game as timber wolves grow and pelts bound for bounties dwindle. Only 54 wolf pelts were reported last year though wolves killed many deer. Tom Lamb Moose Lake trader found a deer slain by wolves and later partly eaten by passing Indians for dog feed.
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Pas
Moose Lake
Lamb
Tailored spring green jumper with yellow dimity blouse
Pattern 457 designs a coordinated set for sizes 4 6 and 8 years. The jumper sits under a blousette with a capelet collar and picot edged ruffles. It suggests variations with short sleeves or a guimpe for hot weather using cottons or wools. Price 20 cents.
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Batiste
Seersucker
Dimity
Prices tumble at Christie’s for Earl of Egmont portraits
About 50 Alberta rancher Earl of Egmont family portraits sold at Christie's London auction rooms. A Reynolds portrait once fetched 3,000 guineas. now the set totals just over a tenth of that. Individual portraits by Lely Kneller Hudson Hobday and Joseph averaged a pound each. four Slater portraits including Spencer Perceval fetched 12 guineas.
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Earl of Egmont
Christie
London
England
Reynolds
Lely
Kneller
Hudson
Hobday
Joseph
Slater
Spencer Percival
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
A brief notice from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg outlines pattern order details. Pattern numbers are referenced but the precise item list and ordering steps are not fully legible in the text.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Woman Refuses Interest on Canadian Government Bonds
Mrs J J Richardson of St Catharines Ontario writes February 23 denying any interest on government bonds. She returns $82.50 to the department, the excess over 15 years on a 5 percent Victory bond redeemed in 1932 for its face value of $100. She cites a sense of justice, saying it is wrong to use money to make money or to charge usury.
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J. J. Richardson
St. Catharines
Richardson
Growth of insanity linked to depression in North America
Very Rev Charles Verhejen of Amsterdam studies psychiatry in Canada and the United States. He cites rapid insanity growth tied to depression and financial worries, and blames fast living and poor health habits among young women. He notes per capita insanity leadership by Canada and the U S.
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Canada
U.S
United States
Charles Verhejen
State University of Amsterdam
Holland
Saint John
North America
Church of Our Lady of Victory
Saskatoon
Honor Madame Albani Bust Offered to Quebec Museum
A marble bust of Madame Albani, famed opera singer born in Chambly in 1847 and who died March 3 1930, was offered to Quebec by her son Ernest G Albani. The gift, crafted by Prince Hohenlee, will be housed in the provincial museum in Quebec and was announced by Premier L A Taschereau after he thanked Albani’s son.
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Madame Albani
Canada
Quebec
Ernest G. Albani
London
England
L. J. Lemieux
Prince Hohenlee
L. A. Taschereau
Chambly
Montreal
Federal Aid Urged to Maintain Saskatchewan Medical Care
At a Saskatoon special session of the Saskatchewan Medical Association fifty doctors from districts across the province attended. A resolution called for unity among medical services hospital services and rural municipalities to propose to the Saskatchewan legislature that federal sources via the National Health department assist in sustaining necessary medical and hospital care throughout the province.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Medical Association
Department of National Health
Tobacco exports from Cuba valued at one month total
Cuba reported tobacco exports for a recent month valued at 1 1239 637 in local figures. The data highlights a strong trade flow with buyers in international markets, underscoring Cuba's agricultural export potential and currency earnings during the period.
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Cuba
Celestial Phenomena To Interest Star Gazers This Year
The 1933 sky schedule offers six periodic comets and two annular solar eclipses. Mars reached perihelion March 1, attracting attention despite a distant opposition. Comets Brorsen Pons-Winnecke Da Vico Swift Giacobini Finlay Holmes have planned perihelions.
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American Nature Association
Arec
Mars
Comets
Brorsen
Pons-Winnecke
da Vico-Swift
Giascobini
Finlay
Holmes
Prince of Wales cancels Scilly visit amid bloom boom
The Prince of Wales postponed his planned Isles of Scilly trip though he would have witnessed a peak flower season with output rising past previous records. Bulb industry workers would have seen up to 5000 boxes shipped daily, while Duchy miners facing distress gained access to holdings and bulbs to start flower farming with offered implements.
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Prince of Wales
Isles of
Scilly
Isles
Duchy of Cornwall
A Custom of the Sea Siren Whistle Linked to Island Legend
A tale from Queensland coastal lore explains why British ships pass a small island by blowing a prolonged whistle. A hunter of exploration era saved by a native girl later married her, and a shipwreck rescue by the couple’s husband is commemorated by the passing ships. The surviving wife and family remain on the island.
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Queensland
California firms rename icemen to ice attendants
Firms lift the iceman status by ordering staff to be called ice attendants. Workers must wear white uniforms with brass buttons and carry ice in stout black waterproof satchels, reflecting a formal dignity change across the industry.
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California
A Bore Defined as One Who Never Stops Speaking
A terse adage defines a bore as a person who has nothing new to impart yet persists in speaking, illustrating the perpetual chatter that tires listeners and signals a lack of substantive content.
Status of the Metis Government Spokesman Says Hill Breeds Not Wards
Hon Z G Murphy head of Indian Affairs states half breeds are not wards of the Dominion and are provincial citizens with the same rights and duties as whites. Provincial care for half breeds. Alberta reports impoverishment. Premier J E Stownlee notes uncertainty over which level handles care, possibly court decision. Pure bred Indians remain wards of the Dominion with protection from want.
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Dominion
Z. G. Murphy
Department of Indian Affairs
Alberta
J. E. Stownlee
Union of South Africa to issue own currency in Pretoria
A train of ten cars loaded with English silver coins from all party of South Africa will be sent to the mint in Pretoria within a few weeks. The shipment follows the Union’s decision to use its own currency. The withdrawal is estimated at 6 230 009 dollars, but the intrinsic silver value is under 2 000 000 dollars. Between 15 000 000 and 20 000 000 coins will be withdrawn.
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South Africa
Pretoria
Union of South Africa
Auto exports rise in Bank of Montreal February summary
The Bank of Montreal notes stronger foreign sales for Canadian autos in February and shows growth across 1832 and January figures. The report flags expansion of the foreign market as the brightest spot in the latest business summary.
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Bank of Montreal
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