Lipton Receives Glasgow Freedom Amid Tea Empire Claim
Sir Thomas Lipton, honored with the freedom of Glasgow, once boy in the city, now runs a Ceylon tea empire employing more than 8,000. A Lipton yacht will contest the cup again in 1925 after five prior bids since 1893, and he declined Jack Dempsey's boxing offer to star in a film, preferring sailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Thomas Lipton
Glasgow
Scotland
Ceylon
Lipton
Sir Thomas
Jack Dempsey
Great Story Year Promises for Youth's Companion Readers
An advertisement touts a 1924 subscription year for Youth's Companion with promises of Western ranch life adventure, school stories, farm life in Maine, and tales of character. It lists 52 issues, serials, poetry, facts, and fun plus optional McCall's Magazine add on. Subscriptions cost 3.00 for two titles, 3.50 with McCall's, available from Commonwealth Avenue Boston address.
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Maine
A. Stephens
Caleb Pensley
Thassea Dik
Omalains
Youth's Companion
McCall's Magazine
Commonwealth Avenue
St. Paul Street
Boston
Mass
Herald
McCall's
Cranbrook Herald
Danderine Hair Tonic Promises Quick Refresh and Strength
An advertisement touts Danderine as a refreshing hair tonic that revives thin and fading hair, restoring strength color and youthful appearance. It claims the product is not sticky or greasy and is available at any drugstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liquor Control Board
Government of
British Columbia
Kenneth Harlan Rescues Miners On Screen In New Film
Screen star Kenneth Harlan joined a rescue party in a Pennsylvania mine to save five trapped miners. He wore overalls and a lamp cap and crawled through smoke filled tunnels before the miners were brought to the surface unconscious. The episode will be shown in The Little Church Around The Corner at the Star Theatre starting Monday for two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Harlan
Pennsylvania
Lves
Harlan
Star Theatre
Moving Picture World
Hair Groom promotes all day combed styles
An advertisement touts Hair Groom as a dignified combing cream that keeps hair styled all day with a natural gloss. It claims no stickiness grease or odor and is suitable for fine hair.
Honor Roll Report From South School October
Division I. Perfect Attendance list includes Mabel Atkin and 30 others such as Clarence Barrett and Edie Walsh. Grade III honors Edythe Wells highest in class Second Term. Division II lists perfect attendance and term winners under teacher M. Fleury.
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Mabel Atkinson
Clarence Barrett
Ivor Barrett
Annie Berkin
Joey Berkin
Mimi Blefare
Rosie Blefare
Karl Brennan
Margaret Cassels
Ronnie Coleman
Harold Curle
Doris Eley
Georgina Haddad
Violet Miller
Victoria Pascuzz0
John Pascuzzo
Freddie Reynolds
Albert Russel
Nootch Tito
Edie Walsh
Lily White
Robert White
Clyde Williams
Franklin Woods
Edythe Wells
Hilly Saunders
Doris Bley
Marguerite Marapodi
Victoria Pascuzzo
Harold
Urle
I. N. Sing
Kootenay Orchards School October Report Card
October school report from Kootenay Orchards lists Grade VII Evelyn Gartside Grade V Kiddie Gartside George Atchison Mary Richmond Grade IV Jim Stone Prank Hern Grade XI Marion Richmond Rose Noyce George Noyce Polly Ruault Grade II Jack Thexton May Stone John Richmond Ida Sakata Dick Thexton Grade I Bertha Gurtside Mabel Sakata Jack Langin Evelyn Hern Ernest Ruault Winnifred Lippitt, Teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Gartside
Kiddie Gartside
George Atchison
Mary Richmond
Jim Stone
Prank Hern
Marion Richmond
Rose Noyce
George Noyce
Polly Ruault
Jack Thexton
May Stone
John Richmond
Ida Sakata
Dick Thexton
Bertha Gurtside
Mabel Sakata
Jack Langin
Evelyn Hern
Ernest Ruault
Winnifred Lippitt
Redistribution reshapes British Columbia ridings under plan
Victoria and Greater Vancouver gain seats without total increase. Four new ridings are created, while existing ones are merged to balance voting strength. Vancouver city keeps six seats, with Point Grey and adjacent districts redrawn. Greater Victoria loses one seat but expands urban areas to 22 000 votes. Coast riding forms from mainland portions including Powell River.
