Canada's Last Fur Reserve Depleted by American Whalers
Edmonton Times correspondent reports American whaling ships profit from Arctic trade, depleting Canada's fur reserves. Eskimo villages along Behring Strait and across the Mackenzie trade furs for cheap goods, while Canadian posts face duty and competition. The setup ends with Eskimo villagers returning home laden with trade goods and unwanted trinkets.
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Canada
Arctic
Canadien Fur Companies
Vas Intain
Alaska
Whem
Canadian Arctic
North West Territories
Empire
United States
Behring Birai
San Francisco
Seattle
Behring Strait
Edmonton
Mackenzie River
Herschel Island
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Arctic Ocean
Standardized Mill Screenings As a Feed
Among feeding stuffs at mills and feed stores in Canada the product known as mill screen inex will become more plentiful after October. The Feeding Stuffs Act requires miffers to discontinue adding ground screenings to shorts and other mill offal and sell them as a separate standardized product. Screenings are valuable for hogs and beef cattle and form part of balanced rations for sheep, sows, calves, and cows.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Hiax
The Good Old Days Remembered in Life Story
Grandfather traveled west in a covered wagon drawn by oxen. An upper berth on the railroad cost a $3.40 surtax. He worked two years to clear land and build a home. We plan fifteen years of payments on a fifty fee front with five rooms and a bath. He drove twenty three miles to town twice yearly for staples like flour sugar bacon and coffee. A delivery mix up left us dressing for dinner and the salad proved abominable.
Astronomical Claim About Sun and Stars
Professor MacAfflan of Chicago announces that the sun will meet another star at a great interstellar distance once every million billion years, an instant for astronomers, and notes such events may affect Earth’s orbit. A silkworm spins about 4000 yards of thread in its brief life, and stout men can learn many things from loots.
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MacAfflan
Chicago
Canada seen as land of opportunity by British magnate
Sir William Letts, visiting the Canadian National Exhibition, praised Canada as the land of opportunity citing a London boy who rose from poverty to head a major corporation. He dismissed fears of another European war, noted improving British industry, and observed Canadian export trade growth with Made in Canada gaining traction in Britain and Europe. Toronto Saturday Night.
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William Letts
Sir William
Canada
London
Sir Willam
New York
Great Britain
Europe
Toronto
Growing Good Oats and the Prince of Wales Fans
A city youth joins a farm to harvest oats and learns the hard work of field labor. The piece then recalls a tale of princes and oats, linking a royal rod to a western ranch feeding stock and noting the Prince of Wales' popularity and monarchy stability.
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Cily
Prince of Wales
Afhena
Gews
St. Thomas
Times-Journal
Manitoba Development and Opportunities Report Issued
A Natural Resources Intelligence Service report titled Manitoba Its Development and Opportunities summarizes the province's leading natural resources and development regulations. It includes statistics and illustrations showing early Manitoba days, northern mining progress, and agricultural scenes from various federal and provincial departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Manitoba
Torrente Praises Canadignes For Canadian Delegation Role
In his final League of Nations session speech President Torrente lauded the Canadian delegation for its conciliatory spirit during debate on Article 16. The discussion focused on clarifying member obligations and preserving territorial integrity of other members.
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League of Nations
Torrente
Magna Charta Shrine Opens for Public View at British Museum
Last year 14 060 visitors inspected the Magna Charta, famed charter of rights, at the British Museum. Heavy green blinds shield the parchment to prevent light damage, then lifted for admiring pilgrims.
Trophies For Winter Fairs At Regina Saskatoon
Two silver cups named the Hon. A. P. McNab challenge trophies were donated by the institutional farms branch of the Saskatchewan Department of Public Worker. They will be awarded alternately at Regina and Saskatoon winter fairs, requiring three wins to claim ownership. This year Regina offers the premier prize for the champion standard bred barrow, while Saskatoon awards for the best pen of three finished bacon barrows. Open to animals from farms under the provincial institutional farm superintendent.
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A. P. McNab
Institutional Farms
Saskatchewan
Department of Public Worker
Regina
Saskatoon
T. D. Elderkin
Winter Fair Board
Institutional Farm
Substitute for flax or linen grown in New Zealand
A substitute for flax or linen, historically made from flax, is reportedly found in the flax fly that thrives in New Zealand. The plant is said to grow well in Europe and America too, with potential yields around 2,240 pounds per acre.
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New Zealand
Europe
Trade report notes no banks in New Hebrides
The New Hebrides exported goods worth £187,000 last year but lack banks, as stated by the British resident commissioner in his annual report. A curious aside quotes a Herald joke about family relations, illustrating the era’s humor.
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New Hebrides
Faelfic
Aviation to reshape social life and postal service forecast
The Dominion Dairy News letters note rising dairy yields from cow testing in Ontario and Kent, with detailed herd performances and cost gains. They alongside aviation leaders predict faster air transport will transform postal, passenger travel and global commerce, stressing night flying and international cooperation as essentials for progress.
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Dominion Dairy News
Agricultural School
On Que
Blenheim
Kent County
Ontario
C. E. Rowe
Sauger Hoare
Avision
Harry 3. New
United States
Ronge
Post Office
Dan Bostrom
Sweden
Samuel Hoare
Ile
Samuel
Ty Westmaster New
New
Berlin
Unir
Bostrom
Gothenburg
Immigrants For Canada And Prairie Colonization
London Morning Post argues Canada exports twenty to thirty million bushels annually with potential for mixed farming for the home market. It cites irrigation in prairie districts as a path for steady work, notes communications bottlenecks hinder township establishment, praises the Dominion’s railway system, and urges a systematic extension and colonization plan east of the Rocky Mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Thocky Mountains
London Morning Pus
Blue Eyed Men Dominate Army Marksmanship Stats
Army statistics show 1 600 qualified marksmen with 081 blue eyed and 894 59 brown. The degreee T419 have brown eyes and only 25 8 blue.
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United States Army
Water Purification with Iodine Drops Claims Safe
Popular Science Monthly reports that two drops of iodine tincture destroy all germs in a quart of polluted water in twenty to thirty minutes without affecting taste. England consumes about double the coal per capita of other nations. Thunder fish in the River Nile reportedly emits a sharp electric shock.
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Popular Science Monthly
Dia
River
Nile
Americans Buy Farms in Western Canada Attraction Grows
W R Bennett, Dominion migration official in Omaha, notes Americans from Nebraska purchasing large farms in Saskatchewan and Alberta and exploring moves to British Columbia for fruit, timber, minerals, and fisheries. He expects a significant but gradual migration not a sudden spring rush, as many Nebraskans visited Western Canada to invest with families.
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Canada
Middle West
W. R. Bennett
Dominion Misgration Department
Omaha
Neb
Winnipeg
Nebraska
Prairie
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Ciy Territory
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London Times
Mlefont Ubree
Herethel Island
Rackenzie River
Banke Land
Victoela Land
Coronation Gulf
Mal
Consda
Manitoba Opportunities
Western Editors
George Gordon
the Herald
Ponoke,Alberts
Smith
Ter
New York Herald
Iodine
England
Country
Western Canada
States
Prince H Edward Ishind
Oman
Dansopation
Rose
The
All-Canadian
Mearst Music Publisners Ltd
Joronto
Nea
Daets
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