Rainbow Colony and the Ready-Maders discussed in western train car
On a Central Alberta railcar, a trainman and two homesteaders explain the Rainbow Colony and the Ready-Made farm scheme to a wary traveler. They describe 80 to 320 acre farms, ready houses of lath and plaster, and fast settlement plans for British immigrants drawn to irrigation districts near Irricana and Calgary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedgewick
Alberta
Selgewick
Rainbow Colony
Martora
Irricana
Calgary
Canader
Scott
Flagstaff
Pancy Titan
Bern
Tragic Fishing Life and Salmon Story of British Columbia
A portrait of a British Columbia fisherman and the province’s salmon industry. The article recalls near mythic ties to the coast, explains salmon life cycles, and outlines canning advances, industry economics, hatcheries, and the dangers to spawning grounds as fishers contend with expansion and regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Wraser
Pacific Coast
Staveston
British Columbian
Pacific
Atlantic
Fraser
Sen
North Pacific Ocean
Vancouver Island
Kootenay
Yale
Queen Charlotte Telunda
Storma
Silmon Canning
Fraser River
Nova Scotia
Canada
Bon Accord
Stealston
Portugal in turmoil as Republic shows no real reforms
An English observer in Portugal criticizes the Portuguese Republic for producing no valuable reforms and worsening public life. He notes mass strikes across Lisbon and industry, with exodus of the well-to-do, plus disorder in trade and incoherent legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
National Review
Republic
Lisbon
Lisbon Gas and Electric Company
Industrial Institute
Diario de Noticias
Senhor Machado Dos Santos
Sigeant
Household recipes and home maintenance tips from a past era
Practical guidance covers testing pastry temperatures with browned paper, cleaning lamp chimneys with water and wine spirits, blackleading gates and furniture, whitening fabrics with wax and whiting, preventing paint odors, preserving books and linens, stiffening brooms in salt water, securing rugs with webbing, absorbing damp with lime, stirring pots to prevent burning, loosening stoppers with oil or hot cloth, repairing broom handles, and stain removal on knives with potato and hathbrick dust.
War folly and the turn of modern power in economic view
A review of a new study by J Angell arguing that modern wealth is intangible and conquest loses value. The author cites the London Daily Mail and reports on how banking, credit, and communications render territorial gains pointless, noting the Franco Prussian War as a warning and comparing outcomes for France and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crisies
Themistocles
Alexander
Napoleon
Tom de Plume
Nordin Angell
Vis
Rome
America
Daily Mail
London
Angell
Wlinburgh Review
Public Opinion
Nation
J*angall
Germany
Holland
France
Oday
Berlin
Paris
Bismirek
Germin
Bomb factory myth in London ends as burglar’s den found
Reported East End bomb factory linked to the Houndsditch murders proved to be a burglar’s den with shares of high explosives. Historic bomb crimes are rare in England with few proven cases, including 1804 Greenwich Observatory plot and later incidents in 1881 Liverpool and related arrests in London and Walsall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pee
East End
Hounds Ditch
England
Bourdin
Greenwich Observatory
Joan Mr. Richards
Broad Latuirs
Hint
Patreel Post
Daly
Galleny
House of Commors
Liverpool
Walsall
Perfume Making Around Grasse and Its Rich Enterprise
A tour through Grasse reveals why it is the heart of the perfume trade. Rose leaves, orange blossoms, tuberose, and violet are hand gathered in vast quantities, then steeped in fat to absorb fragrance before distillation and alcohol extraction yield attar and perfumes. The process produces pomade, soap, and final scents, with attar of roses needing forty eight pounds of leaves for one gram of oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grasse
Maritime Alpe
Pruner
Kent
Also Mentioned on This Page
Norman
Runkin
Hachman
Canadian Pacific Railway
Butt
Helinie Miinistry
Pemany
Pacific Whaling Company
Germiny
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