New cancer cure proposed using malarial injections
Berlin despatch reports Prof Frederick Loeffler advocates malaria injections as a cancer cure. He argues malaria may counteract cancer and cites racial cancer frequency in Africans and Americans. He suggests inoculating cancer patients with malaria blood or mosquito poison, noting prior vaccination attempts are dangerous and often ineffective.
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Berlin
Frederick Loeffler
United States
Borneo
Ingenious calculating machines of early era described
The article outlines early calculating devices from Pascal to Babbage, noting how small machines performed sums and subtraction. It describes a practical museum specimen and hints at later coin-operated cashiers. The piece mentions key figures like Pascal, Leibniz, and Babbage and marks the transition from theoretical designs to working prototypes.
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Viscount Mahon
Charles Babbage
Tablatee
Commriversity
Tragic end of ex MP Nicholas Davin in Winnipeg hotel
A Winnipeg despatch reports Nicholas Flood Davin ex M P for Regina killed himself at the Clarendon hotel at 4 30 PM on Friday after a spree to obtain a revolver. He bought a weapon for four dollars after failed attempts at two stores and then shot himself in the hotel room. Davin, who had arrived October 9 for legal business, had been despondent since his electoral defeat.
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Winnipeg
Nicholas Flood Davin
M.P
Regina
Clarendon Hotel
Davin
J. H. Ashdown
Lindsay
Mr. Davin
Messrs Baskerie
Queen's Hotel
Queen’s
Clarendon
Hoe
John Baird
Gage
MacDonell
Leitch
Leading Markets Local Grain Trade Report
Toronto market shows dull activity with wheat easing, old wheat at 66c and new at 64c to 66c. Manitoba wheat demand steady with No 1 hard at 80c in transit and No 1 northern at 77c. Ranging quotes for oats, barley, corn, rye, buckwheat, flour, oatmeal, millfeed and regional prices across cities like Toledo Milwaukee Duluth Detroit St Louis and Minneapolis. notable cash and futures figures included.
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Toronto
Manitoba
West
New York
B&c
Toledo
Milwaukee
Northern
Duluth
Detroit
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Dressed hog prices and pork products on market
Dressed hogs command $8 to $8.25 with hog products steady. Bacon sells at 11 to 12 cents in ten and case lots. Pork Mess $21.50, short cut $22. Smoked meats include hams 13 to 14 cents, breakfast bacon 15 to 15 4 cents, rolls 12 to 12 4 cents, backs 15 cents, shoulders 11 4 to 12 cents. Tierces 11 4 cents, tubs 12 to 12 4 cents, pails 12 4 to 12 4 cents. Compounds 84 to 94 cents.
Butter and dairy markets hold steady amid quiet trade
Butter market remains quiet with prices largely unchanged. Quotes include selected dairies 16 to 17 cents and choice tb rolls at 18 to 19 cents, second grades 13 to 14 cents, bakers 12 cents, creamery solids 19 to 194 cents and prints 21 to 22 cents. Eggs market is firm with strictly new laid at 18 cents and fresh candied 14 to 16 cents, seconds 12 cents. Cheese market unchanged.
Toronto Cattle Market Tops Mixed Trade Amid Dull Demand
Trade at the Toronto Cattle Market was generally dull with prices edging lower amid weak demand across most classes. Export cattle and butchers’ cattle showed weakness while feeders stayed steady, and hogs leaned toward lower prices due to large offerings. About 50 loads totaled 671 cattle 991 sheep 2000 hogs and 25 calves.
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Toronto
Savseh Ihesens
Man Swallows Blue Bottle Eggs Die Of Intestinal Perforation
A Vienna report details a 23 year old man who died after six months of illness caused by hatching blue bottle fly eggs in his stomach. Autopsy showed maggots perforating the large intestine. operation was not possible. Prof Nothnagel to present a paper to the Society of Physicians.
