Deficit hits Canada as sales tax rises two percent
The budget speech reveals a deficit of about 162 million dollars for the year ending March 31, 1996, with the plan to add a two percent sales tax. The piece argues the tax falls on both rich and poor, notes potential price passthrough, and discusses retail billing methods to improve tax visibility and economic restraint.
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Chas. A. Dunning
House of Commons
Canada
Dunning
Oklahoma
Education program teaches children about British railways
Britain’s railways leaders run nationwide demonstrations for schoolchildren to explain locomotive operation, signaling, and rail transport, aiming for public understanding of rail problems. Over 40,000 students have attended, with lessons stressing that transport is for the ages, not just today. Also noted, ancient Egyptian tombs reveal glass dating to 1400 BC.
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England
British Railways
Great Britain
T. R. Dester
Associated
Fand
Temple To The Sun rises in London suburb housing project
The Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association advances a sun and air home concept in South Hackney with a 7,500 square foot hanging garden temple. Architect J E M Macgregor says flats gain private gardens on the same level as engineers deploy a pyramid shaped cantilever design to allow a skyward garden block with a market space in the central hall.
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England
South Hackeny
Bethnal Green
East London
Fortification Question Provokes Humorous School Moment
In a classroom the schoolmaster asks what a fortification is and receives puzzled stares. He repeats the question and points to a boy at the back, who replies with a humorous mispronunciation, “Two twentyfications, six.”
Hampton Wick church serves free Sunday tea and treats
The local church in Hampton Wick England offers boiled eggs butter rolls marmalade and tea free to all attending Sunday services. The vicar originated the idea and paid the bill totaling 21 50 pounds.
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Hampton Wick
England
Foota
Reduction In Insurance Rates On Hudson Bay Route Announced
Marine insurance rates on the Hudson Bay route are cut by 25 percent for hulls and machinery with the season extended eight days from Aug 5 to Oct 10 as Howe says in the House of Commons. The premium applies to special routes and is against prior year year round coverage. A 5,000 ton vessel valued at 250,000 and equipped with Gyro compass would pay 625 per round trip, with prior years higher. Reductions follow representations to the Imperial Shippings Commission in London.
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Hudson Bay
Howe
House of Commons
Chiciey
Churchill
N. B. McLean
Cape Chiciey
Imperial Shippings Commission
London
Sound financial policies and empire lead says Ferguson
C Howard Ferguson former Ontario premier and Canadian High Commissioner to London arrived in San Francisco mid world cruise. He praised Britain saying no other country matches business strength as Britain leads while Canada and South Africa follow closely. He cited farm failures in Canada blaming overcultivation on his 35 acre Ottawa farm netting about 1000 yearly for two decades.
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Britain
C. Howard Ferguson
London
Ontario
Ferguson
San Francisco
British Empire
Great Britain
Canada
South Africa
Ferguson Beeves
Ottawa
Knight of St George Duke of Kent joins Order service
The Duke of Kent, Knight of the Grand Cross, wore Saxon blue mantle and elaborate collar at the St Michael and St George service in St Pauls. The procession included top officers as richly apparelled. The Duke’s banner was hung and banners of deceased knights taken down. Iceland air base plans noted for trans Atlantic planes.
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Duke of Kent
St. George's
London
Order of St. Michael and St. George
St. Paul's
Order
Revival of World Trade to Halt Economic Distress
U S Secretary Hull warned of a rising barbar of war and urged lowering trade barriers to revive global commerce. He described excessive protection as folly and said renewed economic health is key to resisting social unrest and dictatorship. He warned scrapping reciprocal trade would be a fatal backward step.
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Hull
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Selected Recipes for a Marble Roll Cookies
A vintage style recipe for a layered cookie roll using butter sugar egg yolk milk flour baking powder salt and grated chocolate. It instructs dividing the dough into three parts one chocolate layer one colored layer and a pink or green layer, rolling together, chilling overnight, then slicing and baking at 350 degrees for ten minutes.
Weather expert retires from Dominion meteorological bureau
F Napier Denison of Gonzales Hill observatory retires after 48 years as superintendent of the Dominion government meteorological bureau at Victoria. He describes ongoing interest in world tremors and weather observation across the Dominion and Pacific coast, leaving a noted legacy as a trusted expert.
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F. Napier Denison
Gonzales Hill Observatory
Dominion Government Meteorological Bureau
Victoria
Gonsales Observatory
Pouion
Ieee
W. A. Thorn
Toronto
Denison
Dominion
Pacife
Great French Liner L Atlantique Scrapped After Clyde Voyage
Within 24 hours of the Queen Mary’s triumphant voyage down the Clyde a second famed liner, the 42 000 ton L Atlantique, was dragged stern first to the breakers yard ending her life after years of service. Over 100 men will work about a year to dismantle her while her burned past in the English Channel is recalled.
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Mary
Clyde
English Channel
Divided by Chalk Line Brothers in One Room Cabin
George Washington Coleman 79 vows to carry on after brother James Philatus Coleman 81 dies of pneumonia in Bakers Gulch New York. For 62 years the siblings shared the one room with a chalk line as their boundary marking personal domains. A jumble of unrelated notes on European vacations and a judge telling a woman to speak at home appears in the text.
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New York State
George Washington Coleman
Bakers Gulch
James Philatus Coleman
Uniforms For Air Force Shown In Canadian Bulletin
The latest issue of The Bulletin from Canadian Airways shows two officers in navy blue uniforms with peaked caps and the Canadian Goose emblem. The uniforms will be worn by all pilots and co pilots on airmail runs, starting with the Vancouver Seattle service which now features complete two way radio equipment.
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Canadian Airway
Canadian Air Mail
Canadian Airways, Ltd
Canadian Airways
Vancouver- Seattle
King Edward Stamp Collection to Be Added in Montreal
E Goodfellow, noted British philatelist, will add to a famous Brit ish empire stamp collection in Montreal from England. He travels to New York to judge the Philatelic exhibition at Grand Central Palace.
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Edward
E. Goodfellow
Montreal
England
New York
Grand Central Palace
Manitoba Beekeeping Surges in 1935 Output
Manitoba produced over five million pounds of honey in 1935. More than 3,300 beekeepers managed 51,416 hives, reflecting a substantial expansion in the industry and heightened activity among apiarists across the province.
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Manitoba
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