Three Steamers Bound for Churchill Lead 1935 Fleet
Manitoba port officials anticipate a busy 1935 season as three steamers bound for Churchill act as advance guards for a fleet of 20 vessels expected to trade from the northern seaport. Officials forecast a 100 percent traffic rise from 1933 and note shipments to date exceed 1934 totals, with the SS Nascopie due August 11 and the Leopold and Wentworth set to enter Hudson Strait August 10 amid improved ice conditions.
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Churchill
McLean
Ocean Eagle
Hydro Power Plans for Gold Fields Regina At Lake Athabasca
The Department of Natural Resources expects hydro electric development to supply mining operations in the Lake Athabasca area. Applications from large electric corporations have been received, though names are not disclosed. Three sites on the Old Man river, the Tazin river, and the Grease river could provide about 35 000 to 40 000 horsepower and lie roughly 30 to 80 miles from Beaver Lodge lake.
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Regina
Lake Athabasca
Department of ‘Natural Resources
Old Man River
Tazin
Grease River
Beaver Lodge Lake
Dominion Canada bills sold at low rate reach 1.2337 pc yield
A $30,000,000 Dominion Canada treasury bill issue was sold at a 1.2337 percent annual yield, the second low record after a $20,000,000 issue at 1.38 percent. Bills mature November 1, with a 99.69 discount price. Proceeds retire part of a $50,000,000 issue taken up by chartered banks earlier at 2 percent.
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Ottawa
Dominion Canada
Treasury
Royalty Sails for Two Week Cruise Off Cowes
King George and Queen Mary with the Duke and Duchess of York depart aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert for a two weeks cruise. The voyage includes attendance at the annual Cowes regatta as part of the holiday season.
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George
Queen Mary
Duke and Duchess of York
Victoria and Albert
Cowes
Sikhs to Guard British Legation in London Amid Ethiopia Tension
Detachments of Sikhs are being prepared to guard the British legation building in London. Britain plans to evacuate missionaries and families in Ethiopia. Missionaries are told to stay in touch with the legation. No embargo on raw materials for munitions exports to Ethiopia. Britain grants 35 permits for planes over East Africa, 20 to British Somaliland and the rest to the Sudan.
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London
Legation
Britain
Nso
Ethiopia
House of Commons
Brea
East Africa
British Somaliland
The
Sudan
Legion to Aid Veterans With National Unemployment Group
Brig Gen Ross of the Canadian Legion announces a near future project in London Ontario to help unemployed veterans. A three man voluntary commission will form a national body with boards in towns and districts to locate work, based on the Hyndman report presented at the Legion convention.
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London
Ont
General Ross
Dominion
Canadian Legion
Legion
Hyndman
Ross
Japan to push civil aviation amid five year air defence plan
Japan moves ahead with a major civil aviation push alongside its five year aerial defence program. Initial civil aviation spending reaches 60 million dollars with annual ministry funding around 1 million. The plan links Japanese domestic airlines with global airways, building new airfields and upgrading equipment to strengthen air defence.
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Japan
Ministry of Communications
Citizens See Falling Star Over Toronto Sky
Toronto citizens described a bright object shooting northwest like a rocket leaving yellow light. The trail lingered about ten minutes. Observers at Dunlap Observatory thought it could be a meteor and perhaps fell to earth.
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Toronto
Dunlap Observatory
Desolation After Slave Lake Floods In Alberta
Floods on Lesser Slave Lake drive residents to tents on high ground as five foot waves wash out post offices and farms. High waters halt road travel for 20 miles and disrupt rail service. area damage estimated at 25000 dollars with ongoing undermining of rails delaying recovery efforts. Only aerial access remains possible as lake stays buoyant and winds continue.
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Slave Lake
Alta
Northern Alberta Railway
Straits Clear Of Ice Open Navigation Near Hudson Bay
The article notes ice clearance along the Hudson Strait routes to Churchill and Digges Island with ships arriving July and operations preparing for the opening of navigation. Radio operators arrived at Resolution Island and Cape Hope Advance as dredging and cleaning complete water fronts. A large wheat cargo ready to depart signals preparations for the August 38 opening.
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Caurcain
Ottawa
Hudson Bay
Churchill
McLear
Casters
Hudson Strait
Quebec
Resolution Island
Tod
Cape Hopes
Can Agree
Digges Island
South Africa Prosperous Veseeree-eath Areas
The passage appears garbled with mixed terms and no clear events. It mentions purchases from Canada and various uneffected phrases, lacking coherent names, dates, or places to summarize into a factual news item. No identifiable persons or organizations are discernible.
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Av Aeraer
Canada
Post Office’s 300th Birthday Celebrated in London
London marks the British postal system’s 300th anniversary. On July 31 1635 Charles I authorized Thomas Withering to organize a postal service. King George praised the post office in a message to post master-general G C Tryon, noting daily household awareness and public admiration. The message was displayed in 7,000 post offices across the kingdom with principal offices festively decorated.