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Vienna
Nothnagel
Society of Physicians
Fire destroys New England building at Pan-Am Exposition
A Buffalo despatch reports New England's Pan American Exposition building burned Saturday night. Discovered at 11 10, the structure costing 30000 fell to ashes within an hour. The colonial white wood building housed rich furnishings, costly oil paintings, and other valuable contents.
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Buffalo
New England
Strike in Seville Spreads Violence and Shortages
From Madrid comes a report of a general strike in Seville excluding gas and electric workers. Bakers are out causing bread shortages. Strikers burn offices, civil authorities are overwhelmed and have ceded control to the military. Cabinet met under the Queen Regent to address the unrest. New disturbances reach Seville as troops disperse a mob at the Convent of St Savior after the door is burned.
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Madrid
Seville
Detroit
Woman Expels Five Inch Lizard From Stomach
A Montreal despatch reports Mrs. P. Godkin of Valleyfield near Montreal was suffering stomach trouble for years when a coughing spell produced a five inch lizard that had apparently lived in her stomach for several years.
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Montreal
P. Godkin
Valleyfield
Dominion News Briefs From Canada and Manitoba
Anthracite coal hits 10 50 a ton in Winnipeg. A case of anthrax reported at Montreal General Hospital. Ten miles of granolithic sidewalk built in Ottawa this season. Australia’s high flour tariff may hurt Manitoba mills. An Indian kills a 678 pound dressed moose on Little Grassy River. North Sydney blast furnaces construction expected soon. Sault Ste. Marie fair grounds to enlarge with 1000 spent on track. Carman branch of Canadian Northern to Somerset continued. Son of Jacob Hallis, 18 months, dies in Winnipeg from hot water tub accident. Hotel Dieu Montreal to train nurses. Buffalo herds in Banff to be exchanged with U S herds. Canadian herd numbers 30. Dominion agriculture minister asked to establish Canadian exhibit in Philadelphia museum. Safe cracked at Harrison Bros Myrtle Station Winnipeg grain dealers’ cash stolen. Sir John Bourinot to attend Yale centennial as Trinity College representative. Sturgeon Falls to Fort Frances CN line completion delayed to December. Wage shortages: men not available at 2 to 2 50 per day.
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Winnipeg
Montreal General Hospital
Ottawa
Australia
Manitoba
Little Grassy
North Sydney
Sault Ste. Marie
Carman
Man
Canadian Northern Railway
Somerset
Littl
Jacob Hallis
Hotel Dieu
Montreal
Banff National Park
United States
Dominion Minister of Agriculture
Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Harrison Bros
Myrtle Station
John Bourinot
K.C.M.G
Turbulent Turkish troops in Albania unpaid riots
A survey of varied items notes Turkish troops in Albania rioting over nonpayment, Naples reporting no bubonic cases, and other disparate world events including taxes in Ohio, marriages in Connecticut, and cultural notes in London and Paris.
Largest battleships to be built for Britain
A London despatch reports the government has ordered Devonport dockyard to prepare to build the largest battleship in the world. The ship will measure 425 feet in length and carry 16,500 tons burden, the first of a King Edward VII class.
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London
Standard
Devonport Dockyard
Novel Plan For Municipal Restaurant In London
Despatch from London reports British workingmen push a municipal restaurant plan offering well cooked meals pure tea coffee and liquors at moderate prices in comfortable surroundings A joint deputation of the London Trades Council and the Social Democratic federation will urge the London County Council to test the enterprise in central London near the Strand Holborn link as a new thoroughfare opens.
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London
London Trades Council
Social Democratic Federation
London County Council
Strand
Holborn
Duke of York bids Canada farewell in Halifax letter
A Halifax despatch publishes the Duke of York and Duchess of Cornwall’s farewell address to Canadians. He thanks the Dominion Government, provincial authorities, and private citizens for hospitality, praises railway arrangements and Mount policy, and expresses hope for future emigration and enduring Empire ties. Lord Minto and Sir Wilfrid Laurier receive noted thanks for support.
