Fundamental Facts In Reference To The Gold Standard
A concise review explains how gold standard status affects debts and exchange values. It notes that official gold standard countries can redeem in gold, while others rely on mineral reserves and credit. Long term wheat prices depend more on supply demand and purchasing power than formal standard status, ending with a moral remark about the prodigal son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sy HM. G. L. Strange
Searle Grain Company, Limited
Winnipeg
Great Britain
Bakers Debate Cakes Taste Alike At Montreal Convention
Delegates at the Bread and Cake Bakers Association convention in Montreal debated why cakes taste similar. A baker blamed excessive vanilla essence dulling eggs and butter, another argued against tasting separately for cake and icing, and a third blamed careless flavoring measurements. A delegate noted bakers supply only eight to 10 percent of the community's cake consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bread and Cake Bakers’ Association
Montreal
Canadian Quick Frozen Fish Move From Prince Rupert to New York
Canadian traffic officials state that fresh Alaskan salmon and halibut are moving by rail between Prince Rupert and New York under the new quick freezing process. At least 20 carloads, each about 30,000 pounds, will traverse CN lines from November 1 through February end. Last month the first quick frozen fish reached Graton, Connecticut from Alaska.
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Prince Rupert
New York
Canadian National Railways
Alaska
East
Graton
Conn
Needs Wie With Good Teeth Eskimo Wives as Tailors
H. W. Porter reports on Arctic life returning to Nova Scotia noting Eskimo wives are valued for teeth and tailoring skill. Skin drying involves chewing to soften hides for trousers and boots. Women repeatedly chew worn skins to pliable state, supporting their husbands wardrobe. bachelor hardship and demand for wives rise with male surplus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Porter
Nova Scotia
Arctic
Credit for drought areas fodder relief rules set
Saskatchewan farmers in drought regions must apply to the relief officer to verify credit. The relief commission will review applications and rural municipalities will distribute fodder, up to three tons per head of horses or cattle, less on hand. The department will not accept direct orders and will purchase fodder for municipalities, which may fund through the Department of Municipal Affairs.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Relief Commission
Department of Agriculture
English Government drops Sunday movies bill after petitions
After a petition described as eleven miles long, the English Government will not push the proposed Sunday movies bill in Parliament. In energy imports, 47,779 tons of German anthracite have been imported this season and British bituminous imports total 19,883 tons, down 13,662 from last year.
Settlers See Vision of Great North Farming Community
Visions of a thriving farming region north of the 53rd parallel emerge as numerous applications for agricultural land reach the Manitoba lands branch in Winnipeg. Settlers already in The Pas area and near the Hudson Bay Railway pursue truck farming dairying and poultry, signaling a shift to mixed farming despite capital limits.
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Lands
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Pas
Hudson Bay Railway
Abundant Crops Forecast For Western Canada Next Year
Robert Henderson, mortgage corporation inspector, predicts plentiful crops across western Canada in 1932 after two months touring the west. He says farm and city conditions are brighter than feared, with some southern Saskatchewan and Alberta areas facing issues. He points to tax receipts, butter output, and prairie northern bumper crops as signs of improvement, basing the forecast on recent rainfall data.
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Canada
Robert Henderson
Mortgage Corporation
Toronto
West
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairies
Trade Through Churchill, Future Route For Central Canada Goods
Lloyd Roberts of Ottawa, son of author Charles G. D. Roberts, says Hudson Bay route via Churchill will carry Canada’s trade eastward in coming years. He notes a claimed $3,000 saving on a test grain shipment from the west to Churchill versus Fort William, based on information from port authorities. Roberts, a journalist and longtime Ottawa press gallery member, visited northern Manitoba with his father.
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Canada
Hudson Bay
Churchill
Lloyd Roberts
Ottawa
Charles G. D. Roberts
Manitoba
Roberts
Fort William
Press Gallery
What became of that clerk you had here
A buyer, a bride and groom visited to buy a book for a honeymoon. The assistant suggested Travel With a Donkey, prompting the clerk to be fired.
Canada Premier Bennett declares Canada has immense belief in herself
The Simcoe Reformer reports Premier Bennett at the Canadian Club in New York praising Canada’s unfaltering self belief. He says Canadians face hardship with thrift, courage, and cooperation, noting unemployment is serious but controllable and western wheat woes may soon recover. He insists the nation remains prosperous amid world distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Canadian Club of
New York
Mr. Bennett
United States
Bennett
Plea for Jobless Women Questions Canada relief plans in Vancouver
An impassioned public appeal questions if British Columbia or Canada's governments have done enough for unemployed women. It asks whether women must marry for work, who would marry unemployed men, and what options a single woman in Vancouver without relatives has to find a job. The piece highlights a perceived double standard in unemployment relief, mentions about 700 women on relief lists in Vancouver, and criticizes the lack of women’s participation in program decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Canada
Vancouver
The Favourite Apple Survey Leads McIntosh in Dominion
The Dominion Department of Agriculture Fruit Branch reports McIntosh as the national favourite with Spy second, Gravenstein third, Delicious fourth, and Baldwin fifth. Ontario prefers Spy while Nova Scotia and New Brunswick favor Gravenstein. Quebec Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia vote McIntosh first. Other noted varieties include Greening Snow Famouse Duchess Winesap Bow Sweet Wagoner Jonathan Wealthy.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion
Ontario
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Greening
Snow
Famouse
Duchess
Bow Sweet
Wagoner
Jonathan
Wealthy
Empire State Building cleaned by machines only
The building employs 480 janitors to oversee automated cleaning as 50,000 daily entrants pass through. Despite heavy foot traffic, only one barrel of dirt is tracked inside. The note also mentions unresolved questions about the language of ancient Etruscans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire State Building
New York City
RNA: risk not accepted for prohibition agents
The American Life Convention during its 26th national sessions in Pittsburg discussed safety for prohibition agents, noting the dangers of the job alongside acrobats and stunt workers. The occupational manual highlights RNA meaning risk not accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Life Convention
Pittsburg
R.N.A
Tomatoes From Bermuda For Next Season Hints Of Trade Flow
A contemporary notes that home-grown tomatoes are common now but will be imported from Bermuda in a few months. Canada imports about 1.9 million dollars annually in fresh tomatoes, mostly from the United States, with Mexico second and Bermuda a small source. The saying contrasts pessimists and optimists in turning difficulties into opportunities.
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Bermuda
Canada
United States
Mexico
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Leipzig
N. UL
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