Land Lure and Homesteading Tales in Western Canada
Immigrant letters from Wheatwyn Sask describe arrival in 1808, laboring to start farming. They recount acquiring land, building a home, buying machinery, and expanding to 1,110 acres with several buildings. Wheat yields reach 27 bushels per acre despite drought. a 6-year farming venture yields profits and freedom. Local tone praises hard work and government stability.
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Western Canada
Canaidian
Wheatwyn
Bank
Commissioner of Immigration
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Roy
Wolse Jey
Sisk
Tang
Loon Creel
Bealhes
Tom
Lorens Blaser
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments
Old ad copy warns against mercury based catarrh remedies and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure from Toledo Ohio makers with internal use claims. The passage also notes a tale of Rossett obtaining permission in 1868 to reopen his wife’s coffin for manuscripts and Turner’s painting burial whim.
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Hall
I J, Cheney & Co
Toledo
Coledo
Ohio
B. J. Chinty & Co
Drugetata
J. M. W. Turner
Thoers
Bla
Chanterey
Bla Wishea
Temper and Cheerful Minds Shape Lifespan and Home
An essay by Helen Oldfield argues tempering behavior improves life for all. It compares calm, cheerful temper with a stormy disposition and notes how kindness at home reflects character to strangers and children. The piece links happiness to resilience, social harmony, and hopeful work on a demonstration farm in the White Mountains.
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Helen Oldfield
Hope for the Small Farmer
Robert H Schauffler argues the South adopts radical farming to boost profits with crops valued far above land costs. He cites Virginia examples of land valued at four dollars an acre yielding harvests worth one hundred dollars and notes migrants returning to rural life. He questions northern and New England potential and mentions Asa Tuld facing potential profits under new government methods.
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Robert H. Schauffler
Virginia
Robert H. Schautler
Anu
New
Mrerely
World State Foretold by Jevons and World Officials
Ada May reports Professor Stanley Jevons outlines a future world government with a literal king and a cabinet, tracing beginnings to Hague conferences and linked to obscure Bern based world officials. The piece notes a shift from patriotism to cosmopolitan worldism and the rise of global governance ideas.
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Ada May
Krocker
Stanley Jevons
Periops
Jevons
International Postal Service
Bern
Switzerland
Aswan Dam Plan Threatens Beauligal Temple
Egypt will raise the Aswan Dam by seven meters, flooding the Beauligal temple area and submerging early civilization remains. The government disputes sensational finance claims while noting large Nile valley economic gains, and defends corporate ownership against populist hype.
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Egypt
AsSaan Eeven Imeters
Geneva
Switzerland
Nile Valley
Assuan
Ancient Egyptian Temple Risks Destruction From Floodwaters
A report warns that rising waters threaten the Isis temple on Philae Island and nearby Ptolemaic sites, risking rapid decay of stonework and loss of inscriptions while urging preservation funding. It notes broader concerns about corporate power and market panic affecting investors and industry.
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Isis
Philae
Egypt
Viitor
Owners of Corporations. Figures on investors and ownership
Figures show widespread faith in corporate enterprise with two and a half quadrillion investors owning American corporations. About twenty million thrifty Americans are indirect part-owners in corporate ventures.
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Frank J Faynot
Appleton
Curreat
Qwillion
The Home Disappearing? One Woman in Every Five in America
Census Bureau figures from twenty seven cities show 731,665 women at work with 95,581 supporting families. City workers total nearly one third of all employed women, while industrial opportunities push broader changes in home life and finances amid rising unemployment fears.
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America
United States
Census Bureau
Rheta Childence
Hampton
Broadway Magazine
Forea
Rome
Fragmented era notes span politics to science
A chaotic collage of 19th century oddly mixed items reports on Utah and South Dakota politics, Missouri tobacco data, university counts in Glasgow, fox hunting in Maine, women voting in Boston schools, English steering wheel heat invention, Nigerian tin and copper fields, Booker T. Washington’s birth and education, a Brockton Massachusetts county teachers association, a Cloughey Ireland lifeboat rescue, a French kite prize, Vermont journalism law, and a Berlin entry incident involving John Quincy Adams.
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Margaret Zany Wicher
Utah
Itunie
South Dakota
Atute
Mirrouri
North Carolina
University of Glasgow
Queen Margaret College
Miss Galloway
Maine
Iur News
New York
Enon
Boston
Sir William Wallace
Nigeria
Fins
Booker Washington
Hampton Institute
Virginia
Tuskegee Institute
Harriet 5
Hayward
Brockton
Mass
Massachusetts
Teachers’ Association
Plymouth County Teachers’ Association
Cloughey
County Down
Ireland
Mtcle
Ligue Nationale Aerienne
Dolfuss
Capabe
Daniel
Vermont
Leston Transcript
Bulgaria
John Quinvy Adams
Berlin
Amertyxu
Prussia
Brain
States of America
Wergeant
United States
Adame
Great Earthquakes in History Across the Ages
An aged survey catalogs major seismic calamities Pompeii Mount Vesuvius San Francisco 1906 Kingston Saint Pierre over centuries. It notes the 70 AD eruption, the 1906 quake’s toll and urban ruin, plus Martinique and Kingston warnings and deaths in confined zones.
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Italy
St. Morre
Martinique
San
Tle
Pompei
Mar Uninet
San Praneisco
Kingston
Pompeii
Mount Vesuviug
Vesuvius
Hercultineum
San Francisco
Aim
Mont Peter
Peles
Rapilly
Asher
St. Pierre
Cate
Decay of the Teeth and Its Causes in Modern Times
The article explains that tooth decay is highly prevalent today, more than in ancient eras. It attributes decay to improper diet, eating habits, and poor hygiene, noting sugars foster harmful bacteria that erode enamel and dentine. It also highlights the cleansing effect of raw vegetables, proper chewing, and saliva in supporting healthy germs and mouth defense.
Early Dental Care Emphasized for Children
A child’s first birthday marks the start of steady dental hygiene. Regular daily use of simple alkaline tooth wash or crenie is advised, with routine dentist visits. Prevention proves better than cure in maintaining healthy teeth.
Sally Ann Shipboard Dispute Tells Tall Tale
A faded reminiscence recounts the Yankee schooner Sally Ann under Captain Spooner near the Connecticut River where mutinous chatter and a stormy quarrel with Mr. Comstock presage a chaotic anchoring. The mate mocks the captain and orders a forward move while the boat finally swings to windward and holds.
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Spooner
Connecticut
Comstock
Everybody’s Magazine
Allie
Mr. Comstock
Cap'n
Disguising a Melody and the Jigs at St Luke’s
The Dundee Courier recounts how melodies like Scots Wha Lac and others by Hundel with variations yield different pieces such as Land off the Seat and Dead March. Henry Smart at St Luke’s faced wardens warnings against secular jiggy music in voluntaries, leading to a later performance of Jump, Jim Crow.
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Dundee Courier
Hundel
Do “Sanson
Joseph
Henry Smart
Sr Luke's
Smart
Stuart
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