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...Lawrence seaway development he threatened to break Ontario's agreement with the Dominion to purchase St. Lawrence electric power developed on the Canadian site. "I promise a new deal," he cried, "and clean government!" On polling day Canadians cocked one eye upon Ontario, cocked the other upon Saskatchewan. Too grimly wrathful to throw eggs and tomatoes at their Conservative Premier J. T. M. Anderson, the smoldering sons of Saskatchewan were danged if they could see why they ever voted the Liberals out five years ago. They roared approval all through the comeback campaign of their old favorite Liberal Leader...
...ballots were counted Saskatchewan war-whooped that not a single Conservative had been elected. Liberal Gardiner had come through with 48 seats in the Saskatchewan Legislature, six going to pinko-Farmer Laborites. This landslide was all the more notable because Saskatchewan, voting also last week in a plebiscite to decide whether the Provincial Government should set up "beer parlors" and sell drinkables by the glass, instead of in bottles only, was barely able to make up its mind about beer parlors. In a narrowly split vote 128,000 Saskatchewaners were for parlors, 112,000 against...
...which was 31,000,000 bu. less than the April estimate and 171,000,-ooo bu. less than the five-year average. There was little connection between the expenditure and the shrinkage, for a crop reduction agent more potent than AAA was at work. From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed dry day crop estimators lopped 2,000,000 bu. from their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen to 442,000,000 bu. In Washington these were...
...hockey team skated out on the ice of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. First was stocky, mournful-looking Bun Cook, who superstitiously insists on touching the ice before his teammates. Behind him glided his pugnacious Brother Bill, team captain, with whom he owns a big wheat farm in Saskatchewan, big, bald, grinning Ivan Wilfred ("Ching") Johnson, slender Frank Boucher, and a youngster named Murray Murdoch. With a few other teammates they made up the New York Rangers. They played that night against the Montreal Maroons...
...champion steers for nine years. So were some 45,000 spectators daily who looked at some 13,500 animals on the hoof, largest assembly on record. A new corn king was crowned-C. Worth Holmes of Joy, Ill. A new wheat king was crowned -Frank Isackson of Elfros, Saskatchewan. A new healthiest boy and two healthiest girls (tied for first place) were named-curly-mopped Glen L. Sherwood, 19, 6 ft. tall, 177 lb., who has shoulders as broad as any steer's, played on his Larned, Kans. high school football, baseball, basketball teams, does everything around the farm...