Canada Wheat Harvest Prodigious Growth Forecast
Reports from Central Canada grain belts praise 1909 yields with quantity, quality, and price. Saskatchewan leads with nearly 90 million bushels from 400,000 acres, while Canada as a whole could reach 426 to 600 million bushels in future years. Farmers urged to prepare seed beds early for robust crops amid rising world prices.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Albértd
Russia
India
United States
Hall's Catarrh Cure touted as cure all disease
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only proven remedy for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation, and notes Grove's quinine cold tablet branding. Mentions Cape Cod Canal project dating to pre Revolutionary War era.
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Tere
Hall
F. J. Cheney CO
Toledo
Wy Grove
Cape Cod Canal
The Night Express Leaving on Time painting cost $150
A connoisseur asks the price of a painting titled The Night Express Leaving on Time. The owner boasts of the piece but quips that the buyer was left behind after revealing a $150 cost.
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Night Express
Pnoodles and Chickens Mentioned in Quirky Exchange
A playful exchange mentions Pnoodles asking how long someone has kept chickens and a reply about starting after placing two good luck charms on the chicken house. The fragment hints at a lighthearted domestic moment with a rural touch.
Federal Report Shows Big Crops and High Yields
The 1908 Department of Agriculture report cites record wheat and corn outputs, a 1,007,000,000 bushel oats crop, and rising farm values. Winter wheat averages near $1.08 a bushel, corn prices ease slightly, oats value around 40.5 cents, flaxseed surges in price, and total farm crop value hits record levels amid sustained prosperity.
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Department of Agriculture
Ota
Racing News and Local Sports Notes From the Era
The Broncho is likely to be bred to Minor Heir next. Adam Stalin of Wyndmere bought three fine fillies in Chicago. Pontiac, a famed racehorse of the past, has died. Guard Butter of the University of Winds football team is named captain for 1919. Four stallions Salvator Ben Strome St. Elaine and Sir Dixon have died in Kentucky. A track at Herington Kaw nears completion. Madison Wisconsin fair seeks to convert mile track to half mile. Edward Bowallch, Harvard football star, named private secretary to Gov Forbes. Motorcycle mile record set at 54 4 6 seconds by W G Collina on seven horns power bike. Scranton Automobile Association votes to campaign for funds to build a new road to Goldsboro Pa.
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Benson
Chicago
Kentucky
Salvator
Ben Strome
St. Elaine
Sir Dixon
Herington
Kaw
The
Fair Association
Madison
Wis
Mandala
Edward Bowaltch
Harvard
Forbes
San Jose
Cal
W. G. Collina
Scranton Automobile Association
Scranton
Goldsboro
Cook's Flight Back to Europe After Cook Expedition Mystery
Dr Cook left New York aboard the Caronia on November 27 and arrived in Naples December 11, avoiding recognition. He then went to Denmark under close watch of scientists reviewing his ascent data. The Explorers Club panel, led by H Marshall Saville, is expected to issue an unfavorable report on Cook's Mount McKinley claim.
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Copenhagen
Fradériel
Cook
Gramatan Inn
Bronxville
Mirope
Goole
Brdollyn
de. Qook
New York
Dir. Cook
Mount McKinley
H. Marshall Saville
General Green B. Raum Dead at 80 in Chicago
Brigadier General Green Berry Raum aged eighty died at his Chicago home after years marked by worry for his ailing wife. He was born in Goldondo Illinois and gained early prominence backing Stephen A. Douglas. Raum served in the Civil War rising to brigadier general, helped build the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, and held posts as U S Representative and as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and of Pensions. His body will lie in Arlington Cemetery after being taken to Washington.
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Green Berry Raum
Chicago
Washington
Arlington Cemetery
General Baum
Golcondo
Ill
Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln
Raum
Cairo and
Vincennes
National House of Representatives
Internal Revenue
Diplomats Picked by Taft for Ambassadors and Ministers
President Taft submitted a list to the Senate naming Robert Bacon ambassador to France Richard Kerens ambassador to Austria Hungary Henry Lane Wilson ambassador to Mexico Charles Page Bryan minister to Belgium William James Calhoun minister to China Henry P Fletcher minister to Chile Henry T Gage minister to Portugal R Reynolds Hitt minister to Panama John B Jackson minister to Cuba Fenton BR McCreery minister to Honduras Edwin V Morgan minister to Paraguay Laurits S Swenson minister to Switzerland Charles W Russell minister to Persia Horace G Knowles minister and consul general to the Dominican Republic The White House said no decision yet on the post of Great Britain with Whitelaw Reid.