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London
Charles 1
Thomas
G. C. Tryon
King George
Canadian teachers cheer King and Queen at Buckingham Palace
A party of 220 Canadian school teachers and choir children visiting England under the Overseas Education League filled Buckingham Palace grounds with three cheers as the royal car approached to Victoria station en route to the Cowes regatta. The King stopped to chat with Major and Mrs. F. Ney and several visitors.
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London
Palace Grounds
Buckingham’ Palace
Choor
England
Overseas Education League
Per
Victoria Station
Cowes
F. Ney
Start Aerial Survey Led by Dr Charles Camsell in North trip
Dr Charles Camsell deputy minister of mines leads a 10 000 mile aerial survey starting July 30 from Prince Rupert toward Wrangell Alaska in a seaplane piloted by C H Punch Dickins. A D McLean and W H Sutherland are among the party. The goal is to photograph 30 000 square miles of unmapped southeast Yukon north of the Liard river.
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Charles Camsell
Prince Rupert
B.C
Canada
Wrangell
Alaska
C. H. “Punch
Dickins
A. D. McLean
Canadian Airways
W. H. Sutherland
Camsell
Yukon
Liard River
Rocky Mountains
Mackenzie Ranges
Edmonton
Insurance Commission Announces Scheme Ready For Approval
East Africa efforts limp toward peace as delegates from Britain France and Italy seek final Mussolini approval for a draft plan. In Ethiopia Haile Selassie supporters rush recruiting while women fundraise. Canada moves toward its first employment insurance system with a contributory fund structure and broad coverage, overseen by the new commission and provincial co operation.
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East Africa
Geneva
Benito Mussolini
Baron Pompeo Alesi
Italy
Anthony Eien
Great Britain
Premier Laval
France
Laval
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Association For
Ottawa
Organization of Canada
Employment and Social Insurance Commission
Gordon Harrington
Tom Moore
A. R. Beaudet
Harrington
Col. Harrington
Civil Service Commission
Canada
Commission
India Self Government Bill Passes House of Commons
The India bill clears parliament after more than 300 amendments from the Lords. It paves a federation of Indian native and British territories with autonomous legislatures while Britain retains control of foreign policy and defence, granting Delhi greater self government than before.
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India
London
House of Commons
House of Lords
United States
Delhi
Britain
Garnet Wheat Price Set At Winnipeg Grain Exchange
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange established the proper value of Garnet wheat as a separately graded line on July 31. No 1 Garnet quoted at 70% of No 2 Northern, three cents a bushel under, while No 2 Garnet at 17% cents under, same as No 3 Northern. Garnet will be graded separately from Aug 4, with separate two grades, and Garnet units will automatically grade No 3 Northern 1 or lower.
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Wanipeg
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Counterfelt Coppers Deceive Vancouver in Bogus Coin Drop
Counterfelt Coppers warn of Vancouver counterfeit cent pieces that imitate government coins but are half as thick and made from copper. The novel forgeries are expert imitations though with a single flaw, alerting authorities to their presence in circulation.
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Vancouver
Cut Storage Costs Inipeg Vorstary Grain Pool
Fragmented OCR text references storage charges and grain pools at Wan and mentions dates and rates. Limited readable facts hinder a full summary but indicates efforts to reduce storage costs and review related charges. Entities include Wan and a pool system, with possible dates noted as Db and Onetay.
Chinese Fat Unripe Grain Endeavor To Stave OM starvatir
A fragmentary report describes mass hunger and starvation incidents near Chung fang and the Han river valley. Survivors, numbering up to a thousand, drift from villages as bodies of men women and children are found. The text notes famine conditions, looting discouraged, and warning to inhabitants as relief efforts struggle to reach the uplands.
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Starvatir
Chungsang
Telit
Haskow
Banda 1000
Chung’ Fang
Han
Vilagen
Proposed Flight Over North Pole Opens Polar Route
Soviet officials predict a new commercial path over the North Pole if Sigmund Levaneffsky’s non stop Moscow to San Francisco flight succeeds. The plan envisions a three day crossing with a polar meteorological station at the pole and other stations on Arctic ice. Russians have already set 40 radio weather stations above the Arctic Circle feeding central stations at Cape Schmidt Dixon Island and the cutter Sadko.
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Moscow
North America
Russia
North Pole
Sigmund Levaneffsky
Polar Barrens
Orthwest
Canada
California
San Francisco
Pole
Schmidt
Arctic Circle
Cape Schmidt
D'xon Island
Sadko
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Leopold
Hydro
Val
South Africa
Thomas Cantley
Canadian Senate
Start
Insurance Commission
Bill
Mss OF
York
Aeroplate
Brussels
Belgium
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