Young Rodney Colton Faces a Crooked Sales Pitch
Rodney Colton, a junior Ajax salesman, confronts a blustering proposal from George H. Hall Fraser to bill a hospital job at an inflated price via time and materials. He refuses, loses the order, and is later rehired by Ajax rival Builders Construction after exposing the scheme and aiding chairman Ashley in untangling the fraud.
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Rodney Colton
Nightingale Memorial Hospital
Ajax Electric Company
Rodney
Mr. Fraser
Cotton
Fraser
Nightingale Hospital
f.C.b
Lakeside
Ajax
Rod
Benton
Placer
Cnd
Builders Construction Corporation
Dan Matthews
The
Builders Corporation
Matthews
Ajax Company
Matthewsa
Robert Ashley
Mr. Ashley
Colton
Ashley
Kipling
Dan
K.V.A
Weekly Garden Graph: Disbudding Dahlias for Large Blooms
Weekly garden graph by Dean Halliday explains keeping dahlias vigorous with regular cultivation and watering. It outlines disbudding and disbranching to form long straight stems, pinching side buds and preserving the center bud for the largest flower.
Ontario Pasteurization Law Faces Evasion Schemes
Dr A E Berry of the Ontario Health Department warns that as pasteurization becomes law, some attempt to evade it through selling shares in a cow and paying dividends in milk may arise. He notes that most support the act, with few opposing cases, and predicts wider acceptance similar to water chlorination.
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Ontario
A. E. Berry
Division of Sanitary Engineering
Ontario Department of Health
Canadian Public Health Association
Berry
World’s fastest car attempts six miles a minute on Salt Flats
John Cobb aims to reach 360 mph in August at Utah’s Salt Flats with his Railton car. The British build delivers extreme air resistance, fuel use just over one mile per gallon, two Napier engines producing massive power, and tires that expand at speed. If successful, Cobb would become the first man to travel land at six miles a minute.
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John Cobb
Salt
Utah
Napier
John
Caleb
Lazzeri Embraces Night Baseball as Leafs Manager
Tony Lazzeri discusses his new role with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the challenges of night games in the International League. He explains his priorities as manager, his dislike of second guessing, and the adapting demands of night schedules and travel. He notes night baseball fuels the minors and predicts the majors will follow for financial reasons.
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Anthony Michael
Tony) Lazzeri
Tony
Toronto Maple Leafs
Lazzeri
Leafs
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the Free Press
Stary
George H. Hall
Modern Construction Company
Hereford Fraser
WM. Fraser
Mr. Matthews
Pig Man
T and M
Canada
Dean Halliday
Central Press
Cme
Maclean's Magazine
National Home
Chatelaine
Christian Herald
Acton Free Press
Tony Lazzeri
Night Ball
Hambletonian
William H. Cane
Goshen
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