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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1925
Page
1
A nineteenth century reading links physical teeth to moral traits. Long teeth imply weakness and vacillation, short teeth suggest great strength and destructiveness, large protruding teeth signal deceitful, untrustworthy nature, while the fair speaker is a broken reed.
An amendment aimed at prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Georgia public schools was overwhelmingly defeated by the State House of Representatives. The vote marked a setback for the measure and reflected legislative opposition to restricting science education.
The article extols 99 Women's Institutes across the province influencing schools, libraries, sanitation, and public works. It cites Cardigan's new school funded by institute contributions, notes regular meetings spur action, and highlights Memorial Library at Takeville and libraries in Georgetown and Montague as social gains. It emphasizes institutes unite capable local women to improve schools, churches, and roads.
Advice comes from many, including the failed and the successful. The piece argues advice often reflects personal history, urges restraint when moral, and warns against judging advisers by their own past failures. It stresses seeking path to rectitude and wholesome living.
The piece discusses elec tion talk and ironic political art, then surveys postwar agricultural rebound in France with live stock and cattle figures. It notes Nova Scotia coal reporting and outlines the British Empire Steel Corporation’s formation and executive salaries.
The Vancouver Sun notes grain shipments to Europe from an all year port in British Columbia. The Toronto Globe is criticized for misreading Maritime openness, with praise for Sackville New Brunswick taxpayers and a critique of political shifts under Veniot and King.
The author advocates annual vacations for all, suggesting employers cover a month if possible or workers self fund. A two week personal break plus two paid by employers is ideal but rare, yet households should seek meaningful change each year. Rest, outdoor activity, better meals and sleep aid mind and body during a vacation.
Daily Selections for Guardian Readers presents a devotional note and a poem by Roselle Mercier Montgomery. It contrasts trust in man versus trust in the Lord and invites reflection on hills as enduring beauty and consolation.
A Charlottetown Guardian letter by COUNTRY MERCHANT laments severe 19th century harvest failures across the Dominion and on Prince Edward Island. He describes cash shortages, widespread consumer restraint, and barter in eggs wool and butter as prices soar. He warns of possible political upheaval if times do not improve and notes strained flour and staple shortages.
A letter condemns leasing streams and ponds to out of town sports as unlawful and unfair. The writer argues city sports target private landowners, questions licensing fines, and urges checks before paying for fishing privileges with examples from Charlottetown and nearby ponds.
Ottawa reports the Department of Labor estimates Western Canada will require 69,000 harvest workers, higher than transport companies' figures. British Columbia could supply 6,000, the Prairies 13,000, with the remainder from eastern Canada to meet full demand. Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes would furnish about 50,000, while unofficial estimates warn Western migration may be under 30,000.
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