Editorial Urges Clear Detour Signs For Ontario Highways
An editorial on Saturday's Crown Hill motoring fatality criticizes poor detour marking on Provincial Highways. It argues for large illuminated Detour signs with mile markers, uniform design, and red green barricade signals to improve safety and reduce needless travel, noting cost is a small matter in a proper road programme. It then contrasts Britain's train safety record with minimal fatalities.
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Crown Hill
Johnson St
Orillia
Penetang
Ontario
Governor General’s Maritime Tour Praises Canadian Corps Loyalty
During a Maritimes trip the Governor General addressed St John ex servicemen praising the Canadian corps. He urged Canada to be like the corps with unity and all doing their job across provinces including French Canadians Nova Scotians Ontarians and Westerners. He credits the troops for his success and asks a blessing upon them.
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Maritimes
St. John
N.B
Canada
Vimy
Nova
Third Army
Ontario Press Finds Signboards Obsolete Says Mag istrate
Police magistrate Jeffs of Hamilton argues an influential and efficient press makes large advertising boards unnecessary and unsightly on the landscape. The remark frames a stance against billboard proliferation in Ontario.
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Ontario
Jeffs
Hamilton
Ninth anniversary of the Great War observed
The era's ninth anniversary recalls sacrifices and postwar troubles. Gideons report Bible thefts in hotels but say missing copies reach those in need of moral admonition. Dr. A W Laforge of Chicago cites high tension and idleness as a modern disease requiring outlet for youths.
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Gideons
A. W. Laforge
Chicago
Conservatives Sweep Prince Edward Island Election
The Conservative opposition won across Prince Edward Island, leaving the Liberal government with only four of thirty seats. Abolition of poll taxes appears to have aided the turnover.
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Prince Edward Island
Liberal Party
Doctor Gallie Named Hunterian Lecturer at Royal College of Surgeons
The Examiner extends heartiest congratulations to Dr. W Edward Gallie for being chosen to deliver the Hunterian lectures in England. His surgical achievements have earned honors in Canada and the United States, placing him among the world’s leading surgeons.
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W. Edward Gallie
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Canada
United States
German Mark Value Soars Amid Surplus Paper Money
The mark trades around 488000 to the dollar in New York while past rates were four to five thousand and later a few hundred. Germany has issued excessive paper money making retirement near impossible. Across the continent people still buy stacks of worthless notes for cash as a financing quirk.
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New York
Germany
Walkerton Telescope on Quebec and its people
The Walkerton Telescope suggests Ontarians overlook Quebec and its citizens. It notes the Quebecer is a stranger at first but improves with acquaintance and praises French Canadian publishers on a press trip as lively companions. Greater knowledge fosters better laf bonne entente.
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Ontario
Quebec
Walkerton
Maritimes
Jean Baptiste
la Bonne Entente
Longtime Bowermanville editor marks forty five years
M A James completes his forty fifth year as editor of the Bowermanville Statesman after buying the paper in 1878. His sons share management duties, while he continues at the editorial desk with Miss Haycraft as assistant editor for thirty three years.
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M. A. James
Bowmanville
James
Simcoe merchants urge advertising to keep town on map
Simcoe merchants who back local advertising say it strengthens trade and draws buyers from outside. Newspapers are a strong magnet to keep commerce in town, and a welcoming reception helps out-of-town customers return after their first visit.
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Simcoe
Country Best for Family Pickering News
A fragment notes impression of family focus in Pickering coverage with reference to a boy and a girl. The text hints at community life and local values shaping youth experiences in the town.
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Family Pickering News
Makers of Canada Biographical Sketch Egerton Ryerson
Egerton Ryerson led Ontario education as administrator and founder figure. He vowed in 1844 to build a system rivaling any nation, boosting schools from 2885 to 6000, pupils to over half a million, houses to over 6000, and teachers to 8000. A militant political religious leader, he influenced Methodism and national life through education.
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Egerton Ryerson
Ontario
Ryerson
Country life better prepares youth for life than city schooling
The article argues country education offers distinct advantages beyond urban methods, noting that most leaders in education politics and industry were trained on farms. It concludes the country is the best place to raise a family and that education should prepare one for life.
Pledge to Drive by Golden Rule Spurs Safety Movement
A Newmarket minister urged motorists to pledge safer driving, highlighting a rising movement in motor leagues to improve road safety for drivers and non drivers alike amid growing car numbers and traffic in cities and highways. The Express-Herald endorses applying the Golden Rule to automobiling.
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Newmarket Express-Herald
The
Express-Herald
Your Best Self Always in Duty to School and World
The Pines Crest excerpt urges readers to ask if they have lived at their best in every sphere from home to work. It stresses that the finest gift one can offer friends, country, and world is oneself at one's best, through steadfast effort in all duties and future endeavors.
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Bowmanville Statesman
Pine Crest
Band Concert Program At Local Hall In August 1923
A band concert listing pieces including Sousa Overture Zampa and Hearst Humorous Chinese War March features cornet solo The Bells of St. Mary’s and selections like A Life on the Ocean. Also scheduled are The Pelican and God Save the King with Marches and waltzes noted in the program.
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Sousa
Sir Hibbert Tupper A Canadian Public Figure
The Honorable Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper son of Sir Charles Tupper is a leading lawyer and longtime Dominion Cabinet member. He served as Minister of Marine and Fisheries and later as Minister of Justice and retired from active politics to become a respected Vancouver citizen.
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Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper
Sir Hibbert
Dominion
K.C.M. G
Paris
House of Commons
Sir Hi
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