Great Britain Tariff Board Shapes Politics Beyond Debate
Britain operates an independent Advisory Committee of Tariffs led by Sir George May to craft duties. The panel hears industry pleas, calls witnesses, and issues reports to the treasury, with the government bound to follow or risk lower duties. The process balances consumer, export, and industrial interests while lobbying for similar boards in dominions.
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Great Britain
Advisory Committee of Tariffs
George May
Sidney Chapman
George Powell
Empire marketing Board on pigs and goats sparks doubt
The Empire marketing Board claims 12 percent of the 250 million pigs worldwide are Empire pigs, while it holds more than a third of the goats. The Winnipeg Free Press questions whether the remark is humorous or agricultural in intent.
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Empire Marketing Board
Empire
The
Winnipeg Free Press
Rich hostessi quip about unseen robbery
A witty exchange features a multi millionaire inferring his house may have been robbed but explaining that such loss would go unnoticed by him. The remark underscores wealth paradox and privacy in a humorous vein.
Britain Builds Toy Empire With Tariff Boost
Britain moves to capture the toy market after a 25 percent tariff on foreign toys. A major plant costing £30,000 will produce 2,000,000 items for Christmas and may double output next year. Employment rises to 500, with 1,000 more possible. All components are made in one facility and products surpass foreign rivals in range and features. Orders are pouring in.
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Britain
War Office
British cabinet crisis ends with reshuffle
King George hurried to London as Sir Herbert Samuel Sir Archibald Sinclair and Lord Snowden resigned from the Liberal faction. MacDonald and Baldwin reshuffled posts filling vacancies to appease Simon Liberals and grant Baldwin Snowden’s former position. The government breach was healed.
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King George
London
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
House of Commons
Herbert Samuel
Archibald Sinclair
Lord Snowden
MacDonald
John Simon
Simon
Stanley Baldwin
Debtors and creditors align through business motives
The piece argues that debts can only be satisfied by willing debtors and healthy debtors, that profits rely on matching debtor and creditor interests, and that artificial political demands for large payments between nations destroy value, asserting business as the true driver of debt relations. It condemns politics as creating unsustainable debt transfers and emphasizes a market-based debtor creditor bond.
Speed trap and a stylish day dress ad
A constable cites a motorist for speeding after quips about the sergeant by the pig sty. The piece shifts to a charming dress pattern description Style No 779 for sizes 16 to 44, with fabric yardage and lace details and a 20 cent price.
Fishes Contain Iodine In Minute Quantities
All fishes reportedly hold iodine, though in very small amounts. This observation notes a general presence of the element in marine life, suggesting a common nutritional characteristic across fish species.
Vitamin G and the risk of lengthened youth in science
The article weighs the discovery that vitamin G found in tomatoes spinach liver and yeast may extend youth and cautions that science risking overreach could complicate aging debates. It ponders social effects from extended youth including cosmetics and behavior and notes ongoing boycotts in Central and South China.
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Ponce de Leon
Canadian Wheat and Celery Promote Orient Markets
Hon Herbert Marler urges constant Shanghai presence to expand Canadian grain and flour exports to China and Japan. He notes rising imports, calls for proactive market exploration, and highlights opportunities in paper, canned milk, apples. stresses need for ongoing supply to secure stable Orient markets. Quebec.
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Herbert Marler
Orient
Canada
Japan
Shanghai
Mr. Marler
China
Marler
Far East
Canada Third in Silver Output in 1931 Findings
Canada held third place among silver producers in 1931 with about 2014 million ounces or 10.5 percent of world output of 196 million. Mexico and the United States led production, while British Columbia became the top province contributing 39 percent. Major sources shifted to Quebec Noranda and Manitoba Flin Flon districts with Mayo district silver from Yukon ore.
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Canada
Mexico
United States
Cobalt
Ontario
Noranda
Quebec
Flin Flon
Manitoba
Yukon Territory
Mayo
British Columbia
Dominion
Kimberley
Twenty-Four Attempts Find Lost Pail in Maine Well
G. F. Warford of Hancock Maine, new to the farm amid the back to the country movement, spent hours fishing a missing pail from his well. On the first try he pulled up a different pail, and twenty-three more attempts yielded new pails each time. In the final pull he recovered the original lost pail, though twenty of the finds were better than the one he sought.
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G. F. Warford
Hancock
Maine
School Children Help Emergency Conservation Drive
Toronto Local Council of Women’s emergency drive receives 4000 bottles of preserved produce donated and prepared largely by city schoolchildren. The youngsters performed much of the preserving in domestic science centers at their schools.
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Toronto
Government mines in Sumatra produce best coal in Indies
Government mines in Sumatra are reporting the finest quality coal in the Netherlands Indies. Officials note consistent output and strong demand from regional buyers as ships load at regional ports. The finding elevates the strategic role of Dutch colonial coal supplies for industry and energy needs.
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Sumatra
Netherland Indies
First Permanent Tooth Appears as Six Year Molar
The first permanent tooth to erupt is described as the six year molar. The quote notes that no two opinions in the world are alike, reflecting varied views.
Word Now Recognized In the Surgical Revolution Lecture
Sir Humphry Rolleston discussed the term appendicitis in Bolingbroke’s lecture on the surgical revolution. He noted its late acceptance by the Oxford Dictionary after initial exclusion as rare. The term, traced to 1886 by R H Fitz, gained recognition with influenza’s 1889 surge and later appeared in 1905 with a reference to appendicitis.
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Bolingbroke
Humphry Rolleston
R. H. Fitz
Boston
Mass
James A. Murray
Regius
James Parkinson
John Burne
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Addison
Submerged Jamestown City Photographs Reveal Lost Capital
Photographers document Jamestown once capital of Nevis in the West Indies now buried beneath sea level. Earthquake on April 30, 1680 caused the town to sink, taking riches and an estimated population of 14,600. Spain produced over 20 million square feet of sheep and lamb leather last year.
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Jamestown
Nevis
West Indies
Spain
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