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Halifax
N. S
Canada
Duke of York
H.M.S. Ophir
Nova Scotia
Lord Minto
Pope
Dominion Police
Calgary
Dominion
Canadian Pacific Railway
Grand Trunk and
Intercolonial Railways
South Africa
Wilfrid Laurier
Minto
Empire
George
Bones Re-interred At Lundy’s Lane Cemetery
From Niagara Falls a report says Company K of the Fourteenth Infantry with Captain Thorley reinterred nine US Ninth Infantry soldiers killed at Lundy’s Lane on July 25 1814. Canada had cared for remains. a Canadian guard escorted the ceremony and a floral wreath marked the grave. A Victoria monument was unveiled at Lundy’s Lane and Main Street with US Consul Harland W. Brush speaking.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Fourteenth Infantry
Thorley
Canada
Lundy’s Lane
Ninth United States Infantry
Niagara
United States
Upper Steel Bridge
No. 1 Company
Forty-fourth
Messrs
Bull
Houston
McKenzie
Company K
Main Street
Ontario
Queen Victoria
Harland W. Brush
Ont
Kritzinger Repulsed At Orange River Crossing
Despatch from Herschel Cape Colony reports Kritzinger's commando about 200 strong making three frantic attempts to cross the Orange River into Cape Colony. Each time Boers were repulsed before reaching the river as mobile columns press the retreat. The block-house system now complete makes a crossing almost impossible.
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Herschel
Cape Colony
Kritzinger
Orange River
King Edward’s attendance at Scottish church spurs church debate
London dispatch reports the Church Times attacking King Edward for attending Crathie Presbyterian services. It claims the king is a Catholic prince and should not worship with Presbyterians, arguing Victoria’s alleged Jacobite sympathies. The piece notes Edward is spiritual and temporal head of both Anglican and Presbyterian churches in their realms.
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London
Church Times
Ritualists
Edward
Crathie Presbyterian
Scotland
Victoria
Crathia
Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Church of England
England
Church of Scotland
Britain
Presbyterian Church
Canadian pulp prices rise as Scandinavia hit by water shortage
Ottawa dispatch cites C. E. Santum report from the Trade and Commerce Department showing Scandinavia’s water scarcity curtailing lumber output. Logs not floated, mills half-time amid shortages in Germany and Austria. Pulp prices rise with European cellulose producers agreeing to curb output, signaling better Canadian pulp prices abroad.
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Ottawa
C. E. Santum
Canada
Norway
Sweden
Trade and Commerce Department
Scandinavia
Germany
Austria
Santum
F.o.b
Europe
May Come to Canada Says Times Reporter
London Times correspondent notes Viljoen and Sir Bindon Blood interview where independence was not mentioned. Viljoen sees many Boers choosing emigration to Canada or Australia. They favor British rule but would leave due to altered relations with colonials.
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London Times
Viljoen
Bindon Blood
Canada
Australia
Plague in Foo Chow Reaches Famine Levels
London dispatch reports the Bubonic plague ravaging Foo Chow and surroundings with about fifteen hundred new cases daily. For weeks, more than a thousand coffins have been carried out of the city gates each day, alarming officials and residents.
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London
Church Missionary Society
Foo Chow
Cow eats bank bills recovered from stomach
Despatch from Ottawa reports a cow slaughtered by a farmer near Ottawa after it ate bank notes. Fragments retrieved from the animal’s stomach were presented to the Bank of Ottawa, with clerks accounting for $105 in swallowed bills.
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Ottawa
Bank of Ottawa
Threats Against King Reported at Rosscommon Sessions
A Dublin despatch reports Judge O'Connor Morris told the Rosscommon Sessions he had received documents from the United Irish League marked as if from a coffin and containing diabolical threats against King Edward.
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Dublin
O'Connor Morris
Rosscommon
United Irish League
Edward
Rediscovered Siloam Pool Water Source In Jerusalem
Fragmentary report describes an ancient pool near Siloam in Jerusalem, linked to a spring and aqueduct system. The text suggests clear water and a long history, noting past discoveries and the pool’s role in the valley water supply.
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Jerusahees
Bel
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