Initiative and vision win market gains over routine
The piece credits leaders like Marshal Foch and innovators such as the safety glass chemist, Admiral Taylor, and Kettering for breakthroughs born from initiative. It argues small firms often outpace large ones by recognizing needs and acting, citing examples from canning, towels, cookies, tomato juice, and more. It warns many firms lack vision to capitalize opportunities despite abundant potential.
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Review of Reviews Magazine
David Watson Taylor
United States Navy
Charles Kettering
General Motors Corporation
Marshal Foch
Greatest Invention Hammer Born First Tool for Man
The article argues the hammer is historys earliest and most essential invention, enabling multipurpose work beyond bare hands. It traces its origins from a stone held in the palm to a hafted tool, naming its role in forming edges, axes, adzes, chisels, saws, and drills, and notes the bow and string drill as an early rotational method still used in some trades.
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Maf
Medical Science Finds Chinese Doctors Right
The Chinese method of treating illness by needle pricks without drugs earns validation as acupuncture. Western experts note nerve-centre effects, relief from neuralgia sciatica asthma and digestive disorders, and expect wider use as a pain substitute in coming years.
Stock Exchange Seats Rally After NYSE Sale Surge
The sale of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for 120000 lifts the total value of the 1375 seats by 33 percent to an estimated 165 million dollars, up 41.25 million over last week. Traders in Wall Street anticipate reviving activity as memories of the 1929 crash fade and people resume spending. The exchange remains a key barometer of financial health and is gearing up for increased business.
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New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Border Cities Star
Underground airfields for Britain’s air force planned
Britain plans underground airports for its air force with a minimum depth of thirty feet and incline systems to surface aircraft. The move follows exposure risks from military cameras sensing camouflaged bases, highlighting a shift to hidden facilities amid the era’s tech scrutiny.
Seedless Grapefruit Export Ties To South Africa Rise
Growers in South Africa have mastered producing seedless grapefruit from a root incision that created sterile fruit. Bulk supplies are now being exported after experiments showed this feat requires special conditions and a fortuitous discovery by a careless plowman. Persian Balm Claims Beauty Benefits For Women Without Par Calling.
New Camphor Factory Set to Study Industry
A Japanese camphor factory is established to conduct intensive studies of both the economic and scientific aspects of the camphor industry, aiming to advance understanding and efficiency in production and trade.
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Japan
Muskrats Placed Under Ban Over Burrowing DoW
Muskrats, introduced into Great Britain in recent years for fur breeding, are deemed a menace due to their burrowing habits. The designation prompts control concerns and potential measures against the species.
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Great Britain
Higher Education Statistics in Canada 1931
The 23 universities in Canada enrolled 57 294 students and 101 colleges held 25 137. Of the combined total 46 354 were male and 25 798 female students, with women earning 35.7 percent of diplomas licenses and degrees. A visitor notes American schoolgirls overly fond of gum.
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Canada
Dominion
Motion Without Motive and the Speed Maniac
The Winnipeg Tribune argues Ontario authorities push to curb highway speeding. It condemns unnecessary fast driving as reckless, notes few emergencies justify it, and mocks the idea of speed as progress. It ends with a witty quote likening Western civilization to motion with out motive.
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Winnipeg Tribune
Scotsman Returns to Buy Caithness Village After 40 Years
William McGregor, who left Latheronwheel in Caithness for Australia over four decades ago, has returned to buy and own his native village. Once a cow herd boy and now a director of several Australian firms, he visited his sister Jessie McGregor in the cottage of their birth. The village, with about 120 residents, was recently put on the market.
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William McGregor
Latheronwheel
Caithness
Scotland
Australia
Jessie McGregor
Asthma Remedy Claims Swift Relief From Dr Kellogg
An advertisement asserts that Dr J D Kelloges Asthma Remedy drives asthma away quickly. It describes the vapor as eradicating the cause and cites long study and tested results before public release to prove its effectiveness.
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J. D. Kelloge
Young Couple Shows Off New House and Luxurious Furniture
A man touts his wife’s taste in furniture while a friend jokes about his influence on the purchase. The scene centers on a new home and its lavish interior. Separately, an agricultural note states erosion has removed twice as much plant food from U S fields as harvested crops return.
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Newedd
America
Carter's Little Liver Pills Help Constipation and Headaches
A testimonial from W. H. praises Carter's Little Liver Pills as a purely vegetable, gentle tonic that corrects acidity biliousness and indigestion. The ad touts benefits for liver and bowels and offers 25c and 75c red packages, encouraging readers to ask for them by name.
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W. H
Carter
Inverness Coal Mine Becomes Worker Owned Cooperative
After 25 years under outside control Inverness Nova Scotia will run its sole industry as a workers cooperative. The Inverness Coal Cooperative Company Limited will own operate and market the mine with local miners and taxpayers as members under a government approved plan aimed at preventing mine closure and securing town employment.
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Inverness
N.S
Nova Scotia
Inverness Coal Co-Operative Company, Limited
Canadian radio stunt marks first air broadcast over city
Arthur Dupont and Sydney Nesbitt achieved contact with a Montreal station while flying 3000 feet above the city. The brief addresses were clearly heard by wireless fans, noted as a possible first Canadian radio program broadcast from an airplane, with Ottawa airship broadcasts in 1930 notching similar feats. Worms in children work havoc as hookworms perforate intestinal walls. Miller's Worm Powder claims to exterminate worms and repair prior damage.
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Arthur Dupont
Sydney M. Nesbitt
Aeroplane Club
Montreal
Ottawa
New Paint Colors Reveal Temperature Changes
A new mercury copper salt paint changes color with heat from bright on cold to marson above 140 degrees and dull chocolate at 180 degrees. it returns to its original color when cooled. Mother Graves Worm Exterminator promises safe, mild worm control for children. A remark about Tom and his fiancée suggests disapproval from both families. Half the world's lepers are in China. Rice accounts for about 89 percent of Liam's exports.
Feeder Purchase Policy Renewal Announced by Minister
The Hon. Robert Weir announces a Feeder Purchase Policy to encourage winter feeding of cattle and lambs. The Federal Department will pay reasonable travel expenses to stockyard points of purchase or feeder sales. At least one car of stock must be bought to qualify and purchases are subject to approval by Dominion Live Stock Branch officials. The policy extends to Eastern Canada, the Prairies, and British Columbia and runs five months from August 1, 1932.
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Robert Weir
Federal Department
Domlinion Live Stock
Canada
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Dominion Live Stock Branch
S. Aamer
Ottawa
Ontario proposes welfare boards and advisory league plan
The advisory committee on direct relief to the Ontario Government urges a public welfare board for each municipality and an association of welfare groups to advise and run fundraising campaigns. Hon Dr J D Monteith announces the plan. Separate notes mention Ohio farm households showing similar per person food costs between farm families and city bachelors.
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Public Welfare Board
Ontario
J. D. Monteith
Ohio
City
Eggs Outshine Spring Tonic in Nutritional Advice
The bureau of economic advice recommends eggs as a better source of protein and vitamins than a spring tonic, noting the benefits of their essential nutrients.
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Bureau of Economica
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Lydia E. Pitkham
Standard Brands Limited
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Wation
His Voice
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Ontario Relief Organization
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