Buying at Home and the Mail Order Dilemma
A Persuasive editor argues local merchants should supply district needs at reasonable prices. The piece contrasts in store stock and quick delivery with mail order practices, citing customer expectations for variety, delivery, and financing, and notes Vancouver Island residents favor BC goods over Eastern catalogues. It includes a Vancouver Island example and laments perpetual preference for image over value.
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Jones
Postal Order Commission
B. A. McKelvie
B. C
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Merino Wool Fraud Hits Public Pocketbooks
An investigation shows consumers paying $10 per pound for shoddy while virgin wool sells for about 60 cents. Merino is misrepresented as wool and cotton blends reach 95 percent cotton. Definitions blur as fabric described as all wool may lack real wool, undermining wool’s market and value.
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American Trade Board
Statesman Woodrow Wilson and the US system
The Montreal Star comments on Woodrow Wilson as a statesman, noting that in Canada or Britain he might have led opposition and benefited his country, but in the United States his career ends in obscurity. It also reflects on Roosevelt and Taft and praises Wilson’s idealism wrecked by Versailles.
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Woodrow Wilson
United States
Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
U. S
Versailles
Montreal Star
Children as Individuals and Home Responsibilities
A collection of excerpts urges studying children as individuals rather than grouping them in schools. It contrasts past reliance on ridicule with the need to nurture responsibility through age appropriate chores, arguing shared labor and use of machinery can relieve the labor problem and build a capable future.
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London Daily Chronicle
Eugene Register
City of Mexico reports crime free day in October
The City of Mexico with a population over 1 000 000 reported a day in October when not a crime was committed nor a single arrest made. The New York World wonders who would compare conditions of civilization between Mexico and New York.
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Mexico
New York
New York World
American expedition aims to find missing link in Central Asia
The Pall Mall Gazette jokes that an American scientific quest to locate the missing link may be eclipsed by the monkey gland procedure which could enable synthetic production at home, avoiding the dangers and expenses of abroad exploration.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Central Asia
Cumberland and Nanaimo Change Positions in League
Cumberland defeats Nanaimo 2 in a tight league match with Conti and Harrison scoring for Cumberland and Robertson netting for Nanaimo. The win puts Cumberland one point ahead of Nanaimo with a game in hand as Stobbart shines for the visitors. Hunting by aeroplane is prohibited in Canada by Federal law.
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Cumberland
Nanaimo
Strang
McMillan
Dickinson
Conti
Harrison
Routledge Nanaimo
Routledge
Brown
Dicky Stobbart
Murray
Sammy Sullivan
Dickinson and
Husband
Jock Clarke
Campbell
Milligan
Hitchens
Clarke
Irvine
Horne
Bannerman
Bowman
Bell
Graham
Stobbart
Sullivan
Stiles
Dickenson
Robertson
Canada
Junior Football League schedules season and rule changes
The Junior Football League of the district approved a higher age limit to maintain four clubs. Merrifield Cup first series opens Saturday with Union Bay vs High School and Cumberland Juniors vs Bevan. Schedule lists matches from March 11 to April 23 with home teams noted and referees supplied by hosts.
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Union Bay
Bevan
Merrifield Cup
High School
Cumberland Juniors
Cumberland
MacKinnon
Ramsell
Stevenson
Reid
Walker
Stewart
Potter
Bates
Watson
Michell
Wilcox
Gander Guides Blind Ox in Gentle Field Bond
A remarkable Alabama tale describes a gander guiding a blind ox to water. The bird walks ahead quacking to steer the sightless animal and then stands guard as the ox drinks before guiding it back to the field.
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Alabama
Theda Bara Stars Dual Roles in La Belle Russe
Theda Bara performs both parts in La Belle Russe a Fox photoplay shown at Ilo-Ilo Friday night. She plays a graceful ballerina facing poverty for her husband and her wicked twin sister in a dramatic tale of mother love self sacrifice and feminine intrigue.
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Theda Bara
la Belle Russe
William Fox
Ilo-Ilo
Theda Bara No. I
Theda Bara No. II
Belasco
Backing Horses Leads to Page One Loss Tale
Walker asks about losses in gambling on horses. Driver recalls losing fifty dollars after backing two bosses and wrecking a van into a shop window.
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Walker
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