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Taft
Senate
Robert Bacon
New York
Irrance
Richard BE. Kerens
Missouri
Austria-Hungary
Henry Lane Wilson
Washington
Mexico
Charles Page Bryan
Illinoia
Belgium
William James Calhoun
Linois
China
Henry P. Fletcher
Pennsylvania
Chile
Henry T. Gage
California
Portugal
R. Reynolds Hitt
Nichols
Panama
John B. Jackson
New Jersey
Cuba
Fenton BR. McCreery
Michigan
Honduras
Edwin V. Morgan
Paraguay
Laurits S. Swenson
Minesota
Switzerland
Charles W. Russell
Columbia
Persia
Horace G. Knowles
Delaware
Congo
Dominican Republic
White Mouse
Great Britain
Whitelaw Reid
Cleveland passes 3 cent fare street railway ordinance
Cleveland councilmen approved a new ordinance granting renewals of several street railway franchises with 3 cent fares and transfers. Franchises expire June 1, 1910, and came after a blanket renewal of the Cleveland Railway Company at higher terms, drawing Republican protest. Separately a fire destroyed the Pennsylvania Marble and Granite plant near West Grove, Pa., causing about 300,000 in damage.
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Cleveland
Henow
Johnson
Cleveland Council
Cleveland Railway Company
Pennsylvania Marble and Granite Company
West Grove
Week in Congress Sees District Funds, Ballinger Critique
The Senate adopted a Cul lom resolution seeking Interior details on mining disasters and government aid facilities. The House spent hours on the District of Columbia appropriation bill for 1911, with amendments for playgrounds and ongoing debates on land, audits, and Roosevelt’s influence. Adjournments set for Jan 4 included confirmations and Ballinger-Pinchot papers inquiry.
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Senate
Cullom
Secretary of ‘the Interior
House
District of Columbia
Hitchcock
Nebraska
General Land Office
Ballinger
Cunningham
Bilagin
Mann
Ofllinois
Tweedale
Congress
Fitzgerald
New York
Roosevelt
Flint
Richardson
Isthmus
Panama
Mayor-elect Axsails THeb Denounces Bribery at NYC Dinner
At a Southern Society dinner in New York Mayor-elect Gay not denounced "contemptible bribers" among multimillionaires including Morgan Gary Ryan and Secretary of War Dickinson and Gov. Patterson of Tennessee. He urged courts to punish corruption and questioned assessment practices that burden small property holders, warning against a national double standard in government ethical behavior.
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Axsails Theb
The
Southern Society
New York
Gaynot
Morgan, Gary, Ryan
Dickinson
Gov
Patterson
Tennessee
Asan
Suma
Open-woir Schools Urged By Poor Association
The New York association for improving the condition of the poor urges open-woir schools in tenement districts as part of a broader tuberculosis crusade. Other items note Mark Hanne’s license mishap in Kentucky, a Methodist church budget of 1.6 million, Buffalo plans to acquire Perrysburg estate for a TB hospital, a Columbus hunter’s death, DC milkborne TB cases, and a Black Hand mail fraud case in Ohio.
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New York Association
Mark Hanne
Newport
Fannie Dozorthrow
General Committee of Home Missions
Methodiat Episcopal Church
Wilkesbarre
J. N. Adam
Buffalo
Tuberculosis Hospital Commission
Perrysburg
Evang
Orrville
Ohio
Colombia
Washington
Woodward
Halvatore Demma
Columbus
Toledo
Old Remedies and Superstitions in English Life
The passage discusses licensed physicians, record keeping, and advertising limits for medical practice, then recounts Cureita remedies with testimonials from S. P. Keyes and Wm. J. Sadller. It concludes with English rural superstitions about apples predicting marriage and future partners through divination rituals.
March of Science and Household Remedies Parade
A fragmented 19th century ad column about quack cures and patent medicines includes Chicago Tribune style lines, claims for Snake oil like Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Croup, Fox gum chews, and Fletcherizing teeth while referencing Piles cures with PAZO OINTMENT and Dr. Pierce's Pills. It locally markets tonics, teething aids, and wonder cures with dubious medical claims and price notes.
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Perry Davis
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Oko
Agricultural Department
Denmark
Gen
Green B. Raum
Legation
Horace H. Lurton
United States Supreme Court
Depew
le Follette
Mondell
Wyoming
Aix
P. Keyes
Boston
Mays
Cuticura
Wm. J. Sadller
Susquehiana Ave
Philadelphia
London Seraps
March of Science
Mamma
Croup
Matam
Chicago Tribune
Phin
Gray
Allen S
Olmsted
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N. Y
Kitty
Pierce
Allen
Sard and
Jefferson
Western Canada
Dolilver
of Laws
Saya Wha Trem
Baladenllas
Thie United Atal Eee Nomatee Ae Senmoty
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Sa Ita
Rome
Ottawa
Drawghton
Holmes
Jucition
Ameinnes
Sloiferaon
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Ind
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Marshalt
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Apa
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Lewis
NEN
Rogliah
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Woman's Discensaryy Musical Association
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