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...Winnipeg, Man., Chief Buffalo Bow of the Northern Saskatchewan Indians was distressed by the prolonged drought. He mustered his braves, organized a rain dance to invoke the Great Spirit. Thereupon it rained for two days...
...Pianist Zecchi had previously played privately in Manhattan, publicly in Washington, Tallahassee, Toronto, Guelph, Decatur, Winnipeg...
...horn Arthur William Cutten, Chicago's big stock & commodity bull. Notoriously unschooled in taking profits, he has not been very active since the Crash. Last week he made news by heading back toward his native Canada. He moved one branch of his business from Chicago to Winnipeg, from the Board of Trade to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange...
Five years ago Speculator Cutten charged that Government interference was hurting the Board of Trade. Last week, buying a seat on the Winnipeg exchange for $12,600, he repeated this charge, also protested that the Board of Trade has many rules hurting buyers. Winnipeg, said he, "is the only free market on the continent." Elated, Winnipeg traders hoped other big grainmen would follow Bull Cutten. They arranged a demonstration for his arrival. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade last week gloomily observed that their seats now sell at $9,000 against a high of $62,000 in 1929; that...
...Winnipeg wheat, out in the world marked, slumped 26? to 28? per bu. under the Chicago level. Liverpool prices, normally 15? per bu. above the Chicago price, were 15? below, at a 1896 low record. No on, not even Critic Coolidge, could say that price-fixing of wheat was not working at least temporarily...