Lady Byng Visits Barrie Women's Canadian Club
Lady Byng declined the invitation to speak but visited Ladywood with club officers on a pleasant Thursday afternoon. She chatted on Canadian topics, enjoyed the scenery, and expressed desire to plant wildflowers from the day at her English estate before departing by private car for Ottawa.
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Lady Byng
Barrie Women’s
Ladywood
England
Barrie Women’s Canadian Club
Wismer
Miss Elgood
Daniel Quinlan
Treas
J.A. MacLaren
Allan
Cassels
Pigeons of New Guinea and Jack Rabbit Drives
Observers note that over 26 pigeon species exist in New Guinea while Roman sculptors repeated a single motif across works. In eastern Oregon and Washington jack rabbit drives occur yearly with thousands slain as rabbits are penned in large enclosures.
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New Guinea
Oregon
Washington
Former Elmvale singer returns home from Russia
Miss Bertha Crawford, a former Elmvale resident and noted soprano, has returned to visit family in Toronto after ten years abroad. She spent eight years in Poland and Russia and shared glimpses of wartime life where music held high regard in Slav and Muscovite lands.
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Bertha Crawford
Elmvale
Toronto
Miss Crawford
Poland
Russia
The
Star
Sore
Miss Crawford Sings Through War Tides in Petrograd
Russian years 1915 to 1918 saw Miss Crawford endure hunger lines and bomb threats while performing with Narodny Dom. She fled Warsaw in 1914 after German advances and later toured major cities in 1916 and 1917. Awards for war benefit performances were noted with medals she values gratefully.
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Russia
Miss Crawford
Petrograd
Warsaw
Italy
Signoria Corsi
London
Madame Novosky
Toronto
Narodny Dom
People’s Opera
Bolshevists
Everyday holiness and the God of workdays
A column recalls Nebuchadnezzar a village carriage-maker and self styled Holiness preacher. He preaches of sinlessness while hidden crooked business and painted frauds undermine his faith. The piece urges God as God of workdays not just Sundays.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Johnny Dale
Johnny
Pioneering Traveler Miss Crawford Rides War Torn Europe
Miss Crawford faced many transport delays during a tour once planned to visit Japan. After reaching Vladivostok no passage home was possible, forcing a shift to Finland. War clouds moved her to Warsaw, then Danzig, and she finally left for New York aboard the Carmania on August 27 after months in Poland and europe.
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Japan
Vladivostock
Land of
Nippon
Miss Crawford
Finand
Warsaw
Danzig
Poland
London
New York
Roman origin of city name suffix cester and chester
The affix cester or chester in English city names comes from the Roman word castra meaning a camp. This linguistic note explains how place names preserve ancient military roots in modern geography.
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Cester
Chester
Castra
Paul in Corinth a Revival and Strong Evangelism
Paul arrives in Corinth from Athens and connects with Aquila and Priscilla, starting a revival that gains a church despite opposition. He works with his hands and preaches the Word of God, facing Jewish rejection yet finding a ready audience among Gentiles and rulers of the synagogue, with many believing and undergoing baptism. The Lord reassures him, saying I have much people in this city, sustaining bold preaching through hardship.
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Israel
Jehovah
God
Jesus Christ
Corinth
I. Paul
Athens
Paul
Aquila
Priscilla
Church of Christ
Christ
Claudius
Rome
R. V
Jesus
Justus
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Campbell Tants
Ge St
Campbell, C.A
Y Department
Oka
Earth
Mother Earth
Wordsworth
E. M. Freek
Canada Rug CO
Ont
Wilson
Grocera
Lever . Brothers Limited
M. McArthur
King Block
Barrie
H. J. Twiss
Ross Block
Crown Life
Crown Life Insurance Company
Crown Life Insurance CO
Greece
Minard
Bird & Son, Limited
Hamilton, Oatario
the Sarjeant Co., Limited
Mr Edison
Mr. Edison
W.W. Bingham
Department of
Applied Psychology
Carnegie Institute of Technology
J. M. Greene Music Co
Good Music”’ Cor. Elizabeth and Mary Sts
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