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Victoria
Greater Vancouver
Oliver
Vancouver City
Point Grey
South Vancouver
Burnaby
South Vancover
Richmond
North Vancouver
Lillooet
New Westminster
Greater Victoria
Esquimalt
Oak Bay
Saatch
Saanich
Cowichan
Vancouver Island
Newcastle
Nanaimo
Alberni
Comox
Powell River
Fkio
Redistricting Changes Chart Southern Interior Boundaries
The plan merges Greenwood with Grand Forks into a new southern interior constituency and unites Kaslo with Slocan and Rossland with Trail. A Kootenay riding forms from Trail area, Revelstoke gains from North Okanagan and Kamloops, Peace River riding is created, and Revelstoke gains part of Okanagan. Lillooet gains seats from Cariboo and North Vancouver, while Prince Rupert receives a slice from ombebca.
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Prince Rupert
Atlin
Columbia
Cranbrook
Chilliwack
Delta
Dewdney
Fernie
South Okanagan
Similkameen
the Islands
Nelson
Yale
Greenwood
Grand Forks
Kaslo
Slocan
Rossland
Trail
Kootenay
North Okanagan
Revelstoke
Kamloops
Peace
Peace River Country
Fort George
Oimbeca
Cariboo
Lillooet
North Vancouver
Fort Steele School Accident Leaves Boy With Fractured Skull
A serious accident at the Fort Steele school Friday left Wesley Clarke with a fractured skull after a horse kicked. The injured boy remains in a precarious condition. A. Nichol and hunting party arrived Friday. Ted Cretney visited from the ranch Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Clarke
Mr. A. Nichol
Tom Mix Stars In Romance Land At Star Theatre
Tom Mix performs a thrilling aerial stunt a hundred feet above a river in a bucket crane as he pursues kidnapper captors. The two day run of Romance Tand at Star Theatre opens Wednesday, promising entertainment value with modern knightly intrigue and a dash of comedy.
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Tom Mix
Star Theatre
Arthur
Beauty and gossip collide in seaside paper snippets
A jumble of absurd dialogues and society chatter unfolds with chorus girls London monocles jokes and a beauty contest. A reader letters section features Cassandra offering dubious beauty tips and spoof testimonials amid domestic quips and humorous asides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Harpooners Society of Our Church
Annie
Maggie
Cassandra
A Town Where Houses Sell For Thirty Dollars
Cross Fork Pennsylvania grew from a booming lumber town to a desolate hamlet after the big sawmill and stave mill closed. Once 2000 residents strong with rail service and multiple industries, it shrank to 80 people as fires and collapsing timber ended prosperity. State reconstruction funds sustain a quiet future until timber returns.
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Cross Fork
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna Railroad
Y.M.C.A
Shipping routes and departures listed from agents offices
Full information from Agents of Company's offices at 622 Hastings St Vancouver lists sailings from New York Cherbourg Southampton and other ports aboard ships including Aquitania Berengaria Laconia and California with December dates and connections to Londonderry Glasgow Queenstown Liverpool and Liverpool routes.
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Mallinx
Gibisgow
S.S
Saturnfi
New York
Cherbourg
Southampton
Aquitania
S. Berengaria
Londonderry
Glasgow
California
New
Queenstown
Liverpool
S. S
Laconia
Hastings St
Vancouver
Beauty Only Skin Sleep Mabel Says
A fragment from a letter or quotation shows Mabel claiming beauty is skin deep while sleepiness or sleepiness of skin is implied. The text mocks vanity and uses a harsh pun about being “skinned” when everything else fails.
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Mabel
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